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Inspiration Monday: Metaphorphosis

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So the site went down today – that’s what happens when you don’t check the email address where the web host sends the bills. Oh, the joys of self-hosting! How is it that a magazine subscription you never signed up for can auto-renew itself and charge your credit card, but you can’t get your web host to auto-renew, huh?

There must be a button for that somewhere.

Anywho, sorry for the confusion! The good news is, I found my sonic screwdriver (it was in my coat pocket), and made it to the Doctor Who Season 8 premiere in time, wearing a 12-foot scarf in 100 degree weather. And despite all the hype created by my own excitement for Peter Capaldi, he completely delivered. He feels just like the Doctor ought to feel. Some of today’s prompts brought to you by his Illustrious Gallifreyan Self.

If I missed anyone in the confusion who was unable to link (got you, Kate) do please comment below.

Hey, don’t forget to sign up for the super fun that is Voice Week 2014. It starts September 22, and I suggest you start writing now!

Enough. On to the work!

Adam

Imaginator

Tara

ChaoticallyYours

Kate

Whoops, missed Lucy

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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:

METAPHORPHOSIS

PSYCHIC PAPER

BIGGER ON THE INSIDE

SHOP GIRL

SLEEPING IN THE DAYTIME

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and then give me the link in the comments below (I’ll also love you more if you link back to me); I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at stephanie (at) bekindrewrite (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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Inspiration Monday: Toy Patrol

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A few months ago, I lost my tweezers. Finally, yesterday I bought some new ones. As I picked them up, I said to myself “And I’m going to find the other ones as soon as I buy these.”

This VERY evening, whilst searching for my sonic screwdriver, I found my tweezers.

So we all know what I have to do to find my screwdriver.

Oh look! InMonsters!

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TheImaginator

Evan

ChaoticallyYours

Lucy

CreativeWriter

Kate

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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:

TOY PATROL

CONSPIRACY LAW

INHUMAN RACE

MORTAL FRIEND

OUTSIDE OF TIME

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and then give me the link in the comments below (I’ll also love you more if you link back to me); I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at stephanie (at) bekindrewrite (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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Voice Week 2014: Aaaaaa!!!

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September 22 – 26

Yes, friends, the time has come for the fourth annual, astounding, splendiferous, phantasmagorical, pen-bending event known as Voice Week.

Voice Week is a five day blogging challenge wherein average, ordinary citizens of the writing world push their literary abilities to the very limits of sanity–and possibly much further.

We will step outside our own matter-bound heads and into the mysterious, sensational, never-fully-explored minds of characters we have created. And, with luck, we will write in ways we have never written before.

We will write in their voices.

The rules are simple. Write five versions of the same flash story with identical facts but different voices. Make them each about 100 words long. Post one a day, Monday through Friday, September 22 – 26.

It’s not just about five different characters. It’s about five different tones. Five different thought patterns, and five different ways to express the same thing. Maybe your voices are different ages, or from different time periods, or different species.

Whomever they are, your mission is to make them sound different.

In experimenting with different voices, we hope to better understand our characters and to further develop our own unique voices. Voices that will make people recognize our work the way they recognize Dickens or Hemingway.

It’s not a competition; it’s a learning opportunity. And between now and September 22, I’ll point you to different tools that will help you understand what voice is and how to use it.

You can find all the details, including prompts, at Voice Week Headquarters.

I would so love for you to join the fun. Comment below or anywhere over there to get your name on the official Voice Writers list!

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Inspiration Monday: Uncertainty is Worse

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My dog always wants to eat my TARDIS blanket. And I can’t find my sonic screwdriver.

What do I do?

Read, friends. Read:

ChaoticallyYours

Tara

Lucy

Evan

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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:

UNCERTAINTY IS WORSE

SISTERS IN ARMS

DARE YOU TO LOOK

FLY CAREFULLY

GRAPHITE POISONING

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and then give me the link in the comments below (I’ll also love you more if you link back to me); I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at stephanie (at) bekindrewrite (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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Inspiration Monday: Mortal Water

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Don’t you hate it when someone calls you from a survey group with a deceptively non-partisan name like “National Research,” convinces you they really do need your opinion because you’re not a retired grandparent like most of their respondents, and then asks you a bunch of rather biased questions?

I probably answered most of their questions the same way a retired grandparent would anyway. Bwahahahahahahaaaaaaaa!

And you can have even more fun with this weeks InMonster offerings:

Imaginator

Tara

Evan

Lucy

Avra-Sha

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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:

MORTAL WATER

WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS

INFANT SKY

COSMIC ARCHAEOLOGIST

PAINT IN THE WASHING MACHINE

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and then give me the link in the comments below (I’ll also love you more if you link back to me); I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at stephanie (at) bekindrewrite (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!