Words for Wednesday :: Updated & IWSG Question of the Month

Once again I'm only bringing the prompts. Writing might happen.
Yay! Writing DID happen!

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The Word for Wednesday challenge started a long time ago. Now it has turned into a movable feast with Elephant's Child as our coordinator; and the Words are provided by a number of people.
The prompts for September are provided by Sean Jeating and can be found @ Elephant's Child.

The general idea of this challenge is to make us write. Poems, stories, subtitles, tales, jokes, haiku, crosswords, puns, ... you're the boss.
Use all Words, some Words, one Word, or even none of them if that makes your creative juices flow. Anything goes, only please nothing rude or vulgar.

 It is also a challenge, where the old saying "The more the merrier" holds true.

So Please, remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples' stories. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need encouragement.

This week's prompts are:
Catch
Hurry 
Panting 
Running 
Train
       and/or
 Forehead 
Minutes 
Saved 
Seats 
Sweat

A short story, nothing special, but I'm writing again, yay!

Susan had to catch the train to get to Unicorn Farm in time. She was in a hurry because her bike had had a flat tyre and now she was panting, running towards the railway station. She could see the train still standing at the platform, she validated her ticket and ran on. The man with the whistle was ready to announce the departure. As he saw Susan coming panting along, he lowered the whistle and smiled at her. As soon as she was aboard, he blew the whistle, and the train slowly sat in motion, chug-chugging along. Susan rested her forehead against the cool window pane, her mouth tasted blood and her breathing was laboured. It took several minutes before she noticed that she was not alone in the compartment. The conductor that has saved her from being too late had come in and was ready to look at her ticket. She handed him her ticket, and was told that she would have to move to another compartment, as those seats were reserved. Susan thanked him for his kindness in waiting and picked up her small suitcase in her sweaty grip and moved to the next compartment. She wondered why anybody wanted to reserve seats on this train, and decided to spy on them to see who did this.

This story might be continued

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Today is also the first Wednesday of the month. Time for the monthly Question from the Insecure Writers' Support Group

October 2 question - Ghost stories fit right in during this month. What's your favourite classic ghostly tale? Tell us about it and why it sends chills up your spine.

My answer - I do not like scary ghost stories, and my favourite ghosts are Casper the Friendly Ghost, Nearly Headless Nick, and Persephone, called Percy, from my Susan-story.
Actually I wrote a story about Percy and other ghosts a year ago. Susan here expresses my view on ghosts in a very fine way.

InkTober

Today is October 1st. Today InkTober begins. I know I said that I was tired of them, and that they should please post their InkTober52 prompts before I considered doing it again. But ... writing and drawing and knitting are three ways for me to keep my sainty sometimes. I have found a new Facebook group, 365 days of drawing prompts". but well Facebook and me are not the best of friends either.
With this post at least I am going to post the InkTober prompts, then maybe I'll draw some of them, maybe only one or two, maybe even none. But at least I did something ;)

As I cannot read white on black, I inverted the colour sceme.

We're still trying to find our legs after the loss of granddad. The burial will happen Friday, and Sunday friends and family will all have left us again. Then I hope to slowly find my way back.

    I dag er det den første oktober, og altså den første dag af InkTober-udfordringen. Jeg ved godt, at jeg fortalte at jeg var træt af dem, og at de værsågod skulle slå deres InkTober52 stikord for de seneste par år op, før jeg gad have noget med dem at gøre igen.
    Men  ... det at skrive, tegne og strikke gør underværker for mit mentale helbred, og godt nok har jeg fundet en ny udfordring, nemlig "365 days of drawing prompts" på Facebook - de minder meget om mit elskede Simple Daily Drawing som det var - men altså jeg er ikke god til Facebook.
     Sp i det mindste kommer stikordene her, måske tegner jeg nogle af dem, måske et par stykker, måske flere, måske slet ingen. Men nu har jeg da i det mindste gjort noget.
     Og eftersom jeg ikke kan læse hvidt på sort, har jeg inverteret farverne.

Vi er stadig i gang med at finde vores ben efter tabet af farfar. Begravelsen er på fredag, og efter at familie og venner igen er taget hjem søndag, sker der nok lidt mere.

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Inktober rules:

1) Make a drawing in ink (you can do a pencil under-drawing if you want).

2) Post it *

3) Hashtag it with #inktober and #inktober2024

4) Repeat

Note: you can do it daily, or go the half-marathon route and post every other day, or just do the 5K and post once a week. What ever you decide, just be consistent with it. Inktober is about growing and improving and forming positive habits, so the more you’re consistent the better.

That's it! Now go make something beautiful.

*Post it on any social media account you want or just post it on your refrigerator. The point is to share your art with someone.

- If I do, the drawings will be marked as Completed and posted (at a later date perhaps) on my dedicated drawing blog