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Whew – what a week!

I saw my sister tie the knot, I saw a bunch of family and friends, I cut up my heels wearing uncomfortable flats, I saw the Dead Sea Scrolls, and…wasn’t there something else?

Oh yeah – Voice Week happened!

And it was just as amazing as last year. I’m going to give a full recap on Friday, but for now, announcing the winner of the H.G. Wells Collector’s Book of Science Fiction – the random number generator gave me the number 5, which is Elmo! Elmo herself did a great recap here. Elmo, I’m emailing you for your street address so I can get this to you!

In other news, Jubilare has figured out how to redeem her awesome points! Yes, folks; she is going to issue some sort of writing challenge, which I have agreed to undertake! I know there are some of you out there with unspent awesome points…you may start thinking of challenges. : )

ALSO – there was of course great writing outside of Voice Week as well! Read up on this round of InMon!

Oscar

Chris

UndueCreativity

MrPerfect

LadyNimue

MissM

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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.

Okay, folks, Voice Week starts ONE WEEK FROM TODAY. There’s still time to sign up; just leave me a comment anywhere. If you’ve already signed up, please check the list on the right side of this page for your name – I want to make sure I didn’t miss you!

If you have any questions, leave a comment or email me at bekindrewrite (at) yahoo.com.

Inspiration Monday will be postponed during Voice Week, which means you’ll have two weeks with these prompts instead of just one! New prompts on October 8.

Some new InMonsters this week! Be sure to pay them a visit. You guys are all so talented.

Raina

Chris

UnhealthyObsessionWithWords and another

Carrie

Elmo

Brian

Jack

Craig

Jacky

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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.

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**Like the Pink Floyd album. Which was really more Roger Waters.

Things are a little scarce this week – I hope these means you are all gearing up for Voice Week? Ack…I need to finish my pieces.

Anyway, if I missed anybody, it was accidental – please let me know in the comments!

And read this week’s work:

SWSondheimer

Chris

Ooops – missed Raina

Don’t forget Voice Week starts October 1. Check out photos of the prize here. If you want to join and haven’t already, tell me in the comments!

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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.

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This week’s prompts are dedicated to my writing teacher from grade school, who I knew as “Miss Judy.” She died this past weekend. Her awesome, short writing prompts were what inspired me to start Inspiration Monday. I think it’s safe to say our little community would not exist if it hadn’t been for her. Though I hadn’t seen her in years, I’d heard she was doing poorly, but I idiotically put off calling her. So I missed my chance to tell her about all this. But maybe she’ll take a little time (if one can take ‘time’ out of eternity) to glance down and read some of your fantastic work:

LadyNimue

Lynnette

TK

SWSondheimer

Elmo

Chris and another and one more!

Craig

Raina

Oh, P.S.: don’t forget Voice Week starts October 1. Check out photos of the prize here. If you want to join and haven’t already, tell me in the comments!

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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.

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Ah, Labor Day. Nothing like a three-day weekend to get some real writing done. Oh, gosh, though. I didn’t do any Voice Week writing and it’s less than a month away! Gahhh…

Read for some super fun times:

Juan

SWSondheimer

Parul

Chris

Craig

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.

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.

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** Thanks to TragicPete for this prompt. Yes. He still exists.

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