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Inspiration Call: Tell the story behind this picture in just 6 words. A Six Word story is a challenge for each writer to come up with a short story within six words.
Publishing opportunity details for this writing prompt can be found at Open Publishing Projects.
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Every Saturday, I will share three things that I believe to be the simple things in life, yet things that make me extremely happy. I invite you to do the same.
Now, it’s your turn! Share with me three simple things in life that make you happy. Please reblog, share this post, and give others a smile and a little bit of love. If you reblog the post, please ping or tag my blog and use the words “Simple Things” and “Happy“ as your blog entry tags.
Prompt: The Simple Things #3
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I barter my heart for your love and we both profit.
(11 words)
If you are interested, the prompt is linked below.
The challenge is simple: each week you will be given an exact number of words you can use to write a poem or piece of prose. You can use any format or style you like; go wherever your inspiration takes you. The only rules are these:
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She had been following him for weeks, tenaciously and doggedly appearing in front of him no matter where he went, her haunting eyes trained on his every action, his every movement and he was unable to rid himself of her despite involving the police – she had not harassed him, neither had she broken any laws by being in the public.
He was close to breaking down.
Would it be easier for him to suffer her emaciated presence wherever he turned or would it be easier to confess he murdered her husband?
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You’ll find full guidelines on the TLT page – here’s the tl;dr:
Prompt: Three Line Tales, Week 190
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Everyone knows it is a dining restaurant. It used to be only for the rich upper class; now, it welcomes all. After all, business is getting competitive.
The restaurant still maintains its exclusiveness though, only allowing a certain number of people to enter and taking note of their dietary preferences. A major allure is the soundproofed private dining rooms.
In these dining rooms are where the customers are prepared for meals and served, accordingly to individual culinary preferences.
And this restaurant still enjoys rave reviews from the monsters, who praise the professional manner which the chef prepares the human customers.
(100 words)
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How to participate? A few guidelines as we begin….
Prompt: 100 Word Wednesday: Week 138
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picturesque world
breathed into life through brush strokes
warm water colours
thankful of this given sight
i cherish what seems mundane
I have very bad eyesight. When I wake up in the morning, I usually move around the house without my glasses. After I have my breakfast and wash up, then I put on my glasses. By then, the sun has risen and every morning, I am amazed by what I see.
This is a thankful tanka. The simple things that I sometimes take for granted.
If you are interested, the prompt is linked below.
A Tanka is a Japanese poem and similar to a Haiku, however it has seven lines. Tankas are nature, seasons, love, and other emotions. Line one has a five syllable count, line two is seven syllables, line three is five syllables, line four is seven syllables, and line five seven syllables. In total it has thirty one syllables. It uses simile, metaphor, and personification.
Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables
Line 4: 7 syllables
Line 5: 7 syllables
Publishing opportunity details for this writing prompt can be found at Open Publishing Projects.
Prompt: Inspiration Call: Tanka Thursday
The old study desk has been in the bazaar for a long time. The old man is unconcerned that among all the goods, it remains unsold.
“I fish with a straight fishing hook. Don’t accuse me of cheating if they buy things which are not of their expectations,” he explains to his fellow street vendors. They are puzzled why he always insists the customers to test the drawer.
It is stuck.
No matter how many people have attempted, the stuck drawer prevails.
The old man with the study desk at a local bazaar even becomes a kind of attraction – customers who have tried would bring their friends along. The customers seem to have forgotten that the old man is running a business. Not that the old man minds.
He encourages – eggs on even – people and charges no money for their efforts. And everyone is having fun fooling around with the study desk.
After all, this is just a small local bazaar. Who would suspect such an old study desk is Pandora’s Box? And Devil himself is sitting in broad daylight waiting for the reincarnated Pandora to open the Box once more?
The old man grins.
(198 words)
Fishing with a straight fishing hook – this is a Chinese two part proverb, in which the first part is a story and the second part, often left unsaid, sums up the meaning. In this case, fishing with a straight fishing hook means you cannot really catch any fish and if you do catch a fish, it only means that the fish is willing to be caught instead of being cheated (line, hook and sinker much?). I just could not help but included this proverb into the story.
If you are interested, the prompt is linked below.
Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner is a weekly writing challenge designed for both the flash fiction newbie and the more experienced writer. It is the desire of this challenge to allow writers the opportunity to clear the cobwebs from a more tedious and involved project. Becoming a part of a new and growing writer’s community might be just what the doctor ordered to rejuvenate your writing juices.
The challenge for Flash Fiction for the Purposeful Practitioner will open early Wednesday morning.
Allow the prompt to take you anywhere you want to go! (Limit your stories to 200 words.)
The Six Easy Guidelines
PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll
“Frog at the bottom of the well.”
“What?” Euan looked over. They were lying shirtless in his room, staring out the sky window when his male friend suddenly blurted out.
“We’re naive to think this is how big the sky is. But this is just a portion of the vast sky,” he explained. “We were born and raised in this town but they’ve never accepted us. Somewhere out there though, someone will accept us for who we are.”
He mulled over the words and decided. “All right, let’s run away together!” Euan finally agreed.
They squeezed each other’s hand.
(99 words)
Frog at the bottom of the well. A Chinese proverb. I think this is possibly one of the most well-known proverb many people would know, so it does not really require much explanation.
If you are interested, the prompt is linked below.
She was definitely not impressed by this show of royalty, yet she was obliged to honour the tradition. With her butler in the usual place behind her and the coachman clucking at the horses, the heir to the royal throne began her procession.
But the entire affair was met with solemn silence; the ceremony was merely a distraction from the recent catastrophic event which claimed an alarming number of death, both in armed forces and commoners alike. Instead of distracting everyone within the walled city, the naming of the heir only served to highlight the royal family’s desperation to keep up with the normalcy of their lives.
With every clip-clop of the horses’ hooves, everyone wondered how long their lives could continue.
After all, winter was coming and the rotting cloves of garlic could not keep the vampires out of their walls forever.
Yet another vampiric tale. I seem to have an obscene fascination with these reanimated bloodsuckers…
If you are interested, the prompt is linked below.
On to this week’s challenge: Using this photo as inspiration, write a short story, flash fiction, scene, poem; anything, really; even just a caption for the photograph. Either put it (or a link to it) in a comment or email it to me at keithchanning@gmail.com before 6pm next Sunday (if you aren’t sure what the time is where I live, this link will tell you). If you post it on your own blog or site, a link to this page would be appreciated, but please do also mention it in a comment here.
Prompt: Kreative Kue 229
He lost his head.
He was very much confused when the people around him said he had not grown his head yet. Was his head not well matured enough? How would one grow a head then?
For years, he searched for an appropriate head. But there were so many to choose from! As he was growing up, he saw heads of all shapes and sizes – round, square, triangle, big, small and distorted. Then, when he started working, he saw even more heads – wooden, metallic, beautiful and rotten.
And he tried them all on. Even then, not a single head seem to fit him properly. After a while, he stopped trying to find an appropriate head and just put on one that was always readily and conveniently available, no matter how uncomfortable that head felt at times.
He still mulled over the question from time to time – how would one grow a head?
Eventually, he looked down at his own head which he put aside years ago. He decided to put it back on. Strangely, it suited him despite years of disuse; he still found it the most comfortable.
He decided to keep it.
If you are interested, the prompt is linked below.
Welcome to Kira’s weekly inspirational art piece.
Let the whole picture tell you a story, or dive into the small intricate details to make one up! Write a poem, a fiction piece or come up with a picture or drawing of your own, that you feel relates to it.
Feel free to copy Kira’s drawing, to add it to your own post!
Anything goes, there are no rules. But don’t forget to link us to your post with a pingback. Not sure how to do that? See how to create pingbacks here.
Prompt: Kira’s Sunday Scribbles
From the Window Seat 