Prompts
Spoiler Alert-Writing Challenge: How Speak No Evil Uses Recontextualization
Taking a thing with an established meaning and giving it a new and different meaning is to recontextualize that thing. For instance, in a general context the sun is contextualized as daylight and warmth. But in the universe of the legendary vampire, Dracula, the sun means danger and death. Media about vampire characters has successfully recontextualized the sun. Characters in a vampire movie seek the sun not merely for its actual context but as a way of defeating or, at the very least, delaying the monster seeking to destroy them.
By Sean Patrickabout a year ago in Writers
The Decline In Our Vocal Story Reads By Vocal Creators
Introduction These days I don't get many reads from Vocal Creators, most of them come from non-Vocal Facebook Groups, so my reads are good and thanks to Vocal's refusal to show the number of reads within stories (they can show hearts in real-time, the number of comments twice, but no reads which is the most important thing I need to know because that is what that story pays me).
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred about a year ago in Writers
The New Me
You are a Badass Deck, by Jen Sincero — It’s time to get mighty clear about what makes you happy and what makes you feel the most alive, and then create it instead of pretending you can’t have it. The cards in this deck were created from a book You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life.
By Denise E Lindquistabout a year ago in Writers
On Vocal Challenges: Official And Unofficial
Introduction Each month we try to gather up the Unofficial Vocal Challenges in the Vocal Social Society and collect them on a thread so that people can find them easily and take some inspiration. This is the thread for September 2024:
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred about a year ago in Writers
