Writing Prompt Weekend #1

I remember when we were locked down in Kerr Hall East on the Ryerson University campus during the Yonge Street riot. I wasn't even a full-time student then. I was working and going to night school to pick up the required economics courses I still needed in order to apply for graduation. I knew there...

Words, Captured & Kept

Months ago my niece was here excitedly looking through some of my old totes filled with books, movies, souvenirs, photo albums, cards, letters and other mementos that I have never organised into a proper home. We spent a whole afternoon reading letters to each other. Most of them were from my early years in Toronto...

Prompt: Mirror, Mirror

“When I look in the mirror, I . . .” . . . can't believe the woman I've become. Where have the years gone? When did those little crow's feet form in the corners of my eyes? When did I become so shapeless? Who am I now? When you're young older people tell you to...

Writing Prompts #3

An opening line ... 20 minutes ... no self-editing ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Write! They say Old Weezie’s been reading palms out of her run-down shack for a hundred years or more. Though she doesn't look so old. I've been visiting her shack ever since I was a little girl and she...

Writing Prompts #2

An opening line, 20 minutes, no self-editing ... let's do this! My husband disappeared on August 28, 1998. One minute he was there, beside me browsing the stalls in the busy Farmers' Market, and the next he wasn't. At first I thought he must have just popped into one of the shops nearby. Peter was...

Writing Prompts #1

I have decided that I'm going to not just write more in 2018, but write more creative types of things. So in that spirit I want to try a new weekly exercise using Writing Prompts. Just Google "Writing Prompts" and you can find all kinds of things to get you started. The prompt is in...