Mystery – March 10

“There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.”- Carlos Ray Norris, better known as Chuck, born this date in 1940....

SciFi/Fantasy – March 10

“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero.”- Voltaire On this date in 1862, America’s Department of the Treasury issued paper money for the first time. The smallest...

Secondary – March 10

What record do you want to break, and why?

Killing clichés

One rule writers learn early is to kill clichés. To prove the point, I will define my terms with a tired trope of the copywriter: cli·ché  /klēˈSHā/ Noun: A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a...

Primary – March 10

What do you do to make yourself feel better when you are feeling sad?

Literary – March 9

Vita Sackville-West, a prolific Victorian novelist and poet and Virginia Woolf’s inspiration for Orlando, was born on this date in 1892. She wrote in 1953, “I have come to the conclusion, after...

Journaling + Fiction – March 9

“Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.”Clarence Day Journal prompt: Spend at least 20 minutes writing about what you learned when you watched an important project fail because...