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Inspiration Monday: cryptocracy

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Hope you’ve all had a merry Christmas! I’m back with web access, so be sure to check out the new piece linked below!

Janece

Chris

Mike and another and one more!

Craig

New piece!:

Chris

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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:

Cryptocracy*
Don’t look
Didn’t know it was loaded
This means war
Never agreed to this

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Happy writing!

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* This word means “secret government,” and I stole it from Anne Setliffe, a good friend of mine here on the blogosphere. Thanks Anne-with-an-e!

Inspiration Monday: no time to bleed

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So Christmas is Sunday! I won’t have web access on Monday, but I’ll post prompts with the “publish later” feature – this just means I might not have linked to your story yet if you post it after, say, Saturday. I will update the post Tuesday night with any missing links. But I’ll run through all this Friday. Unless I forget. If I do forget – merry Christmas everybody! Or happy Hanukkah!

Read on!

Craig

Lady Nimue

Chris

Siggi and another

Janece

Robin

Lynnette

LovetheBadGuy continues Sleet’s story

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:

no time to bleed*
things we lost in the fire**
clockwork soul
wandering mind
safe word

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Happy writing!

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*The only line I know from Predator. Unless “Get to the chopper!” is the same movie???

**Another movie I haven’t seen. But what a title!

Inspiration Monday: best nightmare

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So by now you probably all know that I goofed, or some mysterious technological misfortune prevented me from posting prompts last week. Fortunately Chris covered for me! Extra awesome points to Chris! So, first, here are all the people who wrote the week before last.

LadyNimue

Chris

Lynnette

Craig

Scribbla

Robin

Barb

LoveTheBadBuy continues Sleet’s story

And here are the folks who wrote last week, thanks to Chris’s prompts (thank you Chris!!!) or their own initiative:

Chris

Barb

Siggi

Lynnette, not sure if you had one but I’m linking this one. 🙂

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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:

Best nightmare
The war that never happened
Mind games
Reading faces
Beggar king

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post; 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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Inspiration Monday: stronger than fate

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Enjoying some off-time now! Hurray for vacation! Also thoroughly enjoyed all your pieces this week, and won’t keep y’all from reading them any longer!

Craig

Chris

WritingSprint

Barb

Char

LovetheBadGuy continues Sleet’s story.

EDIT:: I missed Stella! Apologies. : )

And Siggi!

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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:

Stronger than fate
Paint the town
Seconds left
The lies weren’t as bad as the truth
Why is she smiling?

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post; 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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Inspiration Monday: a dying art

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Home again, but Internet will be spotty again Thursday through Saturday (happy Thanksgiving everyone!). Things still look good for a post this Friday though (it’ll just be scheduled). Enough of my boring life; read some of these great stories: I know you’ll get sucked in.

Chris

Craig

Mike

Robin

Barb

Heidi

LoveTheBadGuy

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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:

A dying art
The stars look different*
No one remembers but me
Can’t find it with a map
Error message

 

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post; 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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* This is almost a line from David Bowie’s Space Oddity.