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Hi everyone. Because of some problem with spam and some other limitations with this blog set-up, we'll be moving the daily writing prompt to a new location starting on January 1, 2010. We'll post a link here when everything is ready. The new site will be more powerful and hopefully easier to use. We're taking the rest of 2009 off, so enjoy the season and check back toward the end of the month for more details. Hugs!

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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