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Writing Prompts #546 & #547

Renee Stevens

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Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a good first week of the new year, and it's now time for the first prompts of the year! Don't forget to share your responses in the thread so that we can possibly share it next week. Please remember that prompt responses under 1,000 words must be posted as part of a collection if you're posting in GA Stories.

 

 

Prompt 546 – First Line
Tag – First Line
Just slowly rub it in!

 

Prompt 547 – Creative
Tag – The Trip
You’ve been pinching pennies and doing all you could to save money for the last year. Now the time has come to relax. Where do you go for your hard earned trip?

 

 

We didn't have any responses to last week's prompts, so for this week, I'm going to ask authors to look back over the prompts they have written and share their favorite one.

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Sasha Distan

Prompt 316, which was a picture tag of a cool old car with white wall tyres, inspired my very favourite prompt story:

 

The Long Wait

 

 

I miss picture tags, I usually did pretty well with them. Not My Brother was a picture tag prompt (I forget which number) which got out of hand and turned into it's own story. Can we have some more maybe?

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Emi GS

The trip prompt triggering something, I have always dreaming and planning about. So I might tag along with this prompt this time, hopefully... :)

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Valkyrie
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I started writing a response to Special Prompt #2, but didn't get a chance to finish it since I was sick this week.  It's hard to pick a favorite out of my prompt responses.  I love the prompts, and they are what started me writing.  One that sticks out to me and that was very fun to write is one of my first prompt responses from 2014:

 

https://www.gayauthors.org/story/valkyrie/2014promptresponses/8

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Timothy M.

Must be Prompt 323 Can I talk to you? I've used it three times already in my prompt based story about Rob & Co. The first time was probably the best. I made Irri yell: ROB! That kid needs to grow some tact....  :rofl:

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Renee Stevens

Prompt 316, which was a picture tag of a cool old car with white wall tyres, inspired my very favourite prompt story:

 

The Long Wait

 

 

I miss picture tags, I usually did pretty well with them. Not My Brother was a picture tag prompt (I forget which number) which got out of hand and turned into it's own story. Can we have some more maybe?

 

We haven't done picture prompts for a while, for a couple of reasons.

 

1: comicfan is without a computer which makes uploading the photos difficult

2: Pictures are generally posted using a image link, and if the photo that the link is to gets deleted, whether on purpose or accidentally, it makes it a broken link and no one can see the picture to do the prompt.

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Puppilull

I haven't written very many 'real' prompt responses, but I am rather proud of my first prompt ever written for GA, prompt 438. The story was a response to the prompt and specifically all the calm, cool and collected vampires that flooded GA that week. 

 

My story of the shy vampire Levi sort of grew into a whole story (with some whispered hints by my muse JohnAR ;) ) and I'm still surprised I had it in me. 

 

https://www.gayauthors.org/story/puppilull/finderskeepers/1

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Sasha Distan

We haven't done picture prompts for a while, for a couple of reasons.

 

1: comicfan is without a computer which makes uploading the photos difficult

2: Pictures are generally posted using a image link, and if the photo that the link is to gets deleted, whether on purpose or accidentally, it makes it a broken link and no one can see the picture to do the prompt.

 

How on earth in comicfan surviving without a computer???? (My mind has literally just exploded as I sit here with three computers within touching distance)

Even with image link issues, perhaps once the new software is ironed out, perhaps we could try again?

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Ron

My favorite story that I’ve written and based on a prompt would have to be the one I titled Max Cauler after the main character. The story is in reaction to Prompt 381 – a challenge prompt with the tag of “Uncomfortable Situation.” At just over 1,000 words, this story was perhaps one of the hardest of my prompt stories to write. Who knew at the time, and certainly not me, that I was a glutton for the punishing effort of hard work, and through that effort that I would go on and turn this story into a much larger work? By rewriting and adding nearly another 5,000 words I turned my short story into a full-fledged anthology piece for the 2015 Spring Anthology – Full Circle. What a ride that second version of Max Cauler set me on.

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Carlos Hazday

Prompt 316, which was a picture tag of a cool old car with white wall tyres, inspired my very favourite prompt story:

 

 

Melvyn Ford

I loved that picture and it gave me one of my favorite prompt responses also.

 

Renee, I'm putting in my vote for Picture Prompts at least once a month. If you need pics let me know I have a bit over 5,000 of them and would be willing to pick some interesting ones to share.

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Mikiesboy

Oh prompts .. i love them when i have the time. 

 

My fav has to be 447: The Gift ... it was the beginning of my love affair with two fav characters of mine, Faris and James.  I love them. 

 

There have been nine Faris and James stories to date.  Other great prompts.. AC Benus' Poetry prompts and his O. Henry Prompts have been so much fun to write. 

 

Prompts are perfect when you want write and need a kick up the backside to get you moving.  Love prompts!

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Melvyn Ford

I loved that picture and it gave me one of my favorite prompt responses also.

 

Renee, I'm putting in my vote for Picture Prompts at least once a month. If you need pics let me know I have a bit over 5,000 of them and would be willing to pick some interesting ones to share.

 

~wonders what kinda pics C has on his hard drive~  

 

hey!  I know you travel, I bet you have some cool stuff!!  :)

 

(yeah that's what i was thinking)

 

It was!

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Renee Stevens

Even with image link issues, perhaps once the new software is ironed out, perhaps we could try again?

 

 

Renee, I'm putting in my vote for Picture Prompts at least once a month. If you need pics let me know I have a bit over 5,000 of them and would be willing to pick some interesting ones to share.
 
Provided pictures are not copyrighted, and adhere to our content guidelines, you are more than welcome to start your own Picture Prompt series in the prompt forum. However, please remember, that any picture you upload for a prompt will use your gallery space and CAN NOT be deleted from your gallery or it will not appear in the prompt topic. If you choose to host the picture off the site, the above still applies and you have to ensure that the website address for the picture does not change. Also, authors who choose to respond to any picture prompts may link back to the picture in their chapter notes, but pictures CAN NOT be added to Stories content. Unless something drastic changes, I have no plans to do future picture prompts.
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