Fiction Forge Indy: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy New Writing!

Sunday, December 24, 2017

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy New Writing!

Every year, my writing friends and I always seem to rededicate our lives to writing more. This new year is no different.

With this new year, I hope to find completed projects, new inspirations, and new challenges. I wish the same for you as well.

In that spirit, I would like to give you a writing prompt from The Writer's Idea Book by Jack Heffron.

Celebrate your creative self, the writer inside you. Write about how writing is an important part of your life. Write about the pleasure it brings. Write about your gratitude in possessing such a gift. Shakespeare once wrote the following:

This is a gift I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions.... But the gift is good in those in whom it is not acute, and I am thankful for it. (8)

At the end of this amazing year, happy writing and many blessings!

1 comment:

Randy WiremanDecember 30, 2017 at 1:16 PM
Heather, Mike, and Nick -- and to you all Forgers who love the art of creating story: Let's make this new year of 2018 a most substantial year in our art! I never have doubted your talents, and the creativity as well as our work ethic are evident throughout our posts here on Fiction Forge Indy. Happiest New Year to all!
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Mike

Hi. My name is Michael Moir and I'm a writer.

I don't know when I became addicted to the printed word, but over time I have found that I can't put it away from me. My therapist says it has to do with the little yellow books that were forced upon me in Kindergarten (See Spot Run...Run, Spot, Run! RUN!!!), but in the depth of my soul, I know it is deeper than that. I was born with this in my very DNA. Phrasing, grammar, and plot structure are as sure in my being as cytosine is to guanine. It is a dark and wildly fantastic creature that gires and gimbles in the shadowed places of my soul. I have been told that I must find a way to purge the wordful animal within (my therapist recommended me to a witch doctor in the Andes), but I have decided to learn to live with it. This desire, this compulsion, this demon that is writing is me and I am it.

I call him Steve.

Randy

Hi! I am Randy. I'm pretty sure that I started writing when I held my first crayola. Unfortunately, I grabbed the white one which left little proof of my brilliant earlier works! I write fiction that's often centered on gay characters - but sometimes off-centered gay characters, too -Ha! Because of the poor recording or admittance of such affairs due to prevailing political and religious views, such historical possibilities of gay relations are difficult to accept, let alone imagine. But, of course gay relations occurred, and much more often than the historical records dictate. I like to give honor to my gay brothers and sisters of our hushed past by conjuring such situation backdrops of history and breathing life into what I cannot know really occurred, but what I feel is closer to reality than it is to fiction.