Hey. Wanna know what the most important sentence in your book is?
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You know the feeling. The book you’ve spent the last couple of weeks reading has become a dear friend. You must keep reading it, but the more you do, the closer you get to the end…and suddenly it’s over. It is no longer a companion, but a memory. You enter into mourning.
Sequels aside, only one thing can ease pain of the ending of a great book:
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Dug my car out of three inches of solid ice this morning, but still didn’t go anywhere today. Generally, not leaving the house all day is one of my favorite pastimes, but after four days, I’m ready to breathe the free air again. Here’s hoping the roads are clear tomorrow!
Meanwhile, you can always cozy up with some InMon stories:
DJMatticus and another
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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:
CONFINED TO QUARTERS
KNIT TOGETHER
SPILLED PAINT
ECHO
DELIBERATE
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. (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!
How ’bout you warm up with a little encouragement from yesteryear:
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You write something brilliant at three in the morning, but by the next afternoon you want to burn it. You query a dozen agents and no one asks for pages. Your agent has submitted to 50 publishers and no one is interested. Your novel is getting awful reviews left and right.
At every stage of your writing career, no matter how successful you are, you are going to get discouraged.
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Well, the pumpkin pie is gone, followed closely by the cheese ball. A new work week has begun, and my inbox is stuffed with Cyber Monday sales I won’t avail myself of. And just two days outside of NaNoWriMo, InMon is picking up again!
Like so:
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:
UNDEFEATED
SECOND BOOKMARK
FLASHLIGHT
NUNS WITH KNIVES
CALLIOPE
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. (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!
I hope you who celebrate Thanksgiving had a good one! For me, Turkey Day marks the beginning of the holiday season, which means I’m on soft hiatus till the new year. InMon will continue weekly as usual, but on Fridays, you’ll see links to some archived posts from years past. Hopefully they are fresh to you, or at least good reminders. Here’s this week’s!
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People who aren’t writers don’t know the extent of background work that goes into writing a novel—how much plot, setting and character development we write that never appears on the published page.
This is a list of a few of those things. Read it!
