And here we are at the end of the Summer Writing Challenge. How did you do? I hope you have been inspired to create a little.
See you next year.
Cheers, Rita
PS Today’s prompt is…
Unending
Here’s a little wordle I made of all the words from the 2015 Summer Writing Challenge.
Here we are at the penultimate day of our challenge. Soon you will be left to your own devices when coming up with creative ideas and prompts. However, today is not that day…
The challenge for today is…
Brave
I may have epically failed and missed Day 25. Sorry I was busy watching Shakespeare in the Meadow. (I do have a life people.)
So Here’s Day 26’s Prompt:
Acting
English: Forces acting on a wedge (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I bet you are wondering how I come up with the daily prompt for this writing challenge. Come on, it’s been keeping you up at night, hasn’t it? Well, sometimes I’ll be inspired by what is happening in the day around me. I’m pretty sure I was having a rather wonderful day when I gave Day 11’s prompt of DELIGHTFUL. And I probably wasn’t so happy on day 6 when I gave GRUMBLE. But most days I take a more removed, semi-scientific approach to finding a prompt.
I grab whatever reading material is closest to me (the newspaper, a book…) and open it randomly. I count down the number of full lines on the page days of the challenge (today I went down 24 lines) and count over 15 words (for 2015). Then I find the closest “promptable” word.
Some words just will not make a very good prompt. Conjunctions, for example, kinda suck as promptable material. So do pronouns and proper names. Verbs are good, as are adjectives, adverbs and some nouns.
So for today I randomly opened The Annotated Emma by Jane Austen (Annotates and Edited by David M. Shapard, published by Anchor Books) to page 142. Following the formula I get to the word “my” a pretty lame prompt. So looking around that word I’ve got “coachman” nice prompt, but kind of limited and dated and “foot-path.” Yeah, “foot-path” can take me it a couple of different ways I think I walk that way.
So today’s creative prompt is…
Foot-path
English: The foot path to Boode on the left of Buttercombe Lane (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It is a beautiful day outside in the NoBalCo area I hope you take your notebooks outside and write today.
Today’s prompt is…
Demur
English: Fresco of couple in bed. Man talks to his shy bride. A servant on the left watches the scene. Fresko from the left side of the right wall of cubiculum D in the Casa della Farnesina in Rome. Ca. 19 BC. Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Inv. 1188. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s word prompt is…
Companion
English: Boy with a dog Nederlands: Foto. Jongen met hond (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today’s writing prompt is…
Helpless
English: The Helpless Robot, a work by Canadian artist Norman White (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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