Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Twisted Tales Twisted Tournoi 01 competition

Just over a week left to enter Twisted Tournoi 01 . We now have 3 entries and they are all a damn good read… this is a great no catch opportunity to get published. Click the link above for more details.

Cheers

Micky McGuinness

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / APRIL FOOL'S EASTER CHALLENGE - THE GIFT

EXTENDED THE GIFT CHALLENGE CLOSING DATE:

Hello lovely story-tellers,

With the new change-over in our ‘My Bubble’ feed and group bmails, I’m not sure if my recent post fell into the ether un-noticed… so a quick recap is that, well, I’ve got another hosting feather in my cap and am now tickled scarlet to be co-hosting Short Stories Spherical Scriptings. To celebrate my new fandangle feathery cap, I thought I’d launch a group writing challenge – it’s been quite a time between drinks since this group has had one. So here’s the low down:

The Challenge
Launching on April Fool’s Day and wrapping up after the Easter long weekend (four whole days off for writing in between chocolate) scrawl your very best tale inspired by this prompt:

THE GIFT

It can be any genre, narrative, style or theme – no poetry please – just as long as it involves your interpretation of the prompt.

Voting/Judging Criteria
Minimum 500 words maximum 2000… give your words room to stretch and breathe… use a bit of spit and polish… and unleash your pet poodle Creativity to go nuts, go crazy… go for the short story jugular.

Rewards/Prizes
Winners will receive Featured Member and Featured Work line-up plus massive amounts of endorphins for their muse and rosy lovely ‘I’m the Best’ thoughts and what-not.

(Future challenges will include prizes – we have to warm up to that though.)

How to Enter
POST A LINK TO YOUR WORK HERE
TAG YOUR WORK WITH ssgift SO IT’S EASY TO FIND
ENTER YOUR WORK IN THE GROUP

Open/Closing Dates
The Gift is launched today and wraps up the night of Easter Monday… ten days to put together your words, box them up and wrap them in gloss and ribbon for us to delight over.

So far, no entries as yet, so consider the closing date extended to the end of next weekend, let’s say Sunday night, April 19th. That’s a blush shy of two weeks… plus a FOUR day weekend thrown in the middle to make sure you have oodles of time to while away your hours dipping your fingers in story-telling ink.

Please do come on board and play… The Gift… scratch the surface and take it anywhere you want to go in between 500 – 2000 words.

Any questions, my bmail door is wide open. Make sure you watch this topic by clicking the button below so you can keep track of entries and postings too.

Go forth wordsmiths and stain your pages with writings galore!

Holly.

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / APRIL FOOL'S EASTER CHALLENGE - THE GIFT

The Gift by Melodious

The Challenge
Launching on April Fool’s Day and wrapping up after the Easter long weekend (four whole days off for writing in between chocolate) you’ve got two weeks to scrawl your very best tale inspired by this prompt:

The Gift

It can be any genre, narrative, style or theme – no poetry please – just as long as it involves your interpretation of the prompt.

Voting/Judging Criteria
Minimum 500 words maximum 2000… give your words room to stretch and breathe… use a bit of spit and polish… and unleash your pet poodle Creativity to go nuts, go crazy… go for the short story jugular.

Rewards/Prizes
Winners will receive Featured Member and Featured Work line-up plus massive amounts of endorphins for their muse and rosy lovely ’I’m the Best’ thoughts and what-not.

(Future challenges will include prizes – we have to warm up to that though.)

How to Enter
POST A LINK TO YOUR WORK HERE
TAG YOUR WORK WITH ssgift SO IT’S EASY TO FIND
ENTER YOUR WORK IN THE GROUP

Open/Closing Dates
The Gift is launched today and wraps up the night of Easter Monday… ten days to put together your words, box them up and wrap them in gloss and ribbon for us to delight over.

Alright storytellers… your lines of prose have been dormant too long now… stretch… warm up… and dazzle us all.

Any questions, my bmail door is wide open.

Holly.

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / synchronise watches

This is very creepy. Just this morning I was driving into town and suddenly thought of the first line of … something I’m going to write …. “I lay down in Winter and woke up in Spring” ……… Whatever it turns out to be, i will definitely write it now. A

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / synchronise watches

Carpe diem; quam minimum credula postero …
… seize the day; put not trust in the morrow … Horace

Time. It’s one of the most precious things we have, and as recent events in Victoria demonstrate, it can slip through our fingers too easily while we serve the clocks that rule our lives. Step back. Write something… add a clock, a calendar, a turning of the season, a marking of the year… link it here… then do something different today .

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

Absolutely.

Just like It’s Raining Men… Hallelujah

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

This I do not like.

You don’t mess with a classic. You also don’t mess with a movie that hit the nail on the head with chemistry.

Rhett Bulter and Scarlet O’Hara, Noah Calhoun and Allie Hamilton, Hawkeye and Cora Munro, Jack T. Colton and Joan Wilder.

Leave it be.

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

Argh!
How could there be a remake of Romancing the Stone? No! A hundred times, no .

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

If you met some of the women my male friends were attracted to, it would make perfect sense.

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

You tease!

Wonder why “Vacuous” made the Sexiest Words list…

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

I had a great romance in Melbourne…..

Wait a second, we didn’t film it.

Never mind.

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

Continuing the journey round the world with Great Romances:

New Zealand has to be Willow for the lovely relationship between Kiya and Willow – when she cuts her hair? Awwww. Then Madmartigan and Sorcha! I know the sparks keep flying between them because I peeked at the follow up book.

Can I think of anything for Melbourne? Um, no… I thought maybe Strictly Ballroom but that’s set in Sydney and somehow I suspect that relationship might not last.

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

link of the day – Romance apologia scale

DOWNLOAD FREE BOOK … and, yes, I’m going to go crazy for a moment: !!!!!!!!

Then I’m going down to The Hollows thanks to an interview with Kim Harrison. Gayla, Damian… are you listening?

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

another take on a classic romance:

Wuthering Heights (clip version) … Live version

spooky!

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

Welcome back, Bell … they find each other again and escape, I’m sure of it.

Jo… you’re supposed to be writing NaNo… but wasn’t the barcode bit brilliant?

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

Who knew the real fickle finger of fate was a bag of Cheetos? And after that ending, not only will I never eat them again, I just may stomp on a bag or two whenever I get the chance.

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

How lovely is that?! Oh, when they held up their little paws through the window….sniffle…. what a strange, gorgeous piece of work.

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

sniffle, sniff … forget Romeo & Juliet,

watch this

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

Oh my… just looked at the authors attending the Australian Romance Readers Convention here in Melbourne next Feb… it’s a good list.

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

PenguinMatch

this is a site interested in romantically matching people who have a shared interest in literature.

Create your profile with photos and descriptions as usual, but add an extra blurb on what you last read and list your favourite authors, giving prospective mates an idea of your reading habits – and allowing you to make your own decisions based on theirs. With articles and tips from Match.com and Penguin, this website makes for fun reading; and even if you don’t pick up the love of your life, you might get a few good book recommendations!

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

Excellent!!

As soon as I win the lotto we’re on!

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Passé Passings

and starchy tulle sounds quite flamable.
which brings me to my next thought… how flammable is nailpolish remover? On a scale of melt icecream to inferno … is it what the Jason Bourne tyoes look for to sling in the microwave when they need a quick housefire to cover their tracks?

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Passé Passings

Hmmm….

…the overstarched tulle could make it difficult for a larger than life prima to make it through an emergency exit when an electrical fire breaks out due to the amount of lighting she insisted on having.

Just a thought.

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Not all Hearts & Flowers

Before Rick & Evie there was…

Joan Wilder & Jack Colton

Hey Katrina, how about we travel the world the Great Romance way? That’s Cairo and Cartagena on the itinerary.

Topic: Writing Games and Challenges / Passé Passings

Also thinking about how to kill someone with a tutu after recent contact with prima donna personalities. Hmmm. Already used the poison dress approach; squishing under a heavy weight isn’t exactly subtle and would require a well thought out exit strategy, as would a faulty trap in the stage. Over starched tulle might lacerate the thighs, which in conjunction with a sped-up orchestra and a show must go on mindset, and result in exsanguination.
Drat! Might have lost my grip on my own tutu.