First Five Fragments for Friday has served as your weekly offering of creative prompts here at One Minnesota Writer for quite some time.

First Five Fragments for Friday is your weekly offering of #writingprompts. Get creative.

First Five Fragments for Friday is your weekly offering of #writingprompts. Use these prompts however you see fit.

First Five Fragments for Friday is your weekly offering of writing prompts, art prompts, and conversation prompts.

First Five Fragments for Friday is your weekly offering of writing prompts, art prompts, and conversation prompts.

First Five Fragments for Friday is your weekly offering of writing prompts, art prompts, and conversation prompts.

First Five Fragments for Friday is your weekly offering of writing prompts, art prompts, and conversation prompts.

First Five Fragments for Friday is your weekly offering of writing/art/conversation prompts.

First Five Fragments for Friday is your weekly offering of writing/art/conversation prompts. It's National Poetry Month I seldom re-read entire books, but this week I made an exception. Maxine Hong Kingston's To Be the Poet is an old favorite that I pulled off my bookshelf because it felt right. And it's perfect for National Poetry Month. This book comforts me. Its Zen approach to writing poems feels just right. The book allows readers to observe Kingston as she figures out a

Your weekly offering of art/writing/conversation prompts. This week's focus: optimism.

Your weekly offering of writing/art/conversation prompts.

Your weekly offering of art/writing/conversation prompts from One Minnesota Writer.

Once upon a time, One Minnesota Writer ran writing prompts every week. Or maybe they were art prompts. Or maybe they were just random thoughts that might spark something else. And they were called First Five Fragments for Friday. Those fragments were fun. They were kind of goofy. Sometimes they were quite serious. But they always reflected whatever was going on that week, from the ordinariness of finding a parking spot at Target to the distress of watching the evening news, f

Integrity The dictionary that came with my Mac software defines integrity as, “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.” It also defines it as, “the state of being whole and undivided,” as well as a, “lack of corruption in electronic data.” When I drew this card, I wasn’t quite sure what direction to head, so I opened the dictionary first. And that was enough. The brainstorm list for integrity is: Doing what you say you’ll do Treating everyone with an e

It’s time for something new on One Minnesota Writer. I’m delighted to announce the Angel Card Experiment, a new weekly feature that will run each Tuesday, beginning on February 10, 2015. What, you may wonder, are Angel Cards? If you saw my post on prompt props yesterday, then you had a little introduction to the idea of Angel Cards. I’ll explain. Several years ago, someone gave me Angel Cards as a gift. They are a creative tool to spark thoughts for journaling, artwork, whate

Ah, a week of openings (digital poetry journal Gyroscope Review is now open for submissions), preparations (print flash fiction journal Fine Linen is in press), cleaning up (goodbye for now, Christmas tree and ornaments and wrapping paper and cookies), and packing (San Diego is on my horizon). Minnesota was below zero for much of the week and snow fell, schools closed, our dogs curled up into furry lumps. As I huddled under the blankets to warm my icy toes, I noticed the full

Your weekly offering of writing prompts. Welcome to the new site, everyone. This week was a big one for change around here, what with leaving Blogger and Tumblr behind to combine my two blogs there into one here at WordPress. This site may get tweaked a bit in the next few weeks until it seems to be just right. In the meantime, no writing prompts shall go ignored. This week Minnesota was shrouded in fog and hoar frost. Hoar frost is magical the way it changes the world into a

Every Friday, I post First Five Fragments for Friday over at One Minnesota Writer on Blogger. Today, someone finally (!) posted their own fragments in return. Never mind that I’ve ended my Friday posts with, “..and your fragments are?” since I started writing them. Check it out here: http://oneminnesotawriter.blogspot.com #writing #writingprompts