10 Prompts – Fairy Tales
I love fractured fairy tales. Often they are my go-to when I have no idea what to write. My first published piece when I decided I wanted to be an author was a fractured fairy tale in an anthology. I had so much fun coming up with the prompts for …
Writing just for fun
As I type this post, my 18 year old son is down at the supermarket buying ingredients so he can do some baking. He has always enjoyed cooking, but hasn’t had the space to cook for the simple joy of cooking. One advantage of being in isolation is that he …
10 Prompts – Dinosaurs
My older son was obsessed with dinosaurs when he was four, and my parents have been making the toy dinosaurs do things every night to entertain my nephews while they are on isolation. So this was an obvious topic for our 10 Prompts on Tuesday. You can purchase this weeks …
A little bit of silliness
We are living in ‘unprecedented’ times. There are a lot of people who talk about all the things we could be doing during this time, and one of these is writing a book. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been a bit all over the place lately. It has …
Evil Octopus
I have just finished writing my second silly story from a prompt given to me by my nephew. This one was from my 8 year old nephew. The prompt he gave me was An Evil Octopus in Underwater Isolation. When he gave me the prompt, he also started giving me tips …
10 Prompts – Toilet Paper
It’s made headline news in the last few weeks, and everyone is talking about it. It’s toilet paper! With this in mind, our first 10 Prompts on Tuesday is all about toilet paper. There are prompts for fiction and non-fiction, stories and poems. This ebook is now available for purchase …
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About Melissa
Melissa Gijsbers started writing when she was in High School during the 1990s, even winning some awards for a short story and a script. For many years, life got in the way of creative writing, however she did start blogging around 2006.
She currently lives in Melbourne, Australia with her two sons and a pet blue tongue lizard.
