aka, The Abject Muse

Category: Writing Challenge

  • Ode to Sweat

    It’s time for the 43rd weekly Terrible Poetry Contest over at Chelsea Ann Owens’ Blog. Writing cliché, mis-metered verse can be tricky; only those stuck in bad, beginner habits can truly pull it off. For a bit of guidance, read my basic outline. Ready? Excellent. Let’s begin. Here are the specifics for this week: The Topic is free-versing…

  • Blowing It

    Today’s writing prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is the metaphor, “blowing one’s own horn.” Derek was an average kid. He made Bs and Cs in school, maybe an occasional A if he was lucky. His parents, however, claimed he was a ‘gifted child.’ They fawned over him mercilessly. If he failed, it was someone else’s fault…

  • Jackie’s Paper

    This week’s prompt at 3LineTales is the image below by Clem Onojeghuo via Unsplash. Every evening the man would stop at Jackie’s Papers & Books and flip through the books and magazines. He would spend at least an hour looking at the bold lettering and colorful covers as if trying to decide which one to purchase. The…

  • Wild at Heart

    This week’s prompt at #Three Line Tales is the image below by by Nick Fewings via Unsplash. My heart is a free spirit—wild like the wind. It runs with a rough crowd and has no street smarts. It can’t help but get broken no matter how hard I try to keep it safe.      

  • Now Here

    It’s the Go Dog Go Cafe Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge! This week our mission is to write a poem using the word ‘somewhere’ at last twice. Without the one you love somewhere equals nowhere. Anywhere beats somewhere when you’re Nowhere.