Missing the Door of Hope Writing Group today.
8 years of weekly writing.
Those experiencing homelessness + those housed.
I miss the camaraderie. And grieve those no longer with us. And I'm grateful for the long-term friendships. It's hitting hard today for some reason.

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I finished a short story today that I wrote off a prompt I gave at 2nd Saturdays at 100 Men Hall. I never think ahead of time about my answer to prompts I bring. So my writing is fresh from the moment. This one came from (1) write everything you think you know about an object in the Hall (2) tell the story the object wants you to tell. The story flowed out of me, and now it has a title and theme. "Lava Brain." I like it.

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Giving a workshop for professional PR folks was kind of different--they asked questions. Wanted advice. Then nodded at what I had to say.

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I don't think I've said that I'm Writer-in-Residence at 100 Men Hall in Bay St. Louis.We do extended writing sessions on Saturday mornings with mini-instruction, excerpts to illustrate the writing topic, and then two 30-minute writing sessions based on prompts with voluntary sharing afterwards. The Hall is a great historic site you can read about here.

https://100menhall.com

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Yes, I managed to work a reference to #Godzilla into my #writing talk on Saturday.

In describing the funnel opening, I said I liked to think of the hard sentence at the end as the dot that makes the exclamation point. Like the exclamation point I nailed onto my house after "Oh, no!" as in "there goes Tokyo" for our Mardi Gras decorations last year.

I'm the master, yes I am. (Of course, I had to pause and say, Blue Oyster Cult)

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Interesting article. What I learned in the 8 years I led a writing group of Memphians experiencing homelessness was that what policy folks thought was "affordable housing" had no relationship to what folks could actually afford.

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It doesn't happen quickly or easily, and there's a lot of luck in it, but I'm happily ensconced in the best writing group I've ever been in. Well, other than the Door of Hope Writing Group with writers who had experienced homelessness, but I don't expect that to be replicated.
(the way I've embedded the # on homelessness feels like a subliminal message...)

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Why are these flamingos indoors? Where did they come from? Where are they going? Wouldn't it be fun to find out what a bunch of other writers thought about those questions? Come play in Snow, my free online writing group. We write to prompts and then people who want to share their writing can, and people who don't want to? That's totally cool too. Register for free here: https://crowcollectiveworkshops.com/2022/02/04/umbrella-writing-groups-rain-and-snow/

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My writing group has settled into giving prompts. 4 of us Zoom once a month and read 2-5 pages the prompts created. I discovered I'm writing post-storm stories. Yes, Katrina, but also Camille, Ida, Isaac, Zeta. The storms are key to the action but in the background. I used prompts with the Door of Hope Writing Group, but I brought the prompts. This is different.

Is anyone else using writing prompts? Do you find they crack open something new?

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I'm stumbling through this new world but understand it's helpful to pin a post containing your interests (so this awkward explanation will forever be part of my pinned post...)
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If I'm talking about personal reparations and anti-racism, you'll see Content Warnings

Off to lead a guided writing group this afternoon. We'll be practicing non-chronological telling. Bumping up two disparate things and letting the reader absorb the meaning. In looking back through my work, I see where most of my published CNF pieces are segmented. I guess that's why I'm focusing on it today. :)

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I've just started dabbling in writing fiction. Are there any other aspiring authors on here? For me it would be good to compare notes and perhaps critiques.

I'm also interested in 'joining' any online writing group - any recommendations?

If anyone's up for this you know where to find me 🙂

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