I just saw you posted two in a row! Did I actually miss a whole week?! I am so sorry... I haven't been the best participant lately. I was going to catch up tonight... but a few unusual happenings later, sleep has claimed first priority. Thankfully, I will have several free hours tomorrow!

Story Prompt #21: Think of a unique or unbelievable thing that happened in your own life. Now have it, or something similar, happen in your story. Truth is often stranger than fiction!

You are doing fine. I was a couple prompts behind and wanted to move Jimmie forward.

I may take a pass on this one, better for me not to let my mind wander sometimes. Here's the true version, though. And yes, I have shared it with my wife.

Some years ago I was a scuba diver. Some of my dive buddies were at a local river Sunday. After church I showed up, suited up while they were taking a break, and then wandered waist deep into the water. A couple of my friends, John and Chris, were standing on the shore. They were talking about sports; I listened politely since I'm not a sportsy guy.

Then this attractive young lady from a different dive group walks into the water, stands right beside me, and begins to disrobe.

I'm not sure what I said but I jumped right into the sports conversation about touch downs, strikeouts, and whatever other sports words I could remember, while staring at Chris and John.

Fortunately, the lady had something on under her dive suit. I think, anyway. My eyes stayed on Chris and John.

Story Prompt #22: Speak of deep loss.

Wanted to get this in early; I'll be off-line for a few days.

Ooh... That`s a tough one.

And yes feel free to take the previous prompt in a different direction...

I sort of brought it around, given another circumstance. And worked on the beginning of loss.

Are we talking about a personal loss, or - say someone lost in the future?

Worked on discussing a color... Didn't get to the color, but worked on keeping the scenery a bit more visible. String camp stole my brain...

Story Prompt #23 Can your character sing? (It had to be done... )



We've been pretty flexible. I interpreted it as a loss that hurt deeply. Being lost is a slightly different verb form, but maybe the loss is that a fellow character is lost. And I'm fairly certain Domicile won't mind if you stretch the prompt to fit your story. The whole purpose of this is to spark inspiration, and help you incorporate a greater variety of elements.

What she said. Not sure who Domicile is.

Listening to "Snoopy and the Red Baron".

That would be Domici with the ‘help’ of an AUTOCORRECT filter.
I just love it when my iPad changes words to what I really meant to say instead of what I typed.

Story Prompt #24: Deal with illness.

Says the guy recovering from a bad cold and a full hours compressed work week.

I'm still working on the singing bit.

Yep, sorry about that, Domici! Hopefully my phone isn't altering anything in strange ways today... at this hour it's hard to tell.

I'm at another full season (hopefully lasting only a few weeks more) where I can't focus on my writing as much, but I'm looking for the right day to insert it back in.

Story Prompt #25: Reveal a hidden motive, or that one exists.

I've fallen drastically behind, and the next few months are going to be hectic. How would you feel about putting this on hiatus for a bit?

*Mentally runs through the next week of filming, and ensuing six weeks of mostly travel* Sounds good! When would you like to reconvene? And maybe when we do, we can simply work on catching up.

At this point, I just don't know. I'm supposed to start writing Book 5 in a week, and need to either edit Book 2 or write Book 6 by the end of the year. And publish Book 1 in a couple weeks. And prepare for a programming exam. And run shooting matches. And put together a marksmanship class. And, somehow, maybe, retain the minute amount of sanity that remains...

Retaining sanity... that's the hardest thing sometimes when you're working toward a deadline! Praying you accomplish everything well and on-time!