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Absorption
Not gonna lie. I’ve been limiting the amount of news and newsfeeds I read lately. The constant stream of EVERYTHING that is going on in the world is overwhelming me. I still go to my favorite news web site and read the main stories and opinions. I’ll look up more about a subject or two absorbing as much as I can, and then I purposefully wander into less heavy fare. Like the article I read about people waking up early to turn on their ovens and celebrate an obscure holiday this morning. Do you know what you were supposed to celebrate?
Blueberry muffins. Happy National Blueberry Muffin Day, everyone! I can’t think of a better way to absorb the news (or my coffee) than with a spongy, sweet blueberry muffin. I may have left work this morning to walk to Starbucks because I figured not eating a blueberry muffin on National Blueberry Muffin Day was like not wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day. I’ve always wondered why those obscure holidays existed. Now I’m starting to think it’s to even out our absorption of good news and bad news.
And to sell those Starbucks blueberry muffins.
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Prompt up!
Prompt up is our 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 kickoff. It’s your job to use that prompt in your poem or story and then run with it. The prompt is just a springboard, though: feel free to use it as your first sentence, move it, change it, or float down it to other territories.
Nancy ruminated on the importance of everyday objects in Ordinary Things Matter. The prompt up taken from her post is: I was looking for something ordinary.
Wait! Where’s the poetry slam?
For the next two months, we’re taking some time off from our nonfiction know-how and poetry slams to focus on the super challenge. However, you can always check out our archives if you’re needing a little more inspiration this week. Happy writing!
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Yeah write #274 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
Submissions for this week’s challenges will close on Wednesday at 10pm ET. Voting will then open immediately thereafter and close on Thursday at 10pm ET. The winners, as always, will be celebrated on Friday.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
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