Entirely FREAKED OUT

Here I am, Jeff Cutler, purporting to be an instructor-level writer. I openly assign you writing tasks and then complete them myself to show you how a professional writer might accomplish each task. AND I’m completely and utterly freaked out because I spelled ASSIGNMENTS wrong in the header of this blog. I’m so ashamed. Sorry. [...]

Assignment 5

We’re picking up some steam on Jeff Cutler dot com. The DIGGs are flowing in and people are really enjoying doing these assignments. Keep up the good work…here’s assignment number five.
Think of your favorite food. Now make that food poisonous and write a short short where that food has killed someone.
No word count limit on [...]

Tools of the trade

From time to time this site - Jeff Cutler dot com - will present writers with some info they might want to be more successful and have more fun in their writing life.
Today, I’m alerting you to a few tools that I find indispensable when I’m writing for fun and for money.
1 - The AlphaSmart [...]

Assignment 4

Today we’re going to delve a little into your psyche.
Perform word association on paper and create a string of 20 related words.
You can make the jump to the next word however you want, but the first word you use must be ONE of these three terms…
Screen
Carpaccio
Knuckle
My word association will appear in the next day or [...]

Assignment 3

Hope you’re having fun with these writing assignments. Please put your submissions in the comments field of the post so we can all share your writing.
For assignment number three, I would like you to pretend that…
You have just found a carpet tack in a can of tuna. It clearly didn’t come from any environmental sources [...]

BlueHost, blogging and life

Lots of people have been commenting on the look of the site, so I wanted to make some things clear…
1 - it was designed by the voices in my head (actually look down the bottom for a link to the template designer)
2 - I’ll soon be doing a background photo to go along with the [...]

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