We’ve all heard the aphorism, “A stitch in time saves nine.” For this week’s Thursday Threesome, we’re breaking it apart.

Onesome- A Stitch: Do you sew? How about embroidery, cross-stitching, needlepoint, or even knitting. What’s your fiber-art fetish?

Twosome- in Time: How do you keep track of time? Are you digital or analog? Smartphone, PDA, or day planner?

Threesome- saves Nine: Think back to when you were nine years old. What one thing do you remember most about that year?

Leave your answer on your own blog, with a link-back, or answer in comments. And don’t forget to participate in the October Project if you haven’t already.

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We’ve got permission from one of the original hosts of the Thursday Threesome to use the name, and to steal borrow from their archives. To help relaunch CafeWriting, we’ve chosen a Threesome from May, 2003.

The Thursday Threesome

Come have a seat and chat a while. Coffee, tea or me?

Onesome- Coffee: Do you drink coffee? If so, do you ask for brewed or do you prefer the fancy espresso drinks? What’s your flavor?

Twosome- Tea: Do you drink tea? Hot or iced? Regular, herbal or flavored?

Threesome- Or Me? Ok, not really me! Seriously, what’s your favorite beverage? Alcoholic or non, healthy or not?

Leave your answer on your own blog, with a link-back, or answer in comments. And don’t forget to participate in the October Project if you haven’t already.

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This project will remain open until October 31st. The Next project will open on November 1st.

Option 1: Picture It

October 2011: Harvest | Source: istockphoto.com

Use the image above to inspire a piece of writing. Your piece can be fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, or any other form that suits you. (Please remember to copy the image to your own server.)

Option 2: Poetry

For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
~Edwin Way Teale

Use the quotation above to inspire a poem about gathering together or scattering abroad.

Option 3: Pick Three

October gave a party;
The leaves by hundreds came -
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
Professor Wind the band.
~George Cooper, ‘October’s Party’

Use at least three of the following words from the quotation above to create a short piece of writing in whatever form (poetry, prose, fiction) you wish:
October, party, hundreds, leaves, dancing, wind, band, carpet

Option 4: Tell Me a Story

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
~e.e. cummings

Use the quotation above as inspiration and tell me a story about a literal or figurative storm.

Option 5: Seven Things

Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
~Carol Bishop Hipps

In improvisation, one of our exercises is a game called “Seven Things,” in which we go around in a circle giving each other the challenge, “Give me seven things that [whatever].” We are not going to go around in a circle here, but if you’re drawn to lists, this prompt is for you.

Give me seven of your favorite things about Autumn..

Option 6: Short and Tweet

Oh how we love pumpkin season. You did know this gourd-ish squash has its own season, right? Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin…. We anxiously anticipate it every year.
~Trader Joe’s Fearless Flyer, October 2010

Do you have a Twitter account? If so, use the quotation above as inspiration, and tweet about why you do or don’t celebrate “pumpkin season”: @cw_barista.

Bonus Option: Time It: For an extra challenge, set a timer for ten minutes when you sit down to respond to one of these prompts, and stop writing when the timer goes off!

This event ended 3 months, 4 days, 19 hours, 51 minutes, 57 seconds ago.

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Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these
Of mid September; through the still warm noon
The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune
Than ever in the summer; from the trees
Dusk-green, and murmuring inward melodies,
No leaf drops yet; only our evenings swoon
In pallid skies more suddenly, and the moon
Finds motionless white mists out on the leas.
– Edward Dowden, In September

Pick at least three of the following nine words, and write a paragraph, scene, flash-fic, essay, blog entry or poem using them. It’s fine to change tenses, or pluralize if you want to, but please bold the words you choose.

drop, evenings, glad, mist, motionless, murmur, pallid, rivulets, swoon

1. Knight on Bended Knees, to His Beloved, by Leonard Blumfeld
2. Nine Words, by Janet
3. Carcosan Idyll, by Tiel Aisha Ansari
4. All the Women in the Family, by Melissa A. Bartell
5. Autumn of Life, by Medhini
6. A Rainy Evening, by Sumi
7. The First Drizzle, by Anu

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Option Two: Can You Picture That?

Use the following photo to inspire an entry in any form – fiction, essay, poetry…

Photo Credit: Goldmund at iStockPhoto

1. Latter-Day Variant of an Older Story, by Niebla

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Option Three: Poetry

silence
seeks the center
of every tree and rock,
that thing we hold closest-
the end of songs
– Michael McClintock, Letters in Time

Using the quotation above as your inspiration, write a poem (any form is fine) about silence.

1. Pleistocene Remnant, by Tiel Aisha Ansari
2. Silence, Take 1 (and Take 2), by Mike
3. Addie Bundren’s Posthumous Sermon, by the scôp
4. Bread Rises, by Richard
5. Fisherman, by Gordon

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Option Four: Fiction

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.
– Willa Cather

Write a flash-fic, scene, or short story involving either standing in an orchard.

1. The Old Orchard, by Bobbi
2. Herakles in the Hesperides, by Tiel Aisha Ansari

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Option Five: Timed Writing

He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
– Henry James

Take nine minutes (use all nine, but don’t go over), and write on the subject of being outside of everything.
This is a timed exercise and it’s expected that it won’t be perfect. Any format – fiction, essay, verse – is acceptable.

1. Being outside of everything (defined), by A~Lotus

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Option Six: Seven Things

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
– Samuel Johnson

In improvisation, one of our exercises is a game called “Seven Things,” in which we go around in a circle giving each other the challenge, “Give me seven things that [whatever].” We are not going to go around in a circle here, but if you’re drawn to lists, this prompt is for you.

So, give me seven tastes or scents that define autumn for you.

You are not required to provide any explanations, but it’s more interesting for readers if you do.

1. Seven Tastes or Scents That Define Autumn, by Janet
2. Feels Like Fall, by MissMeliss
3. Welcome, Autumn, by Bobbi
4. Seven Tastes/Scents of Autumn, by Michelle
5. Seven Tastes or Scents that Define Autumn for Me, by Tamy
6. Seven Things, by Sister AE
7. Seven Tastes and Scents of Autumn, by Mike

Don’t forget to comment on this post with the direct link, title, and selected option for each piece you create. Happy Writing!

Prompt #1: Poetry

1. For Zorro, by Melissa
2. Haiku, by Ghost
3. Rationality in a 3 Ring Circus, by sister AE

Prompt #2: Fiction

1. Books, Lies, and Costumes, by Wakela
2. Smoke and Mirrors, by Wintermutt
3. Paw Prints, by Melissa
4. Story Idea, by Ghost

Prompt #3: Timed Writing

1. Class, by Mike
2. Timed Writing, by Becca

Prompt #4: Seven Things

1. Seven Things About October, by Becca
2. Seven Things about October, by Jodi
3. Seven Things I Associate with October, by Janet
4. October – Seven Things, by Jeremy
5. October 7, by Sara
6. Octoberish, by MissMeliss
7. The October Seven, by Rana
8. 7 October Things, by Ghost
9. Seven Little Things About October, by Susan
10. 7 October Things, by sister AE

Prompt #5: Pick Three

1. The Nightmare, by sister AE
2. weeds of war, by Gautami Tripthy
3. Untitled, by MaryEllen (at the bottom of Janet’s post.)
4. A Sophia Moment, by Jeremy
5. Frogs, by Melody
6. Fog, by Sara

Prompt #6: Can You Picture That?

1. Masks, by Jeremy