Tag: writing prompt
member name: Christine L.
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February 01, 2008 02:31 PM EST --
It's not a myth or a legend. I know, because I was there. It was late in the spring of 1930. In my third year . . .
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May 27, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
For t he past few months, I have been facing some very difficult issues in my personal and professional life. I tried week after week to write, both here on Gather and off. . . .
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May 31, 2008 08:47 AM EDT --
If you haven't joined Short Story First Line Challenge but love to read or write great stories, you ought to join. This is for this week's challenge which needs to be 1,000 words or less. . . .
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February 10, 2008 10:07 AM EST --
Name something - or someone - who inspires you to keep going when the going gets tough.
Once answer per post please.
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September 15, 2008 02:39 PM EDT --
This is a public repost written for the group First Line Short Story 2 . Anyone may join, but all submissions are private and may only be viewed by group members. Come join the writing fun! . . .
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January 20, 2008 12:06 PM EST --
A Changed Life
Confusion reigned everywhere. Voices blended into one mass cacophony. Rick's blank expression was mirrored in so many faces passing by. . . .
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May 20, 2008 09:22 AM EDT --
This is a repost of a short story written for the Short Story First Line Challenge group. I am reposting in response to Writing Essentials request to highlight our work.
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January 16, 2008 06:41 AM EST --
This is from John Bartlett's Famous Quotations , fourteenth edition:
Work, and thou wilt bless the day
Ere the toil be done;
They that work not, cannot pray, . . .
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February 21, 2008 08:58 AM EST --
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient . . .
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July 29, 2008 10:25 AM EDT --
Submitted for a one-word prompt competition. The word is "abandoned."
Lonely and depressed.
It seems to haunt me, jeer and daunt me.
Hardly ever fearless. . . .
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September 22, 2008 09:33 AM EDT --
Welcome to the third weekly challenge! The first line of your short story is:
" Sounds of muffled laughter came from behind the closed doors ."
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January 05, 2008 11:52 AM EST --
"Have you ever wished you could go back and change an event in your past?" Corey asked with a cocked eyebrow.
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January 13, 2008 10:15 AM EST --
This article was written in response to a weekly challenge, but it really started me thinking. How often will a chance meeting change the course of someone's life?
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January 17, 2008 11:23 AM EST --
Living in the Northeastern United States has prepared me for nearly any kind of winter weather. I've lived in the city, . . .
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January 17, 2008 12:55 PM EST --
I wrote this for Short Story First Line Challenge, but thought you might enjoy the humor as well.
She watched . . .
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February 02, 2008 08:27 AM EST --
I am so excited! I ordered my first gift card thanks to gather points! I chose Borders because there are several books on writing, editing, and publishing I am interested in. . . .
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February 20, 2008 06:38 PM EST --
This is from John Bartlett's Famous Quotations , fourteenth edition:
Weather is a literary speciality, and no untrained hand . . .
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May 27, 2008 08:42 AM EDT --
Yet another writing prompt response to Short Story First Line Challenge.
Sam's shadow fell silently across the gravestone. Though the song of dusk flowed around him, he continued to sit . . .
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September 13, 2008 08:33 PM EDT --
This is the Week #2 for the group First Line Short Story 2 . Anyone may join, but only members may read and rate submissions. Please join us.
Welcome to the second weekly challenge! . . .
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September 20, 2008 05:40 PM EDT --
Congratulations to all those who submitted an entry this week! I know several people emailed that they tried to submit an entry but the groupspace gave them some problems. I have . . .
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