Every other Sunday, we will add a new writing challenge for writers and non-writers alike to participate in!
Have fun!

Just a video to point out that we don't all have to agree to have valid points and different ways of looking at things. (Syd)

A response to Syd aka LVbianSynic, this is what I use to do when I had something bothering me, its been a long time coming thank you for reminding me, this is very therapeutic for me, I simply write my   more...problems, toubles, worries down on paper, light them on fire, watch them burn and then let them blow away in the wind.  less

This interview was a while ago, but they never sent me the reel, so I just recorded it and posted it.

This is the SOLUTION of WRITING YOURSELF to freedom. And I am here to give perspective of how writing yourself, assist and support you within your individual process of realizing self through self insight   more..., self observation.
And in that, in moments of self realization, and self insight, setting your free, as the purity of expression in innocence of life as who you are.
Lets take a look at how the mind works. First, the mind stores memories. What are memories? Memories are recordings of moments of experiences that has occurred in the past......................  less

Are strength and will enough for one's last days?

Part 4, final in the series

Thoughts after coming back from a first big step toward a dream
- a writer's group.
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FEAR of HAPPINESS, the Series:

Part 1-
An invitation from a successful   more...writer (writes for a living) to join a writer's group brings to the surface a fear of...success? failure..? Not sure...

Part 2-
I go looking for some answers in the self-help section of the books store

Part 3-
Before the first meeting of the writer's group, I ask myself what I want from it

Part 4-
Reflections after having returned from the first meeting.
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Challenge #
"The Elvis Effect"

Create a very short piece of fiction
with the following elements in it:

Setting: Somewhere above sea level
Elvis
and a condiment of choice

Thanks to Axegrinder01 for   more...the ideas on this one!  less

This is from my Acting Workshop ...its RAW FOOTAGE...go to http://www.TheTotalWorkshopForActing.com to see more work...enjoy...

Challenge #1
"Fairy Tales & Bombs"

Create a very short piece of fiction
with the following elements in it:

Setting; A bomb shelter
Characters from a well-known fairy tale
and YOU

Hunter sneaks in to a party in North Korea Town, Los Angeles. Z, the love of her life, has joined the Nokokids once again.

Sometimes Jen and Mary ask me to write for them. Here's a little glimpse into that process.

Is the Wicked Awesome gang about to be featured on NBC? What are they talking about?

A portion from a workshop given by Mills College in 2001 on Non-Fiction Creative Writing

Writing

#6 of 10 in the LiveVideo Offensive - 2

just some things that happen in my head when I write songs....

080201 - Jiro Wang - Writing brush

A video better explaining what the group is about. Welcome video to A Writer's World group.

Inspired, in part, by LemKuiper's composition, "For You".


For You
Copyright 2007
Ken Gierke

My bond with my father, gone 13 years now.

I took a tour of my city through graffiti, and it looked pretty cool. I encourage you all to do the same, and post it as a response to this video.

WGA Strike Ruins Web Series

A response to the LiveVideo Writing Challenge #3 - "Photo Prose", posted by Dugalwest.

~<b>Spin Those Wheels ~

Kenny always had this thing for wheels. Turning wheels.

I could be working   more...on my car for hours and never see his face. Which was good. I didn’t want him getting hit by a flying wrench, or kicked as I lay across the fender, head buried under the hood trying to tighten that last bolt.

But change a tire or work on the brakes? He was right there, hand pressed flat against the sidewall, trying to spin it. That would have been the ’56 Buick with the big white sidewalls.

I can still see him kneeling on the driver’s seat, leaning on the horn ring while trying to turn that big ass steering wheel. Nighttime was his favorite time to ride in that car, because it was quiet out, and he could hear the sound of the tires on the road as we drove with the windows open.

I can still remember one of the first times he borrowed my car, right after he got his license. Later in the day, I found the jack loose in the trunk. When I asked him about it, he said he had to change a tire because it was low on air. I guess he was too embarrassed to tell me about it, because when he got home and checked it with an air gauge, it was fine. I think he just wanted to spin the wheels.

When school didn’t work out for him, I told him, “Either you go to school, or get a job and start paying your own bills.” So he started working on the loading dock with me. He was a good worker, but he was always watching the trucks coming into the dock and talking with the drivers about rolling down the road.

The next thing I knew, he’d talked the boss into letting him go out with the drivers, because that’s what he wanted to do – learn to drive a semi. I heard him joking with a friend, once, about how it was appropriate that he was reading Heinlein’s “The Roads Must Roll”. I never could figure that out. What did moving roads have to do with wheels turning? But that was him and his science fiction. I reminded him that the story sounded anti-union, anyway.

So, driving and wheels turning are what got him to stick out the job and stay in the union. He’s been driving all this time, and now he just retired. We went through some old family pictures for the retirement party, and I found this one. It was Christmas, and he was three years old. The first thing he did when he picked up that bus was to spin those wheels.
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