Writing Unleashed with Laura M. Harkins

Source Today Summer Ross is hosting an inspirational blogfest. Check out the details and participating bloggers here . Take a moment and respond to the following writing prompt to explore your creativity. Or learn more about your main character by letting them respond to the prompt. Enjoy! Point to a word or a sentence in any text and write for 10 minutes about whatever you or your character associate to.

relationshipheadquarters.com Today, I am posting a response to a Writer's Digest Promptly prompt. I changed a few things, but kept the essence of the prompt in my response. You venture into the world of online dating. Browsing through profiles, you drop your coffee mug and it shatters on the ground— it can’t be .         My feet are dragging and it took me quite a while to get this ready to be read.  My ideas came to me with no problem, typing them down proved much harder. Since I clutch to third-person POV all the time, I decided to try first-person this time. A journal entry made the process much easier for me. I'm still a bit hesitant and a little afraid to post, but this IS a challenge.  One thing I am excited about: the Mac MS Office font transferred!  So, the response looks like a real journal entry.  Enjoy!   5 June 2010       A month ago, I posted a profile on Heart2Heart, an Internet ...

Take 10: A Date Derailed Here is my response to Writer's Digest's "Exercise Your Pen" prompt from the January 2010 issue.  The guidelines required me to write for ten minutes about a person being abandoned by their date.  I had to start with "No matter what I do..." and choose a number from 1-10 corresponding to an idiom.  I revised my original response.  Enjoy! No matter what I do, I can’t get a date to pay for dinner. She smiled, cutting a piece of chicken with her fork. Charlie’s face turned so red I thought he would explode.  Her hand reached up to cover her mouth as she hiccuped before swallowing the bite.   I can’t believe he threw his napkin at me then stomped off.   Giggles shook her shoulders  as she picked up her wine glass.  Bewildered faces stared back as she eyed the other tables.  I’m sure his little tantrum gave them plenty to gossip about.  The goblet slipped out of her hand, hitting her plate of sweet an...

I receive emails from the Writer's Digest blog, Promptly , every couple of days. Using music lyrics to produce a few hundred words was yesterday's prompt. It hoped to inspire the writer by asking them to choose two favorite songs. Pick a line from the chorus of one song, and a line from the chorus of the other song and integrate into their scene. I was really excited by the prompt because I love music lyrics. The song writers always seem to say exactly what I'm feeling when I've gone mute. The words evoke strong emotional responses from me. So, why not take advantage of the writing exercise and put the strong emotional responses down in a short scene, giving my thoughts a voice. Alexi Murdoch's "Wait" and Florence and The Machine's "Heavy in Your Arms" and "You've Got the Love" are the three songs I chose (two songs weren't enough). I started the scene with " If I can’t be, all that I could be ", used ...