9:00 AM Friday morning, May 2nd 2008, on the U.S. West Coast, is quickly approaching — so… here I am with a new Prompt! This week’s, and the thirty-third Writer’s Island prompt is: “Ferocious”.
That word conjures some powerful images for me. I never want to influence your take on the week’s prompt, but does “Ferocious” send a shiver up your spine or ignite your imagination? Share with us what you see in your mind’s eye.
••> This week we turn to the new movie release, Mister Lonely, as the source of our eleventh Matinee Muse prompt — “Identity”. What is real, what is persona — is there a difference… how are you affected by identity?

The Matinee Muse prompts are now a regular weekly offering. So please enjoy! •Starting this, and every week, click the poster to learn more about the movie <••
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, be fiercely motivating so you write your best — write from your heart! We can’t wait to see what you have for us…


66 Comments
May 2, 2008 at 1:49 am
cockfighting is a ferocious hobby…
http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/04/sabong.html
May 2, 2008 at 2:22 am
Here we go again. Enjoy:
Ferocious
May 2, 2008 at 2:50 am
a fictional tale of a search…
http://ontheprompt.blogspot.com/2008/05/freedom-without-peace.html
ferocious sounds very tempting…that’s next!!!
May 2, 2008 at 3:15 am
A ferocious search for Truth.
May 2, 2008 at 4:58 am
http://whitesnake45.blogspot.com/2008/05/ferocious-writers-island.html
May 2, 2008 at 6:56 am
Ferocious prompt is up.
May 2, 2008 at 7:08 am
I suppose, mine can pass for both the prompts.
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/05/dog-and-woman-writers-island.html
Rob, the title is misspelled!
May 2, 2008 at 7:13 am
Hello everyone,
I loved this prompt. Thank you. And my submission
http://medhini.blogspot.com/2007/08/annihilation-of-czar.html
May 2, 2008 at 7:36 am
I have an old ones for both prompts:
For ferocious, a love turned bad:
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/shades-of-the-rainbow/
For Identity, something I wrote a while ago:
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/who-am-i/
May 2, 2008 at 9:06 am
I scared myself writing this!
http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2008/05/ferocious.html
May 2, 2008 at 10:20 am
I went with the Identity prompt.
Here’s mine, Many Mirrors:
http://mypoeticpath.wordpress.com/
Great prompts!
Geraldine
May 2, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Control
May 2, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Gautami -
Thank you for pointing out the typo in the title. I had it correct twice in the body. I didn’t catch it in the title — guess the font was too large…
May 2, 2008 at 12:51 pm
http://mayfairplace.blogspot.com/2008/05/consenting.html
wow…………had many ideas floating around, and it went this way! I’ve included a song link at the end….one of my all time favourite singers. hope you enjoy.
May 2, 2008 at 1:11 pm
http://jenshumbleopinion2.blogspot.com/2008/05/identity-for-writers-island.html
A recycled post!
May 2, 2008 at 2:04 pm
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/05/ferocious-writers-island.html
May 2, 2008 at 2:14 pm
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/05/idenitity-writers-island.html
May 2, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I am all very excited about my new digital camera. (I have never had one before, but have wanted one for about 2 years!) So this posting is a poem (a tanka) celebrating the moment.
Fresh Identity
Gemma
May 2, 2008 at 4:35 pm
My second attempt at fiction.
http://mylifeasawarrior.blogspot.com/2008/05/writers-island-identity_02.html
Thanks
TGIF
May 2, 2008 at 5:08 pm
here’s mine
mama
May 2, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Here’s a piece on “identity”, or the lack of one! Peace…
http://arquivoshalcyon.blogspot.com/
May 2, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Poems my submission for this prompt as usual. http://shortsweetpoems.com/?p=64
May 2, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Finally got time to scribble in a bit….
http://rachanak.blogspot.com/2008/05/been-while.html
my take on identity… hope u enjoy it!!
May 2, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Ferocious versus cautious
http://says-sir-ten.blogspot.com/2008/05/wi-ferocious.html
May 3, 2008 at 12:23 am
Identity
May 3, 2008 at 2:18 am
Based on the Matinee Muse Prompt, Identity.
Lost Identity
May 3, 2008 at 2:52 am
Titled: “The Attack”
http://presentrat.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/writers-island-ferocious/
May 3, 2008 at 3:56 am
i found the two went hand in hand….
inner beast
May 3, 2008 at 5:19 am
Identity for me this week, combined with Sunday Scribbling’s “family”:
Finding Myself
May 3, 2008 at 6:53 am
Loving myself
May 3, 2008 at 8:37 am
You could say this was autobiographical …:P ..with a HUGE poetic license of course !!!!
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/05/tigress.html
May 3, 2008 at 8:52 am
To the family of writer’s Island, I commend these souls.
http://pciyrtpy.blogspot.com/2008/05/photo-by-rel-this-week-has-seen-paltry.html
Thanks,
rel
May 3, 2008 at 1:16 pm
!! ATTENTION ISLANDERS !!
It is my anniversary weekend. My wife and I are going to a cabin on a lake high in the Cascade Mountains — about 70 miles from our home. There is NO INTERNET!
So if you are a first-time Islander placing your first “link”, or if you are an established Islander but your “link” inadvertently gets tossed in spam jail — please know that I will not be able to moderate this site, and get your link visibly posted, until this coming Monday evening, May 5th.
Please continue to post your links in this comment section, and I apologize for any delay that may occur.
This is the only time of the year we go ‘primitive’ (sans internet), so please forgive me.
Thanks!
…Rob
May 3, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Rob,
I wish a very happy Anniversary to you both. Have fun!
Gautami
May 3, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I went with the identity prompt: I’m Not a Good Girl Any More
May 4, 2008 at 5:36 am
here’s my attempt
http://virtualrambling.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/handicapped/
May 4, 2008 at 7:13 am
Here’s mine on the identity prompt:
http://fenny-sblablapoetryblog.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/05/04/the-woman-in-the-mirror.html
A very happy anniversary to you and your wife Rob
May 4, 2008 at 8:04 am
okay ferocious , it is…
http://ontheprompt.blogspot.com/2008/05/ferocious.html
Wishing you both a very happy anniversary…have fun,
May 4, 2008 at 9:24 am
Hope you have a great weekend, Rob.
I’ve incorporated Identity as a piece of flash fiction in this post:
How To Stay Fresh
May 4, 2008 at 9:47 am
Enjoy your weekend!
Here’s Ferociously Unfounded.
May 4, 2008 at 10:10 am
And my attempt for this week…a lil late though
http://writersisland.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/prompt-link-ferociuos/
May 4, 2008 at 12:02 pm
My entry, it’s a bit long, but I kinda like it. So check it out and let me know what you think.
http://manictastic.blogspot.com/2008/05/wonderfully-ferocious.html
May 4, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Happy Anniversary to you and your wife Rob! Enjoy the computer-free break too. Take care, Geraldine
May 4, 2008 at 7:06 pm
A fiction excerpt for “identity”:
http://slygly.blogspot.com/2008/05/neighbor-part-1.html
May 4, 2008 at 7:37 pm
An excerpt of a fictional interview…
Here
May 4, 2008 at 8:28 pm
my attempt on ferocious…
http://ontheprompt.blogspot.com/2008/05/ferocious.html
May 4, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Do our pets remember what they used to be?
Primeval
May 4, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Thanks so much for the “identity” inspiration. Here’s my Cautionary Verse — a limerick about identity theft.
May 5, 2008 at 8:39 am
FEROCIOUS
http://thebadpoetsociety.blogspot.com/2008/05/ferocious.html
PoetMouse: Ferocious
May 5, 2008 at 9:40 am
Don’t know if this can qualify to be called a poem!
http://gurlwoman.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-first-post-ferocious.html
May 5, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Hey guys part two is up now.
May 5, 2008 at 6:38 pm
oooops!!!! I had put up a wrong link…changed it now
here’s my take..hadn’t realised till SUMA told me.Thanks Suma.
http://dreamsofwords.blogspot.com/2008/05/eyes-flitted-across-room-furtively-lil.html
May 5, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Happy Anniversary Mr and Mrs. Rob Kristner! Hope you had a wonderful weekend. ♥ ♥
May 6, 2008 at 1:20 am
Thank you to all the Islanders who graciously offered well wishes. I’m baaack… and moderating my tail off!
May 6, 2008 at 5:02 am
I am always the last one here to the party… even missed the anniversary ! Here is my find for identity
http://ascenderrisesabove.com/wordpress/?p=3374
May 6, 2008 at 6:40 am
Hope you had a lovely anniversary, Rob. Welcome back.
I enjoyed being ferocious and couldn’t resist a tale about werewolves.
http://selmainthecity.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/the-everlasting/
May 6, 2008 at 7:52 am
This one is not on the prompt. But I hope you like it.
http://mandatoryhappiness.blogspot.com/2008/05/wildflowers.html
May 6, 2008 at 8:02 am
IDENTITY
http://thebadpoetsociety.blogspot.com/2008/05/petco.html
PoetMouse: Petco
May 6, 2008 at 1:09 pm
a personal loss was experienced by a niece this sunday. someone very close to my heart. my mind has been elsewhere at the moment, not wanting to write. but today i woke and found the words that i think would honor the memory of the child. this was hard to write for many reasons (and it has nothing to do with either prompt, but perhaps maybe ‘identity’ as an expectant mother).
Into God’s Hands
May 6, 2008 at 2:45 pm
kyrie eleison
May 6, 2008 at 5:48 pm
http://thebadpoetsociety.blogspot.com/
PoetMouse
May 6, 2008 at 5:48 pm
http://ritereading.blogspot.com/
Writer Reading
May 7, 2008 at 3:52 am
http://visheshunni.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/ferocious-beast/
May 7, 2008 at 11:07 am
…it’s been awhile… nice to come back to the island… ConstantCraving
May 7, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Got lost on my way back to the Island.
Here is mine:
Unknown
love-bd
May 11, 2008 at 12:40 pm
“identity” here…
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/05/identity.html
and “ferocious” is here…
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/05/ferocious.html