Tag: how to write a short story

I’ve made a start on learning the 12-bar blues on the ukulele. Slowly working my way toward Stairway to Heaven. Oh yeah.

Speaking of heaven, read some of this:

LovetheBadGuy

Chris

LadyNimue

PenNTonic

UndueCreativity

Eric

Craig

Barb

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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:

Hold onto your heart

Afraid of the wind

Yestermorrow*

Save the martians**

Infinity in pieces

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Happy writing!

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* I was going to write a book with this title. Then I found out Ray Bradbury already did. Quit stealing my stuff and then transporting it into the past, Ray!

** What I say when I offer people hand-sanitizer. Bonus points if you can explain why.

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Some interesting takes on the shoe mystery in the stories and in last week’s comments. I’ll never look at lost shoes the same way again. : )

Unrelated note: anybody else getting more spam comments than usual? In the last week I’ve gone from a handful a week to more than a dozen a day. What’s up with that?

Here’s the good stuff:

DeMaizeField

Chris and another

LadyNimue

LoveTheBadGuy and another

Janel

PenNTonic

Rashmi

Eric

UndueCreativity

Barb

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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:

Farewell fairy tales

All this time I was wrong

That’s not blood

Wandering knight

Broken string

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Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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Who’s up for building a time machine so we can travel to the past and shoot Ben Franklin before he gets the idea for Daylight Savings Time? I mean, between the time change and having to stay up till 3:30 am to finish reading books about evil dwarves, how are we supposed to get any sleep at all? We’ll sleep when we’re dead, I suppose.

In the meantime, we’ll keep reading:

PenNTonic (last week) and another

WritingSprint (last week) and another (this week)

LoveTheBadGuy and another

Craig

Rebecca

DeMaizeField

Aparna

Kay

Chris

LadyWhispers

Chris (of Ideophoe)

Barb 

UndueCreativity

Eric

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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:

Lost shoe*

Never better

Used to be me

They never tell you that part

Hollow earth

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Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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* Help me out with this one, guys; all my life, I’ve seen shoes randomly dropped in the street and on the highway. How do they get there? Is there a whole subculture of people who ride around sticking their feet out the window and frequently forget to tie their laces, or are they really aliens who have crash landed on our planet, disguised as shoes to avoid government kidnapping?

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A gorgeous collection of work to celebrate our anniversary this week! I’m so proud.

Enjoy!

ScriptorObscura (I missed it last week)

UndueCreativity

Chris and another

Billie Jo

LadyWhispers

Siggi

MIQ

Yikici

Lynnette

Craig

Barb

Woops, missed PenNTonic

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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:

Note to self

Time immemorial

How did you get in here?

Strange password

Deadline

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Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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InMon is officially one year old tomorrow!

For this special occasion, I’ll drudge up a little something I wrote in the intro months ago:

Happy InMon to us, happy InMon to us. Click the links they are genius! Happy InMon to us!

UndueCreativity

Craig

MIQ

LadyWhispers

Siggi

Barb

Chris

PenNTonic

LoveTheBadGuy

Kim

Whoops! Missed ScriptorObscura

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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:

Deadly paper

The city that never wakes

Deafening

Last place you look

They took it away

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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