Tag: how to write a short story

I’ve just returned from a weekend out of town with friends, during which time I said several moderately clever things that for some reason made people laugh far more than the comments deserved. I’m rarely witty in person – it takes careful planning and practice (and trial and error) just to do it in writing; speaking largely has to do with luck. For me at least. But since several of these people were new acquaintances, they probably think I’m like that all the time! Ha!

Now go read some wonderfully clever people:

LoveTheBadGuy

Oscar

Chris

Craig

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The Rules

There are none. Read the prompts, get inspired, write something. No word count minimum or maximum. You don’t have to include the exact prompt in your piece, and you can interpret the prompt(s) any way you like.

OR

No really; I need rules!

Okay; write 200-500 words on the prompt of your choice. You may either use the prompt as the title of your piece or work it into the body of your piece. You must complete it before 6 pm CST on the Monday following this post.

The Prompts:

the word gun

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post (here’s a video on how to do it); I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at bekindrewrite (at) yahoo (dot) com. (I do reserve the right to NOT link to a piece as stated in my Link Discretion Policy.)

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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* MC = Mature Content. 

Opinions expressed in other writers’ InMon pieces are not necessarily my own.

I set this post to publish automatically because I’m seeing a play tonight, so if you posted your InMon piece today I may not get around to linking it until tomorrow. Any InMonsters who linked to last week’s post with their pieces will appear in the trackbacks beneath the comments of that post. So check it out, folks!

Otherwise, everyone is here:

Chris

Craig

MissM

Oscar

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The Rules

There are none. Read the prompts, get inspired, write something. No word count minimum or maximum. You don’t have to include the exact prompt in your piece, and you can interpret the prompt(s) any way you like.

OR

No really; I need rules!

Okay; write 200-500 words on the prompt of your choice. You may either use the prompt as the title of your piece or work it into the body of your piece. You must complete it before 6 pm CST on the Monday following this post.

The Prompts:

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post (here’s a video on how to do it); I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at bekindrewrite (at) yahoo (dot) com. (I do reserve the right to NOT link to a piece as stated in my Link Discretion Policy.)

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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* MC = Mature Content. 

Opinions expressed in other writers’ InMon pieces are not necessarily my own.

What did Mr. Darcy dress as for Halloween? The headless horseless horseman!

How shall we ever wait till the big fallout on Thursday??? By reading these lovely pieces!

Sabrina

MissM

Chris

Elmo

Parul

Craig

Kim

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The Rules

There are none. Read the prompts, get inspired, write something. No word count minimum or maximum. You don’t have to include the exact prompt in your piece, and you can interpret the prompt(s) any way you like.

OR

No really; I need rules!

Okay; write 200-500 words on the prompt of your choice. You may either use the prompt as the title of your piece or work it into the body of your piece. You must complete it before 6 pm CST on the Monday following this post.

The Prompts:

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post (here’s a video on how to do it); I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at bekindrewrite (at) yahoo (dot) com. (I do reserve the right to NOT link to a piece as stated in my Link Discretion Policy.)

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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* MC = Mature Content. 

Opinions expressed in other writers’ InMon pieces are not necessarily my own.

Another slow week in InMon land. Gearing up for NaNoWriMo, are we? No matter: more time to enjoy these pieces!

Raina

Chris

Carrie

And if you have a little more time, you must check out the Hobbit read-along going on at The Warden’s Walk. I’m only just catching up, but everyone is brilliant in their reviews.

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The Rules

There are none. Read the prompts, get inspired, write something. No word count minimum or maximum. You don’t have to include the exact prompt in your piece, and you can interpret the prompt(s) any way you like.

OR

No really; I need rules!

Okay; write 200-500 words on the prompt of your choice. You may either use the prompt as the title of your piece or work it into the body of your piece. You must complete it before 6 pm CST on the Monday following this post.

The Prompts:

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post (here’s a video on how to do it); I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at bekindrewrite (at) yahoo (dot) com. (I do reserve the right to NOT link to a piece as stated in my Link Discretion Policy.)

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

–

* MC = Mature Content. 

Opinions expressed in other writers’ InMon pieces are not necessarily my own.

What a wonderfully strange life this is. Look at the magic we can perform with little black marks on a white field:

Sabrina

Chris

Carrie

Syar

LadyWhispers

MissM (MC)*

Craig

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The Rules

There are none. Read the prompts, get inspired, write something. No word count minimum or maximum. You don’t have to include the exact prompt in your piece, and you can interpret the prompt(s) any way you like.

OR

No really; I need rules!

Okay; write 200-500 words on the prompt of your choice. You may either use the prompt as the title of your piece or work it into the body of your piece. You must complete it before 6 pm CST on the Monday following this post.

The Prompts:

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post (here’s a video on how to do it); I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at bekindrewrite (at) yahoo (dot) com. (I do reserve the right to NOT link to a piece as stated in my Link Discretion Policy.)

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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* MC = Mature Content. 

Opinions expressed in other writers’ InMon pieces are not necessarily my own.