Happy New Year to everyone at valleyofthemuse!

For this week there is no prompt - any piece of writing, whether old or new, is accepted and welcome. Or if you have a website that contains your writing, feel free to leave a link to it.

Submissions are due by Monday, January 7, 2007.

This week's prompt is "Lists ( Read more... )

Continuing with a wintery theme, today's prompt is "Frozen Earth"

Make of it what you will until Monday, December 18, 2006.

Scenario:

It is December 2006 in Canada (or somewhere you will find snow and cold weather), and there is a nation-wide blackout. What happened? What caused the power failure? How do people react? Tell me what's going on.

Submissions are due Monday, December 11, 2006.

It's the end of the month, so that means it's amnesty week.

All previous prompts are once again open, and can be found in the memories section of this community.

A new prompt will be up Monday, December 4th.

This week's prompt is "commitment".

Also, November is "Force the Muse" month, in honour of NaNoWriMo - write one prompt per day for the next 17 days.

This week's prompt is "deadlines".

Also, don't forget that November is Amnesty Month. Read more about it here.

Some of you may be participating in NaNoWriMo this month. For those not familiar with it, the idea is to write every day of the month; the focus is on quantity and discipline.

My challenge to you this month is to write one prompt a day for valleyofthemuse. I'll still be giving a weekly prompt, but for the whole month of November all past 26 prompts are fair ( Read more... )

To help us get in the mood for hallowe'en, this week I'd love to read some horror stories. More of a genre suggestion than a prompt, but feel free to include anything seasonal like ghosts, pumpkins, costumes, candy, etc.

It was the sixth murder in eight weeks, and Casey was feeling desperate. The M.O. was the same - female victim, late thirties, single, bludgeoned to death with a heavy object from her home. And as usual, the room was clean, which meant there were no fibres, no prints, no witnesses. The victims weren’t connected, the time and place of death had ( Read more... )