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The Season of Love
Valentine's is in a few days and with it comes prompts and contests with love and romance as a theme. Not everyone feels the love, I know. So when entering a contest, follow the prompt but think about adding an interesting twist. You know that song, "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" , there's a bunch of ideas right there.
I tend to find plot twists and unalive my sweethearts. I toss them from hot air balloons, send them to get stranded with cannibals, and burn their vampire-ness in the sun. It doesn't always have to be hearts and flowers. I'm not saying don't use the typical themes but beware of cliches. Find something unique and heart-tugging.
In the end, the stories you write and activities you join will help you think of plenty of ideas to jot down and use later. If you think of other genres, there can be all kinds of romance in them. Like Muskrat Love , old-fashioned Love or some Crazy Love . Think outside the box of chocolates.
As always, Write On!
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Quote Prompt for February 2025:
"The devil is in the details."
— Proverb
Excerpt: “Welcome to our Northern Lights Sightseeing Tour!” said the captain as we left the small harbour. “Open your hearts to the flow of the universe!”
Excerpt: The delicate and perfectly formed saucer wondered what happened to her matching cup.
Excerpt: Friday nights at Ridgewood High were electric. The stadium pulsed with energy, the air thick with the scent of sweat, popcorn, and adrenaline. Maddie Jameson thrived in this world.
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Corbin, undocumented, and Kiara, a daughter of prominent citizens, share a last goodbye
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Excerpt: In a small Southern town where oak trees whispered secrets and the horizon stretched endlessly, two lives had intertwined at the sharp edge of circumstance. Corbin, the quiet dreamer who had built his life on borrowed time, had always lived with shadows.
Excerpt: Natasha clung to the wall, her fingers numb, limbs quivering. How long her husband planned to keep her down here was anybody’s guess. He had rigged a long rope and pulley, the one end clipped to the climber’s harness cinched around her waist, the other connecting somewhere down below her in complete darkness.
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This month's question: Do you enjoy anti-romancing a typical romance story? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's "Contests & Activities Newsletter (January 15, 2025)" question: Do you reread old space junk to retrieve ideas?
Beholden  : Do I read my own trash to retrieve ideas? You betcha!
tj wanderlust-words-in-motion  : I save a lot of ideas, but I seldom look back through them...
Jay O'Toole  : You mean like old sci-fi movies from the 1950s? I was going to ask about rewatching the original Star Trek series, but then started to think, “Right era, but definitely not junk.”
Mousethyme  : I am a pack rat; I keep everything. I have a bin marked "Pieces of String Too Small to Save". It started out as an envelope, grew to a folder, to a drawer, to a box, to a bin. When I have a lack of inspiration, it is my go to place to get a little bit of a spark.
HollisFrances : Not yet. I can't remember where I put it.
Amethyst Agape Angel  : Hey, that's today's Three Word Thursday image 
Yeah, sometimes I do. Usually it gets packed away in Google Docs which slide behind the newest ones.
TheBusmanPoet  : No but I watch it orbiting the Earth with my telescope every day.   
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