The Gather Writing Essential (GWE) group a great way to get our writing juices flowing again. We have some wonderful editors who are posting prompts that will help you accomplish your goals.
Following are the current prompts as of today. I challenge you to check them out and submit your responses for the ones you feel comfortable with. I think you will be surprised at the support you will find in the group.
There is a new prompt given each day of the week. You have one week to prepare your response to the prompt. If you need more time, just let the editor know you have posted for a previous prompt.
Remember to copy the prompt rules or guidelines into your post.
Add the subject title and or tags that the member editor suggest so they can find your posts.
Have fun!
Sunday
Sunday Writing Essential Prompt is up! I'm not going to tell you what the prompts are, you'll have to click here! But I will tell you this week's column features examples from Ezra Pound, Woody Allen, Ian Fleming, Steve Martin, W.H. Auden, P.G. Wodehouse, and Edgar Allan Poe... oooooh...
MONDAY
Greg is o much needed vacation. I hope he is having a wonderful time. So I will add his latest prompt her for your consideration.
Monday Writing Essential - May 7, 2012: Such a Deal
TUESDAY
Try as I may, I could not find a promt for this week. However I did find a previous promt that I will share with you. It was difficult to find because there was no "WE" icon added to the prompt.
| Write a couple of paragraphs about your very first _____________. The first time that you ______________. How when you first got a clue, you felt so ____________. Perhaps . . . |
WEDNESDAY
I just want you to know how much I appreciate you guys. I rearranged my business schedule and have yet to have my first cup of coffee just to that I could post the Wednesday's challenge on Wednesday and it's HERE
Thursday
To My Creative Friends And Members of Gather Writing Essentials:
We continue our them about journeys for Thursday May 17th. This time the challenge is to create a post about weather on our journeys.
Weather On The Our Journeys
FRIDAY
Calling all fiction writers! The next several prompts, starting with today's, are for YOU! Come see how here, and be prepared to get involved. :-)
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SATURDAY
 This Week’s Challenge:
Using prose or poetry, write something dealing with snow being shared somehow with someone else. Make sure you have both sci-fi and fantasy components in your story.
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 | A Short History of the Writing Essentials Editors The Writing Essential began in June, 2007 and the first member editors were invited into the program. . . . |
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Now I would like share a bit about each of the editors.
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Sunday Editor - Doug Westberg Doug is a Vancouver, Washington, writer, poet, songwriter and recording artist. His Gather group, is dedicated to giving folks struggling with depression and related issues a creative outlet. His humor book The Depressed Guy's Book of Wisdom is published by Chipmunka Publishers, London. His poetry volume The Caterpillar is forthcoming from Chipmunka. He has also completed a book of stories and a teen fantasy novel. He recently married Carol, his partner and muse of 15 years, and has 4 grown children. |
Monday Editor – Greg Schiller Greg is a civil servant by day and a servant to an uncivil cat by night. Whenever possible, he flees to his home in the woods, outside the little Minnesota town of Almost Iowa. His hobbies include juggling chain-saws and writing humor. |
Tuesday Editor – Phillip DeNise Phillip is from Atlanta Georgia. He has worked as a stage-hand for 40 years. He is now retired and pursuing the need to write. He received his education in college without a degree. He is has been married many times but only to one lady at a time. He likes cats, fishing, dabbling in watercolors and probably a beach person as opposed to the mountains. |
Wednesday Editor – Pam Brittain Pam's professional background is in the real estate foreclosure industry. She helped form the industry's association, was a lobbyist, acted as an expert witness in a large lawsuit and really dislikes politics. She is the major stockholder and operator of her company which was formed in 1997. She is a new writer with her personal life as her teacher. Writing has become her passion and she looks forward to learning more and improving her work through Gather. |
Thursday Editor – Kevin Ewing  Kevin has been married almost 30 years, is a father of four and a special educator. He is also the author of "In The Midst Of Heroes". He has two more books that will be published in March, "Heroes In Blue Jeans"and"Footsteps on Moon Sand Beach." The Hero books are collections of stories about heroes in our families, neighborhoods, work environment and farms. This is a book that shares the accounts of people who are faced with difficult decisions and how they look at possible outcomes before making the best possible choice. |
Friday Editor – Andrea Pearson Andrea recently published her first book, The Key of Kilenya, (first in a series of six) and is currently working on the next book in that series, The Ember Gods. She's an avid hiker, painter, and piano player. She and her husband (AKA Mr. Darcy) were married only a few months ago, and have settled near a river that will someday probably overflow and flood their |
Saturday Editor – Len Maxwell Len was 40 before he figured out what he wanted to be when he grew up – a writer. For 20 years he has written for national and regional magazines, journals, and newspapers. For the past few years he has been working as an editor for Internet sites, a literary agency, and two publishing houses. He now writes for fun and spends as much time as possible in the desert. |
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Comments: 27
I know time is precious. Each member has less and less time each day so I thought this may make it easier for the members to find the prompts in one easy location.
I am glad you think it is a good idea. Thanks for all the hard work you put into the group. You are a wonderful man, writer and editor.
I would love to see you accept one of the challenges. I know each person does not connect with or relate to each editor. That is the purpose of having a variety of editors. Each of the member editors have their own talents and ways of writing. It is what makes this group so special.
I think we all understand this and this post was just a way to help members find all the current prompts. Did it help you?
I had the same problem. Then when a member is off gather for a week or more due to illness, vacation or whatever life throws at them, it gets harder to find the prompts.
I am in hopes that this will help each member feel comfortable with the group editors. The editors are as different as the seasons. :) Each has a unique way of writing and sharing prompts.
You are so very welcome. Do you think it helps give the members a sense of what is going on within the group?
Are you enjoying your time as editor?
There was ONE response to my 'challenge' that required the 'submitter' to write two sentences.
Connie, even you failed to take a stab at writing two paragraphs!
If you really feel that the daily prompts are key ingredients in the GWE 'soup,' then find yourself another saucier! I'll not be wasting any more of my now precious time writing challenges for unresponsive readers.
Many members are sick, busy or other-wise do not have time to write to every prompt. I did not take you for a quitter. However, you can always email me with your concerns.
This is an amazing group but they deserve respect just as each of the editors do.
I am sorry you are finding it difficult.
you were not forthcoming with your own lame excuse
ARE YOU SICK?
Don't you dare get mad at me. You're better with words than I am.
CHECK UNDER TUESDAY IN THIS ARTICLE
For supper, I cooked my first real 'piggy burger' in our cozy little kitchen; smoked the joint up righteous, before I remembered to activate the two exhaust systems built into our Mobile Villa. I'd purchased the 2.25# package of the cheapest[highest fat content] hamburger meat at WallyWorld. I carefully broke off about three eighths of a pound off one corner of the rectangular blob of meat-worms, & gently formed a thick bun-sized patty with freshly[& thoroughly] washed hands; you should be careful not to crush all the worms so that there are capillaries inside for the grease to flow[& exit the patty]. Before I had even removed the package from the fridge[never use frozen meat for your 'piggy burger'], I took one of Karin's smallest cast iron skillets from the oven[they are all stored down there; I selected the one I had personlly cleaned earlier] & put it on the range-top at the highest heat. Before that even, I had covered the stove side of my brand new Mr. Coffee with a clean hand towel to protect it from the splatter. By the time my 'patty was ready for the skillet, that iron was quite hot! SSSssssizzzzle! Then I chopped what was left of a small Vidalia onion, on Karin's wooden cutting board, while that burger cooked halfway through and filled the small skillet with hot grease. Then I flipped it with a plastic 'spatula,' and mashed down hard on the now crusty first side[forgot to say that first I had peppered the raw side with freash ground black pepper from the 'mill' from the 'dining area,' liberally sprinkled on some garlic powder[some went into the surrounding grease; that's when the kitchen 'bloomed' with aroma] & added a bunch of table salt[patty & grease]. I only let side two[where the seasonings are] cook at now reduced heat until the sides indicate that there is now less grease/water escaping. I scoop it up and place onto a paper plate so it will drain. Now for the part that makes my 'piggy burger' REAL:the bottom half of the bun goes into the grease[if you think it will absorb too much grease, you can take it right back out, and let the top half drink up the rest], where it is fried golden brown; you have to press down on the outside-side of the bread which flattens & ensures even brown-ness, because that is when that side gets greased for subsequent browning on that side. The two fried bun-pieces really do make the dish! Mine was served with sliced garden tomato[on both sides of the patty], lots of salt on these and more black pepper way too much Miracle Whip on both fried buns! I WILL NOT ACCEPT PAYMENT NEXT TUESDAY! You may be wondering what happened to the chopped onion; should be wondering what became of the rest of the ground beef.
Earlier in the afternoon, while Karin was over at CAT'S picking up an exercise machine that her 'girlfriend' had picked up for her[it was a freebie; so was the CHARD from CAT'S garden], I threw a quick coat of yellow interior paint on the smoothe side of my buck[et]-board. There are six unused paint buckets[from Lowe's] which support my plywood 'sleeping arrangement,' which takes up two-thirds of the living room space[Hey, we live in a Campground!]. The cushion from Karin's 'Dead or Alive' goes on top; add some deep brown sheets, two pillows & a warm poly-fill quilt, and you get a comfy, but firm bed that I have to compete with Zig to get some use out of. I can hear it calling to me right now[9 PM; 63 degrees on the porch].
THIS STUFF COMES FROM MY 'JOURNAL;' THE ONLY WAY A SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD 'WRITER' CAN KEEP TRACK; NOPE, DON'T SEE NOTHING HERE ABOUT NO DOPEY TUESDAY CHALLENGE; GUESS A BETTER RESPONSE TO THE HASTILY PREPARED & POSTED RATHER LATE IN THE DAY CHALLENGE FROM THE PREVIOUS WEEK WOULD HAVE INSPIRED DIFFERENT BEHAVIOR BY 'THE REBEL'
Thanks for doing this, Connie.
Thanks, Connie - I'm sure I will participate off and on, it seems like there just isn't enough time to do everything:)