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Former Creative Writing teacher and current storyteller, Ellie wants to shake the dust off and provide the levity we all need. Follow along for weekly prompts, musings, and silly stories.
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Your 95 Theses (opens the original)
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Subscribe nowIn 1517, Martin Luther had finally had enough of the Catholic Church’s financial corruption. The Church, alongside its friars, was selling certificates of “indulgences,” which meant they would take your money and give you a certificate stating that your punishment in purgatory would be lessened because you paid for the indulgence. It was a way for the Church to take advantage of lower-class Germans to fund their own extravagances. If you also were flabbergasted by that, me too. So
Jokes for Sale: On The Intersect of Humor and Intellect (opens the original)
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My parents used to train me to do impersonations before I could even form a coherent sentence. I would sit in my high chair, with my chunky cheeks and bald head, making facial expressions that were determined by the celebrity name they said. “Marilyn Monroe!” and I would lift my shirt (we all agree how problematic that is now…) “Home Alone!” and I would slap my hands on each side of my face, widening my mouth into an O. Subscribe nowIn elementary school, my mother
Weekly Writing Prompt #4 (opens the original)
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We often think in such serious terms, such binaries. And this is because adults must, right? We think about our bills, where our pennies are going, our schedules, the future of our world, our contributions, etc. This specific prompt allows the brain to use the organizational thinking of making two lists within a time constraint BUT also uses the power of word association. Subscribe nowIt’s called associative thinking, and this level of thinking allows us to link unrelated or tenuously related id
Film Series: Powerhouses (opens the original)
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I adore leaving a movie theater speechless. Here’s a list of movies that have left me itching to be in that writers’ room/wanting to reevaluate everything in my life:Subscribe nowSing Sing Zone of Interest The Fighter If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Sound of Metal Past LivesThe Piano Lesson Nickel Boys Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Moonli
Tiny Town: An Ode to Summer (opens the original)
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i.The honeysuckles whispered to each other, saying,I’m glad we are part of something.And a part of something they were.Lavender hair reached towards the skyWatching kids be kids for yearsTheir leaves hid lacrosse ballsTheir soil nutrientii.The neighborhood knew that 458 was the house of play, the home of invention. With three daughters, there was never boredom, but only fun to be had. And bickering. So much bickering. But each sp
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