… ok, so probably it’s not really from the USMC.
But it sure suggests a lot of story ideas.
Category Archives: Writing
Writing prompt: Swordsman
More exploration into the myth and reality of the ronin.
Writing Prompt: Party Services
Now you just have to write the story.
Writing Prompt – The Ladies and the Megalith
Bada Valley or Napu Valley, located in the Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, contains hundreds of megaliths going back to the 14th century. The purpose of the megaliths and their builders are unknown (source, Wikipedia)
A.K.A.
Edward J. Bellin, Paul Edmonds, Noel Gardner, Will Garth, James Hall, Keith Hammond, Hudson Hastings, Peter Horn, Kelvin Kent, Robert O. Kenyon, C. H. Liddell, Hugh Maepenn, Scott Morgan, Lawrence O’Donnell, Lewis Padgett, Woodrow Wilson Smith, Charles Stoddard…
They were all Henry Kuttner, alone or together with his wife, C.L. Moore.
I always liked Kuttner’s work. And C.L. Moore’s.
Discovering their arm-long list of aliases was for me the start of a great treasure hunt.
Writing prompt: Second Hand Illustration
Ed Vebell illustration to “Loneliness Is Dangerous” by Harry Coren. Sunday Mirror Magazine, August 14, 1955
Tells a story, right?
Write it!
Shut up and write!
This picture was posted yesterday on my Facebook wall.
I’ve yet to decide if it was somebody’s idea of a joke – but I did nor consider it particularly funny1.
Maybe comes from the fact that I write instead of posing at being a writer, but experience has taught me there is no magical artifact.
The only magic formula is
shut up and write
Which is what I will do.
- as a rule of thumb, never joke about a certain cathegory or group if you don’t belong to it. ↩
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