• wido (32)in #freewrite • 7 years ago

  Stranded on the sofa like a whale fed up with plankton

  Stranded on the sofa like a whale fed up with plankton, he knew he couldn’t eat any more. Yet he felt the things he had eaten were not enough to fill him – a renowned publisher…

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• wido (32)in #freewrite • 7 years ago

  5 Minute Freewrite: A smiling house

  Light on the grass: from the evening train a smiling house. This haiku is from Saturday, actually. I took @mariannewest's great advice and chose one of the single prompt…

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• wido (32)in #freewrite • 7 years ago

  5 Minute Freewrite: Corn

  God – What’s the next sample? Uriel – It’s corn, my Lord. Zea Mays , variety Everta . God – And what does it require to be created? Uriel – Well, a pretty…

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• wido (32)in #freewrite • 7 years ago

  5 Minute Freewrite: Sound check

  After the last chord, Donnie Caruso put down the guitar and grabbed the mic. “Thank you very much, guys,” he said, and then, loudly: “Bang.” “Are you OK, buddy?” said Jimmy…

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• wido (32)in #freewrite • 7 years ago

  5 Minute Freewrite: Nose ring

  So when they served the desserts, my eyes got finally stuck on her nose ring. Like a tie in an elevator door. – Stop staring at me – she said. – I can’t. – I get it, you…

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• wido (32)in #freewrite • 7 years ago

  5 Minute Freewrite: Stetson

  After three days spent fleeing through the desert, the satchel gripped in his hands, Tony felt his brain was burned to a crisp and decided to stop. The thought of Michelson was…

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• wido (32)in #freewrite • 7 years ago

  5 Minute Freewrite: I floss my tears

  I floss my tears. I need to. When they come out of my eyes and they freeze like ice (they're not ice), soon bacteria colonize them and they become yellowish. Ugh. There's…

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• wido (32)in #freewrite • 7 years ago

  5 Minute Freewrite #1: Awakening

  11:45 – Awake. 11:50 – Now fully, totally awake. 11:55 – This time perfectly awake. For real. 12:00 – I don't know why I was sleeping. But I'm really awake now. After many…

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• wido (32)in #story • 7 years ago

  All the haiku in the world

  Why should he work on a trial-and-error basis when he could attack the problem scientifically? An old paper by Shannon (1950) enlightened him. He used Zipf’s law to estimate the…

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