Two weeks just always seems to fly right by...
NUMBER TWENTY-THREE
Ground Rules
1. Your response to any given prompt must be in a brand new (public) post. Please use the following code to specify author, prompt number, warnings* (if applicable) and word count.
Author:
Prompt #:
Warnings:
Wordcount:
2. The actual response itself should be put under an lj-cut. If you don't know what an lj-cut is, please consult this faq.
3. Tag your post accordingly.
4. Select the drop-down menu next to Allow Comments? on your response post to say DISABLED.
5. Minimum word count is 500. There is no maximum, but please try to keep in in a single post.
6. Your response will be due exactly two weeks from today. Responses can be posted before the due date. Posts submitted after the due date will not be accepted.
7. If you are planning to participate in this exercise, please reply to this post. Later, when you are posting feedback for any of the responses for this prompt, please do so here, under that author's thread. (Commenting to this post doesn't require you to complete the exercise; it's just a way for us to streamline the feedback that comes in.) A thread for general comments and questions is also provided below.
*If your piece has any disturbing imagery, underage situations, explicit sex, substance abuse, mentions of suicide, etc, please use this field at the beginning of your post to warn readers of content.
Now that you're familiar with what to do once you're finished writing, here's the actual exercise prompt. We're going to start with something very simple, just to get into the swing of things. I hope you're not disappointed at the lack of structure. ;)
EXTRY, EXTRY!
Write a narrative about a brilliant skinny journalist with glasses who is embedded with soldiers in a desperate and dangerous series of battles in an awful, unwinnable war. This can be any war - recent, distant, true, made up
**I took this out of a book, and I don't know exactly why it has to be "a brilliant skinny journalist with glasses". If you want your journalist to be non-skinny, go ahead, but I'm going to insist that you KEEP THE GLASSES.
Ground Rules
1. Your response to any given prompt must be in a brand new (public) post. Please use the following code to specify author, prompt number, warnings* (if applicable) and word count.
Author:
Prompt #:
Warnings:
Wordcount:
2. The actual response itself should be put under an lj-cut. If you don't know what an lj-cut is, please consult this faq.
3. Tag your post accordingly.
4. Select the drop-down menu next to Allow Comments? on your response post to say DISABLED.
5. Minimum word count is 500. There is no maximum, but please try to keep in in a single post.
6. Your response will be due exactly two weeks from today. Responses can be posted before the due date. Posts submitted after the due date will not be accepted.
7. If you are planning to participate in this exercise, please reply to this post. Later, when you are posting feedback for any of the responses for this prompt, please do so here, under that author's thread. (Commenting to this post doesn't require you to complete the exercise; it's just a way for us to streamline the feedback that comes in.) A thread for general comments and questions is also provided below.
*If your piece has any disturbing imagery, underage situations, explicit sex, substance abuse, mentions of suicide, etc, please use this field at the beginning of your post to warn readers of content.
Now that you're familiar with what to do once you're finished writing, here's the actual exercise prompt. We're going to start with something very simple, just to get into the swing of things. I hope you're not disappointed at the lack of structure. ;)
EXTRY, EXTRY!
Write a narrative about a brilliant skinny journalist with glasses who is embedded with soldiers in a desperate and dangerous series of battles in an awful, unwinnable war. This can be any war - recent, distant, true, made up
**I took this out of a book, and I don't know exactly why it has to be "a brilliant skinny journalist with glasses". If you want your journalist to be non-skinny, go ahead, but I'm going to insist that you KEEP THE GLASSES.