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Writing Prompts: Week of June 16th-22nd 2013

AM Devine

Once again, its prompt time. I promise that I’m going to get the hang of this sooner or later. Of course, its this typing on the nook with two little bitty sticks. Once again, if I don’t tell you how many words, assume between 250-500 words.

Sunday: Write about an Island, which can’t sustain life for long.

Monday: Go to a public place, and write about two of the patrons there.

Tuesday: Write about something that no one else seems to notice in the room.

Wednesday: Write about the man seated at the end of the bar. He’s well dressed, but he’s resting his head on his arms, which are folded on the bar.

Thursday: Someone is playing the piano, in a place where memories and the ability to remember things are rare. (Such as in an older person’s home.)

Friday: What if Charles Darwin were indirectly responsible for the invention of the birth control pill?

Saturday: Write about a letter, which is neither a rejection or an acceptance.

 

With absolutely no shame, I love a website known as Seventh Sanctum. It helped me out this week a little bit.

Writing Prompts: Week of June 9th-15th 2013

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Each week, I’ll post up a new set of writing prompts. They’ll be short, and you won’t need to go a long way with them. If I don’t give a general word count in the prompt itself, assume between 250 to 500 words is the minimum. If you want, post them in the comments below, or migrate on over to the forums and post them there.

 

Sunday: Write a dinner scene, where one character intends to finish something.

Monday: Write at least 500 words about a business woman and a locket.

Tuesday: Write a recollection. Something from the past that you haven’t thought about in a while.

Wednesday: Write about the future as you hope either science or technology can advance.

Thursday: Choose a type of weather. Write about a character that is affected by it.

Friday: A master of some field discovers that their field of expertise is based upon a massive falsehood. (i.e. meteorologists, colliding cold and warm fronts don’t cause thunderstorms, something else does.)

Saturday: Write about a high ranking member of a religious organization learning that another path holds more truth than their own.

 

I’ll try to keep this up by getting ahead of myself and having them auto post. Otherwise, here they are for this week.

April Showers, bring May….

AM Devine

Flowers usually, but here in Memphis, April showers bring May floods.

I’ve been very busy this past month, and I haven’t managed to get anything done for “me”. This past month has kind of sucked, and it almost got a whole lot worse. As I sit here in my favorite corner of a favorite store surrounded by friends, I just about had a major meltdown.

My much beloved Alienware machine wasn’t booting up at all. I had power through the cord, partial power in the battery, and when I hit the power button, NOTHING HAPPENED. I counted to fifteen. NOTHING STILL. I hit the button again, and STILL NOTHING. So I got up and asked if the tech wiz was going to be coming in today, and they said yes. I relaxed one degree. I commented to people that I was going to have a major meltdown if I couldn’t get my computer to boot. Then I returned to my corner, flipped her over again, took out the battery and put it back in. Then turned Alien back upright, and opened the lid. I hit the power button again. HOLY WORD. LIGHTS!!!! Alien started to boot up then. And announced that she hadn’t shut down properly to begin with.

Guess who is now going to wait until the laptop is completely powered off before she closes it again. This morning scared the all and holy hells outta me. (By the way, after my scare, I lose a bit of my language filter, so be aware the are a few instances of ‘foul’ language from here on)

Anyways, there is a reason for me posting about this. Beyond the obvious, I need to get it off my chest, sort of deal. Why, you ask? Because it brings up a major point that writers need to remember!

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Writing101: So you have an idea…

AM Devine

Welcome to Writing101. This first post is going to be about IDEAS.

 

Ideas area glorious thing. Everyone actually has them, but very few actually decide to act on them in any meaningful sort of way. Welcome to a kind of exclusive club, to which the only real membership fee is the statement that “I have an idea, and I want to try to make it into a full story”.

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