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WRITESPIRATION #134 52 WEEKS IN 52 WORDS WEEK 39 – A Night In The Museum

27 Sep 2017 17 Comments

by Ritu in #Writespiration, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #Writespiration, 52 Word Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Night At The Museum, Sacha Black

Sacha’s prompt for #Writespiration this week:

Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

Write about the night you accidentally spent in a museum.

Oh, I could have really run with this one! It was hard to contain it within 52 words, but I did it!

I have a terrible habit of nodding off.
This time, the lost property room at the local museum.
The pile of forgotten coats looked so inviting to my tired body…
I woke to find myself in darkness.
Convinced I could hear the old armour moving, I stayed put until the caretaker arrived!

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WRITESPIRATION #133 52 WEEKS IN 52 WORDS WEEK 38 – That Weird Kid

20 Sep 2017 19 Comments

by Ritu in #Writespiration, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #Writespiration, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Sacha Black, The Weird Kid At School

Sacha’s back with yet another #Writespiration prompt!

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Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

This week I want you to write about the weird kid at school…

Oh, Sacha…I have so many weird kids I encounter at school, what a catalogue of memories I have to look back upon!

Here’s one celebrating weirdness, and showing not all weird kids are necessarily unable to accomplish goals in life.

The arena exploded into rapturous applause.
A huge audience chanted his name “Will! Will!”
This latest tour celebrated his fourth platinum selling album.
Inside his smile was brighter than the one he portrayed on the outside.
So much for being the weird kid at school.
Finally he’d shown them – Wilfred wasn’t weird!

#Writespiration #132 52 WEEKS IN 52 WORDS WEEK 37 – 52 Word Sequel @sacha_black

13 Sep 2017 19 Comments

by Ritu in #Writespiration, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #Writespiration, 52 Word Challenge, Because I Was Lonely, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Hayley Mitchell, Sacha Black, Sequel

Sacha’s back with another #Writespiration prompt.

Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

This week, I want you to look at the ending of the last book you read and write the first 52 words of a sequel.

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I just finished Because I Was Lonely by Hayley Mitchell.

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It’s a brilliantly written, disturbing tale of a mum, Rachel, who is depressed and finds an old friend, Adam, on Facebook. The relationship that develops takes on stalker-like tendencies and it is encouraged while Adam is having his own issues with his wife, Julia.

Once his real life settles, he hopes her own life with her husband David is finding a path to happiness too, and that they can forget their brief but intense online relationship, but it seems Hayley has other thoughts at the end of the story… my sequel begins like this…

The doorbell. Adam tensed. Julia was home.
What if it was her?
Rachel had seemed unhinged in that last message, talking of finding him.
He saw the gas man leave, and filled with relief.
The phone rang. That feeling of tension mounted.
Then his Facebook Message notification lit up on his PC…

WRITESPIRATION #131 52 WEEKS IN 52 WORDS WEEK 36 – 52

06 Sep 2017 14 Comments

by Ritu in #Writespiration, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #Writespiration, 52, 52 Word Challenge, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Sacha Black

Sacha’s #Writespiration prompt:

Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

This week you need to write about the number 52

WRITESPIRATION #130 52 WEEKS IN 52 WORDS WEEK 35 – Pyramid

30 Aug 2017 21 Comments

by Ritu in #Writespiration, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #Writespiration, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Sacha Black, The Pyramid

Sacha’s #Writespiration prompt this week:

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Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

This week your challenge is to write about the Pyramid.

Here goes!

They were convinced I wouldn’t get planning permission.
But I persevered.
And now, there it is, at the end of my garden.
Not vast, like my last, but big enough to reminisce.
Well, if I’m to live again in a peasants body, I should be able to remember my past, Cleo thought.