Open Friday

Stairs in Tehran--Anon

Roses in concrete

Guerilla Mosaic Artist Now Filling Chicago Potholes with Flowers--Unknown

Like the rose that grew through concrete, beauty can be found in the most unlikely places. Smog sets the sky alight in the sunset, ivy covers a wall. But sometimes, it isn't enough to wait and hope for nature to turn something ugly into something beautiful. Sometimes, we must work the miracle ourselves.

Open Friday

Photo: B. R. Murray

 

Submit anything you want for today or ad a waterfall to your NaNoWriMo!

Puzzles!

Photo: B. R. Murray

Writing is just a different kind of puzzle. Write about a puzzle or puzzling situation. For those of you doing NaNoWriMo, try adding this to your novel.

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Marta Klonowska, shattered glass fox

Happy Halloween! Submit anything you'd like today

Fog

The Fog Rolls In by Anna May

Fog changes things. It swallows cities, cloaks hilltops, swirls around trees, presses up against windows. What do you see in a world full of silver mist?

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Photo: B. R. Murray

Let your imagination soar and write anything you'd like today. Happy writing!

Lost

Photo: B.R. Murray

Sometimes we loose things. Sometimes we get lost ourselves. And sometimes we even find what we lost. Write about such a time for today's prompt. Happy writing!

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 Photo: B. R. Murray

Submit whatever you'd like for today. Happy writing!

Fall

Baker's Fallen Monarchs

Some say that the world is most beautiful in spring, when all is new and green, with budded trees and the smell of melted snow. But there is grace in the fallen leaves, the colors of the sun on the ground, the bare branches still standing, like lines on ink across the sky.

write now about that type of beauty, the kind overlooked, the kind that returns year by year by year.

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Photo: B. R. Murray

Submit anything you'd like for today!

Hidden

Photo: B. R. Murray

High up in the tree, a cat hides from a dog, while green peaches hide among the green leaves. Write about something hidden today.

Ordinary

Photo credit: A. S. May

Even the most ordinary things, the most mundane, can be beautiful, if onlly you look at them the right way

I wish I may...

Teb Larson's Wish

What is the deepest wish of your heart? Or something smaller, a simple wish for something that seems insignificant and yet it matters to you? If you had the chance for wishes, what might they be? The prompt for today is wishing--on stars, on dandelion seeds, on eyelashes and the first ray of dawn.  

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Photo: B. R. Murray

Submit any story or poem you like today. Happy writing!

Quintessential Ideal

Photo: B. R. Murray

Some things just capture our imagination. For me, it's the birds lined up on the log. What about you? Pick something and write.

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Tahoe Sunset over Marriott Lodge by A. May

Submit anything you'd like for today

Calm

Rucker Lake, Anna May

Take a moment to be still as a summer lake--breathe in and out and in again. There is only you, and the world, and your words. Let them flow.

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Robin May's Castle at Lake Bled

Sometimes memories can blur around the edges, turning clear photos into painting. Sometimes the past lasts forever, but not in ways that we think it does. Share anything you would like.

Gardens

Gardens by Teb Larson

Sometimes it is the tiny things that capture our interest, a flower, a girl in the background, the tilt of pine needles. 

Open Friday

Photo: B. R. Murray

If there's been a story or poem just buzzing around your mind, this is the time to share it!

Water, Water Everywhere

 Photo: R. Parina

I served an LDS mission in the Philippines. When it rains very hard, the streets flood. This picture is a little unusual, though.  Usually the flood water was around our ankles. Except for this street that had really bad drainage and the water got up to our knees. So my companion and I headed over to get some pictures. Now I've given you one story, now you can give us another about flood, or anything with too much water.

Open Friday

Photo: B. R. Murray

Let your imagination soar and write something wonderful!

Rainbows

Photo: B. R. Murray

This is Upper Mesa Falls. To me, this picture is inspiring, so that's the prompt. Write a scene that could take place here, or about something else that inspires you.

Dances

Photo: B. R. Murray

Dancing is an inspiring part of cultures and traditions all over the world. For today, join the dancers and write a story or poem about dancing.

We are extending this post by request. Have fun writing about dancing!

Honeybee 4: Reflected

Photo: Michael Kittell's Salar de Uyuni

For this prompt, use the above photo or the word Reflected to inspire your writing!

Endless

Rhys Davies--World's End

The possibilities in words are endless, as vast as the sky. For this prompt, use the picture or the word Endless to inspire your short story or poem.

Happy Writing

Open Entry

 Photo: B. R. Murray

For our Open Entry we would like to invite you to post any story or poem you like. Got an idea that's been floating around begging to be written but you've never had the time for it? Well, maybe now is the time. The sky and your imagination are the limits.

Beginnings

Photo: B. R. Murray

As the first post on this blog, we would like to celebrate beginnings with you. We’ve been looking forward to the beginning of this blog for a long time. It’s been an idea like a seed, waiting to be planted. There’s something beautiful in a seed, knowing that something so small and seemingly lifeless has the ability to burst forth into flower! Well, this seed is bursting forth and we’re excited to see all the flowers it brings.

The prompt for this week is “Beginnings.”

So, to begin, write a short story or poem then sign up in the linky below.