Writing Prompts for November 23, 2009

Game Time
The stadium felt ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Take in a sporting event today. Now write!

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Erma Bombeck said, "Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead."

INKDrop:
Some writers have the luxury of sticking to their favorite subjects and writing obsessively. Others must write about subjects they have little or no interest in studying. We should make a list of our exquisite obsessions and plan to write about them more. If more people spend more time sharing our interests, we will have to spend less time writing about their interests.

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 22, 2009

Open
She couldn't believe they were open, so ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
There is a business near your home you've never patronized. Go there now and see what they have. Then write.

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Publilius Syrus wrote, "Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world."

INKDrop:
So you're a writer, eh? It's your job to find the story, tell the story, and then most annoyingly of all, sell the story. What privacies are you prepared to retail to the world? To what lengths will you turn art into business? We should be prepared to know where the art ends, and where the business begins.

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and write a novel in eight days! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 21, 2009

Winter Wait
It was cold sitting there, but ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
We need to go find a public bench someplace and sit, and wait, and watch. Then write.

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
An anonymous writer said, “Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends”

INKDrop:
What has love made you do? What will it make you do? Your characters may or may not share the same views on love as you. Whenever we approach the subject of love, we need to pay attention to the details, like sitting in the middle of the bench, without allowing our own authorial views to color the scene and distort our characters' beliefs.

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, except it will take your soul). Nine days left, can you make it?

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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Writing Prompts for November 20, 2009

Fill 'er Up
I didn't want to stop there, but it seemed ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Go buy a package of gum or mints from the clerk at the ugliest petrol station in your neighborhood. Tell us about him or her.

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Peter Rose once said, "I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball."

INKDrop:
Often, the most famous people we know are so passionate about their craft, they would do anything necessary to continue doing it. How passionate are you about writing? Is it a nice diversion? Is it something you must do? Is it something that turns your days and nights into a nightmarish obsession? Based on your passion, can you imagine where it will take you?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 19, 2009

Unfolding the Map
The map was so much larger than he remembered it, and ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Grab a map of your town, close your eyes and point. Now go visit the place where your finger landed. Describe.

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Christopher Columbus wrote, "For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."

INKDrop:
Christopher Columbus ran into the Caribbean Islands without a map. Not bad shooting there Chris! Where have you ended up by accident? List some good places and some bad places. Create a character who stumbles into a place quite by accident and then jot down positive and negative outcomes. Which seems more likely?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 18, 2009

Booty
Her captive seemed ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Probably encouraging you to go out a capture a slave is a politically incorrect thing to do, so how about you run out and capture an item that will serve you well? What did you decide to claim? How will it serve you?

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Ezra Pound writes, "A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."

INKDrop:
Ezra Pound, never being one to notice how incredibly stupid he is, defines slaves as people patiently enduring until salvation arrives. What groups of people actually do this and how do you feel about them? What do you endure? What constitutes salvation in your mind?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 17, 2009

In the Mist
We could barely see the outline of a person toward the top of the waterfall and ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Time to get wet. Find a water feature near you ... waterfall, fountain, local pond, or maybe you only have access to the shower. What are the benefits of the place you found?

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Lucretius in an astonishingly literary vein writes, "From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers."

INKDrop:
It's a glass half empty kind of day. What is your fountain of delight? What causes your jet of bitterness? What tortures you even among the flowers?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 16, 2009

Bunk Beds
Plotting her evil plan, the imp stared at the lower bunk and ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Head off to the furniture store and shop for bunk beds. What type of person would love to be sleeping in the top one?

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Joan Rivers jokes, "I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds."

INKDrop:
A dangerous INKDrop today! What's going on in your bedroom that ends up in your writing? Do you create characters with essentially the same bedroom mannerisms as you, or do you let them do things you've only read about on the internet? Today let's live dangerously and have our characters be a bit more free than we might be ready to grant ourselves.

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 15, 2009

Motel
Oddly, the place seemed completely abandoned, and ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Go on an excursion to a really cheap or really fancy hotel and document what you find there of interest.

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Augusten Burroughs writes, "But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair."

INKDrop:
The environment we choose to create literature within probably plays a role in its final form. Do you find yourself writing at the kitchen counter surrounded by dishes? In a fully dedicated writer's office? In a cheap motel room? How do your emotions and your words change as you change writing locations?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 14, 2009

Nobody Home
I stopped by the trailer, but nobody was inside and ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
We make fun of trailer parks all the time. Take a trip through one today and look for something positive there.

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Hilary Swank said, "I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream."

INKDrop:
Where you're from can change the appearance of where you're going. How does your past color the writing you do?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 13, 2009

What?
He couldn't believe she said it, and yet ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
The stranger on the bench! Go to a busy place and sit uncomfortably near somebody and (of course) eavesdrop ... or better yet ... start up a conversation with them. What did you hear?

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Murphy's Law states, "Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure."

INKDrop:
We all accept certain things we hear as true without investigation. The nightly newscast is primarily designed to deliver you a list of the aberrant behaviors of the day and we often accept on faith that the list is somehow relevant in our lives. What news items are you pondering today that probably will never affect you in any way?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 12, 2009

The Tree
The tree stood alone as if it were out of place and we ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Go find some nature amidst the concrete of human existence. Spend some time writing about it.

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Ogden Nash in the Song of the Open Road writes: "I think that I shall never see / A billboard lovely as a tree. / Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, / I'll never see a tree at all."

INKDrop:
Sometimes we write to glorify or vilify humans amidst the oceans and trees, and sometimes we do the same with them surrounded by steel and glass. How much nature will nurture your characters? How much of your own view of the natural world do you bring into your stories?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 11, 2009

Neighborly
She didn't care if the whole neighborhood knew, so ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Time to observe the neighbors! Find a convenient spot to observe your neighbors in action. What are they up to now?

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Mignon McLaughlin writes, "Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors."

INKDrop:
Community building of some type is essential for most authors. What relationships do your characters have with other characters? What does their neighborhood look like? Where would they like to live if they moved? What would they like to do to change the environment around them? Do you agree with your characters choice of friends and acquaintances?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 10, 2009

Too Perfect
She'd tried a bit too hard to be perfect and ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Visit a local college or university and hang out in the student union. What do you see of interest?

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
John Ciardi writes, "A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."

INKDrop:
How has education benefited you as a writer? What has it done to inhibit you as a writer? Examine the role education plays in the lives of the characters you create and discover how your own views of higher learning color their views.

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 9, 2009

Campbell's
Oh she liked soup all right, but this was becoming ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Go buy a can of Campbell's soup and create a work of art with it. Tell us (or show us) how you did.

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Andy Warhol said, "An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

INKDrop:
Make a list of the things you absolutely couldn't survive without. Then make an additional list of things you wouldn't want to live without. Where on your list is the process of writing? Could you live without it? Why do you live with it?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 8, 2009

Blake
She peered through the opening and ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Pick a famous painting you enjoy and write about it and why you like it today.

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
William Blake says, "Active evil is better than passive good."

INKDrop:
Do you believe some people are evil? Can good exist without evil? Is passive good better than active evil? How have you used good and evil to a positive extent in your writing? How have you used it sloppily without considering the important role each plays?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 7, 2009

Wingman
I could hear the buzzing and knew ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Go find an insect. Write about it.

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
"If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive." American Quaker saying.

INKDrop:
Some of us are terrified of spiders, or snakes, or weird sounds in the dark, or planes, or the girl working in the next cubicle. What phobias do you have? Which ones would make for a great character in your own writing?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 6, 2009

Big Bug
It was maybe the biggest one she'd ever seen and she ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Go find something big. Really really big. Abnormally big. What did you find?

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Bill Gates is quoted as saying, "There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed."

INKDrop:
Which bugs in your work are you unwilling to admit to creating? Which bugs would it take a significant number of complaints before you fixed them?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here!! 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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Writing Prompts for November 5, 2009

Making Do
It was a crummy place, but it was all there was, so ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Find a relaxing place in the midst of chaos. What makes it peaceful? What creates the chaos?

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Robert Bork writes, "A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."

INKDrop:
Most artists, but not all, can tolerate a good deal of moral chaos, but have little patience for smothering networks of laws. What parts of your life do you allow to be chaotic, and what parts must you have orderly? Why? Do these beliefs force their way into your writing?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 4, 2009

Rear View
She could see the delivery truck from here, and ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Go find a loading dock, truck stop, or other place where heavy equipment is being used. What are the people like there?

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
B.C. Forbes writes, "There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."

INKDrop:
Most of us have a value system of some sort in our heads for the relative value of human beings in our lives and in our writing. Some people are powerful and important, others are weak and replaceable. As you write today, try elevating the lowly and impeding the grandiose. What will be the long term result of your intervention?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 3, 2009

Headlight
The headlamps cast their garish light onto her and ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Time for a night time drive through the city again. You're looking to make cool shadows with your headlights. Where did you find the best ones?

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, "Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings: always darker, emptier and simpler."

INKDrop:
Nietzsche draws a distinction between thinking and feeling. How do you handle these two different human experiences in your writing? Is one more trustworthy? One more important? Try using the same literary tools to convey thoughts, and then emotions. Which is more easily wrought?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 2, 2009

Leaving
Walking out of town, she ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
You're off to find the nearest ghost town, the nearest abandoned place, or the nearest woman walking. What does the imagery you find evoke in you as a writer?

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
In the movie Ghost Town, Bertram Pincus asks Gwen, "Shoes. Your shoes are comfortable?"

INKDrop:
Footwear isn't just for fetishes anymore. The characters in your stories will all select shoes based on the season, their income level, their fashion sense, and their function. Shoes can tell you more about a person than you might imagine. What kind of shoes are showing up in your writing?

Connect:
Join Second Life (it's free) and check out the INKsters group there for more virtual inspiration and literary camaraderie. NaNoWriMo is here! Go sign up and catch up! (It's free, 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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Writing Prompts for November 1, 2009

NaNoWriMo
I decided to write a novel this month hoping to ...

Artist Date or Field Trip:
Go to http://www.nanowrimo.org/ and sign up!

Literary Quote of the Day (unverified from the web)
Go to this page http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/forum and scroll nearly to the bottom. You'll find the virtual worlds forum. Look for the Second Life thread. There we are!

INKDrop:
I'm going to have another novel done on November 30. Are you?

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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