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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Auntie Tara's Short Story Prompt - Pilot

Pilot, as in seeing how this first episode goes.

Welcome to Auntie Tara's Short Story Prompt!
On the second Tuesday of the month, I will offer a prompt of some sort or other to write a short story about. Now a short story can be as short as a few hundred words or as long as a couple of thousand. I will stipulate word length with each different prompt, thus adding to the challenge.

To officially participate, here are Auntie Tara's requests:
  1. put a link to your story in the comments
  2. link back here to let others know about the challenge (feel free use the pic)
  3. keep it clean =)
On to January's prompt!
This month, the challenge before you is to write a short story of 750 words or less including these four words: EVIL, CROWD, HARP, WATERFALL

Challenge ends January 31. I'll put mine up on Thursday. If I get at least five participants, I will offer a prize of a query or first page critique to my favorite story and add a linky link next month to make things easier. But this is more for our benefit to get writing! Results announced first week of February.

And in case you want even more writing practice, Sonia offers a monthly writing challenge as well. She's been at it a long time and has great articles on writing. You should at least stop by =)
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12 comments:

  1. Alex J. CavanaughJanuary 10, 2012 at 8:09 AM

    Hope you get a lot of participants!

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  2. Jennie BennettJanuary 10, 2012 at 11:36 AM

    I want to do this, maybe Friday :)

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  3. Leigh CovingtonJanuary 10, 2012 at 3:53 PM

    Oooh! Spectacular idea. This means I've got to get the creative juices flowing! Fun idea Tara!

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  4. Heather M. GardnerJanuary 11, 2012 at 6:26 PM

    I'll try.
    I make no guarantees!

    Thanks for making us work!
    HMG

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  5. Jennie BennettJanuary 12, 2012 at 9:54 PM

    Here's my link, hehe.

    http://j-a-bennett.blogspot.com/2012/01/pride-and-pity.html

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  6. Christine RainsJanuary 24, 2012 at 3:24 PM

    I wrote up a little something for Auntie Tara today. I have it scheduled for Thursday on my blog. :)

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  7. Tara TylerJanuary 26, 2012 at 7:24 AM

    yeah! you guys! thanks for giving it a go!

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  8. Keru (a.k.a. Manny)January 27, 2012 at 12:22 AM

    You can count me in! I'll post a link to my short evil-crowd-harp-waterfall story here after I've given it a day or so to rest and peculate. (^__^)

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  9. Keru (a.k.a. Manny)January 27, 2012 at 6:11 AM

    OK, here's the link. I hope you like it! (^__^)

    Auntie Tara's Short Story Prompt
    Evil-Harp-Crowd-Waterfall, a.k.a. "Compromises"
    http://www.kwriterly.blogspot.com/2012/01/auntie-taras-short-story-prompt.html

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  10. Heather M. GardnerJanuary 28, 2012 at 6:47 AM

    OK. Mine goes up on Monday. I'll put a link up then.
    HMG

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  11. Heather M. GardnerJanuary 29, 2012 at 7:38 AM

    Okay. I lied.
    Since the A to Z sign up starts Monday I decided to post this today.
    Thank you, Tara, for the prompt and the opportunity to share!
    Heather

    http://hmgardner.blogspot.com/2012/01/auntie-taras-short-story-prompt.html

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  12. Keru (a.k.a. Manny)January 29, 2012 at 9:29 PM

    Thank you so much for reading and leaving a comment for me on "Compromises," Tara! It really made my day to hear that you liked it. (^__^)

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