Reading at Saginaw's Magic Bean

This Friday, February 5, I'll be reading my work along with my friend and colleague, novelist Jeff Vande Zande, at the Magic Bean in Saginaw. The reading starts at 7 which will be followed by music and an open mic.

You can follow it on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=275747234574&index=1

Hope to see you there.

Call for Prompts

If anyone has a writing prompt which you feel has worked well for you, please feel free to send it along to me (perhaps with the writing or a portion of the writing you produced from it) and I'll be happy to post it under a new series of posts called "Share the Wealth".

You can e-mail me the prompt, your writing, along with your name (real or not...) to blog@timkenyon.com

Until next time keep writing, no matter what.

Writing Prompt #15

Start this writing exercise by making a list of as many inanimate objects as you can think of in five minutes. Repeat this by making another list of as many animate objects as you can think of in five minutes. Create five unlikely pairs from these lists, one from each list. (e.g. a monkey and an ice cream cone) Use this list as a jumping off point for either a poem in which you create vivid imagery based on these pairs, or use them as the basis for a prose piece in which two characters are forced to interact with each other because of the pairs.

For Starters

No doubt about it--the thing was dead, and no thanks to her.


(For Starters is a series of posts to the blog which provide writers with a first line for a new story. Take this line and go with it...)

What excuse do I have?

None.

Now that the holidays are over I decide to take a look at my last blog onto to find out that I haven't posted since October 8. Now I wish I could say that I've been soooo busy working on my novel, but that isn't the case. Grading stacks and stacks of student essays is more like it.

But now that the new year is here, I can start anew, and here is my resolution: I will post without going three months in between.

Hopefully the prompts I've given you have been keeping you writing in the interim. So here goes... enjoy. And send along some feedback about the blog. I'd love to hear what you think. Suggestions for improvements or different writing ideas are always welcomed.

Writing Prompt #14

According to the Gallup Organization, more than one million American dogs have been named as beneficiaries in a will.

Write a story about one of their owners.

For Starters

The moment she awoke, she knew it was the day to finally do it.



(For Starters is a series of posts to the blog which provide writers with a first line for a new story. Take this line and go with it...)

Writing Prompt #13

Begin a story from the point of view of a con artist who realizes he or she has just met his or her latest victim.

Begin another story from the victim's point of view using the same scenario.

It's been too long

How the summer gets away from you when you're writing every day in a place like New York City. Well, I'm back in Michigan for what that's worth (not much, I'll tell you what) and it's time to get the blog rolling again. My apologies to those who've been waiting patiently for new prompts. You can count on them rolling in at a more consistent rate (until NYC drags me back into the fold, then who knows what'll happen...)

Enjoy.

For Starters

It wasn't until after he'd turned over the picture to the police when he realized the photograph revealed a little more than he'd bargained for.



(For Starters is a series of posts to the blog which provide writers with a first line for a new story. Take this line and go with it...)