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!

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.
 
 

Welcome to the Blank Pages Virtual Salon!
 
Submit and respond from Saturday April 18th to Midnight Sunday April 19th
 
Given the continued constraints regarding social gatherings and interaction, we’re once again moving this show to the Blog with a prompt. We’re thinking about the world coming alive and this gorgeous spring we're experiencing (some of us through a window), and what nature means to us individually.

Here's your prompt:  What element of nature would you choose as an emblem for yourself?  

Enter your responses in the Comments section in any fashion you like: a poem, a stream of consciousness riff, a piece of flash fiction, an essay, etc. And don't forget to respond to your fellow writers—this is a conversation.
 
The Virtual Salon is Asynchronous, meaning we won't all be present at the same time. Come back over the course of the next day-and-a-half and read and respond to the ongoing conversation.