9:00 AM Friday morning, April 11th 2008, on the U.S. West Coast, is quickly approaching — so… here I am with a new Prompt! This week’s, and the thirtieth Writer’s Island prompt is: “Flight”.
That word conjures some nice visuals for me, but I don’t want to sway your take on this week’s prompt. How does “Flight” lift your imagination? Please share with us where this prompt carries you!
••> This week we turn to the new movie release, The Visitor, as the source of our eighth Matinee Muse prompt — “Chance Encounter”. See what unexpected inspiration you might meet with this one.
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 rise, this week and every week, and lift you to write your best — to write your heart! We can’t wait to see what you have for us…
88 Comments
April 11, 2008 at 2:19 am
A short one on my Over Forty Shades blog: http://foundcraftygreenart.blogspot.com/2008/04/turn-page.html.
and from earlier in the week, a haiku about flight on Crafty Green Poet: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/04/haiku.html
April 11, 2008 at 2:27 am
heres a short story that i wrote in regards to the prompt-”Flight”
http://thejoypop.blogspot.com/2008/04/esta-tarde-this-afternoon.html
April 11, 2008 at 2:36 am
Chance? Heavens I had that forty two years ago! Arghhhhh! And wow, to be the first here today!
http://lionchiller.blogspot.com/2008/04/chance-encounter.html
April 11, 2008 at 3:36 am
Wow! Don’t believe I am so far up the list! Incredible.
Here is my posting!
BE
April 11, 2008 at 3:52 am
here’s my take on the prompt-”flight”. its a short story
http://thejoypop.blogspot.com/2008/04/esta-tarde-this-afternoon.html
April 11, 2008 at 4:49 am
Titled: Flight n Fearless
http://presentrat.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/flight-n-fearless/
April 11, 2008 at 5:37 am
Tackling both prompts together. Here goes:
Flight
April 11, 2008 at 7:10 am
Here’s my take on the prompt ‘Flight’. Titled Why 7?
http://medhini.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-7.html
April 11, 2008 at 7:10 am
http://jenshumbleopinion2.blogspot.com/2008/04/chance-encounterwriters-island.html
Have a chance encounter by sending in a Holocaust star
Hopefully be back later with a flight post!
April 11, 2008 at 7:32 am
Hello everyone ..what an inspiring prompt
Here’s a poem on “Flight”
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight.html
Enjoy the weekend !
April 11, 2008 at 8:12 am
Here’s chance encounter…
in quiet moments
April 11, 2008 at 8:34 am
Here’s mine – Taking flight, with memories of my reporting days…http://parisparfait.typepad.com/paris_parfait/2008/04/taking-flight.html
April 11, 2008 at 8:45 am
A couple of short pieces about flight. Enjoy!
http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2008/04/writers-island-flight.html
April 11, 2008 at 8:50 am
here’s mine, it’s for sunday scribblings too.
grace
April 11, 2008 at 9:19 am
for “chance encounter” – Home
April 11, 2008 at 10:26 am
A chance encounter with spring…
harbingers
April 11, 2008 at 10:27 am
A chance encounter with a friend and a train
trains in passing
April 11, 2008 at 10:46 am
Surrounded as I am with tax papers, it doesn’t look like I’ll get to be too creative this week. But I did once write a limerick about the most important chance encounter of my life: Chance Meeting.
April 11, 2008 at 11:41 am
Lucy sent me here… I have one she said would be perfect: Falling like a Feather.
April 11, 2008 at 12:29 pm
This piece deals with ‘flight’ from three perspectives. The first is a daily flight to avoid evil. The second, is the difficult flight through trouble and despair. The third, and most positive, is the long flight towards hope.
Courage
April 11, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I wrote this one quite some time ago but it fits the Matinee Muse prompt so well, I had to put it up here!
http://fenny-sblablapoetryblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2006/03/21/chance-meeting.html
April 11, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Brilliant, brilliant prompt. I’ve been itching to post this!
Turbulence
April 11, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Good Day, Islanders!
Poetry, painting, writing, the arts are God’s gifts. These gifts are feathers God put on my wings to set my Soul On Flight
Are we using our feathers, our wings, our gifts to fly?
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
April 11, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Kiting
April 11, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Oh thosechance encounters!
April 11, 2008 at 6:13 pm
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/04/chance-encounter-writers-island.html
April 11, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Inspiration refused to comply to me!
children’s day out
April 11, 2008 at 7:51 pm
i hate goodbyes..
http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/04/click.html
April 11, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Here’s mine, one for a cause, so please take time to stop by
http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/04/female-foeticide.html
April 11, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I am still thinking about Flight, but recently I wrote a flash fiction piece on, you guessed it, a chance encounter. Here it is:
Ambush On Aisle 9
April 11, 2008 at 10:06 pm
My post flight is up.
April 11, 2008 at 10:44 pm
I went with the Matinee Muse, Chance Encounter prompt: The Night Train
http://mypoeticpath.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/the-night-train/
Great prompt btw. Geraldine
April 11, 2008 at 11:46 pm
My take on the flight prompt…
Hope u enjoy it !!
http://rachanak.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight-to-life.html
April 12, 2008 at 1:30 am
[...] An imaginary, hopefully not too far-fetched and somewhat amusing sketch on flight as prescribed by Writers Island. [...]
April 12, 2008 at 1:33 am
Here’s a little sketch called A dark flight.
Enjoy!
James Steerforth
April 12, 2008 at 3:11 am
An unsettling ‘chance encounter’ with stark reality – #14
April 12, 2008 at 3:13 am
An unsettling ‘chance encounter’ with stark reality – #14
April 12, 2008 at 4:47 am
dream time! flight of fancy!
http://lionchiller.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight.html
April 12, 2008 at 5:25 am
FINALLY a poem………..****SIGH!****
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/04/flightwriters-island.html
April 12, 2008 at 7:37 am
I hope this works as both a “chance encounter” and as an interrupted “flight.”
April 12, 2008 at 8:23 am
When flight and flowers collide… Syringa in Space
April 12, 2008 at 9:17 am
My husband is a pilot so I’ve written tons of poems about flying. I don’t think I have any more in me! So, I took a little bit of a different take on this prompt.
Flights of Fancy
April 12, 2008 at 9:22 am
Mine is a two for one, using both prompts of chance encounter and flight for Writer’s Island and also for the prompt of Blind Date/ One Night Stand at Slice of Life Sunday.
http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/two-for-one-writers-island-slice-of-life-sunday/
April 12, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I’m a first time writer here!
http://paperpencilstat.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight.html
April 12, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Thanks for the inspiration. Here’s my Ode To A Despicable Person.
April 12, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Etta’s flight.
b
http://torristravels.blogspot.com/2008/04/flightrunning-or-traveling.html
April 12, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Thanks for the prompt.
Here’s mine: ‘Imagination’ http://sewina.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight.html
April 12, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Boarding
April 12, 2008 at 6:48 pm
[...] The Last Flight For Writer’s Island on the prompt of “Flight” and “Chance Encounter”: [...]
April 12, 2008 at 6:49 pm
My attempt at combining the prompts together:
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/the-last-flight/
April 12, 2008 at 8:22 pm
here’s mine
http://www.justwritingwords.com/2008/04/stranger.html
April 12, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Something fun for you all to watch (plus a dirty little poem!)
http://stoneymoss.blogspot.com/2008/04/napowrimo-412-wd-zombies-on-plane.html
Can’t wait to read everyone’s flights of fantasy this week!
April 12, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Here is my story of flight.
April 13, 2008 at 12:14 am
Here is my contribution. Have a great Sunday everyone!
Chance Encounter
April 13, 2008 at 3:36 am
Hi everyoen ..hope you are enjoying your weekend with all the great reads the prompt has inspired !
I found one more amongst my older one for the same prompt “Flight”
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2007/11/eagle.html
repeating the link the my earlier post :
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight.html
April 13, 2008 at 4:16 am
here’s my attempt this week
http://virtualrambling.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/days-ahead/
April 13, 2008 at 7:34 am
I’ve got writers block! ARGH! Finally something comes to me… http://texasblu3.blogspot.com/2008/04/okay-ive-been-stumped-since-thursday.html
April 13, 2008 at 7:44 am
Good morning Islanders,
As you lay on the beach, basking in the sun, reading Erica Jong’s “Fear of Flying,” and a plane passes over head, pause to reflect on this for a moment.
Thanks,
rel
April 13, 2008 at 7:45 am
Try here; even better.
http://pciyrtpy.blogspot.com/2008/04/30-flight-fear-of-flying-was-not-yet.html
April 13, 2008 at 9:42 am
Am I last yet? Nifty prompt.
They Call the Wind
April 13, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Here’s my FLIGHT-y entry for this week’s prompt.
On the Road – Racing Ahead and Looking Back, on Nickers and Ink
Blessings all,
Linda
April 13, 2008 at 3:32 pm
maybe you could solve this puzzlement…
http://luluspetals.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-flight-of-fancy.html
April 13, 2008 at 7:26 pm
The flight of a bride and yonder.
As I look back
April 13, 2008 at 10:34 pm
http://www.mixedmetaphor.net/2008/04/13/the-letter-part-twenty-two/
April 13, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Ah, I must be last again.
chance encounter
love-bd
April 14, 2008 at 1:48 am
here is something i wrote sometime back…
http://visheshunni.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/dreaming/
April 14, 2008 at 7:43 am
I have not joined a lot of writing meme’s for some time now but i’m glad your prompt gave me the inspiration to write. Here’s my take on this prompt.
flight
April 14, 2008 at 8:07 am
My take on the flight:
http://trailbrooklane.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight.html
April 14, 2008 at 12:07 pm
http://poetry-by-stacey.blogspot.com
April 14, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Welcome to the Island to our first-timers, nice to see you here.
April 14, 2008 at 1:08 pm
another day another flight!
http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight-2.html
April 14, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Here’s mine.
Flight
It’s also my fourteenth poem for NaPoWriMo.
April 14, 2008 at 4:15 pm
sorry so late… i had a hosting problems and was unable to access my blogs since saturday!!!!! holy withdrawal!!!!
http://theinkpot.why-paisley.com/?p=479
April 14, 2008 at 6:42 pm
drat…caught this flight late…!!!
my attempt…
http://ontheprompt.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight-to-nowhere.html
April 14, 2008 at 8:16 pm
WOAH, this is a popular one.
Looks like I’ll be reading for a while.
I used the FLIGHT prompt.
http://selmainthecity.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/sea-or-sky/
April 15, 2008 at 2:09 am
Good morning Islanders,
#2 for #30- chance encounters.
Things that go boo in the night.
http://pciyrtpy.blogspot.com/2008/04/30-2-chance-encounter-it-was-dark-and.html
Thanks,
rel
April 15, 2008 at 3:33 am
well, i started writing unable to bear the heat.. and finally, wound up using the prompt on this site.. so here it is…
http://aaartzmuses.blogspot.com/2008/04/writers.html
April 15, 2008 at 7:45 am
I combined both prompts this week.
Strangers
April 15, 2008 at 7:58 pm
[...] Seattle skyline viewed from ferry in Puget Sound. Photo and its manipulation by Marcia McLees Bogaert (MeeAugraphie). Please do not copy my words or photos. Thank you. Where does flight take you in reality or imagination? Visit Writers Island for other flights or perhaps a chance encounter. [...]
April 15, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I posted a photo I couldn’t resist manipulating and the resulting poem: Dare I?
April 16, 2008 at 11:03 am
http://horizonnext.blogspot.com/2008/03/crash-landing.html
April 16, 2008 at 11:25 am
http://horizonnext.blogspot.com/2008/03/crash-landingsequel.html
April 16, 2008 at 11:31 am
..i’ve always been an idiot, so one stupidity more!..’”and as you know, just the link, not the piece.”>
link>http://horizonnext.blogspot.com
“crash landing!”[read as-flight] posted on march 24.2008;with “crash landing!”[sequel] posted on march 27.2008{dicy, possibly right this time,good luck!]
April 17, 2008 at 12:47 am
Here’s one in memory of my grandfather, H. Scott Gault,
the pilot of a piper plane.Enjoy!
http://forestriverjournal.blogspot.com/2008/04/flying-high.html
April 17, 2008 at 1:56 pm
http://horizonnext.blogspot.com/2008/03/language-no-bar.html
April 17, 2008 at 4:27 pm
A first time participant at Writer’s island… am probably late
http://monthofapril2008.blogspot.com/2008/04/crack-of-dawn.html
May 10, 2008 at 10:49 pm
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December 19, 2008 at 7:13 pm
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