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20120826

August 25th, 2012
Write about the first time a character did a thing they are now known for.

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20120819

August 18th, 2012
Word War! Give us a story, most words win~

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20120812

Prompt for August 11th, 2012
'I had been working as a _______________ for the past few years, although "working" isn't the right word and "_____________" is too dignified a title... '

Continue writing the story. Take it anywhere you'd like.

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20120805

Prompt for August 3rd, 2012
I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,
And breaths were gathering sure
For that last onset, when the king
Be witnessed in his power.

I willed my keepsakes, signed away
What portion of me I
Could make assignable,-and then
There interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me;
And then the windows failed, and then
I could...

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20120729

Prompt for July 28th, 2012
Going easy on you. Write a short based off a song. There must be lyrics, and at least five lines of them must be used within the story (character cannot just be singing. Its to be used in narrative or dialogue, and the lines do not necessarily need to be all bunched together). Please bold the used lyrics for easy finding when reading.

Send stories to BW next Saturday~

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20120722

Prompt for July 21st, 2012
Please remember~ send entries to me~

It's summer, why not the same for our characters? Where would they go to relax and spend a day away from all the trivialities we write them through?

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20120715

Prompt for July 14th, 2012
Not sure if this was a mistake or not. LAST WEEK PROMPT WRITERS. SEND THE STORIES TO ME, NOT ENDE. I DID NOT GET ANY, IF THEY EXIST...

This week's prompt~

Tell us how a character came to like or dislike a certain object, idea, or place that is important to their development. Not a person! Word count limit: 2500

Again, SEND STORIES TO ME.

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20120708

Prompt for July 7th, 2012
Your prompt this week~

Write a short story from an animal's perspective, observing some oddity of human behavior - be it affection, abuse...or something as silly as brushing our teeth! No word limit.

Have fun! Entries due into me by next Saturday

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20120630

Prompt for June 30th, 2012
Sorry for the pause. People seemed busy and we hated wasting some good ideas!

Prompt for this week~

Write the turning point of a villain or hero as a reminiscence in 2,500 words or less. What was their final straw to break them down or set them on their path to greatness?

Starting it off with a bang! Entries due into Ende by next Saturday.

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20120520

Prompt for May 20th, 2012
Please excuse Timmi's absence, she be studying for a final~

So. This week's prompt is:

Write a story, 1500 words or less, in second person point of view - 'You' will be the subject of the story.

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20120513

Prompt for the week of May 13th
Yeah. I'm tired and lazy this week. Things will really pick up this summer, but for now... I'll just toss out a prompt that somebody told me a long, long time ago.

Write a story or poem about a rose laying on a trashcan. Take it any direction you want, with no minimum or maximum word count

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20120507

Prompt for the week of May 5th
YEAHYEAHYEAH, it's late again, so sue me, I was busy ;>.>. Stuff came up and whatnot, so...

Anyway... onto the prompt~

Choose your favorite author, or more specifically, your favorite writing style/voice from a book you've read. Write at least one or two paragraphs (they can be tiny) using that style/voice. Get as close as you can to as if the author himself/herself had written it. Don't forget to include a small amount of writing from...

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20120430

Prompt for April 28th, 2012
Please excuse the lateness, peeps. Timmi and I were both busy this weekend, and thus we'll be extending the entry deadline until Saturday to give the same time frame as the others.

This week's prompt is...

Songfic~

Pick a song, any song! Build a story around it, with maximum word count being 1500. Give us a link to the song on Youtube, or at least name the song that inspired you, so that we may judge the similarities between the two

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20120422

Prompt for the week of April 21, 2012
I don't always get the prompt up a day late (deeply sorry, by the way), but when I do, I adapt it from a tv show. I got this particular idea from Face Off, to be exact, a show about contestants competing to show who can make the best makeup visual effects. Enjoy~

Choose a phobia and base a character off of it, then show him or her to us through either through a short story (with a word limit of only 1,000 words) or simply a character form including (at the very least) the name, appearance, personality, and any additional facts you see fit to add

I know a lot of you...

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20120414

Prompt for the week of April 14, 2012
Alright, we didn't get a very large amount of participation last week, guys, though we did get some very lovely pieces of work submitted. Still, I'm hoping we'll get even more this time around.

Pick a villain, any villain, from your cast of characters, real life, or somebody else's fiction. Then have them do something that might endear them to the readers. Not anything out of character, mind you, but just show a side of them that maybe we don't usually get to see. A Pet the Dog moment, or maybe just a trivial little task that makes them seem 'human'. Submissions need to be...

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20120407

Prompt for the week of April 7, 2012
For our first writing prompt, we're going to start out with something simple... I'll pull out the weird stuff later, just for you guys

Write a very short story (100-500 words) where a particular character is going through an intense emotion. The catch? You can't write from the point of view of that particular character. Write either from an observer's point of view or 3rd POV, and convey what the character is feeling through descriptions of body language while avoiding straight up words such as...

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