9:00 AM Friday morning, February 29th, 2008, on the U.S. west coast, is quickly approaching — so… here I am with a new Prompt!
This week’s, and the twenty fourth Writer’s Island prompt is: “Empowered”.
As always, I don’t want to unduly influence your interpretation of this week’s prompt. Simply reflect on “Empowered” — then please share with us what that inspires in you. Move us with your words!
••> This week, for our second bit of inspiration, we turn to the new movie release, The Other Boleyn Girl, as the source of our second ever ‘Matinee Muse’ prompt — and the prompt it inspires is: “Rivalry”. See if that sparks anything for you.

As I wrote last week regarding this ‘extra’ weekly prompt; if we respond to these ‘Matinee Muse’ prompts — they may 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 you this week, and every week, find your muse most empowering! We can’t wait to see what you write…


68 Comments
February 29, 2008 at 4:31 am
Fully empowered. #4
February 29, 2008 at 5:41 am
sometimes in life, we need a few setbacks to make us stronger…to empower us…to help us go on strong and steady!
here is my contribution to the prompt ‘empowered’
http://lifeofpri.blogspot.com/2008/02/empowered.html
take care, one and all!
February 29, 2008 at 6:28 am
It felt quite empowering writing this one
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/on-empowerment
February 29, 2008 at 8:16 am
Empowerment … origins???
http://over-it.blogspot.com/2008/02/writers-island-empowerment.html
February 29, 2008 at 8:39 am
With my mind which has gone blank, I manage to write for empowering.
If it was only that easy?
Click here
February 29, 2008 at 9:17 am
Here’s mine…I will probably do one more this week, but for now please check me out below -
http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/02/hope.html
February 29, 2008 at 9:48 am
Well, I decided to go for the additional prompt – rivalry
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/rivalry/
February 29, 2008 at 10:32 am
One of my favorite words…empowerment. This post is about the empowerment we give ourselves through the usage of words:
Empowering Through Words
February 29, 2008 at 10:57 am
Great choice! Here’s mine:
Empowered
February 29, 2008 at 11:23 am
Here’s my empowered-humourous post…hoping to take up the other prompt later! I love having two prompts!
http://jenshumbleopinion2.blogspot.com/2008/02/empoweredwriters-island.html
February 29, 2008 at 11:49 am
Here’s one. I’m going to do another for Monday’s Poetry Train, so stay tuned.
February 29, 2008 at 12:23 pm
http://presentrat.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/empowerment/
February 29, 2008 at 12:39 pm
EMPOWERED, here!
http://myunclepepeksjournal.blogspot.com/2008/02/wi-empowerment.html
February 29, 2008 at 12:45 pm
A short story called “Sun Glare” not directly prompted by the words, but look deeper.
February 29, 2008 at 12:45 pm
http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/lost-in-time/
So deep you’d have to guess at the link.
February 29, 2008 at 7:56 pm
My take on Empowered
Declaration
February 29, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Relinquishing Self-delusions of Control
February 29, 2008 at 8:45 pm
A sudden burst of thought and I combined the two prompts of “Empowered” and “Rivalry”. Hope you enjoy!
http://greyscaleterritory.blogspot.com/2008/03/empowered-and-rivalry-for-writers.html
Smiles and Light
February 29, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Rivalry
Who knows what evil…
SMALL WORLD
February 29, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Social Influences: the doom of empowerment
I hope you enjoy this slice out of my life at
http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/social-influence-the-doom-of-empowerment/
February 29, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Seduction
February 29, 2008 at 11:54 pm
My take on empowerment
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/disillusioned-by-empowerment/
March 1, 2008 at 12:17 am
Here’s a post on how running empowers me….
http://chefdruck.blogspot.com/search/label/running
March 1, 2008 at 3:05 am
Empowered
March 1, 2008 at 5:01 am
empowered by mother’s love…
http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/02/mama.html
March 1, 2008 at 8:23 am
http://mayfairplace.blogspot.com/2008/03/looking-around.html
I don’t have a freakin’ clue where this little piece came from……….it is what it is.
enjoy your weekend folks!
March 1, 2008 at 9:21 am
http://parisparfait.typepad.com/paris_parfait/2008/03/empowered.html
I wrote a poem about this ages ago; today it was in the news again, which inspired this poem to fit the prompt.
March 1, 2008 at 10:26 am
Mangekyo
March 1, 2008 at 11:40 am
Rivalry – empowered vs. impaired. #8
March 1, 2008 at 12:58 pm
i have been waging war with myself this week… so this is the best i could come up with….
inner rivalry
March 1, 2008 at 1:08 pm
A – MUSE – ing prompt!
Here’s my entry:
http://nickersandinkblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/rival-revival-spry-sprite-of-night-that.html
March 1, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Thanks for the prompt! Here’s mine…
Once over the Rubicon
March 1, 2008 at 5:12 pm
You’ve got me feeling VERY empowered ( I’m just hoping this empowered feeling will last till monday morning) :/
http://luluspetals.blogspot.com/2008/03/empowered.html
March 1, 2008 at 5:56 pm
http://sleepingdaisies.blogspot.com/2008/03/rivalry-writers-island-prompt.html
March 1, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Thanks for empowering me to write this: Empowered Haiku.
March 1, 2008 at 11:29 pm
_+Empowered
I felt motivated to respond to this prompt. And, agree that sometimes when life throws you a curve ball, … the most beautiful things come out of what you do next.
March 2, 2008 at 4:04 am
Empowering love. #9
March 2, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Hello Islanders!
Well, you know what? I have a story to tell you. And this is my story. Please visit my web nook to see how an unusual rivalry empowered me to Taking Form
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
March 2, 2008 at 12:31 pm
What a great prompt! I can’t wait to read!
http://creativespiritfaery.typepad.com/creative_faery/2008/03/empowerment.html
March 2, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Hi everyone! Great topic — it made for
a fun Sunday, Rob!
http://herenowsunflower.blogspot.com/2008/03/writers-island-empowered.html
March 2, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I’ve produced a dollop of rivalry with a droplet of empowerment mixed in for good measure!
http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/
March 2, 2008 at 7:56 pm
wanted to write so many other things but ended up with this…
http://ontheprompt.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-still-remember-that-trip-in-bus-when.html
March 2, 2008 at 9:49 pm
for the second prompt. its a rivalry of sort (family)
http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/04/crash.html
March 2, 2008 at 10:40 pm
http://forgetfulone.blogspot.com/2008/03/empowerment-and-sibling-rivalry.html
I wrote about both topics.
March 2, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Some of you may have seen this before, but it seems relevant to the “empowerment” prompt…
and what is power
March 3, 2008 at 2:48 am
While walking along the story called marraige…these lines just came up and thought it was apt for this prompt..check it here
http://emotionalecology.blogspot.com/2008/03/trust-empowers.html
March 3, 2008 at 3:23 am
Time for this week’s Matinee Muse prompt, I think. Let’s inject a bit of rivalry into the proceedings
http://beyondtheblog.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/on-rivalry
March 3, 2008 at 9:35 am
here’s mine http://virtualrambling.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/empowered/
March 3, 2008 at 10:16 am
Of the two, I chose “Rivalry”
my poem
March 3, 2008 at 10:19 am
Here is my poem prompted by Empowered
http://1poet4man.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/its-a-shame-we-are-not-as-empowered-as-children/
March 3, 2008 at 11:11 am
Here’s a second one.
March 3, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Here is mine
- Empowered
March 3, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Hello,
This is my first “Prompt and Link”. I promised Rob Kistner, so here it is!!!
http://1verse.blogspot.com/2008/03/empowered-prompt-and-link-for-writers.html
March 3, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Personal empowerment (and a strong pair of shoes) can be found here:
http://cdeliascarpitti.blogspot.com/2008/03/standing-tall-you-gain-strength-courage.html
March 3, 2008 at 7:36 pm
It’s just little, but…
Hopeless Rivalry
March 3, 2008 at 9:23 pm
http://extemporaneous.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/empowered/
Went an interesting way for me!
Heather
March 3, 2008 at 10:49 pm
sibling rivalry; a short one; but one of my favorites.
http://ascenderrisesabove.com/wordpress/?p=2932
March 4, 2008 at 1:21 am
Empowered:
http://scoutmocking.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/empowered/
March 4, 2008 at 2:27 am
Here is my attempt…
Never Ending Battle (Internal Strife)
March 4, 2008 at 4:53 am
Mine is called Catching Fire and is about my writing teacher in college, who empowered me to keep writing.
Catching Fire
March 4, 2008 at 1:46 pm
this one is also at two for tuesday, but thought it fit.
http://wordsfromanauthor.blogspot.com/2008/03/two-for-tuesday-prompt.html
March 4, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Gone fishing…
March 4, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Here are my two cents:
Empower – http://beansthought.blogspot.com/2008/03/empowered.html
March 4, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Rivalry:
http://beansthought.blogspot.com/2008/03/rivalry.html
March 5, 2008 at 9:39 am
http://renpowellsmimes.blogspot.com/2008/03/wi-gather-ye-rosebuds-whilst-ye-may.html
Super late with this but I had great fun with it.
March 5, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Better late than never.
http://myrtlebeachramblings.blogspot.com/2008/03/empowered-writers-island-3508.html
March 6, 2008 at 8:16 pm
My rivalry post is up.
March 9, 2008 at 9:06 am
These prompts tie in so nicely together…
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/03/empowered.html
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/03/rivalry.html