Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and Sunday’s prompt word reveal for Six Sentence Stories!
Today’s post provides the building block (or not) for the next Six Sentence Story you write. The prompt word may be the inspiration for a Six or an incidental to your Six. Wednesday is the big invite and link up post. It’s where the party is. No bouncers at the door, no cover charge. All you do is link the URL to your Six Sentence story, poem, musing, missive or next scene via the blue “Click here to enter” Inlinkz invite, walk through the doors and…have a good time! Last Sunday’s post I entertained suggestions for prompt words and three writers responded. Without further ado, may I present this week’s prompt word, courtesy of Susan of Sillyfrog’s Blog. Thank you, Susan!
Rules of the hop: Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Return here, link your post Wednesday night through Saturday late…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers 😀
PROMPT WORD: IMPROVISE
“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time, you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.” – Mark Twain
Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge. If you’ve landed on this page by accident, hurray! Kismet is working in your favor as it’s opening day for the Six Sentence Story Blog Hop. What is this phenomenon, Six Sentence Stories, spreading the interweb? It is a weekly writing challenge (most enjoyable), it is a method/tool to enhance writing skill (who can’t use a little boost) and perhaps most importantly, it’s an opportunity to meet new writers; take advantage of new portals of discovery. Who hasn’t followed the breadcrumbs after clicking on a link to someone’s story and then... linking out to writers’ comments at their websites. Infinite loop (but in a good way) this internet 😀 Hope you’ll join in the fun. Read you soon!
Rules of the hop: Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Come back here and link your post…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers 🙂
Welcome all, to GirlieOnTheEdge where every Thursday I officially open the virtual door to a room that will fill with stories, adventures and poetry written by folks from around the world. Stories, adventures and poems told in a mere 6 sentences! Six Sentence Stories is such an enjoyable writing challenge that once you’ve written one, you’ll find it difficult not to write another! Passed down through the years from Ms. Josie Two Shoes, I am the current MC. And not only am I the MC, I’m also a Six Sentence Story contributor (don’t ask me how Sy Sperling got into my head tonight 😀) Remember – the doors stay open until next Tuesday so there’s plenty of time to link up a Six. Hope you’ll join us.
Read you soon!
Rules of the hop: Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Come back here on Thursday, link your post…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers 🙂
Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and Sunday’s Word Prompt for the newest, upcoming edition of Six Sentence Stories! Was talking with a fellow writer recently who reminded me that everything is a story. Not that the story always or easily reveals itself, but it is there. So, whether it takes form as a story, a poem or a missive, or as a snippet from a work in progress or soon to be work in progress, it’s all good. I hope you’ll share a story this coming Thursday and join in for the adventure that is storytelling 🙂 Enjoy your week, my friends. Good writing and I’ll see you soon!
Rules of the hop: Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Come back here on Thursday, link your post…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers 🙂
PROMPT WORD: FRAME
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”– Mark Twain
Yay! It’s Wednesday night and time to post the link to another round of Thursday Six Sentence Stories! Welcome everyone to GirlieOnTheEdge. I’m Girlie (or Denise, if you’ve a mind to be more formal), your hostess for the SSS.
Keeping with tradition, I post the link each week on Wednesday evening so those who want to get a jump start can do so! The SSS is a blog hop that is fun, challenging for the writer, entertaining for the reader. The rules of participation are pretty darned simple:
Write 6 sentences. No more. No less.
Any genre of writing acceptable.
Use the current week’s cue word.
Return here on Thursday to link up and let the adventures begin 🙂
CUE WORD: BRUSH
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. – Mark Twain
His name is Lunchbox Lenny. Folks around here just call him Lunchbox mostly, although the under 40 crowd is inclined to call him Mr. Lunchbox. One part dervish, one part imp, Lunchbox would give even Wile E. Coyote a run for his money. It is perhaps no small coincidence* that the character of Wile E. (Coyote) “was based on Mark Twain‘s book Roughing It,[3] in which Twain described the coyote as “a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton” that is “a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry.” That’s our Lunchbox – free rangin’, unadulterated, on the loose, untethered – always hungry as scotts are wont to be.
So you think the cartoon is cute? Let me ask you this: “how cute” is a baby lion ripping open the belly of a gazelle peacefully grazing upon the plain? My point exactly. Kids, what we have here is a fully matured scott. To quote Merriam W.: Matured = “having attained a final or desired state“, not meaning the opposite of immature.
I have referenced this term (scott) before just as I have referenced myself as being a clark. So as not to exclude that most socially conscious, or is that conscious of the social (collective) group, here’s a nod to rogers. These 3 – clarks, scotts and rogers are the 3 ways in which a person views the world according to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
,..”No, Lenny! Sit down. Now! I’m still writing…You wanted me to write something about you didn’t you?… I said you can’t…What? Are you stupid or something?! You can’t do that. Why? Because sensible people just don’t that’s why. You know expletives won’t work with me. Yes, I am aware that Gregory Campbell was the best teacher you ever had…
My apologies. Damned if I did not let myself get distracted again. Yes, yes it is a true statement that the scotts of the werld demand, no make that “command” attention. They do not stomp their feet in the manner of a roger but rather scotts will jump up and down and talk real fast (literally sometimes and figuratively). They are the most certain of the 3. Certain of themselves, their opinions, hell they just know how it’s all supposed to be.
Enough for now with the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, and back to my friend Lunchbox. What kind of testimonial can I give him? Hm…haven’t seen him in many a year. Truth be told it’s been a coupla decades at least. Let’s see… the ole brain projector is running footage of playing basketball with LB only he wasn’t ever on my team (I’ll check with the archivists to confirm). Very competitive, he’s full of energy; loud. Show me a scott and I’ll show you one loud mf’er if you know what I’m sayin’. Scoundrel = scott. (yes, this also applies to female scotts) He likes to read; enjoys travel and prefers warmer climates over cold. Lunchbox Lenny likes sports (oh, mentioned that?), music of the variety I would label “hillbillyish” but you can add pseudo ethnic and classic rock to the list .
I would be remiss if I did not utilize the word “carnal” to describe LB or any scott for that matter. He loves that word because of it’s implications. C-A-R-N-A-L as per our Ms. Merriam W. = “b: relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites”. clarks! Lock up your children. rogers! Hide. And lock up your children!
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