Tag: flash fiction

Voice Week 2013 Dates!

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Voice Week 2013 will take place November 4 – 8

Yes, friends, the third annual Voice Week is almost here!

What is voice?

Think of voice as the personality behind your writing. It’s not so much what you say, but how you say it. The words you choose and the way you structure your sentences tells us something about you (or the narrator). Middle-aged truckers talk differently from middle school girls.

What is Voice Week?

Voice Week is a chance to stretch our literary vocal chords and experiment with different voices. Specifically, five different voices. We each write five versions of a flash fiction piece (each piece about 100 words). Your pieces can be from five different characters telling the same story, or five different personalities of the same character, or five totally unrelated characters who don’t know each other but are writing about the same thing. Whatever. The point is to play with your literary voice.

How does it work?

Voice Week headquarters is over yonder. Post a comment on this blog or anywhere on the Voice Week site to officially join in the event. I’ll add your name to the blogroll and you’ll be entered in the running for the prize (to be announced – but it’ll be a book). Come November 4 – 8, start posting one piece a day on your blog, I’ll reblog them all on the Voice Week site, and we’ll all have a field day (field week?) reading each other’s voices, and offering comments and suggestions.

You fiend! Why’d you schedule it during NaNoWriMo?!?

Because that’s when my vacation fell (I discovered two years ago it is very hard to run Voice Week while working full time). If you want to participate in Voice Week and NaNoWriMo, you have two options:

  1. Write all your Voice Week pieces ahead of time and just post them Nov 4-8 (that’s what I do, anyway). No taking time away from your NaNo writing.
  2. Use the Voice Week pieces in your NaNoWriMo novel. This means you’ll have to wait till November 1 to start writing them, but it also means writing your NaNo novel in five different voices – which might just make it easier to reach 50,000 words.

Wait, what?

All the info is right here. Or ask questions in the comments. You can also shoot me a comment to sign un (please do!).

Unrelated note: I’m on Google+ and Pinterest

You can follow me if you like. I post some pretty interesting links sometimes.

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Inspiration Monday: Childhood Hero

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And, it’s been another week! Last weekend I bought a toy cowboy gun (complete with sheriff’s badge), watched an episode of Sherlock, finished another Wodehouse, and wrote another conversation. Ever fear there are too many conversations in your book?

Never mind. Read some flash fiction:

DJMatticus

ARNeal

Carrie and another

Chris

LadyWhispers

Gah! Missed WritingSprint

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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:

CHILDHOOD HERO

WRECKAGE

BACKGROUND PEOPLE

FORK

FAKE 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 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!

Inspiration Monday: A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures

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Have you ever seen the show Kiss Me Kate? I just saw it this weekend. It’s about a bunch of actors putting on a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew, and they’ve rewritten it with a bunch of references to other Shakespeare plays. There was actually the line “Get thee to a notary!”

Have you ever laughed so hard in a public place that you embarrassed yourself?

Yeah.

Stop looking at me like that and read these:

TheImaginator

DJMatticus

ARNEal

Elmo

WritingSprint and another

Kim

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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:

A WORD IS WORTH A THOUSAND PICTURES

TUMBLING

TRUST YOUR FEAR

GREEN PLANET

SEALED LIPS

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!

Inspiration Monday: Duck Duck Goose

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Driving home from work today, figuring out a conversation between two characters that won’t even happen until book three – I start tearing up. Do your characters ever make you cry?

Regardless, feel free to laugh or cry for these characters:

DJMatticus

WritingSprint

Sam

Kim

Drop me a line if I missed you!

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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:

DUCK DUCK GOOSE

FROZEN TEARS

SERENADE

HOLDING THE CARDS

CHOOSERS CAN’T BE BEGGARS

 

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!

Inspiration Monday: Only One Rule

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I recently rediscovered the joys of trail mix! …And the tragedy of it never having enough M&Ms. But regardless, it is a wonderful pick-me-up when you’re feeling sleepy during a writing session. Also, exercise. Never underestimate the power of forcing blood to your brain!

It also helps to be inspired by great work like this:

Chris and another

DJMatticus

ARNeal

Elmo

Jody

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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:

ONLY ONE RULE

DUEL AT DAWN

TRIAL AND ERROR

CHEESE AND WHINE

GREY SUN

 

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!