Don’t you just love alliteration?
My dear friend has just started her own blog!
This is what I like to call “shameless friend promotion” (Get it???). Anyway, she’s awesome, an amazing artist, a great writer, actress extraordinaire, and a quirky introverted teenager *cough* like me *cough* although you won’t be able to tell by the way she writes! So go check out her blog! I dare you! 😀
And, in case you missed the first two links, here’s the address:
www.awkwardlyartistic.wordpress.com
Story Starters are prompts that must be the first part of your story. To participate, please link back to this post and put a link to your post in the comments. My favorite post for each story starter will be reblogged on Friday.*
Flash Fiction (less than 1,000 words):
Why do things always happen when you’re doing something embarrassing?
Short Story (Over a 1,000 words, but we’ll set the limit at 10,000 words)
The low glow of a fire on the horizon made me quicken my steps.
*Please note: If there are no posts linked to this post and no links posted in comments, there will be no post reblogged. Also, any stories with anything inappropriate will not be chosen. Thank you!
When I’m writing, I must have a plot before I start. The main reason for this is that if I don’t have a plot, my story will drift along aimlessly. But guess what. With God in control of our lives, we’ll never be drifting along aimlessly. He has a plan in mind, and we can always trust him to guide us in the right direction to help him achieve his amazing story.
Dear fellow writers and readers, and other random people. I must say this again.
HELP!
Yep. That’s right. I’m stuck. Again.
I’m not much of an inventor.
I’m needing some help from some creative, technologically-inclined people right now. I need you to comment and share…
Ideas for technology in the future.
And I’ll need to put them in my new novel.
Thanks to your help with character names, all of my characters have names that are either (a) made up, (b) are altered to fit the time period, or (c) sound like futuristic names. Now I need inventions for the future world. The only things that I’ve figured out so far are really, really, really tall buildings, hover cars, super-fast transporters, and lights that simply float and aren’t connected to anything. And I’d love to have you help me come up with more futuristic inventions.
Please comment and share your ideas! I need all the inventions I can get! 🙂
Story Starters are prompts that must be the first part of your story. To participate, please link back to this post. My favorite post for each story starter will be reblogged on Friday.*
Flash Fiction (less than 1,000 words):
Roofs are dangerous.
Short Story (Over a 1,000 words, but we’ll set the limit at 10,000 words)
It was a petition that no one would ever forget.
*Please note: If there are no posts linked to this post, there will be no post reblogged. Also, any stories with anything inappropriate will not be chosen. Thank you!
Help!
I need some second opinions, suggestions, and advice, and I’m coming to you, dear readers, for assistance!
First: I’m working on a new story that will (hopefully) be my first full-length novel. I have a name for my antagonist (Raltan Menger! Isn’t that an awesome bad guy name??) and I have a some of the plot worked out, but I’m struggling with a name for my protagonist. I’ll give you some background info:
That’s about as much as I have so far. I definitely still have a ways to go. 😉 So, basically, I’m looking for a name as awesome as Raltan Menger, but still one that matches him and his personality. Unfortunately, as you can see, there’s not much to go on, but please, please, please comment with your suggestions! A made up name would be awesome, too. I made up Raltan by mixing up the letters in the word tarantula. 😉
Second: I need to know if I should still do the Story Starters. If you could vote on the poll below to let me know what you think that would be great!
Thanks so much for all of your comments and likes. I would definitely enjoy some feedback on this post! Please feel free to comment with any name ideas you have, no matter how outlandish they may seem. 😀 Thanks again!
Story Starters are prompts that must be the first part of your story. To participate, please tag your post with p31tStarter and link back to this post. My favorite post for each story starter will be reblogged on Friday.*
Flash Fiction (less than 1,000 words):
There was no escape.
Short Story (Over a 1,000 words, but we’ll set the limit at 10,000 words)
If only s/he had never found that platypus in his/her locker.
*Please note: If there are no posts linked to this post or tagged with p31tStarter, there will be no post reblogged. Also, any stories with anything inappropriate will not be chosen. Thank you!
I originally wrote this for the Weekly Writing Challenge – Fifties, but I was a little late, and it was 67 words instead of fifty… Here it is.
Alien
Kyle struggled through the desert sand next to the nearly-deserted road next to his friend Wyatt. He looked down at the bright green paint still on his clothes from the “paint incident” that morning. And now the breakdown. A car whizzed past and Kyle noticed the gaping faces in the windows?
“What’s their problem?” he griped aloud.
Wyatt grinned. “I think they thought you were an alien.”
Story Starters are prompts that must be the first part of your story. To participate, please tag your post with p31tStarter and link back to this post. My favorite post for each story starter will be reblogged on Friday.*
Flash Fiction (less than 1,000 words):
She said yes.
Short Story (Over a 1,000 words, but we’ll set the limit at 10,000 words)
If only he could go back…
*Please note: If there are no posts linked to this post or tagged with p31tStarter, there will be no post reblogged. Also, any stories with anything inappropriate will not be chosen. Thank you!
A poker chip. A pair of dice. A screwdriver. A rock. All hidden in an old, rotten box shoved in an old, rotten tree.
The collection wasn’t much. Just a boy’s favorite treasures, dirty and smudged. The woman traced the A. H. carved on the lid of the box. A tear slipped down her cheek as she fondled each f her son’s precious memoirs.
“Goodbye, Alex,” she whispered softly, stroking the smooth rock. “I’ll take care of your treasures, and I’ll see you again in heaven someday.”
The little girl next to her looked down into the box.” I hope he’s got better treasures in heaven than he left us down here.
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“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.”
Matthew 6:19-20
Proverbs 31 Teen 