80 Days Remain
80 Days Remain
A continuation of my #last100days2023 project
Welcome to my #last100dayproject!
What are you focusing on for the remainder of 2023?
There are 80 days left of the year 2023.
You can begin today! I give you permission!
Today’s prompt:
Amy Hempel has a flash piece called DOLL TORNADO that I love and teach in my classes.
I misread “tomato sandwich” in my notebook and thought it read “tornado sandwich”. [That is coming together in a story…stay tuned.]
Living in Indiana almost my whole life there is always a threat of tornados. There are sirens and a color that the sky turns where you start to wonder. My high school was in the middle of a field when I went there and the joke was that we would be destroyed if a tornado came through - there was nothing else to take out!
When I went to the Taste of Chicago one year a tornado came through and a metal barrel trash can slammed into my leg. We froze on the way back on the South Shore because the air conditioning was on full blast.
What image or memory comes to mind when you think of tornados?
I invite you to search your notebooks and drives for the prompt word and see what drafts you have that you can resurrect and revise.
What will you write today?
A list of places where tornados could hit
What is a metaphor you can create with a tornado as a component?
A memory of a tornado
One sentence containing the word tornado
Maybe you start a conversation with a stranger about the word and that is the story you write. Whatever you choose - have fun!
Happy writing!
I invite you to leave a comment even if you are just reading and not doing a project! Just say hello so I know you are out there! You belong simply because you are here.
I would love to hear about your progress on your projects too!!
Check out some fellow #100dayproject participants!
https://www.instagram.com/starryeyedenigma/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/writing4life21/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/juliejordanscott/?hl=en
**NOTE**
I do not share drafts of work online because most publications considered this published. You are more than welcome to share your piece in the comments, an excerpt, a link to your blog/Substack, or an update.
I hope for the comments to be a community for us to share these wins.
A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and coach living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband and adventure cat. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is working on a non-fiction book about how to submit and publish your first pieces. She is the creator and host of THE BRADBURY TRIO COURSE. Her poetry has been published in The Storyteller, FoxGlove Journal, Story Hall, Blue Insights, The Partnered Pen, and others. Her fiction has been published in Gone Lawn, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.