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Picture Prompt! Get your picture prompt here!
Today I bring you another picture found randomly scrolling the LJ picture feed - if you ever need inspiration and none of the picture here are floating your boat, you may want to give it a try if you are over 18 years old, because the feed is most definitely Not Safe For Work or Minors and sometimes for life in general. There's a lot of naked ( Read more... ) -
Show Research
Hey everyone,
I'm a bookwriter/lyricist, and I'd love your help on my latest musical. I'm just looking for people's experiences that I can use to inform the piece.
Here's the post in my writing journal about the project and how to contact me. Feel free to pass it along to anyone you think might be interested, too!
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Friday Prose Prompt: Summertime
"Summertime" is one of my favorite songs. Originally heard in the 1935 Opera Porgy and Bess, it is now one of the most well-known Jazz pieces. Your Friday Prose mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take a line from the song and use it to open a short story, poem or prose piece.
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I did poetry month in April. A poem a day for a month. Unedited... so anything I post will be Eeesh rough- but I'd love to get some critique on my favorite pieces:
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Bring It
Hi, write_away! Remember when there used to be multiple posts to this community every day? It wasn't even that long ago. We could have that back! There are, like, thousands of you. I know some of you have been writing and holding out. Put something here.
Since there hasn't been a whole lot of posting recently, I think it's reasonable to offer a critiquing ( Read more... ) -
Friday Prose Prompt
There are a series of books that are nothing but a series of found lists - it's interesting to try to reconstruct the story around the person who was shopping for some weird assortment of bits, or who writes perplexing notes next to certain items. There are lots of stories to be made up about them ( Read more... ) -
Crossed Genres Issue Seven: URBAN is LIVE!
It’s time to paint the town in Issue Seven of Crossed Genres Magazine! Read five superb Urban SciFi & Fantasy stories, and enjoy striking cover art by Paul Davey and an insightful interview with SFF literary agent Michael Kabongo.
Crossed Genres is now accepting writing and inside art submissions for the upcoming Alternate History issue. Just a ( Read more... ) -
Sorry, I should probably start with this:
Name: Ikasatu Kirasawa
Age: 26
Writing Experience: I try to write a lot, and have been writing in my spare time since I could spell.
Preferred Genres: Poetry, science fiction, humor, life experience.
Education: Some College at several schools.
Country: United States of America
What do you hope to get from this community? Critique, inspiration, ( Read more... ) -
Six Word Stories
I'm in love with these, and enjoy the challenge of incorporating subtext and characters in only six words. I would be interested to see some from you guys.
The six word story, according to SixWordStories.net:
"In the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway’s colleagues bet him that he couldn’t write a complete story in just six words ( Read more... )