March Write Prompt
Category: Blog
Friday From the Journal – Did That Hurt?
This short essay from the winter issue of Fine Lines was written by Joseph Bushey. The artwork with it was shot by Cindy Goeller.
The current issue is online and available in print and on kindle at this link.
Keep a blog and keep writing: Tessa Adams ‘writes on’ at Family Footnote
Tessa Adams is another proud member of Fine Lines. She keeps “writing on” by blogging. She’s one of the co-authors of Family Footnote (familyfootnote.com), a site that is dedicated to “discussing being women, moms, and wives in this fun world of ours.” The month-old blog is one to check out. Recent topics have focused on time for self, lying to your kids, and being a parent who needs to say no. Here’s a nice line as a kind of teaser — “I’d like to pretend my family is the one you never notice in Target.” Read the whole blog entry by clicking this link.
A poem from the current issue from David Hufford
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain
With the above in mind, we share a poem from the current issue of Fine Lines by David Hufford. “After all,” as David states below, “our lives get tangled up in the processes of living.”
Write On!
Journey On
From the Journal Friday
As the mist begins to clear Wander in
Discover
What you can really see
Gaze upon the skies – and wonder Sit – make time to dream
It all fits together
Then dance
In a field of purple
Reflect
Examine the newness of each moment Reach
Then reach some more
Never ending trails
With amazing new beginnings Journey on
– Julian Adair
Writers and Other Liars
This is a #TBT. Originally Published October of 2010.
Writers and Other Liars
By Deb Carpenter-Nolting
I was five, and I knew how to write.
I stood in the living room, fondling two new red pencils.
“There should be one pencil for everyone. Did you take an extra pencil?” my mother called from the kitchen.
“No, I just have one,” I answered, as I quickly hid the other one behind my back.
When she entered the living room, I extended the one pencil for her inspection, while keeping the other behind my back.
“Are you lying to me?”
“No, Mommy.”
“I know you are lying,” she said in a hurt voice, taking the culprit hand from its hiding. The evidence was right there, a second red pencil clutched in my naughty writer’s hand. Her voice sounded different. I caught the disappointment in it.
The pencil wasn’t an expensive item. It wasn’t so important that I had taken an extra one. The issue was I had knowingly lied. I felt so guilty that I disappointed my mom, the truest and best person I’d ever known.
I’ve tried very hard to never lie again, and for the most part I’ve succeeded, but there’s just something about a shiny new red pencil that still beckons me to lick the lead and be wicked.
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird made a huge impact on readers and writers across America and across the world. The following are a few links about Lee’s death and impact:
Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 (from the New York Times)
Why Does ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Still Have Such An Impact? (from WBUR in Boston)
The Big Read: To Kill a Mockingbird (National Endowment for the Arts)
32 Profound Harper Lee Quotes We’ll Never Forget (BuzzFeed)
“Love–In Other Words” by Harper Lee (Vogue April 15 1961, pp64-65)
AFI’s 100 Years . . . 100 Heroes & Villains: #1 Hero – Atticus Finch: