Make Something: Mouth
glossy painted to impress close carrying soft secrets pressed tight with frustration plump injected past pretty quivering before tears flow joined in thrilling intimacy
Category Archives: Being Creative
Make Something: 10-Word Fantasy
Today’s make something prompt: Write a 10-word fantasy story. Bonus for illustration. Fantasy is not exactly my genre. By day I’m a business writer. When I have time for creative […]
Make Something: Monster
some people’s demons breathe fire in their heads small children fear monsters that are under their beds an illness can seem like a hideous beast a bad case of flu […]
Make Something: Walk
The daughters got involved in today’s make something assignment. That means we twisted the prompt a little and complicated the process a lot … but we had a great time. […]
Make Something: Puppet
Today’s make something assignment was to create a puppet. I wanted a puppet who might inspire me—someone who can rise out of my pencil cup with words of wisdom, just […]
Make Something: Family Crest
Try creating your own family crest. What an interesting exercise. As a family motto, I knew I wanted to include the “ever-widening circle”—a phrase my sister affixed to our family […]
Make Something: Sugar
It’s not even Thanksgiving, and I may already have a start on my Valentines … A dozen friends are coming over in a few minutes. The wine is ready, the […]
Make Something: Big Newspaper
“Work with a newspaper to make the biggest thing you can.” My intention was to buy a copy of today’s Chicago Tribune, then spend the evening slicing it into strips […]
Make Something: Hometown Limerick
my hometown had very few people its highest of rises were steeples there was one traffic stop and a great donut shop with fritters that should be illegal
Make Something: Before Lunch
Hey father, provider, so good and so great! Thanks for the marvelous food on my plate … soft mellow cheese and juicy red meat, crisp salty chips and a salsa with heat, […]
Make Something: Paper Bag
What if you had to live for a week from a sack? The brown paper kind school kids use for a snack? What precious things would you choose to stow? […]
Make Something: Skyline
Growing up on a farm, I did not identify with any particular skyline. My skyline was … well, a sky. The bottom border of that sky was subtle. The soft […]
Make Something: Hat
Look at me: I’m the cat in the hat that is The Cat in the Hat! Eight-year-old Emma gets the image credit. She posed me on a stair, then stood […]
Make Something: Hand
Today’s make something assignment was to work with my hands—literally. In the second or third grade, at the back of a book about Hellen Keller, I discovered tiny drawings of […]
Make Something: Skeleton
cardboard skeleton brass brad joints set at neat points fixed still with brown tape
Beth Nyland 