To be part of the game

Today’s prompts at

Gamble
Omitted
Temporary

Over at Write On Wednesday the question today is this:
“How about you? How do you cultivate creativity in your life? Have you found the things that make you come alive? Are you doing them? Shouldn’t you be?”
“Good morning everyone, this is Dewy Knickers for HBNN – Hysterical Bloggers News Network – [...]

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Beyond the obvious

companion by Rick Mobbs a weekly image prompt

The second prompt today is from Sunday Scribblings and it is ‘Solace’.
“Waiting for the sound”
it was why Solace went out on cold winter days, when frost snapped off the brittle dead blades and ice frilled the hard mud shore
before the light stirred the steam of cattails drooping, when [...]

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Relaxing is an art form

For the Rockin’ Chair Writers prompt this week, prompt B asks: “When you seek out entertainment to relax what gives you the most pleasure?”
For me it has to be going to a movie. I usually pick the movie we wind up seeing and we have two theaters locally that show different movies in each location; [...]

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Writing as a vocation

A site called Write On Wednesday asks the following question this week.
So, how about you?  What do the three P’s of writing…practice, pleasure, profit…mean in your writing life?
At 3WW this is the weekly prompt.

Avoid
Class
Sticky

I’ve always written for pleasure with my blog, no matter the content. For me writing of course is the sole means of [...]

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Fading into shadows

Read Write Poem is having an ekphrastic extravaganza this week, thanks to the talents and generosity of poet and artist Rick Mobbs. Over at Sunday Scribblings the weekly prompt is ‘Ghosts’.

Portrait of Nanda, by Rick Mobbs

“Do you know who I am?”
seeing him
across the street
I fix my gaze elsewhere
inclined to leave
but this is my chair
my spot [...]

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