From this year on you will be pestered er.... prompted by the
We want to thank @Cole Matthews for being a member of the Prompt Team since October 2021 and inspiring us with around 80 prompt ideas.
Thank you Cole.
#PT261
Someone wakes up all alone in the back and beyond, with no cell phone reception, after falling asleep on the bus or train. What happens now?
#PT 262
Write an online love story. Have the story consist entirely of alter
Music
Soundtrack
Track List
Invisible - Duran Duran (Colin’s Theme)
Stranger - Miami Horror (‘Who is this guy . . . How could he understand?‘)
Whataya Want from Me? - Adam Lambert (‘Well?’)
Temptation - NewOrder (Colin Is Tempted)
Touched by the Hand of God - NewOrder (‘What would a living God want with me?’)
Lost Cause - Beck (Discouraged and Discouraging)
Save Your Tears - The Weeknd (‘Please, please, don’t cry over me, Russ
Wordless
There are many times, while I sit here at this keyboard and stare blankly off into space when I’m trying to find just the right words to express the emotions that I’m feeling in my heart at that moment...the words I need to finish the next sentence or two of the story or chapter that I’m working on at that moment...and words only seem to get in the way. It can be a really aggravating head space to be in when you’re trying to get something finished. It, actually, feels a lot like wri
October 14th 2022 - Holidays and Observances
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Christian feast day:
Angadrisma
Fortunatus of Todi
Joseph Schereschewsky (Episcopal Church (USA))
Pope Callixtus I
October 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Intercession of the Theotokos
Day of the Cathedral of the Living Pillar (Georgian Orthodox Church)
In October in the United States, we celebrate National Coming Out Day. But that really doesn't do it justice. Coming out isn't a day or a week or a month. Coming out is a process for most of us. It's intensely personal, incredibly liberating, and extremely terrifying for most people. Let's practice our writing skills with some characters who are coming out of the closet, are remembering their emergence, or even contemplating doing it.
#81 - First Line - "How could you have outed me l
October 13th 2022 - Holidays and Observances
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Azerbaijani Railway Day (Azerbaijan)
Christian feast day:
Blessed Alexandrina of Balasar
Daniel and companions, of Ceuta
Edward the Confessor (translation)
Gerald of Aurillac
Blessed Maddalena Panattieri (OP)
Theophilus of Antioch
October 13 (Eastern Or
This week we are promoting our Winter 2007 Anthology: Worth Fighting For.
In no particular order:
Be sure to read and review!
For Authors!
We'd also like to remind all authors that we have 4 Anthology themes for 2018 and a Novella Contest:
Contests
2018 Summer Novella Anthology - Due April 15th, 2018
Anthologies
2018 Spring Anthology: Now or Never - Due May 15th
2018 Spring Anthology: Encounters - Due May 15th
October 12th 2022 - Holidays and Observances
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Christian feast day:
Blessed Louis Brisson
Edith Cavell and Elizabeth Fry (Church of England)
Fiacc
Our Lady of the Pillar (Fiestas del Pilar)
Our Lady of Aparecida
Radim Gaudentius (Czech Republic)
Seraphin of Montegranaro
Wilfrid of Ripon
October 11th 2022 - Holidays and Observances
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Christian feast days:
Agilbert
Alexander Sauli
Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus (Roman Catholic Church)
Æthelburh of Barking
Bruno the Great
Cainnech of Aghaboe
Gratus of Oloron
Gummarus
James
October 10th 2022 - Holidays and Observances
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Arbor Day (Poland)
Army Day (Sri Lanka)
Capital Liberation Day (Vietnam)
Christian feast day:
Blessed Angela Truszkowska
Cerbonius
Daniel Comboni
Eulampius and Eulampia
Gereon and companions
Blessed María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray (Maria Despos
Looking for inspiration for a Halloween costume? How's about you put on some chaps, a button up, a hat and swagger your way down to the watering can for... a good ole fashioned gunslinger western romance novella by Headstall that spike382 gives two spurs up in his review below. Read on to find out more!
Boundaries: An Old West Tale
by Headstall
Reviewer: spike382
Status: Complete
Word Count: 16,640
One thing that I love about being a longer-term member of this community is se
October 9th 2022 - Holidays and Observances
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Christian feast day:
Abraham
Denis
Dionysius the Areopagite
Ghislain
Innocencio of Mary Immaculate and Martyrs of Asturias
John Henry Newman
John Leonardi
Luis Beltran
Robert Grosseteste (Church of England)
Wi
Well a Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian friends. Not sure if you all have plans to be with someone(s) for the day or for dinner, but I really hope you all do . I'll be heading out to friends place this year to join his entire family to enjoy a turkey and so much more
I was thinking about Halloween, since it is my job in real life , is like less that 3 weeks away . So have you put any thoughts into what you are going to dress up as? That is if you dress up. Why not have some fun this
October 8th 2022 - Holidays and Observances
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Christian feast day:
Evodus (or Yves)
Palatias and Laurentia
Pelagia (Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches)
Reparata
San Ernesto, Che Guevara as a folk saint. (Bolivian campesinos)
Simeon (Gospel of Luke)
Thaïs
October 7th 2022 - Holidays and Observances
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Christian feast day:
Justina of Padua
Henry Muhlenberg (some Lutheran Churches, Episcopal Church of the USA)
Osgyth
Our Lady of the Rosary
Pope Mark
Sergius and Bacchus
October 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Alteration comes from the Latin word alter (the other [of the two]), to Late Latin words alterare (to change), to Medieval Latin alterationem (nominative alteratio) , to Middle French word alteracion (change/alteration), to Late Middle English alteration.
The earliest known use of the word alteration in English was in the 14th century (1300s), and the earliest known use of the word alteration in literature was in the Middle English period (1150–1500). The earliest evidence of the word is