Cafe Writing

July 20th, 2009, is the anniversary of the first moon landing. In honor of the occasion, and because I’m a total space nut, and have watched the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon, which dramatized the history of the Apollo missions, our theme from mid-July til mid-August (ahem SEPTEMBER) was SPACE.

Personally, I find inspiration when I look up at the stars and imagine. So do a lot of others, including those who’ve actually been out there, which is why our prompt quotations this month are all taken from the Space Poetry page, at the Encyclopedia Astronautica. Please visit the page for the complete text of the poems I’ve chosen.

Here are YOUR submissions:

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Option One: Timed Writing

1. When I was a kid…, by Jessie
2. When I Was a Kid, by Becca
3. When I Was a Kid, by Snack BPC

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Option Two: Seven Things

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Option Three: Pick Three

1. Musings on a Golden Eagle, by Gemma
2. The End of a Flight, by Niebla
3. Urban Warfare, by Tiel Aisha Ansari

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Option Four: Can You Picture That?

1. Through the Binoculars, by A~Lotus

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Option Five: Poetry

1. Unhallowed Ground, by Melanie BHD
2. Space, by Richard Wells
3. PV=nRT, by Tiel Aisha Ansari

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Option Six: Fiction

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Happy Writing, and Happy Stargazing

My home/work life has been killing me this summer, and I’ve been lax about this site. It ends now. I’m working on compiling the July/August list, and then will post new prompts that will go through October 16th.

Yes, I know, I haven’t given you new prompts. Sorry. Until four days ago was still dealing with personal medical matters.

Look for prompts this weekend.

No, really. I promise.

Lovely, talented CafeWriters, I’ve had some heavy personal stuff going on in the last couple of weeks, and I’m having trouble finding my OWN inspiration right now. I’m extending the Milne prompts through the end of June.

As a teaser, however, the theme for July will be SPACE (in honor of the eclipse on the 22nd), and the theme for AUGUST (which is MY month, but I’ll happily share with others who were born in it) will have something to do with FIRE.

If you have photos or quotations you’d like to suggest for either of those themes, comment on this post.

If you’d care to write to some more Milne prompts scroll to the next entry, please.

Thank you all for your patience and participation.

– Miss Meliss

My 14YO chihuahua, Zorro, started coughing blood and had to be put down on Sunday the 22nd, so I pretty much spent last week hiding from the world. He was totally a child-substitute (I love my other dogs, but we don’t have the same bond.)

February participants page will go up this week, and March project will open by the end of Sunday.