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Where the Dreamwalker Treads Challenge Results
Things have been crazy busy for us here at ViM , and at Vocal too, over the last few months! Things have been absolutely topsy-turvy everywhere, to say the least! For us Vocalites, though, many have had their worlds ripped out from under them by the glitches Vocal's IT staff can't seem to work out, yet...
By Mother Combsabout a month ago in Writers
Talking Hearts
Author's Note: I am getting bored with these, so maybe I can spice them up for myself. I have always finished a card prompt box, so this would be the first if we don't finish it. Or maybe we can just take a break. They do seem to torture my husband, so maybe it is worth it. I haven't learned anything new yet though, and I don't think he has either. Maybe today.
By Denise E Lindquist2 months ago in Writers
ROGUE CHALLENGE - A Wanky Song
As you will no doubt be blissfuly unaware, I already have a challenge running at the moment. It's just a scrappy little dollar challenge, based around the quote, Women seem wicked when you're unwanted. The goal is to flex your woman-writing muscle. Take it out. Play with it a little. Wave it around.
By L.C. Schäfer2 months ago in Writers
Le Guin Apprenticeship Journal IV
Nothing could have prepared me for this week. Nothing! It's not so much that I thought Verbal Repetition would be easy (though, of course, I did: who doesn't repeat themselves); it's just that I didn't realise my brain would unconsciously challenge itself to pack all the lessons of the last four weeks into this exercise alongside the repetition. Apparently now my subconscious is treating this project as a journey of compounding perfection, where each piece MUST be better than the last. What the punishment will be for failure, I dread to think... probably writer's block.
By Lauren Everdell2 months ago in Writers
Who Is Grateful?
Steal From Yourself Challenge: The Prompt - Return to something you wrote years ago and use one idea, image, character, or line from it to create something entirely new. It's time to dig through your old writing and steal something. Find a story you abandoned, a poem you haven't read in years, a half-finished draft, or something your younger self was very proud of. Somewhere in there is a line, character, image, idea, or tiny detail worth taking. For this challenge, take that one thing and give it another life. Drop an old character into a completely different story. Turn a forgotten line into a poem. Take the best idea from your worst draft and finally do something with it. Don't rewrite the old piece. Rob it. Then use what you stole to make something entirely new.
By Denise E Lindquist2 months ago in Writers
Talking Hearts
Author's Note: The photo is what the title, "Talking hearts" brought up on unsplash. First thing is we do not look like the couple above! Except my husband shaves his head too, and has some facial hair in the form of a mustache, and I see that look regularly, when he is looking at me. And finally, we are probably 40 plus years older than that couple. Seventy-two and seventy-six.
By Denise E Lindquist2 months ago in Writers
