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Inspiration Monday: imaginary research

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Just finished assembling new bookshelves. Power tools! Mwahahahahaha!

Read a few shorts from these cyber shelves:

Chris

Sabrina

Elmo

LoveTheBadGuy

Parul

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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:

imaginary research
power tools
moon burn
peeling back
transparent

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.

Inspiration Monday: the meeting of legends

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I love Christmastime. I love all the gushy, sparkly, delicious warmfuzziness of it. The breath-holding anticipation of it. The Charlie Browniness of it. Even if it is 80 degrees outside!

Read all the things!

LoveTheBadGuy and another

LadyNimue

Miss M

LadyWhispers

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:

the meeting of legends
after the end
heist-minded
more with silence
falling together

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.

Archives for the Holidays: Show, don’t tell: what it means

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I’m feeling better for the first time in five days! How are you?

To stay on top of the Christmas cheer, I’m posting some of my favorite posts from the archives. This one was originally posted on October 7, 2011.

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It’s the first rule of writing. We hear it all the time. In fact, it’s almost all we hear. Over and over again, they tell us…

Show, don’t tell.

Show; don’t tell.

Show! Don’t tell!

In the name of all that’s good, what the heck does that mean???

Find out >>

Inspiration Monday: tissue paper skin

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I am getting better at tossing the used tissues into the trash can without missing. Nine lie on the floor, but I’ve got the last three in. How many tissues before I must admit that I have a cold, and that I am not simply “trying not to get a cold”?

At least one more.

These will warm me up!

Chris and another

Elmo

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:

tissue paper skin
don’t I know you?
the beginnings of strangeness
rip tide
last words

 

 

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.

Inspiration Monday: false finish

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We’ve got a couple more InMonsters published, folks! Chris White’s InMon piece (prompt was don’t watch the news) Cobblestones was published on 101 Fiction, and K. Patrick Moody has four shorts in the One Word Anthology, available on Amazon. Congrats!

More proof there’s always good reading on InMon! /

Rashmi

Chris

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:

false finish
amber sky
the page screamed
plane in my living room
pre-apocalyptic

 

 

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.