Guidelines

A pic­ture is said to be worth a thou­sand words!

So every Sun­day, a pho­to­graph, draw­ing, paint­ing or other work of art is posted here in the hope that it will inspire writ­ers to draft fic­tion or non­fic­tion blog posts or arti­cles, short sto­ries, nov­els, poems, lim­er­icks, haiku or …

Per­haps the prompt enhances, explains, illus­trates or oth­er­wise dove­tails with a post, even though the post itself is not tech­ni­cally about or devoted to the prompt. That’s great, too.

All visual prompts are linked to their source and avail­able for you to post on your site, as well. Sim­ply hold your mouse pointer over the visual prompt and right-click. You will be able to both save a copy of the image and the source link so that you may pro­vide the cre­ator and owner with proper attribution.

The prompts are pub­lished every Sun­day morn­ing at mid­night (Pacific time), but par­tic­i­pants may post their work at any time, uti­liz­ing Mr. Linky to advise other par­tic­i­pants and vis­i­tors.  Write and pub­lish a post in response to any prompt at any time, as Mr. Linky will always be avail­able, and you can also track­back or leave a com­ment so that other par­tic­i­pants can find your lat­est writ­ing effort.

Note:  There is no word min­i­mum, limit or require­ment.  Stated dif­fer­ently, you need not write at least, a min­i­mum of, or not more than a thou­sand words.  The meme is derived from and inspired by the cliche — but not lim­ited by it!  In other words, there are no rules or con­straints.  Your writ­ing is lim­ited only by your imag­i­na­tion, cre­ativ­ity, time con­straints, the man­ner in which you are inspired by the prompts or other per­sonal fac­tors, but not by these guide­lines.

This site exists for the pur­pose of build­ing a com­mu­nity of sup­port­ive writ­ers who will get acquainted with one another, visit each oth­ers’ sites, engage in dis­cus­sion, offer con­struc­tive feed­back, and — most impor­tantly — encour­age each other in their writ­ing endeavors.

Ques­tions?  Com­ments?  Or would you like to sug­gest a writ­ing prompt?  You may reach me via the Con­tact Form!