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Well done, poets! And @Valkyrie.

First, you paint spring with colorful words and the annual hope. Let there always be hope. Then you describe ridiculous attempts of certain circles to put the genie back into the bottle. Let them try. After that, you make me cry. I wrote something similar once. Let's never forget them. To finish, you bombarded me with, I don't know how to call them, verse bullets? Everyone hit. Thank you? Well done.❤️ Adi

I want to live in that world you described too, Bill. With all my heart, yes.

Why am I different? You told your unique, still very familiar story, beginning with the cardinal question that made us all explore, to find us. Thank you for reminding me.

I'm curious.

I hoped you would partake in this year's Na Po Wri Mo and am delighted you do. I enjoyed them all. Some I might take outside to read on my favorite bench in the garden, and some I might borrow to prove that math can be seen through a poet's eye. Thank you.

A green butterfly to be, absorbs April's rays for the last step. Fly. A few words written on the bus.

looks like I'll need a lot of pencils.

Let me recap the prompt. We provided the ending of a story, and you had to work backward to its beginning using the comments. The result is a 3.5k words long story. Yep, you read right, 3.5k. You hit it out of the park, guys. Since this is a bit long to copy/paste into a blog entry, we’ve invited a new member to GA: The Prompter. We’re counting on future bouts of fantastic creativity, and this will also make it easier to find these wonderful prompt collaborations. We heard there was some confusion about the instructions, which means we will fine-tune them a little next time. But you can always ask questions, and we will try to answer them as soon as possible. Before we come to the story, I tried to fit all your cool ideas into a proper frame. I had to exclude one idea as it didn’t fit into the collab; it was its own story. Check it out in the original prompt blog. As I said, we’ll work on the instructions. Are you ready for a wild ride?

Thank you.

When I noticed that some of you checked and are still checking the story to see if my blocked brain is finally unclogged, I thought I would open a thread here for updates because, as I said elsewhere, it isn’t dead. Not my brain but the story. It makes me extremely happy to see you didn’t forget Kavan. I refamiliarized myself with the story and read the whole thing. While doing this, I noticed a few things I didn’t like, such as lots of hand waving and awkward sentences. To cut a long story short, I decided to revise the chapters I wrote so far. It’s nothing major story-changing, just little things that bugged me. The revisions are finished. Of course, my ubercorrect beloved editor insisted to have a look. Thank you for this Val.❤️ Chapter 19 is finished, has to be edited, and will be posted when the story is complete. Chapter 20 is half completed. The first four revised chapters have been uploaded.

Differences to be celebrated. Introspective Value everybody equally. Embrace variety instead of denying it. R S I T Y

You're very welcome, and thank YOU for this wonderful comment.

I'd like to post the story next Friday. 28.03.2025, to be precise. That means I'll put everything together on Thursday. If anyone else wants to add....

There's still time.

This is one of those stories you won't forget and want to read again.

The goal of the prompts is to inspire, which means there is no monopolizing. I'm happy you're having fun. I'll try to wrap up everything with a suitable beginning before we post the entire story.

(@Thirdly You do know that Zelt means tent in German?)

Valkyrie already told you that we’re trying a few new twists for the prompt blog. Last time, she wrote the beginning of a story and some of you continued it in the comment section. IMHO, the stories turned out quite well. This time, I’ll provide the ending, and you will write the matching story using the comments. 🤞 Together, they watched the train leaving the station. A single sunbeam broke through the heavy clouds and flashed over the last wagon before it vanished in the early morning mist.

When did you last get an actual, handwritten snail-mail letter? If so, did you appreciate it, or was it an old-fashioned gesture you didn’t care for? As you have probably already guessed, this Friday’s prompts are all about letters. PT #277 Someone finds a yellowed envelope in a box with used books at an antique shop. What is the letter about? PT #278 Write a letter ending with a poem, either written by you or a favorite poet. You may post a link to a copyrighted poem to avoid infringement. Please include the prompt number either in your story/chapter description or title to help readers who would like to search for specific prompts. Also, please remember that stories less than one thousand words must be posted as part of a collection. If you check the subgenre 'prompt' in your story tags, then people/readers can find everything here: https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/subgenre/prompt/

@Headstall, there are quite a few more categories to explore.....

@chris191070 Wow! I put all the planning in a box under my bed so as not to get distracted.

Yup, we're the bad guys, totally.

I never wolfed down anything peanut butter jelly.