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Prompt & Link: “Second Chance”

February 21, 2008

9:00 AM Friday morning, February 22nd, 2008, on the U.S. west coast, is quickly approaching — so… here I am with a new Prompt!

This week’s, and the twenty third Writer’s Island prompt is: “Second Chance”.

As always, I don’t want to unduly influence you regarding how you approach this week’s prompt. Just ask yourself, what if you had a “Second Chance” — then please just tell us what that might mean to you. Stir our emotions!

•> This week I’m going to try something a bit different. This week there will be a second prompt. Every Friday here in the U.S., and perhaps world wide, the brand new movies open in the theaters. So I’m going to experiment with an extra prompt for a few weeks, one inspired by a current new movie. I’m calling this source of inspiration, the WI ‘Matinee Muse’.

vantage-point-movie-poster.jpg

We turn to the movie Vantage Point for our first ever ‘Matinee Muse’ prompt — and the prompt it inspires is: “Perspective”. See if that sparks anything for you. If we Islanders find the ‘Matinee Muse’ prompts enjoyable — they could become a regular weekly offering. <•

Feel free to use either, or both, of this week’s prompts — or use neither if you so choose. Whatever moves your soul this week is what we all want to read.

So, create your poem, prose, short story, essay, commentary, or whatever — and post it on your blog. Feel free to include recordings of you reading your work — and any photo, artwork, or graphic representation you feel is relevant.

When you have finished your piece, please return here to this post and place your link to your work as a comment — and as you know, just the link, not the piece.

Please realize there is no need to rush, this post will be open to receive your links for the entire week, leading up to the next prompt.

May this, and every week, find your muse in a friendly mood! We can’t wait to see what you write…

78 comments to “Prompt & Link: “Second Chance””

  1. The passions that fuel our spirits inevitably find their way back to us…. a self-reflective and personal post….

    Rebirth


  2. Two prompts this week! Excellent. Here’s my first on Second Chance:

    http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/second-chance


  3. Thanks! Rob, this is very timely. Second chance, that is!

    I will write theother one soon.

    http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/02/snooty-to-boot.html


  4. Okay, second prompt sorted. Here we go:

    http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/perspectives

    By the way, have I said how much I love these prompts?


  5. “What turns you on?”

    http://dewyknickers.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/turns/

    Rose

    xo


  6. ive been to bangkok 2-3 times already but a couple of weekends ago, me and my friend went there to explore the city. and just shoot everything.

    http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/02/escape.html

    now i love the place especially for a photo enthusiast like me.


  7. Hmm. this would work for both.

    I’ll see what else I can come up with. I like that this place jumps all week now!


  8. Second chance is up on my blog please everyone check it out.


  9. Greetings! My thoughts for the day. Titled: “One Chance” http://presentrat.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/writers-island-second-chance/


  10. And here’s mine …triggered by a post made by Keith -

    http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/02/no-second-chance.html


  11. Thank you for the prompt and the site!

    Mine:
    Faulting


  12. ok wanted to do something unconventional ..so second prompt first ;)…lol!!
    here is my contribution for the ‘matinee muse’
    hope u like it! :)

    http://thiswholenewworld.blogspot.com/2008/02/life-matter-of-perspective.html


  13. Greetings All!

    Here are eight lives and as many second chances: LIVES

    See you this weekend.


  14. http://jenshumbleopinion2.blogspot.com/2008/02/passion-second-chance-perspectivesunday.html

    three prompts rolled into one :D


  15. Liked the prompt. Here is my piece.Have a great weekend everybody!No second chances there! ;-)

    http://justamotheroftwo.blogspot.com/


  16. A Second Chance for which I’d freely trade my life… still!


  17. Ah - what fun! A Second Chance immediately following our Time Travel? This is quite the inward journey you’re taking us on, Rob!

    My piece is here - http://hedwyg.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/writers-island-second-chance/ .

    Have a great weekend, all!
    warriormare / hedwyg


  18. A sad post but appropriate to the prompt.

    http://scenesfromaslowmovingtrain.blogspot.com/2008/02/bookends.html


  19. Good Day Everyone!

    Here’s my take on Second Chance, From The Seed’s Perspective

    These are my collection of poems from my “Seed” series, with my “Seed” sketches I created in 1998.

    I wish you well.

    ~ Jeques


  20. It’s a Western, I guess…

    Second Chance Saloon


  21. Take two from here


  22. Here’s one for the “Perspective” prompt:

    Center, No Center


  23. Here is my submission for this week.
    http://myrtlebeachramblings.blogspot.com/


  24. http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/02/death.html


  25. Here is my Second Chance posting! Amazing, when you are doing some research on a topic, as I am right now, suddenly there can be “associations”! Enjoy!

    http://greyscaleterritory.blogspot.com/2008/02/second-chance-for-writers-island.html

    Smiles and Light


  26. Now my second posting for “Perspective”!

    Rob! Great idea having 2 prompts! Enjoyed them!

    http://greyscaleterritory.blogspot.com/2008/02/perspective-writers-island.html

    Smiles and Light


  27. Words & pictures are up …
    http://over-it.blogspot.com/2008/02/writers-island-second-chance.html


  28. Re perspective, I find that the movie Vantage Point illustrates it two ways: the movie itself and how the movie was made by the director and how its viewed by its audience. Check it out here


  29. i combined this with sunday scribblings…..
    second chance at passion


  30. A very literal response to the prompt from me this week:

    The Do-Over Button

    Thanks Rob.


  31. here’s mine:

    second chance


  32. i forgot to mention when i posted that i like the idea of two weekly prompts,, but i have to say i would prefer if they were issued on two separate days… just my thoughts….


  33. A proem of betrayal and forgiveness, dictated to me from the perspective of another. I look forward to reading everybody else’s later this week!

    http://slygly.blogspot.com/2008/02/betrayal.html


  34. …..so this is what I’ve come up with!

    http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/


  35. Both perpective and a second chance…

    If at First


  36. I have posted mine: Given a Second Chance? - Pay it Forward
    http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/writers-island-given-a-second-chance-pay-it-forward/


  37. I need help!!! I question whether the opportunity for a second chance is an invitation to trouble. Take a quick read and see if you have an opinion.


  38. Second chance: http://just-one-step-at-a-time.blogspot.com/2008/02/second-chances.html

    Perspective: http://sleepingdaisies.blogspot.com/2007/03/i-see-you-see.html
    (something I wrote last year).


  39. This story is based on my friend’s decision to separate from her husband. From her perspective the second chance was in relation to her own life and how she felt about herself.
    Hope you like it -

    http://selmainthecity.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/a-second-chance/


  40. Chances

    and

    Barricades


  41. nice idea of two prompts but could it be done on two eoparate days…gives addicted people like me tim eto channelise teh thoughts…

    My two-in-one

    http://myaalochane.blogspot.com/2008/02/all-matter-of-perspective.html


  42. thanks for the prompt.

    http://floydpittsley.blogspot.com/2008/02/second-chances-never-occur-without-some.html


  43. http://floydpittsley.blogspot.com/2008/02/second-chances-never-occur-without-some.html


  44. for the second prompt… my perspective about death

    http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/03/end.html :-)


  45. Here’s mine! :)

    http://extemporaneous.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/restraint-abandoned/

    Heather


  46. Hi all…my first time here…just started writing so I would love some feedback!

    http://wackyrandomrambles.blogspot.com/2008/02/writers-island-prompt-second-chances.html

    Jo Anne


  47. That was GREAT fun!!! I just wrote a truly upbeat piece……..NOT. I do hope you come to check it out and share your thoughts with me. Now I’m off to all the other posts! thanks……

    http://mayfairplace.blogspot.com/2008/02/channeling-mr-waits.html


  48. my first time writing a story, hope you like it.

    http://luluspetals.blogspot.com/2008/02/second-chance.html


  49. I am going to try both prompt. This first post was motivated by the first prompt, “Second Chance”.

    Of Choice And Chance by J.C. Montomery


  50. I just couldn’t sit out this one….a small poem to convey what I think, from a woman’s perpective.
    So that makes me taking on both prompts, doesn’t it?
    I’ve got it down here

    http://emotionalecology.blogspot.com/2008/02/papers-folded-screens-shut-down-fingers.html


  51. http://sidesteppingreal.blogspot.com/2008/02/second-chance.html

    Nice prompts!

    (Rob, can you send me the url button?)-ren


  52. this is my matinée“lovely corps” redux post on perspective….


  53. Here it goes

    http://virtualrambling.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/are-you-ready-to-give-it/


  54. Sometimes there are no second chances.

    http://myunclepepeksjournal.blogspot.com/2008/02/wi-wrp-one-for-two.html


  55. here’s my shot at second chance, words really cannot express my feelings on this.
    http://wordsfromanauthor.blogspot.com/2008/02/writers-island-prompt.html


  56. Brand new blog and first attempt at Writers Island.

    http://harmonioushorizons.blogspot.com/2008/02/writers-island-second-chance.html


  57. Here is my use of a second chance. Happy Tuesday all.


  58. Oops. It automatically added an old link. Here is the real link.
    http://sharala.blogspot.com/2008/02/time-travel.html


  59. ‘kay, I wrote a couple of 100 word fiction stories with a theme of “second chance”. You can find them here:
    Second Chance


  60. Mine is also a short fiction on the second chance theme.

    Just His Luck


  61. here is one for perspective… on perspectives of people within a house looking at distorted perspectives of a house; with a perspective rendering

    http://ascenderrisesabove.com/wordpress/?p=1156


  62. Here’s my take on second chance
    http://trailbrooklane.blogspot.com/2008/02/second-chance.html

    Thanks


  63. Here’s mine for “Second Chance”…I might post another for Perspective later on this week:

    http://creativekarina.blogspot.com/2008/02/writers-island-s-22-and-23.html


  64. Posting for perspective.

    Suppose this works in a way of speaking

    http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/02/jumping-from-cliff-to-prove-my-love.html


  65. better late than never… great prompt this week… also look forward to the new movie muse prompt as well… adding the new prompt just sorta fell into an interesting response for me… can’t wait to read everybody else…

    Photo


  66. Just a note to let a lot of you know that I cannot comment on your blogs because they only accept Blogger or Google accounts. It’s been very frustrating to read, type out my comment, then not be able to post it. But I am reading them. I just wish I could comment.


  67. censed&incensed</a


  68. Here is the second chance that I want:

    http://beansthought.blogspot.com/2008/02/prompt-second-chances.html


  69. Here is my perspective:

    http://beansthought.blogspot.com/2008/02/prompt-perspective.html


  70. This is mine for the week! http://happytiler.blogspot.com/2008/02/writers-island-second-chance.html


  71. Hi! This is my first writers Island post
    http://courtingdestiny.com/archives/2008/02/27/3ww-little-nibbler-writers-island-aging-friends-leaving-new-york-for-a-better-less-pricey-life/


  72. http://whispersinthewind.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/last-dance/


  73. Here’s to second chances:
    http://literallyinthemoment.blogspot.com/2008/02/crossroads-poem.html


  74. Here is my prompt on Second Chance.

    http://www.theliterarymouse.com/home/2008/2/26/writers-island-second-chance.html

    I hope to do one on Perspective before the prompts change!


  75. Woohoo! Nothing like squeezing in at the last minute.

    A New Outlook


  76. Just catching up on several weeks worth of writing this morning…

    http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/03/second-chance.html

    http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/03/perspective.html

    Thanks for being here. Liking the second prompt idea.


  77. I’m getting married on 3/22 to the most amazing woman I’ve ever met.
    This piece is from a fight we had.
    She somehow gave me that chance.

    http://meaning-and-balance.blogspot.com/2008/03/of-atonement.html


  78. I’m late, but using this prompt:

    http://www.mixedmetaphor.net/2008/03/19/the-letter-17/


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