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A Whispered Word. It’s a 6.

September 15, 2022GirlieOnTheEdge37 Comments

She cried when she wrote the words, words she sometimes wrote, on the days she felt the need. The white did not crinkle or wrinkle, it would not tear, it stemmed the flood current of emotion, until the calm took seed.

She dried her eyes when she remembered, the day was not forever, she dried her eyes, for soon it’d be tomorrow. The memory of the day would fade, peace would reign once more, so ’til next time, she’d box up all the sorrow.

She tried year after year, after year, not to let down her guard. And year after year, after year, she tried not to cry so hard.

Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!

September 4, 2022GirlieOnTheEdge10 Comments

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and Sunday’s prompt word reveal for Six Sentence Stories!
Are we ready?! To engage in storytelling for another week? Of course, we are! We never tire of writing, do we? No secret I’m partial to music, as are most of you. So you know there are times you simply have to listen to that song – the one in F minor. The one that insists on setting the tone of the day; instead of indulging, you sit before a figurative fire pit, zealously throw all of what might come from that indulgence into it. You pick up your “pen”. You gaze into a growing fire as tethers to past and future go up in flame. You are left with a moment, one primed for the seedlings of a story, a poem, a journey ending with the next scene in your serial story, your book. Today, I ask you to throw all you’ve got into the fire, write exactly 6 sentences from the embers of those flames and share them here, ’round the fire pit that is Six Sentence Stories.

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link up at Wednesday’s post. Link goes live at 6:00 pm through Saturday late…
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers 😀

PROMPT WORD: BAND

“Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.” – Mahmoud Darwish

It’s Six Sentence Story Thursday Link Up!

July 20, 2022GirlieOnTheEdgeLeave a comment

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another edition of Six Sentence Stories!
Decided to go pro. Proactive, that is. Yup. As much as I resist the ~~insinuation~~ the ~~fact~~ appearance I cannot, at this point in time, “do it all” when the HE double L I want to *deep breath…calm, deep breath*, I write this post today, Sunday. In fact, today’s post will have been written in the past of the present of Wednesday’s, today’s, post. Got that? 🤣 It’s about timing and time management; in a way, much like writing a Six Sentence Story. There’s a timeline, certain “rules” to follow that exist to facilitate a smooth(er) process. I know. Some of you are too polite to walk up and ask “hey, what’s up Girlie, you cool? ” To which I would reply, “thanks but yeah, I’m cool“. Listen, I’d invite you to pull up a chair and grab a cup of this week’s prompt word while I tell you all about it but my producers just slipped me a note reminding me to invite every single person on the planet with an interest in writing to join us this week by writing and sharing a Six Sentence Story. It may be a fictional story or not, may be a poem. If you’re working on a serial story (Paul!) then what better venue to circulate it than here at Six Sentence Stories. We love serial stories around these parts. (Paul!) But seriously, if you’ve not written a Six before, take a stab at it. If you’re one our regular Sixarians, we hope you join in again this week (Keith! Romi! Matt!) Precisely 6 sentences using this week’s prompt word. Publish. Link. Then let’s talk.

Rules of the hop:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word.
Link the URL to your post via the blue “Click here to enter” button below.
Link is live Wednesday 6:00 PM, ends way late Saturday night!
Spread the word and put in a good one to your fellow writers 😀

PROMPT WORD: COFFEE

“Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s Six Sentence Story Thursday Link Up!

May 11, 2022GirlieOnTheEdge2 Comments

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another edition of Six Sentence Stories!
You feel it yet? Hear that low level humming sound? Yeah, that is electricity! What do you mean what am I talking about? I’m talking about Six Sentence Stories. I’m talking about the fact in less than 4 hours time, the doors to the world’s biggest story time will commence. And when it does, you’ll begin to notice an unmistakable electricity that begins to compound with each Six Sentence Story written and read. Not to worry. No grounding equipment required 😁 Speaking of grounding…there is no specific genre of writing necessary to participate in Six Sentence Stories. Let your muse be the guide in sharing 6 and exactly 6 sentences of fantasy, historical fiction, drama, science fiction, humor, mystery, poetry or the next scene in your ongoing serial story. Looking forward to another round of fabulous story telling! Read you soon!

PROMPT WORD: CONFETTI

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!

May 8, 2022GirlieOnTheEdge18 Comments

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and Sunday’s prompt word reveal for Six Sentence Stories!
I say with confidence, there is not a one among us would disagree with Mr. Thackeray. It is that very thing that prompts us to pick up a pen, sit at our computers/laptops or hold the stylus over the screen of our phones. The act of writing often sets in motion a stream of: profound thought, magical poetry, sheer garbage of monumental piles or ditty upon ditty upon ditty. Point being until a first word is lain upon the vellum, typed across the monitor screen, we deprive ourselves of the possibility for that word to guide us to destinations we may not have otherwise consciously traveled. For how could we? You know, when I get all soap boxy like this, I speak loudest to my own self. To pick up the pen once again. What do you say? Type or write the prompt word below; see where it leads. Return to the ‘Edge beginning Wednesday evening with 6 and only 6 sentences of whoever, whatever, wherever; let’s explore together. Six Sentence Stories, where creativity roams free. Writing implements at the ready? Good. Let’s begin…

PROMPT WORD: CONFETTI

“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.” – William Makepeace Thackeray

‘S a 6.

January 19, 2022GirlieOnTheEdge37 Comments

She woke from fitful dreams, dressed in layers of assorted clothing, a hat, and gloves. Her physical shelter provided walls to shield the elements of nature, though this particular evening, provided none against the cold of harsh circumstance. Bundled, she withdrew beneath covers, warmed of body if not of soul; allowed her mind to wander at will. She walked upon deserted beach dotted with sparkling sea glass, allowing soft, moist sands to ground her as she stepped eagerly towards the surf. Coaxed further, cool ripples drew her ankle deep as the salty swash continued to tickle and tease. She loosed her clothing, each piece dropped upon the shoreline, a breadcrumb, offering to the ocean; she walked on, freely.

It’s Six Sentence Story Thursday Link Up!

January 19, 2022GirlieOnTheEdge5 Comments

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another edition of Six Sentence Stories!
What are we without imagination? Without humor? Can you even picture that? (a bit frightening, isn’t it, lol) We, who hang at the Six Sentence Café and Bistro, who enjoy chatting up our Sixes with the other patrons or utilizing the stage for the occasional performance art piece, we, are writers who enjoy creative challenge. It’s why we return each week with Six Sentence Story in hand. Our challenge: write a story, a poem, the next scene in our book or serial, or perhaps an amusing tale for the ages and write it in precisely 6 sentences. Repeat after me – “6 sentences. No more. No less.” If you’ve only recently stumbled across this establishment, welcome! House rules are posted below. For the regulars, well, you know what to do. Doors open this evening 6:00 PM EST US.
Read you soon 🙂

PROMPT WORD: SHELTER

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.” – Francis Bacon

Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!

January 9, 2022GirlieOnTheEdge5 Comments

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and Sunday’s prompt word reveal for Six Sentence Stories!
Raise your hands. Who of you are “jotters”? (yes, still using pen and paper!) Will one of you explain this to me, lol. And yo! Those of you of the younger demographic – to what do you attribute this thing? Or is age irrelevant? The writing of words on pieces of paper that somehow wind up not in the same place over time, discovered later, treasured trinkets (sometimes, lol), in a word, “jots”. At Six Sentence Stories, you might consider the 6 and only 6 sentences you write as “jottings” or, if you’re of a mind as Chris, Clark, A. Mage, Paul, and Reena to embark on a serial journey, we say “hurray”! Today, you are cordially invited to submit your piece of fiction, fantasy, essay, drama, poetry, soc or next scene in your serial story, presented in precisely 6 sentences, and join in the festivities here at the blog hop known as Six Sentence Stories. You’ll find hop rules below.
Write often. You never know where words will take you.

PROMPT WORD: JUICE

“It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.” – Stephen Wright

It’s Six Sentence Story Thursday Link Up!

January 5, 2022GirlieOnTheEdge7 Comments

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and another edition of Six Sentence Stories!
It snowed! A bunch. 64 degrees this past Sunday. 10-12 inches of snow the following day (how wild is that, lol) and the gift of a day off as my office closed and extended the weekend. What does not close are the doors to this venue. Six Sentence Stories opens regardless of weather and circumstance as you and I gather every week to engage in marvelous storytelling. 6 sentences at a time. Doors open this evening at 6:00 pm eastern standard time U.S. Everyone is encouraged to bring a story or poem or scene from a wip using this week’s prompt word, then go mingle amongst yourselves. If you haven’t written yours yet, still plenty of time so…let’s write people!

PROMPT WORD: EXPRESS

“I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn’t realize then that it’s the same impulse. It’s make-believe. It’s performance.” – Joan Didion

Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt!

January 2, 2022GirlieOnTheEdge4 Comments

Welcome to GirlieOnTheEdge and Sunday’s prompt word reveal for Six Sentence Stories!
The purpose of today’s post? So glad you asked! Today, I invite every person I know, don’t know yet, may never know, know from a past life…to take the word shown below, what is popularly called a “prompt” word aka “cue” word. Take it, use it. However you wish. In a piece of fiction, mystery, thriller, fantasy, humor. Perhaps you prefer the non-parameters of poetry, the freedom of “soc”. Or! share with us the latest scene from your “wip”. Our only requirement is you write your story in exactly 6 sentences. The proverbial piece of cake. Simple? Sure. Easy? Why don’t you find out for yourself. Join us as we begin 2022 with another year of Six Sentence Stories. Discover for your own self the most incredible community of writers ever assembled under one roof. I guarantee, you’ll not find a more comfortable place to hang than at the Six Sentence Café and Bistro. Read the instructions below, return here beginning Wednesday evening and let’s get to know one another, eh?

PROMPT WORD: EXPRESS

“Waiting for inspiration to write is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.”
-Unknown

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