Essentially the aim of this meme is to encourage us to write. Each week we are given some prompts. These prompts can be words, phrases, music or images.
What we do with those prompts is up to us: a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...
We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.
Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog. This fun meme includes cheering on the other participants.
And the more the merrier goes here as well, so if you are posting on your own blog then please tell us in the comments, so that all other participants, can come along and applaud.
I autoposted the words for all of June long, long ago, in January, I think, so the words will be almost as new for me. I'll post my stories Friday.
Debt
Impression
Perception
Grocery
Lake
Tale
Height
Passion
Security
Movie
Sample
Wealth
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June 1 question - When the going gets tough writing the story, how do you keep yourself writing to the end? If you have not started the writing yet, why do you think that is and what do you think could help you find your groove and start?
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My answer - The first thing that keeps me writing is my passion for writing. I began writing before I started school, and I just never stopped 😉
The second things that keeps me writing week after week is the Words for Wednesday and the encouraging comments from that crew! Thank you!
Thank you. I would describe myself as the coordinator rather than the master (or mistress) of this meme, but I am thrilled that you find support and encouragement here week after week.
SvarSletMy take on your evocative words is below:
Today is the day to tell the tale of the Thimble Witches. They are incredibly crafty and their passion is making things. They may sew, build or bake. Their creativity knows no bounds. They are not seeking wealth, and acknowledge the debt they owe to the often overlooked small things.
Part of their work involves making their own helpers, creations known as Figments.
These Figments are made from a sample of curiosities and oddments. Untrained perception will often simply never see them, other than receiving a fleeting impression of movement. But they are there. They are at the grocery store, at the movies, by the lake, and in many more places too.
Thimble witches get security and support from their figments, and their creation is a testament to a witch at the height of their powers…
With thanks to the marvelous Mr Finch whose The Museum of Figments I am currently reading and marveling at the creations he displays.
What a clever idea, Thimble Witches and Figments, i'll have to look for that book.
SletThank you for this high tale. I like the idea of figments.
SletYou shall become our coordinator in the followig Wednesdays.
I love the "Thimble Witches"
SletA figment of the highest order! Just wonderful.
SletOnce again you top the charts with your creative story!
SletBeautiful take on the words EC, only that I have a backpile of unread books I would get this one right away but I have made a note.
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Elephant's Child: I like the Thimble witches. They are my favorite type of characters.
SletHave a lovely day.
We love your stories!
SvarSletLater i'll be back to link up my story.
Thank you so much. I'll read as soon as I see it. Afraid to spoil my own writing, but today I'm curious.
SletMy story is over here.
Sletmessymimi: Read it. Loved it.
SletWhen the going gets tough, I stop writing and start reading and doing other things until inspiration hits. I like this week's words.
SvarSletThank you. Your comments are almost always put in the spam box :(
SletI found my own spam box today after a hint from Elephant's Child, there were 51 comments in there! Some were actual spam so I deleted those and published the rest.
SletMy post will be over here.
SvarSletI am going to look. Know it will be great.
SletA note on comments!
SvarSletToday two out of five comments were marked as spam. If your comments do not post immediately, please wait a bit before reposting. I will let your comments out of the box as soon as I see them, but I have to see them first.
Dang Blogger - I give feedback every time and encourage you to do the same.
And a special heads up to River. Blogger has also decided not to send me e-mail notifications when you comment, so your comments migth be in the box for sligthly longer compared to everybody else. And yes, I'm "feedbacking" every time ... hope it'll help eventually.
SletHere's my pathetic contribution to the tale weavers today:
SvarSletLast week my grocery bill was the size of the national debt. When I first glanced at the price tags, my impression was that there had been a misprint; however, that perception was quickly dispelled by the clerk. Well, many a tale of inflation is circulating the globe these days, and I'd love to tell Putin to go jump in the lake--or worse.
cleemckenzie: I think many of us have grocery bills of that size at the moment. And there is no lake deep enough, cold enough or dangerous enough for Putin. And he would pollute its waters.
SletPutin should investigate the depth of the Sahara desert.
SletIt's not a misprint, and it's sad. The whole state of the world is sad.
SletYes those seem to be universal sentiments for the moment. You used the words well.
SletThat is the story of everyone's grocery bill these days. Good story.
SletExcellent story for a very real problem the price of my bag of apples has doubled and gas (petrol) has gone through the roof.
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I will put my catch at my site. Will cite word source and let you know when.
SvarSletLooking forward to reading.
SletI don't often participate in Words for Wednesday, but sometimes I do. When it happens, it is always fun.
SvarSletYes it is. I love it when you do.
SletNice little challenge, Charlotte. ;-)
SvarSletIt's all a matter of perception.
To give an impression, a sample of his passion for security: On the height of what sometimes deemed him and others to be a movie, at the grocery he would, f.e., buy a pack of Benson & Hedges, fumble a lose bundle of £50 notes out of a pocket, put it on the counter, and leave with a boyish smile: "Rest for the coffee fund."
You guess the end of the tale. His life: tuppenny-ha'penny. Now great was but his wealth of debt.
Naked, he slowly walked onwards: the lake would welcome him ...
Some people are very easy come, easy go, with life and everything.
SletSurprising twist, good use of the words. Thanks.
SletSean Jeating: I am intrigued.
SletWhat stirred his decision to walk naked into the lake?
SletOh that's sad Sean, a very unexpected ending.
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I've learned not to settle on the ending from the get go. Sometimes the new ending is a much better one, when we let the characters decide what they want to do :)
SvarSletThe characters have a bad habit of interfering with my writing too.
SletDamyanti Biswas: I think those pieces where the characters call the shots are often much better.
SletI´m sadly not creative, so I only join when the words relate to something nice that happened in my real life - and then it´s easy :-)
SvarSletThese words should lend themselves to real life stories quite easily.
SletTERROR ON THE LAKE by Granny Annie
SvarSletThe movie company had installed massive security despite their heavy ever increasing debt. At one time their wealth had been world renown. They still gave an impression of success but it was only a false perception.
This tale of the haunted grocery on the lake could possibly help them regain their height on the charts. Perhaps it would reopen the passion people had for their past motion pictures. A sample was prepared. It would all depend on the number of views of their trailer. With Steven King as the producer it had to be a winner. Fingers crossed....
Sadly only 15 views...they were to go bankrupt.
Aw, I can think of some film companies I would be glad for that to happen to! Great take on the words.
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Oh, sad ending. I thought they were going to make it. Nice take on the prompts.
SletGranny Annie: A rare Steven King failure. Great story.
SletThanks for these challenging prompts.
SvarSletHere's my take on the words Charlotte. I really enjoyed writing this.
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Wealth was an alien concept to her. She’d read about it, see it in movies or ridiculous TV shows and pull her mind away. Monetary wealth of course, which seemed to be the only kind if you absorbed media.
But surely wasn’t there a better kind of wealth? The one immeasurable by possessions?
In the height of her passion with James, before the cancer, they had felt wealthy in the security of their life by the lake in the log cabin they had built by hand with trees sawn - and replaced – which were then dried and cut by hand. They grew their own food and fished in the lake and their little grocery list had been tiny.
Her perception of what happiness meant left a life long impression on her.
She and James left no footprints on the earth. If you saw where they once had lived you had a feeling that no one had ever lived there before. The cabin had descended into the earth from which it came.
Now, she made her living from telling the tale of herself and James and their experience in the wilderness. So very many wanted what they had and needed to know the means to get there.
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That is a beautiful take on the Words. Thank you!
SletEchoing Charlotte (MotherOwl): This is indeed beautiful. I hope her tale inspires lots and lots of people.
SletI agree, that is a beautiful story.
SletWisewebwoman: This sounds sad. But the prompts are well used.
SletHave a lovely day.
Brian watched War of the Worlds with Krissy in her car at the drive-in. if that didn’t win her heart, he would have to go with his great wealth, trying to impress Krissy. He tried the handhold, arm over the shoulder. No passion, not even a perception of love was sitting in that car.
SvarSletBrian was having no luck, but Cheetos might help. The height of passion wasn’t working if Cheetos did not. He had bought quality chocolate stuff at the Grocery on Lake Tale. but M&Ms were not effective. He handed part of them to Krissy with a lecherous smile.
Krissy sighed, pushed Brian out the car door, and drove off. Security could deal with him.
Drive-ins were part of the 50s in the rural area.
Susan Kane: Cheetos help with dates? I don't know about that. I think Brian sounds a bit cheap so Krissy is right to dump him.
SletHave a lovely day.
Susan Kane: I am so glad that Krissy went in her car, and could escape. And yes, I remember drive ins. They were here a lot later than the fifties.
SvarSletCheetos would spread orange cheese dust on hands, faces, and other places.
SvarSletHis great wealth only spread to Cheetos and M&Ms? What a cheapskate. Goodonya Krissy for kicking him to the curb.
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The Words for Wednesday prompts does encourage me to write but I guess my motivation isn't as great as yours.
SvarSletI'm a little late but here's my attempt using all the words from these prompts.
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Karen is deeply in debt to her readers for keeping their promise to purchase any book she releases even if there are years in between each book. They have impressed her with their keen perception of what her characters likes and dislikes and what they would do in this or that situation.
If she makes one of her characters carry around a worn grocery list, her faithful readers know it isn't a quirk but a magical paper that allows the character to see into the future. If a character buys a house beside a lake with deadly mermaids, they would know the character has a good reason to do so. A tale or two of false imprisonment for her characters would get the readers to hold protests outside her publishing house to free those characters.
Karen pretends this is all true even though it's all rubbish. She randomly put things in her stories because she thought they sounded exciting and creative. Her agent has told her it wouldn't matter because fans will go crazy no matter what she puts down.
Having already sold millions of copies of her first three books, Karen is at her height of popularity. Her security for the future is even more improved with a movie deal for her first book.
A month later, on a Wednesday morning, a film sample is sent to her house for her own viewing. The moment the main character and her sidekick appear on her large television, Karen starts to sob. They have altered her characters so that it no longer resembles what she has written.
Staring into her bowl of mint chocolate ice cream, Karen has a sudden revelation that she has no family, no friends, no one to tell her successes and failures to. All she have is wealth to buy her things and fans to praise or insult her. But she soon recovers by a call from her agent telling her she had sold more than two million copies of her fourth book and that another movie deal is coming.
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Thanks for the words. Have a lovely day.
I forgot to add the title to this little story: Success is a bowl of mint character ice cream
Sletp.s., I did put indents in the story but it doesn't show. I guess I should remember to use spaces instead of the tab button.
A correction: Success is a bowl of mint chocolate ice cream - chocolate not character, no idea why I wrote that.
SletHave a lovely day.
lissa: Poor Karen. Poor, poor Karen. What will she do when her fans discover the 'new best thing'.
Slet