Joe Van Cleave’s first typing assignment of 2019 was a helpful one for me. I’ve had this character bouncing around in my head (along with some of the other characters surrounding him) for a number of years. I just haven’t focused on him that much. I did have a couple short stories published in …
Joe Van Cleave’s Sixteenth Typing Assignment was a fun one. “Write about a personal artifact in your possession. Fiction, nonfiction – use the object in your piece however you wish.” It didn’t take me long to decide which personal artifact to write about. I’ve had it for close to forty years, and its history prior …
Joe Van Cleave’s blog has set Typing Assignment #10 as a one-page free-form. “Participants can write a one-pager on whatever they want.” My initial thought was to kill two birds with one stone and write my Halloween story for the writers group I’m in. However, the story filled more than a single page. For this …
After posting Typing Assignment #1, I watched the video about Assignment #2, and realized that the deadline for it was today. After watching the video and visiting Joe Van Cleave’s Blog page “Typing Assignment #2,” it was back to work. The assignment is to “write a one-page essay on what you find unique and/or valuable …
