Jim Potter will present the July 20th program involving postcards. He will provide a PowerPoint presentation on “Postcards as Props and Prompts: How I Use Postcards in My Writing.” You won’t want to miss this program.
Author: Starla
Starla Criser is multi-published as a children's book author and author of older relationship stories. I am also multi-published in romance as Starla Kaye.
July 20th Writing Prompts
Please write a one to two-page story using one of the writing prompts, or use one of your own. Writing Prompts: Be a building or house you know well. Talk about your life and memories. What, if anything, would you be willing to fight or even die for? Explain your answer. Write about a time…
June 15th Writing Prompts
It’s time again for writing challenges. Even if you don’t bring yours to share with the group, try one of them just for yourself. If you want to try using one or all of the words in a sentence, paragraph, short piece, these are the words for June: cheese – slippers – club – stool…
May 18th Writing Prompts
It’s time again for writing challenges. Even if you don’t bring yours to share with the group, try one of them just for yourself. If you want to try using one or all of the words in a sentence, paragraph, short piece, these are the words for May: tree – necklace – gossip – rope…
More April 20th Writing Prompts
Writing prompts were already provided for the April 20th KWA meeting, but we have more now. You have so many choices to challenge your writing skills. Your character has a parrot that can repeat words that it hears. Lately, it has picked up some disturbing language — it sounds as if it’s threatening your character!…
April 20th Writing Prompts
You can choose to use any or all of the five unrelated words and make them into a sentence, a paragraph, a poem, a memoir, or a piece of short fiction. The words do not have to be used in these forms. WORDS: holiday – pencil – hammock – attic – fortune PROMPT: Imagine that…
March 16th Writing Prompts
We will again have multiple writing challenges for you to choose from. Please give them a try, even if you decide not to read yours to the other members at the meeting. You can choose to use any or all of the five unrelated words and make them into a sentence, a paragraph, a poem,…
February 16th KWA Meeting
The program for the February 16th KWA meeting was arranged by Wes Brummer. He invited a film crew from WSU Shocker Studios to come talk about their programs, and making trailers. WSU Shocker Studios website https://www.wichita.edu/about/wsunews/archive/index.php?si=3853 This should be a great learning experience. Come with questions for our guests.
February 16th Writing Prompts
We are going to try something a little different for writing challenges this month. These are things I do in the writing classes I teach. Do whatever interests you. WORDS: angel – queen – mouse – gun – thrill (Use at least three of the unrelated words in a sentence, a paragraph, a poem, a…
Learning from the Masters
Program presented by Louise Pelzl Having worked in marketing and sales for years, there is one vital bit of knowledge I gained. It’s okay to borrow ideas that work well instead of reinventing them. We can’t use other authors’ exact words in our writing, that is plagiarism, but we can use the concept of how…