seanessay.com Friday Free Fall writing prompt- moon child … Sometimes I think of people from fiction and the silver screen. Like Luna, from Harry Potter. I don’t know why I thought of her today. When first I saw her onstage, it was with a magical horseless carriage. Everybody else thought the carriage ran by magic; […]
Uncle Henry’s Stupendous Stuff in Free Fall
seanessay.com A writing prompt, during last week’s Friday Free Fall, was a tarot card with the word “possibilities.” “The possibilities,” said Uncle Henry, “are limitless. But not my space and time location.” His location was a part of a former barn, well insulated because it had been turned into a large garage, many years ago, […]
Man on Mars, Duck on Prairie
seanessay.com Well howdy there, Web surfers. No saving the world today; I’m merely pasting in old stuff from rapid-write Free Fall Fridays. Writing Prompt dwellers One of my joys in life is being a prairie dweller. Do you know what that means? In the winter, long underwear is sexy. In the summer, a back pack […]
Free Falling in Political Correctness
seanessay.com Howdy internet folk, it’s time for free fall again. Writing with a timer while plummeting to earth is fulfilling, and amazing, like watching a dog dance: It’s not that the dance is done well, but that the dog dances at all. … … Writing prompt- political correctness So there I was, doing all that’s […]
My Mother-in-law is a Free Falling Train Wreck
Free Fall Friday is a time when me and my peers, cautious slow writers, can loosen up, forget our “silly, slow, edit-as-you go,” and just let her rip! We set a timer of ten or fifteen minutes, to write before we hit the ground. For today’s pieces, my peers said, “Blog it” and “This is […]
Free Falling in First Person
seanessay.com Since free fall writing, by definition, is not edited, I don’t need to hold this “essay” back for my peers to edit. I can simply cut-and-paste yesterday’s Free Fall Friday. (10 a.m.-12 noon at the Alexandra Writers Centre, in person and another group online) Prompt- afraid One day, I realized I was afraid. I, […]