Writing Photo Contest

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Write Stuff Writing Photo Contest - March 1, 2008

The Write Stuff writing photo contest is meant to help you look for stories in a visual medium. There are stories everywhere - you just have to train yourself to look for them.

Here’s how the contest works:

1. Take a photo of something (a person, an event, an object, etc). It can be funny or serious - it’s totally up to you. (It needs to be a picture that you, or someone close to you, took. No stock pictures, or anything else found from the Internet, please).

2. Write a story to go with the photo. You could have a story in mind before you take the picture, or take a picture and write a story inspired from the photo.

3. Post both the picture and your story to your blog.

4. Leave the direct link to your entry in the Mr. Linky box.

5. Ask visitors to vote for your entry.

6. Stories must be at least 500 words.

7. Please keep the pictures PG-rated. (Entries with risque or offensive photos, AND/OR stories, will be disqualified).

8. Winner will receive a $15.00 gift certificate to Amazon.com.

Fiction Friday: October 12

This Week’s Theme: Use this quote as the spark, "I'm not one for sentimental endings. Not this time." "I'm not one for sentimental endings. Not this time." That’s what he said. When he slammed the car door. When he walked away into blue velvet. Those were his words, each one like the drumbeat to a funeral dirge, like the handful of stones I’m forced to carry in my heart. Sometimes I repeat them to myself, roll the syllables over my tongue. When the midnight pours in my window, cold and dark. When my bed feels as empty as my soul. Sometimes I imagine another ending and I write it down. “I’m not one for sentimental endings. But this is a beginning—” He would lean toward me, over cracked vinyl seats, cup my face in his hands and look into my eyes. The single tear sliding down my cheek would take his breath away for a moment, then he would kiss it away . . . “I’m not one for sentimental endings. But this is breaking my heart, I just can’t—” He would weep; he would beg me to stay. He would promise to change, to be different, to do anything I ask. One hand would slide over mine and he would pull me back into his arms. My face would be wet from his tears . . . “I’m not one for sentimental endings. Not this time.” I would turn away from him, the words still warm in my mouth. I would open the car door, swing my legs out onto pavement, stand up and feel an intoxicating sense of freedom. I am leaving him and he is devastated . . . Of all my imagined endings, this last one is my favorite, the one I rehearse when the ache drives me to my knees, the one that gets me through the day when I feel like a shadow walking through bright crowds. About Fiction Friday Technorati Tag Another Technorati Tag THE CARDINAL RULES TO FICTION FRIDAY: 1. Spend at least 5 minutes composing something original based on the theme or challenge. 2. But, remember, no editing. This is to inspire creativity not stifle it. 3. On Friday, simply post what you wrote to your own blog. 4. Then come back to Write Stuff and leave the link in the comment section of that week’s Fiction Friday post.

Point A to Point B

The transformation from man to dog went smoother than Wilbur expected. He didn't have any problems until it was time to fly the spaceship home. He kept mistaking the steering wheel for a bone, and before he knew he could stop himself, he chewed it to pieces.

BFF

I promise not to tell the secrets of the universe, if you do.

A Shocking Revelation

Yikes! A shocking revelation for all Alien Dream lovers:

Monday we will begin the 3-day interview with Becky Miller.

And we will attempt to keep up with the blog tour for Austin Boyd, a way cool writer dude that all of you need to check out. Really.

So, as we say in the biz, be there or be alien square.
Stay tuned, same bat time, same bat channel.

Well, same bat channel if you tune in to Alien Dream, that is.