Writing Prompts for October 13, 2009

Waitress
He told her, "Just stand out on the sidewalk with a tray, and ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Go enjoy a meal and engage the waiter in a meaningful conversation. What did he or she have to say?

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Bryan Miller writes, “The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.”

INKDrop:
Most writers carry around very large pepper mills. We have all those tools our middle school English teachers gave us. Similes, metaphors, alliteration, enough adjectives and adverbs to send our peppered red fishes back to the sea. What kind of writer are you? One who uses the big pepper mill and fills your writing with spice, or one who uses the little pepper mill preferring prose with mostly meat and potatoes?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is coming!! Go sign up! (It's free too, except it will take your soul).

Competition idea: Grab a literate friend or two, agree on the topic today, and write. Maybe 1000 characters (fits in your cell phone notepad), or 500 words (our gold standard), or longer. Then share your work with somebody and ask them to select their favorite effort from today. You might be surprised how much you love winning (or hate losing).

And stop by our old home page and see if we've managed to catch up.

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