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Blank Pages Online Salon:
Saturday November 20th at 5PM (live Zoom) Just because we're isolating doesn't mean we can't interact. This month's prompt: Writing By Writers Short Story Prompt This is a prompt from Writing By Writers. You can submit your work to them HERE for a chance to win a free Generative Workshop, or just share it with us on Saturday: "Your piece can be fiction, non fiction, memoir or poetry but it must contain the name of a continent, a horse's gait, the title or a lyric of a song from the 90's, a food you would want to eat for your last meal, the name of a gemstone, and a zodiac sign. 250 word limit." Or just bring your own one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon on Saturday at 5PM. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing.ZOOM LINK
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Blank Pages Online Salon:
Saturday October 16th at 5PM (live Zoom) Just because we're isolating doesn't mean we can't interact. This month's prompt: Animal Cameo Write a piece where an animal shows up unexpectedly. It may be integral to the piece, or just passing through. Bring a one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon on Saturday at 5PM. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing.ZOOM LINK Blank Pages Online Salon:
Saturday May 15th at 5PM (live Zoom) Just because we're isolating doesn't mean we can't interact. This month's prompt: The Secular Burning Bush Write about a miracle. What does it mean? What if no one saw it? Does it still count? What is a miracle anyway? Bring a one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon on Saturday at 5PM. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing.Zoom Link This month's prompt was sent to us by Gail from Australia:
Can home be a country you've never known? Some avenues to pursue: Would we recognize the US, or any country for that matter, if we were thrown 150 years into the past or future? If we didn't recognize and know that place, would it still be home? What does it even mean to call a place home? Bring a one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon on Saturday March 20th at 5PM. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing. Zoom Link Blank Pages Online February Salon: Body Parts
Saturday February 20th at 5PM (live Zoom) Just because we're isolating doesn't mean we can't interact. This month's prompt is: Consider a part of your physical self, like your hair, your voice, your hands, etc. and regard it as a separate entity, with its own sense of agency and intention. Bring a one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share at the Salon on Saturday at 5PM. We'll read to each other and discuss our work and talk about writing. Zoom Link This Month's Prompt: Your Happy Place
We'll get together on Saturday 1/16/21 at 5PM to share our work, chat about writing, and offer each other feedback and support. Bring a one-page (300 words or so) piece of poetry, short fiction, memoir, scenery, imagery, or other general writiness to share. Here's a ZOOM LINK. See you there! Tonight's Prompt: GRATITUDE Let's use that as our writing prompt this month and we'll get together on Saturday 11/21/20 at 5PM to share our work, chat about writing, and offer each other feedback and support. See you Saturday at 5PM. Nobel Laureate Louise Gluck tells us in her poem, "Nostos":
"We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory." Let's use that as our writing prompt this month and we'll get together on Saturday 10/17/20 at 5PM to share our work, chat about writing, and offer each other feedback and support. See you Saturday at 5PM. Let’s have fun with Clichés!
Here are a few classic plot clichés. Pick one and write a 100(ish) word story (or poem, or script, or dialogue, or infographic) to break the cliché mold. Submit your piece here (Leave a Reply) by 5PM on Saturday August 15th. Read your fellow writers’ work and comment. Feel free to tweak gender or plot or use another cliché or just make up your own thing. Mystery: John Smith is sitting in the park, feeding the squirrels, when a beautiful girl runs up, kisses him, and whispers, “Pretend you know me.” Science Fiction: It is the year 3030 and the Time Tourists are receiving their final instructions in the lounge of Time Travel Incorporated: “Remember,” says the guide, “do not try to bring back any souvenirs with you.” Young Adult: Johnnie Smith is thirteen-years-old today and he’s been hinting for weeks that what he wants for his birthday is a brand-new bicycle, but nobody even says “Happy Birthday” to him and he is sure that everybody has forgotten his birthday. Romance: Jane, the quiet, mousy, intelligent graphic designer mentions to her vivacious, buxom coworker that she’s interested in the new guy. The coworker says, “He looks like my kind of guy.” Romance Part 2: Two people meet. They dislike each other. They are thrust into a situation where they have to cooperate and subsequently fall madly in love, only to have a setback, which they overcome and fall even more madly in love. Welcome to the Blank Pages Virtual Salon, May 16-17, 2020
Pandemic Playlist, or, The Music of Our Lives, or, Whistling in the Dark In its own words, largehearted boy “is a literature and music website that explores that spot in the venn diagram where the two arts overlap.” The site features playlists that authors create for a book they wrote, with a brief explanation for, or riff on, each song. For this month’s salon, you have the choice to create a playlist of up to six songs that complement either a completed written work (your own or something personally significant), a project in progress, or the last six weeks of social distancing. Please tell us why, or tell us something. We're all ears. Submit a response between noon on Saturday, May 16 and midnight on Sunday, May 17. We miss you. |
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