9:00 AM Friday morning, March 28th 2008, on the U.S. west coast, is quickly approaching — so… here I am with a new Prompt! This week’s, and the twenty eighth Writer’s Island prompt is: “Torrid”.
As always, I don’t want to sway your take on this week’s prompt. What hot button might “Torrid” push? Please share with us what that ignites for you!
••> This week we turn to two new movie releases, 21 and Flawless, as the sources of our sixth Matinee Muse prompt — “The Gamble”. See if by chance that stirs your creative juices.
The Matinee Muse prompts are now a regular weekly offering. So please enjoy! <••
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 your muse, this week and every week, bring you the good fortune to write your best — to write your heart! We can’t wait to see what you have for us…
67 Comments
March 28, 2008 at 3:55 am
So excited to be the first here…It has never happened , you see…
presenting a flash fiction …
http://ontheprompt.blogspot.com/2008/03/one-day.html
will be back with another….
March 28, 2008 at 4:32 am
I linked both of them trying a style that is new for me
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/roll-of-the-dice/
March 28, 2008 at 5:07 am
Missed last week due to severe tech problems. But I’m back with a vengeance
How To Be Torrid – A passionate post in fiction, poetry and fact.
March 28, 2008 at 6:11 am
How am I suppose to continue a story here with words like Torrid?
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/03/writers-island-is-torrid-way-to.html
March 28, 2008 at 6:13 am
I have had to GAMBLE everything on this being a good story.
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/03/writers-island-is-gamble.html
March 28, 2008 at 6:41 am
Tried to take the idea of torrid from a few perspectives.
Torrid Cauldron
Gemma
March 28, 2008 at 7:58 am
Titled: “Don’t Drink. It Can Kill!”
http://presentrat.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/writers-island-torrid/
March 28, 2008 at 9:51 am
Here’s one for “gamble” I’ll try to be back later with something for the other.
Roulette
March 28, 2008 at 10:10 am
Kind of torrid. Kind of the opposite.
Local Conditions
March 28, 2008 at 10:29 am
Luminosity
March 28, 2008 at 10:34 am
For me, it’s all about “the gamble”.
http://texasblu3.blogspot.com/2008/03/prompt-writing-gamble-writers-island.html
March 28, 2008 at 10:40 am
Predictably torrid:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/03/word-by-word.html
March 28, 2008 at 10:53 am
gambling a little on this one!!!!
bitch and a wheel
March 28, 2008 at 12:03 pm
http://jenshumbleopinion2.blogspot.com/2008/03/torridwriters-island.html
written with tongue in cheek….
March 28, 2008 at 12:55 pm
waiting whether i will be renewed or not is a gamble on my side..
http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/03/closure.html
March 28, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Torrid and gamble:
STEP CHILD
March 28, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Hi
I have attempted to use both the prompts “Torrid ” and “The Gamble” in my poem “The Venus Flytrap”
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/03/venus-flytrap.html
March 28, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Here’s an older one for torrid; I’m working on something new for it, too, so stay tuned.
Hot
Get it? Hot!!
I probably only crack myself up…
March 28, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Here is my take on The Gamble using an Easy Street Prompt Corporate Risk Trapeze Artist
Enjoy!
Gemma
March 28, 2008 at 6:19 pm
This is my gamble!
http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2008/03/writers-island-gamble.html
March 28, 2008 at 6:37 pm
So how about Gambling for Sense?
March 28, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Here’s an unusual view of love, of gamble, of torrid from a different angle, from the side of The Silent Spectator
I wish you well.
Jeques
March 28, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Impeccably prepared, but still — Daring Fate!
March 29, 2008 at 1:29 am
Charcoal Soul
March 29, 2008 at 2:42 am
Torrid: #11
March 29, 2008 at 4:30 am
Hello everyone. Here is my contribution. Hope everybody has a great weekend.
Stolen Moments
Jane
March 29, 2008 at 5:54 am
About a torrid love affair between unequal partners – Overheard.
March 29, 2008 at 8:13 am
The Affair.
Have a great weekend everyone.
March 29, 2008 at 8:38 am
http://mayfairplace.blogspot.com/2008/03/torridly-nice.html
Torrid Canadian style.
March 29, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Hi folks
I used both the prompts :”The gamble” & “Torrid”
for two poems .. both in totally different veins !!
The second one titled “It was a dark and stormy night..”
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/03/it-was-dark-and-stormy-night.html
repeating the link to the first poem
“The Venus Flytrap”
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/03/venus-flytrap.html
March 29, 2008 at 4:52 pm
it seems as though we had a lot of affairs going on this time.
The Gamble
March 29, 2008 at 4:53 pm
how are you guys getting just the titles of your poems in the comments instead of the whole address?
March 29, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Gamblin reminded me of a trip to Foxwoods with my mom.
Lucky
March 29, 2008 at 6:53 pm
Leigh, use this html:
title
Delete title and put your own in. Delete url and paste yours.
March 29, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Now that’s interesting. How do I put the html code in the comment without it coming up as a link?
Any answers, anyone!
Duh!!
March 29, 2008 at 9:37 pm
It’s been pointed out that my link didn’t work.
Hot.
March 29, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Anthony, put spaces in.
<a href (delete space here)=….
That sort of thing.
March 29, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Leigh Lear -
Go take a look at your original post…
I am going to send the code string I sued in an e-mail to you.
Anthony and Susan — thank you for being gracious and helping Leigh Lear.
…Rob
March 29, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Here’s mine. I’ve done Torrid and Gamble in the same piece!
http://suraksha.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/hallucinations/
March 29, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Just tried “torrid” hope u all see that! Thanks
http://lionchiller.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-sad.html
March 29, 2008 at 11:59 pm
And finally caught up…
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/03/torrid.html
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/03/the-gamble.html
March 30, 2008 at 12:16 am
Etta as a little girl. One reason “Why”!
b
http://torristravels.blogspot.com/2008/03/little-girl.html
March 30, 2008 at 3:19 am
A torrid tale of turning five…
March 30, 2008 at 9:57 am
thanks for all the help.
March 30, 2008 at 12:57 pm
http://www.mixedmetaphor.net/2008/03/30/the-letter-18/
March 30, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I love this piece.
The First Two Drawings.
March 30, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Hi all I will be gone for approx. 8 days and hopefully I will have internet connection but still not sure about that. My house is being deleaded. Anyways the gamble is up please check it out.
March 30, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Here goes my attempt
http://virtualrambling.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/mutate/
March 31, 2008 at 1:43 am
here goes my take on this
http://raysofthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-soothing-shadows.html
March 31, 2008 at 3:10 am
Time for the second prompt – my good Professor friend writes about gambling:
A Gambler’s Life
March 31, 2008 at 3:57 am
Great prompt.
My version of Torrid.
http://selmainthecity.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/torrid/
March 31, 2008 at 5:44 am
I used the gamble prompt:
http://parisparfait.typepad.com/paris_parfait/2008/03/writers.html
March 31, 2008 at 8:06 am
Poems, text and the deeds
Of wild things and wilder needs
Here is mine, the response again
Torrid has me worried- insane!
March 31, 2008 at 8:41 am
Hello All,
Here is my effort on behalf of Heat…
http://1poet4man.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/torrid/
Poetman
March 31, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Well, I’m late but here is mine:
my poem
love-bd
March 31, 2008 at 1:44 pm
wow, another good week…. reckless
March 31, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Better late than never
Our Torrid Love
March 31, 2008 at 9:55 pm
A reflection on torrid. The Long Dry
March 31, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Another for “gamble.” I needed to get my creative juices going….a sci-fi post –
Zexura
April 1, 2008 at 4:15 am
It’s April Fool’s day here on the Island and I love to celebrate April fool’s day!
http://pciyrtpy.blogspot.com/2008/04/lion-must-have-eaten-all-lambs-march.html
Thanks,
rel
April 1, 2008 at 10:24 am
As usual, an late entry…but “better late than never”
Here is mine :- http://myimaginationinthisworld.blogspot.com/2008/04/turned-my-back.html
April 1, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Not entirely sure how I feel about it yet, but my “gamble” is up: http://creativekarina.blogspot.com
April 1, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I managed to drop ‘torrid’ into my brain dead post.
Happy April fools day.
http://luluspetals.blogspot.com/2008/04/brain-fog.html
April 1, 2008 at 6:40 pm
It is late. Almost too late. But this is my response.
Torrid Zone
April 2, 2008 at 12:04 am
Nice response this week!!
Here is mine:
The Gamble
April 2, 2008 at 7:55 am
Dashing along with this affair of mine…drop in to read what I set out for you
http://dreamsofwords.blogspot.com/2008/04/endless-steppes-and-torrid-deserts-high.html
April 7, 2008 at 1:56 am
Better late then never… I had worked on this entry earlier last week and was hoping to add to it but didn’t. Hope to use this week’s prompt to continue the story.
Torrid