BlogHide Resteemswaterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoOne Year: 5 Minute FreewriteIn addition to my vehicle registration renewal, this time of year marks a couple of other turning of the cyclical leaves, both in celebration of the most important person in my life. The birthday…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years ago40% Off: 5 Minute FreewriteForty percent off what? Of what? If you make forty percent of a living wage that's not enough. If forty percent of the people you know succumbed to the plague that's too much. If you were…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoEyebrow(s): 5 Minute FreewriteTrichotillomania. I didn’t have a name for it as a kid, that impulse to yank. And I didn’t know back then that my secret eyelash problem was related to the reason my mom painted her eyebrows on each…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoHomeless: 5 Minute FreewriteI tell you what-- I had a hell of a tough time coming up with an idea for a selfie for this topic. Such a tough time that I almost gave up. I didn't want to trivialize a human struggle that makes…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoDetective: 5 Minute FreewriteIt’s very hard to freewrite when your cat is aggressively snuggling you. I am doing this on my phone and one-handed, so if you detect any shortcomings in this entry, blame Greta. I actually spent…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoMice: 5 Minute FreewriteIf you please A piece of cheese Would surely hit the spot But I can tell The crumb I smell Is part of your grand plot Your clever trap Would surely snap The moment I laid paws Upon the…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoMedium: 5 Minute FreewriteAs a writer, I have a hard time deciding what medium is my favorite. Clearly performing arts is my favorite, but there are so many of those! And I love all of them. So I end up dividing my…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoTravel: 5 Minute FreewriteOne of the things I like most about living in Los Angeles is that the city is so large and culturally diverse that you can take a day-trip in your own town and feel like you've gone traveling. To…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoAppetite: 5 Minute FreewriteHow apt that appetite is today's prompt, when today is a day when I'm batch-cooking myself into a frenzy to prevent my appetite from destroying Tokyo. That's right. I just compared my desire for…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoWire: 5 Minute FreewriteFor reasons I don't wholly understand, I've been leaving my freewrite/selfie contest submissions to the last minute for over a week now. I've been so consistently near-late that I'm almost positive…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoMonkey's Wedding: 5 Minute FreewriteIf opposites attract, then it's also true that you're drawn to your roots. Perhaps, to passers-by, the couple seemed like opposites, but she knew that so much of who she was, was thanks to him.…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoHome Alone: 5 Minute FreewriteFor about half of the year, I'm home alone during most of the day. This is good, ostensibly, for the budget. Home alone means Tom is gigging, and Tom gigging means I feel less pressure to take every…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoFive: 5-Minute Freewriteone two three four five she was practiced in the art of counting to calm herself no need to rail the raging gets you nowhere but disconnected in the end and there are problems to solve…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoA red scarf: Weekend FreewriteHe caught it out of the corner of his eye. At first, he wasn't sure what he was seeing-- a burst of scarlet peeking out between a pair of trash bins. When he crossed the street to get a closer look…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoSwing: 5 Minute FreewriteJudge not my sketching by rushing-to-post standards! Heh. He loved his wife. Truly. Angelia was Martin's match in every way. Almost every way. Can one person truly be another person's everything…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoTree: 5 Minute Freewriteit's surprising to watch fruit grow on a tree of your own to water and nurture winding branches, crumbling, brown until the subtlest hint of life peeps through fecund and green and then…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoMilk: 5 Minute FreewriteRecipe for one functional @waterworks: 1 cup almond-coconut milk, simmered until warm 2 pumps sugar-free mint syrup 1/2 teaspoon matcha powder 1 scoop collagen peptides blend until…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoPaper: 5 Minute FreewriteBut it wasn't his fault. It wasn't his fault her pigtails were so inviting. Gleaming auburn in the sun that poured in from the classroom window. They were the perfect target. He'd grabbed an extra…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoBanana: 5 Minute FreewriteBanana, before: It is a curious thing, how one can take something that seems nearly useless, and repurpose it so that it has new life. You can't see it so much in the photo, but those bananas…waterworks (39)in freewrite • 7 years agoImportant: 5 Minute FreewriteMelvin straightened his stamps along the side of the inkpad -- it had two sections, one with a bright indigo and another with a fiery red. The right angles helped him feel more at ease when he made…
