Hiya! I am hoping you will help me with some chronic writer’s block I’ve been suffering since I sprained both of my wrists about a year and a half ago. It was very unpleasant and thoroughly messed up my writing habit, because writing with no hands available was complex.
Here’s how it works. You leave me a prompt, which can be anything, and I will do my best to write about it. I will write at least 300 words per prompt, and may write more if the urge strikes me. I’ll be taking prompts all day, March 30. My goal is to finish writing all prompts by Saturday evening, so there will be livewriting and I’ll try to hang around in the comments if there happen to be any comments. Stranger things have happened.
Now, if by some happy chance, you want me to write more than 300 words or on more than one topic, my writing rates are $3/500 words. Alternatively, if you just want to throw in a tip, you can do that too. Money is very motivating to me. I use it to buy tea. Paypal linkie:
As I said above, prompts can be about anything, but I’ll also write story extensions if that’s what you’d like. I’ll write fanfic, too, but only if I’m sufficiently familiar with the universe in question. Stories I’m currently working on:
*Tapestry
*Brenda and Zombies, part of my zombie humor universe
*Medieval fantasy mystery series that needs a name
*Colony X, a new sci-fi story.
*The fanfic adventures of Zita (Taste the Rainbow)
Written so far and to write:
- Easter and spring ritual (nonfiction)
- Tea as magic: Water and Roses
- Colony X: Chapter 1.2
- Night walks: Walking by Starlight
- “How could you forget THAT?” Forgetfulness
- Beads go flying: Dancer in Blue
- Parley and proposals: Gender Essentialism
- Reform-New Charter Lycanthropes: Gossiping Schoolgirls
- Tapestry: Read the Latest
- Drinking cups filled with tea, rosemary… and darrrk.. red wiiine… Unnamed Traveler
- Gardening: Starting Seeds
- Brenda and Zombies: Brenda 4
- More Colony X
* A new kind of collar
* More of the Zombies universe
* More Colony X!
Any preferences, or dealer’s choice?
Dealer’s Choice!
Lyn, I combined your request with Kiki’s and wrote 1000 words of Colony X. Go read: http://cluudle.livejournal.com/563905.html (For people just joining us, the story so far can be read in full over here: http://www.lucyweaver.net/2013/03/30/colony-x-chapter-0-chapter-1-2/ )
Hey guys, @wsteria has a #promptcall open! Go prompt her! http://t.co/Q3qC5HUGqe #weblit
Parley and proposals.
Thanks, Rix. I’ll probably be writing this tomorrow. I am seeing lace, running, and people being surprised.
Here you go: http://www.lucyweaver.net/2013/04/01/gender-essentialism/
It went someplace I didn’t think it would go, but I like it. I think there’s a longer story in there.
I can see that. 🙂
* Tea as magic
* Schrodinger’s Heroes is an open-source fandom if you want to come play in it. Quantum physics, saving the world from alternate dimensions, and character diversity.
I’ve posted to your prompt here: http://www.lucyweaver.net/2013/03/30/water-and-roses/
Thanks! This one was fun.
gardening =)
Neat! You want that as fiction or nonfiction, Cap?
Belatedly: http://www.lucyweaver.net/2013/05/07/starting-seeds/
Feel free to play in this universe (it’s mine): http://thesilentpoet.livejournal.com/354785.html
Medieval Fantasy series!
Books as living organisms
Night walks
I’ve written a little ditty about night walks (in medieval fantasy towns) for you: http://www.lucyweaver.net/2013/03/30/walking-by-starlight/
…if anything goes for the prompts, I have a few tidbits and partial song lyrics.
-…Pine-tree Mary why you sewing a skin,
don’t you like the one you’re in?
Coalier, dear, this one’s worn thin
Outgrown, too-long worn, this ending’s got to begin…-
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-..three ladies voices so fine,
tempers on em each one and all,
so ware your mouth drinking with them
watch your cup drinking with them
take your grace with them
Three witches; all both cruel and kind,
drinking cups filled with tea, rosemary…and darrrk..red wiiine…-
Definitely doing the latter song, which I will have to try to listen to before writing to it. Such neat imagery. Probably finishing it tomorrow, not tonight.
The latter song is actually one that ah.. Well, as soon as I figure out a way to record it and get the sucker online?
…I write and sing songs sometimes. And sometimes a song comes together with me having NO idea whose story it is. *points at the latter*
Neat! Okay, I’ll see if I can’t write a bit of story to go with it.
Here you go! http://www.lucyweaver.net/2013/04/03/unnamed-traveler/
OK, I haven’t read anything you’ve written yet, so I’ll just drop a bunch and you pick if something strikes your fancy.
– Forest spirit(s)
– Power of Friendship
– “How could you forget THAT?”
– The smell of fresh bread
– Too many sticky notes
– Culture Shock
You ended up getting a story set within one of Lyn’s universes, to the prompt “How could you forget THAT?” – here it is: http://www.lucyweaver.net/2013/03/30/forgetfulness/
Here from YsabetWordsmith’s LJ!
1) Beads go flying
2) Soft chains
3) Alchemy
Your choice, any or all, any ‘verse 🙂
I want you to know that I am having the hardest time I’ve had with anyone choosing between your prompts – I have very clear mental pictures for the first two, and alchemy is just fun. I’ll probably be writing it tomorrow, as I got rather more responses to this than I was expecting. Thanks for the prompts!
Here you go! I underestimated how many prompts I would end up getting, which is a pleasant problem to have. http://www.lucyweaver.net/2013/04/01/dancer-in-blue/