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Inspiration Monday: epic naptime

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I rearranged my books by color. Even split up some series. I mean, who designs a series of books with clashing spine colors! Pink and orange?!?!? What were they thinking?

Never mind. Just read some of this groovy stuff:

Tkhuynhtdi

Kate

PMAOAudio

Craig

Bryant (couple weeks ago)

Sabrina

LoveTheBadBuy

AllTimeScout

UndueCreativity

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:

Epic naptime
Dial tone
Only the poor can afford
Where did I get that scar?
Funeral cut short

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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Inspiration Monday is One Year Old!

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Yessireebob, it’s the one year anniversary of Inspiration Monday! Okay, technically today is Friday. And technically Tuesday will be the official anniversary, but who’s to say we can’t start celebrating now? I asked our badge creator Marantha to design some kind of celebratory graphic and she did not disappoint! Just looking at it makes me happy!

Thanks, Marantha!

Thank you so much, Marantha. InMonsters: feel free to use it on your upcoming InMon posts. : )

And here’s a little recap of the year:

I want to thank all of you for sharing your work and for being generally awesome – both those of you who have joined us for the first time this week, and those of you who’ve been with us since the beginning (the most frequent participants can check out their names in the graphic above). But linking to 67 of you would take quite awhile. So let me just give some props to Debra over at FindAnOutlet for giving me the idea to start this, and for bravely (and beautifully) taking on the first prompts.

I really can’t express to you all how much fun this year has been, how inspiring it has been to read your work. You guys have taught me so much. Thank you thank you THANK YOU!

And I am so looking forward to another year!

Couple of things before I go:

1. The InMon book. I mentioned the idea of self-publishing a “Best of Inspiration Monday” book several months ago, and several of you thought it was a great idea. Then I got busy and forgot about it for awhile. In case you’re wondering, yes, I still want to do it. It’s just not feasible time-wise right now. We’ll hope we can make it happen sometime in the future.

2. What do you want to read about this year? What topics would y’all like to see covered in future Friday posts? What questions do you have about writing or getting published? Let me know in the comments!

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The one thing you should be doing that you probably aren’t

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 You should be spending every second of your free time either writing, editing, or reading. Right?

Wrong.

You’re missing a crucial part of the creative process. The key to everything from fixing plot holes to breathing life into your characters, to finding that one-in-a-million first sentence. In fact, it’s basically the only fix-all there is for writing. And all it takes is a little time and paper.

This secret, powerful, indispensable weapon is…
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Inspiration Monday: Truth decay

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So last Friday I announced Voice Week! We’ve already got 9 Rewriters (including myself) raring to go. Check out the blogroll on the VW homepage to see who’s playing, and comment anywhere to let me know you want to join in. The fun starts September 26!

But what am I saying? The fun started a long time ago! And continues with this week’s InMon pieces:

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Inspiration Monday: patchwork people

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As you can see, I’m giving up Roman numerals. The simple system is apparently too complex for my highly distractible mind. So I opted to save myself the trouble and just use titles instead! Plus it creates a bit more interest, dontcha think? 

Some really enjoyable pieces this week; be sure to read up! And be sure to tune in Friday as we unveil *gasp* the Super Secret Project!!!

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