Gautami is the recipient of $10 at Amazon.com, as a thank you for being so supportive of this site, both as a reader and a writer.
Not only are there many contributions, but our site is also mentioned in Gautami’s blog Rooted.
Please note that these “prizes” are not something anyone can compete for. I [...]
Well, my friends, today marks the last day of October, and as such, the last day (you have until midnight central time) to submit anything for this month’s posts.
It’s also the day to congratulate Jeremy. By posting the first contribution he won $10 at Amazon.com. No, there won’t be a prize every month, and no, [...]
Each month’s project will go from the first to the last of that month. From the time a project (list of prompts) is posted, participants have thirty (or thirty-one, and sometimes twenty-eight) days to complete one or more of the options offered.
Originally, prompts were posted on the 15th, but an informal poll of the original [...]
Imagine: you’re sitting in cafe, and a brilliant idea for a story, an essay, a poem - whatever - pops into your mind. You reach for your notebook, but realize you left it in the car, or at home. A napkin is handy, and you do have a pen, so you write on that, or [...]
In the beginning, there was the Alchera Project, a monthly offering of writing prompts ranging from fiction to essays, from poetry, to lists. It was run by Laurie Murray, and it was wonderful.
It died in December, 2006.
Almost a year later, I offer something similar. Once a month I’ll post a selection of prompts. Participants [...]