Including ABC Wednesday, Tell a Tale, Inspire Me Thursday and Sunday Scribblings.
Have you had a go yet?
DI CASS NOVA
Mafia Facts
It goes like this. The idea of family is formed. The family is extended
into those on your side. The idea of silence and patronage becomes
real. The people under their influence are ‘protected’. Illicit forms of
enterprise are begun. Enemies are fought and destroyed. Yes, that’s
Mafia – but also Monarchy. And they say Feudalism is dead.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
The ‘Y’ Files – Choose an Essay
MEDIA NEWS: TV soundbites taking away
school kids ability to concentrate. This IS new
media; secret is for intelligence to take it over.
BRIT NEWS: Video shown of cop striking woman & then
hitting her legs with baton at G20 protest. This is not the Britain
I love. Shame.
BRIT NEWS: Sir Clement Freud has died. Wit, politician, cook, he
was of generation that applauded eccentrics. World poorer
without them.
GREEN NEWS: List of 11 possible nuke power sites
unveiled. Always said govt’s cosmetic green
plans were smokescreen for nuke power.
Call back Sun for more NewsFlash
SCRIBBLING ON
You know it’s the write way
N is for … NOVEL
A product of enlightened times,
The novel took writing away from rhymes,
Fictional tales of the human condition,
Characters in love, or feeling contrition;
A pact is done between writer and reader,
An emotional see-saw through joy or fear,
A means through which the mind is honed,
The writer’s thoughts in the reader cloned
LAKE OF SECRETS
Fiction: The lake of secrets I call it – especially stood here as the
sun goes down. I’ve lived so much here, and so many of my ideas
have arisen here, as if out of the water itself. So much of my latest
novel is associated with the place – at times autobiographical; how
we met, how we loved, how we parted. I just hope the body
doesn’t rise before it’s published.
THE GREEN WRITER
I’m the greenest writer there can ever be,
Every page from a sustainable tree,
I cover global warming and pollution, too,
All eco-issues to educate you,
Offering a world to which you’re entitled,
But you could have read it before you recycled
LANGUAGE MODE
I think the words, write them down,
Causing the reader to laugh or frown,
Storytelling is my game,
Using abstract thought with which to claim,
A language honed to pass on ideas,
Archetypal expressions of our hopes and fears
© Anthony North, April 2009
SCRIBBLERS’ NEWS
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Here we go with another Scribblers’ News. Is it proving useful?
I’m trying to do my bit to help advertise the prompt sites, as
too many have been disappearing. Can anyone think of other ways
of doing so? Let me know of any news or new sites.
Sunday Scribblings
The word this week is ‘language’
Three Word Wednesday
Still time for this. Words are: allure, perch & vivid
Plinky Prompts
You can answer prompt questions on-site here
One Single Impression
Posting 19 Apr, the phrase for a poem is: one word
Totally Optional Prompts
Still time to write a poem about a photo
Write Anything
Always a good source for tips & prompts
ReadWritePoem
A prompt a day for NaPoWriMo
Inspire Me Thursday
The prompt word is: green
Tell a Tale
Write a tale set on an evening
Call back Sun for more prompts
