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Tick-tock
I haven’t been writing as much lately. Actually, I haven’t been writing at all, and it hurts my heart. The burden of untold stories weighs on me as I go about my job, composing lectures, formatting assignments, plucking from the bottomless well of essays to read and grade. Each day is a struggle to find enough minutes to even feed myself–the life of a teacher is one of starts and stops, of flurrying activities and then rest. I am almost at the resting portion. I breathe deeply, and the stories stir to life within me. Only a few more weeks until there’s time to let them out.
Writers who tell you to just make time or set the alarm early have clearly never taught a seven a.m. class. If I set the alarm any earlier, I will stop sleeping altogether. If I make time, I will probably rob it from time devoted to doing laundry and start to smell pretty quickly. Weekends are a thing of the past–every day is a work day for me. My only solution is to wait patiently for the winter break, when the tick-tock of the clock will no longer be my master.
If you have time, use it wisely, friend. Let the stories and poems fill your pages. Make time, if you can. If you can’t, I’ll be right there with you, watching the hands of the clock move around until it’s our turn again.
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Where have all the cowboys gone?
The optional prompt above can serve as inspiration for your fiction or poetry. Use the question word for word in your story or poem, or just answer it. Celluloid, song lyric, attitude or historical cowboys are all fair game. Already have a different story thought up? No problem! Use the prompt only if you need it.
New inspiration for you
Introducing Prompt Up!
Prompt Up is our new optional weekly writing prompt for the fiction|poetry challenge! Here’s how it works: we choose a sentence prompt from last week’s winning nonfiction post and announce it in the kick-off. It’s your job to use that prompt as the first sentence in your story and then run with it. The prompt is just a springboard, though: feel free to keep it as your first sentence, move it somewhere else, change it, or yank it out completely.
This week’s winning nonfiction post was about Samantha Brinn Merel’s first realization of what it means to be a mother. This week’s Prompt Up taken from that fantastic essay is: I stood up a little straighter.
Focus on Fiction + Poetry Slam
Need a bit more? For this month’s focus on fiction, we have survived the end with dystopias. In the poetry corner, we’re attempting the lovely ghazal.
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Yeah write #241 fiction|poetry writing challenge is open for submissions!
Basic yeah write guidelines: 750 word limit; your entry can be dated no earlier than this past Sunday; fiction or poetry only.
How to submit and fully participate in the challenge:
- In the sidebar of this week’s post, please grab the code beneath the challenge grid badge and paste it into the HTML view of your entry
- Follow the Inlinkz instructions after clicking “add your link” to upload your entry to this week’s challenge grid
- Your entry should appear immediately on the grid if you don’t receive an error message
- Please make the rounds to read all the entries in this week’s challenge
- Consider turning off moderated comments and CAPTCHA on your own blog
It’s a holiday week here in the U.S. so all the yeah write grids are unmoderated! All submissions meeting the basic guidelines will be moved to the voting grid. Please note that submissions for this week will close on Wednesday at 11pm EST. Voting will open immediately thereafter and continue through Thursday. The winners, as always, will be celebrated on Friday.
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