Promptly Monday

Yes, that’s right. Epic fail in the flash department.

To be honest, I was too busy focusing on my other writing and my upcoming poetry reading to make time for my flash prompt.

I think it’s time to re-think this blog yet again.

In the meantime, this week’s Pearl of Wisdom will be about dialogue, and below you will find the picture prompt, should you care to be inspired:

Promptly Monday

Wow, two weekends with a flash piece posted in a row (even though this week’s got posted so late on Saturday it was technically Sunday). It really does take a lot of pressure off when I’m not having to do both a chapter and a flash piece at the same time.

This week’s Pearl of Wisdom is all about writing in an Active voice. No, this is not the same as show vs. tell, but it is a close relation.

And now, your picture prompt of the week.




If anyone has a picture they think would make a good/interesting story prompt, feel free to send it to me at carolrward(at)gmail(dot)com.

Promptly Monday

It looks like moving the flash day to Saturday worked last week, so we'll try it again this week.

Got my other posts up as scheduled too. Yay me! :-)

Last Monday was my Scribe's meeting and the prompt we had to work with from the previous meeting was to create a bad beginning for a novel (along the lines of “It was a dark and stormy night”), preferably in a single sentence. Our limit is supposed to be 150 words, but mine came out closer to 200 words:

It wasn’t a dark and stormy night, but it should have been, thought Lady Fairweather as she smoothed the slippery, silk folds of her deep cerulean blue evening gown with her soft white hands, hands that not one of the Duke’s hundred guests would ever guess had only hours before been caressing the brawny, well muscled chest of the stable master, a man who deserved the title of master on so many levels, although it had been his excellent work with the horses that had gained him the position in the first place despite the rumours that followed him, a tidbit of illicit gossip regarding the wife of the Earl of Bothwith and what she and the stable master had been caught doing by the sister of the Earl, who had gone in search of the stable master, although the excuse she gave was that she had thought to go riding and was in search of a horse, even though everyone knew what kind of “riding” she had in mind and it had nothing to do with horses, unless you wished to describe the stable master as a stallion, and Lady Fairweather now knew first hand that such a comparison was more than warranted.

The Pearl of Wisdom for the week will be Point of View.

And now, the picture prompt of the week:



If anyone has a picture they think would make a good/interesting story prompt, feel free to send it to me at carolrward(at)gmail(dot)com.

Promptly Monday

No, I didn’t forget to post my flash piece on Friday, I just got . . . busy. I have an outline done, but I just never got back to it. Which is why I’m moving the flash post to Saturdays.

We’ll try it this way for a couple more weeks and if I don’t do better posting my flashes then I’ll have to rethink things (again!). I do have other ideas. :-)

This week’s Pearl of Wisdom will be on outlines, which should be real interesting because I seldom use them.

And now, the prompt of the week:

Monday Prompt

Well, what do you know? I actually got my flash piece up on Friday. And on time, too! The day I’d set aside to work on it we had a thunder storm, and I didn’t want to take the chance on frying my beloved lap top, so I ended up doing a brief outline in long-hand. When the storm abated I was able to write my story up in a flash. :-)

This week’s Pearl of Wisdom will be on creating characters, an integral part of any story.

Now, without further ado, the picture prompt for the week:

Monday Prompt

Here it is, Monday again. Time for another prompt. I like this picture because there’s so much going on – you can use any part of it you like. Remember, you have until Friday to come up with a flash piece for it. You can click on it to see a larger version if you like.