Category: Inspiration Monday

Inspiration Monday XVII

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We’ve had a little bit of everything this week, from poetry to steampunk. In other news, I wrote a new synopsis on Saturday, and it wasn’t terrible. You may applaud – and help me celebrate by reading the awesome pieces linked below!

Nimue

Pete

Patti

Marantha

Mike and two and flash fiction and one more

Kay

Chessie

Juan

PianoLover

Barb

Anna

Jinx

Drew, InMon’s resident lyricist, has recorded a song from past prompt Paper Towns

I missed SAB Inspirations

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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:

One day he shot me; we’ve been happy ever since*

Do you ever feel like glass?*

I miss someone I’ve never met*

One man’s tragedy, another man’s miracle

Silence followed

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 stephanie (at) balcomagency (dot) com.

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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Today’s first three prompts brought to you from TragicPete, Blindside (the song Cute Boring Love) and Wes King (the song Thought You’d Be Here).

Inspiration Monday XVI

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Another great week. I feel like I’m missing somebody, though…please let me know if I did, and I will rectify my omission with great haste!

Also, here’s a little gift I recently found out about and have forgotten to tell you all about for several weeks: (*cue fanfare*) A FREE (electronic/online) copy of Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style, also known as the bible of writing, which is fortunately way shorter than the actual Bible (my copy is only 85 pages long). Enjoy!

Jinx

Drew

Jenna

Mike

Patti

Kay

SAB

Juan

Chessie

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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:

Outstretched fingers*

I can’t draw love, but I know it when I see it.*

She thinks I’m dead

Unmentionable

Confidence trick

 

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 stephanie (at) balcomagency (dot) com.

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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* Today’s first and second prompts brought to you by Jinx and TragicPete, respectively.

Inspiration Monday XV

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This really is ridiculously fun, isn’t it, guys? It’s been a good week!

SOME of you, however, *cough* Carl *cough* need to learn to read more slowly – yesterday’s post by TragicPete referred to the universal rules of writing in general, not InMon – there are still no rules for InMon. I would have lectured you privately, but I wanted to make an example of you in case anybody else had the same misunderstanding. ; ) Pete promises to expand on the principles of rule-breaking in a future post (at least, he mentioned he might).

Now go ye, read, write, and make merry, for life is short. Let us spend our time delighting minds with deep thoughts and wordplay!

Chessie

Marantha

Juan

Patti

Rashmi

Hugmore

Mike

Kay

Pete

Jenna

Pianolover

Carl

Mark

Pete

Barb

Jinx

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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:

What reading really is*

Mindstorm

The death of words*

The last thing they expected

I found out watching the ten o’clock news

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 stephanie (at) balcomagency (dot) com.

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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* Today’s first and third prompts brought to you by Jinx and C.S. Lewis, respectively.

Inspiration Monday XIV

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Happy Memorial Day, whether or not you are American – and thanks to all the folks who risk (and give up) their lives so that we can post whatever the heck we want on blogs and stuff. It’s a heavy price, and I hope I don’t have to remind the Rewriters not to waste this opportunity to speak their minds in the very best way they know how.

In other news, with my three-day weekend, I made some excellent progress with the Super Secret Project!

And all the InMon submissions continue to impress me. There are a few new faces this week; please be sure to welcome them!

pianolover1114

Patti

Bayley

Marantha

Mike and two

Billie Jo

Jinx

Scribbla

Kay

Chessie

Hugmore

Carl

Char

Mike per Char

***EDIT: So, apparently it’s week 14. Not week 19. I could make the excuse that the V and the X are so close to each other on the keyboard, or that I preferred the symmetry of XIX, but I’d be lying. I’ve changed the post title, but the URL/link is permanently XIX, so be sure to link correctly. Thanks for the heads up, Patti!

****EDIT: please also welcome Lady Nimue and check out Barb’s piece

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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 before6 pm CSTon the Monday following this post.

The Prompts:

The crime of forgetting *

Wait for my signal

Sideways in time

Broken heart. Bloody hammer.

Overexposed

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 stephanie (at) balcomagency (dot) com.

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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*Today’s first prompt brought to you by Jinx. Thanks, girl!

Inspiration Monday XIII

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Gorgeous work as usual this…last…this past week (I never quite know how to say that). The most popular prompt was “paper towns,” so I thought I’d introduce you all to the author (I don’t know him personally, but I like to pretend). You can watch him read a part of the book here. And don’t forget to read your fellow Rewriters!

Kay

Drew

Billie Jo

Scribbla

Mike

Char

Carl

Bayley and two

Jinx (guest post)

Barb

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EDIT: Mark was late but his piece is brilliant, and I had to add it.

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 before6 pm CSTon the Monday following this post.

The Prompts:

I used to have dreams*

The stink of clean*

Disposable men*

I never breathed

How to make a mask

 

If you 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 stephanie (at) balcomagency (dot) com.

Happy writing! And DFTBA.

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Today’s prompts brought to you by Rewriter Jinx, contributor TragicPete, and the band Chevelle, respectively.