Consider a time you were disappointed by another person or by the outcome of a great effort. What did you do or what did you want to do with that disappointment? Paint the scene with words.
Creative Writing and Memoir Class Notes
By creating intention, you allow the reader a perspective that pulls them deeper into the story. There must be yearning and desire
Listening to My Body 9/24/2020
Carol Brennan King An essay for a class I am taking: I lean into the room to hear, to find sounds to write about, but all I hear is the sound of air being sucked through a small floor fan then pushed through the room toward the dehumidifier. Ostensibly, they work together to circulate the…Read more Listening to My Body 9/24/2020
Creative Writing and Memoir Class Notes
Remember that people choose to look and act and do the things they do because it makes sense to them. You must know or find out why it makes sense to them.
Fall Writing Classes taught by Carol Brennan King
every writer should carry a small notebook in which to record anything curious that they hear or see on a given day. Think of these as story prompts you can use later.
My Foot Hurts and My Heart
Why offend someone even before they have an opportunity to meet our loving God?
Just an Old Table
As newly-weds, we didn't have much, and when she asked me if I would like that old table on the back porch, I said yes.
Helps, this post is full of helps and inspirations!
I learned an important lesson checking one resource out. A loo, understood by some as the bathroom, didn't always mean that. An embarrassing mistake I almost made.
Hymns are Never Sung Alone
It came to me that we were with a chorus of believers singing through history, from what I thought then was the late nineteenth century, based on the language of the hymn.
Vacation, Only write what you cannot keep inside!
What I knew was that I loved writing. Or maybe I loved feeling and that made me want to write. I remember often the day that we took a ride into the mountains,
Carol's Notes 