• birdbakht joined the group Group logoWrite Now 12 months ago

  • Abra posted an update in the group Group logoWrite Now 1 year, 1 month ago

    Right now you’re the only thing on my mind, and it’s kind of a shame to be honest. I should just be laying next to you right now. Wrap your arm around my shoulder and pull me in tighter. Let’s go for another stroll.

  • Saronai posted an update in the group Group logoWrite Now: 1 year, 8 months ago

    I’m converting this group back into a listing as it was intended. I know a few popped on and asked about prompts, I tried a few with no responses.

    So, if you’re a writer using oneword to practice writing as the desc says, feel free to join the list and follow others on the list if you like there 60 second stories :)

  • Saronai posted an update in the group Group logoWrite Now: 1 year, 10 months ago

    Write the life story of a Write Now member’s portrait. Pick any one you like.

  • Saronai posted an update in the group Group logoWrite Now: 1 year, 10 months ago

    Welcome!

  • Saronai posted an update in the group Group logoWrite Now: 1 year, 11 months ago

    Today’s exercise…use the last line of the previous poster as your first line. This is a bit different from cowriting a story together as you are only using the last line as your first line rather than continuing the whole story.

    Try to keep it to a paragraph or two :D However, after a few others have gone, you may go again if you like ^_^

    I’ll just start using my one word post for today. I may let this one run for a few days or so in case the rest of you wanting prompts are not daily visitors.
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    The foggy grey snake twisted upward from her cigarette just before she tapped it light and careless into the sidewalk. The ashes flitted downward before catching up on a breeze and into my dog’s eyes. He yelped and stumbled backward into the strip of grass.

  • Saronai posted an update in the group Group logoWrite Now: 1 year, 11 months ago

    Just updating to welcome more new people. This is very much a freeform group so anything you like to share with the rest of us is most welcome. I don’t really plan any structure, I just nailed up the board so to speak hehe

    I think the idea of sharing some prompts daily is very nice. As for being a redundant reiteration, I confess when I created the group I really thought it would automatically collect all of our posts together so we’d all have a one stop place to check out fiction-oriented one word bits from others.

    I could offer to do a few things as well if you all like, participation in them would be completely voluntary of course.

    Since so many have become interested after all and this can’t be a digest for sharing our one word stories without extra postings and effort, I could do something different each day, with responses being put in the updates by whomever is willing to participate.

    I invite any of you that want to prompt to do so as well :D

    • I’m very wordy.

      Essential message of this post: I thought I was creating a digest of one word story responses.

      I’ll check back more regularly and do something with it now.

  • David Simba Douglas posted an update in the group Group logoWrite Now: 1 year, 12 months ago

    This time there would be no witnesses. No evidence. No body. No victim. They wouldn’t know I hit them until I was dead and gone and long out of this world. The deeper people try and hide things from me the harder they are to find, usually, by definition. Dirk Horowitz leafed through the IKEA catalogue. At the table next door endemic poverty from years of imperialism and capitalist neglect ordered an extra large double guru burger with bacon and Dirk threw up in his mouth. He swallowed and banged his head on the counter. It was like this in every burger guru and cola king across the country, cheap mass produced photocopies of English 101 characters given a few basic instructions and let loose on the world at large, and how she screamed. He heard her at night, mother Gaia weeping next door to the abandon quartz mine, she balled her eyes out and flooded the tunnels, every night, nonstop incessantly, crying. Howling, at times throwing glass and silver and chunks of buildings and cars around like toys. So tonight he would find those crass neighbors dumping shit into Gaia’s backyard and give them the old jackrabbit smile.
    [First line from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams]

  • David Simba Douglas posted an update in the group Group logoWrite Now: 1 year, 12 months ago

    http://www.stylist.co.uk/life/the-best-100-opening-lines-from-books

    Has the opening lines.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/oct/12/features.fiction?INTCMP=SRCH

    A slightly different perspective on the century list. Should be enough for everyone to find something they like to post. I assume 1st drafts are kosher.

  • avonlea posted an update in the group Group logoWrite Now: 1 year, 12 months ago

    I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. That is. . .
    - Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1948)

    (If you’re looking for examples. . .)

    I recently stumbled upon a Web site that lists some of the finest opening lines from books, which I think many of us would find enjoyable to skim through (just Google ”the-best-100-opening-lines-from-books”–it’s the first link you’ll see).

    So I was thinking. . .

    Maybe we could take the opening lines from some of our favorite novels and build our own writing from there. Not too much–just a short exercise of about a paragraph or so–the objective would be to develop an intriguing opening just by working off a sentence or two. If anyone would like, they may submit what they came up with here.

    Just a thought. :D

  • L. A. Smith posted an update in the group Group logoWrite Now: 2 years ago

    If this is to practice our writing, perhaps we should find some exercises to stimulate the group to prevent it from being a redundant reiteration of oneword.com itself.

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