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Inspiration Monday: post-apocalyptic daydream

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Computer fixed! Notes recovered! Time…still minimal. I’ll shoot for this Friday for the First Pages post, but might have to push it again. : /

Meanwhile, read some fantastic work! You guys are so darn talented!

Chris

LadyNimue

UndueCreativity and another

UnhealthyObsessionWithWords

PenNTonic

Kim

Craig

Hugmore (couple weeks ago)

 

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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:

Post-apocalyptic daydream
Hungry for less
Stolen name
Invisible link
Lights up when he walks 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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Inspiration Monday: not my memory

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InMon veteran Chris White is taking flash fiction submissions for a short story collection he is self-publishing in protest of the Premier of Queensland cutting funding for literary awards.  I don’t know much about Australian politics, but this sounds like a great project. Check it out now – the deadline is May 10.

In other news this week, AbeBooks did it to me again. I simply ordered the cheapest good condition hardcover I could find – and it came like this:

woah

 Autographed!!! Not only that, there is also a little slip of paper that appears to be the author’s address and phone number. Seriously. I am not making this up. I don’t know who Bill Lewis is (or was?) but dude? Thanks!

This is the second time this has happened to me (I also have an autographed copy of Quentin Dodd’s Beatnik Routabegas from Beyond the Stars). Maybe I should play the lottery or something.

Now check out this week’s work and tell the writers to submit something to Chris!

Parul

Kim (last week) and Kim (this week)

UndueCreativity and another

Chris and another

Craig

Spider42

UnhealthyObsessionWithWords

 If I missed you, please give me a shout in the comments. Pingbacks have been acting up lately.

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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:

Not my memory
Electronic babysitter
Lost and found
Royalty free
Wrong order


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: all I’ve ever known

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Delicious news. One of my favorite YouTube vloggers, Hank Green, has begun an exciting, unprecedented project: translating the Austen classic, Pride & Prejudice, into – what else? – YouTube vlogging. It’s rather experimental; they’re not really sure if they can pull off the whole thing, but I like it so far. The more viewers they get, the more likely they’ll be to keep going, so be sure to check it out after you read the brilliant work linked below. Start with Hank’s introduction or with the first episode.

Now onto it!

Chris and another

LovetheBadGuy

Barb

Spider42

Craig

UndueCreativity

EDIT: For some reason I missed Marian. I have no idea why.

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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:

All I’ve ever known
Countdown
To be protected
Save the song
Escape from pretend

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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Hooking interest with a killer hook

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Between two marketing campaigns, a video, a cousin’s wedding, and a best friend coming into town, I didn’t write a new post this week.

The I in AIDA

HOWEVER – my absence is your excellent opportunity to learn (or review)  how to write a hook – that thing that’s going to grab the interest of friends at cocktail parties, literary agents in query letters, and bookstore browsers who glance at the back cover.

This post explains what a hook is, how to write one, and how you’ll know when you’ve written a good one.

This post gives examples of hooks that will help you write yours.

Have fun, and if you like, post your hook in the comments for some feedback!

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Inspiration Monday: fear vaccine

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Ah. Baseball season at last. Letting it suck me in again. Yet another bad habit I picked up from my dad, along with picking at my fingers, working through lunch, and asking the waiter to replace Triple Sec with Gran Marnier in my margaritas.

Develop better habits. Read short fiction:

Eric (missed last week) and another (non InMon, but related) and Eric again

PenNTonic

Chris

UndueCreativity

Barb

Marian

Spider42

Craig

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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:

Fear vaccine
Rapidly unraveling
Messed up on purpose
Death by piano
Count the windows


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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