9:00 AM Friday morning, May 9th 2008, on the U.S. West Coast, is quickly approaching — so… here I am with a new Prompt! This week’s, and the thirty-fourth Writer’s Island prompt is: “Faithful”.
That word conjures some deep and moving images for me. I never want to influence your take on the week’s prompt, but how does “Faithful” inspire you, or spark your creative fire? Share with us what you see in your mind’s eye.
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This week we turn to the captivating new movie, The Fall, as the source of our
twelfth Matinee Muse prompt: “Fantasy”. What is real, what is imagined?
Can one always tell the difference? Where does fantasy carry you?

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


67 Comments
May 9, 2008 at 1:09 am
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/05/faithful-writers-island.html
May 9, 2008 at 1:27 am
The Fantasy of Meaning
May 9, 2008 at 2:07 am
she was faithful to me for a while but i have to dump her..
http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/08/abused.html
May 9, 2008 at 2:07 am
and i wanted to share to you my experience in cambodia..
http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/05/cambodia.html
May 9, 2008 at 2:10 am
Hi
I already have one which seems just right for the prompt “Fantasy”
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/03/dream-state.html
May 9, 2008 at 2:19 am
My take at combining both the prompts together:
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/fantasy/
May 9, 2008 at 2:45 am
The Vow
May 9, 2008 at 2:45 am
Here is my take on Fantasy…
http://rachanak.blogspot.com/2008/05/her-fantastic-love.html
Hope all of you do enjoy it
Cheers!!
May 9, 2008 at 2:46 am
Here is my take on fantasy. It’s a bit different.
Sour Fantasy
Gemma
May 9, 2008 at 3:09 am
Here’s mine. Enjoy.
How To Fantasize
May 9, 2008 at 3:41 am
Faithful
May 9, 2008 at 5:56 am
I picked the Matinee Muse today. Check out “Those Faithful Days Filled With Fantasy Are Just The Beginning Of The End.”
http://manictastic.blogspot.com/2008/05/those-faithful-days-filled-with-fantasy.html
May 9, 2008 at 7:03 am
Here is my take… small one this time..
http://myimaginationinthisworld.blogspot.com/2008/05/me.html
have a good weekend everyone!
May 9, 2008 at 7:57 am
Wrote this a couple of days ago, but it seems appropriate for the “Faithful” prompt:
Stonework
May 9, 2008 at 8:05 am
Dear Islanders, I’ve been working on a piece about the Demeter and Persephone myth for about two months, and some of it you’ve seen. I’ve posted the whole at TOP for their “transformation” prompt, and would like to cheat a little by posting here as well. I really want the folks I’ve been following, and who have been following me to see it. It’s long, especially by internet standards, but I hope enjoyable. Here, then, in the “fantasy” category: THIS DRIFTING WORLD
Thank you!
May 9, 2008 at 8:28 am
Hello Islanders!
Work is taking me away from my writing table and the writers island recently – last week I was totally off. My article for ferocious and identity is stuck in my draft files and I haven’t read for awhile. But I know I am “Faithful”, it’s just my work, so here are some poems that paint the Color Of My Heart
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
May 9, 2008 at 9:22 am
Titled: “The three friends”
http://presentrat.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/wi-faithful/
May 9, 2008 at 9:54 am
Hi ..and I am back with a new one
FAITHFUL
Who or what is the ONLY thing faithful to Man all his life ??
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/05/faithful.html
Do also read my earlier one for “Fantasy”
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/03/dream-state.html
May 9, 2008 at 10:21 am
Here’s mine, inspired by but loosely connected to the faithful prompt:
Know Hope
May 9, 2008 at 10:25 am
Fantasy?!
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/05/omen-writers-island.html
May 9, 2008 at 10:29 am
gloria
May 9, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Here is mine.
Distant Foreplay
Please note, this has adult content. Nothing graphic. But it’s theme is about the decision to be unfaithful.
May 9, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Faithful
May 9, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Hi everyone my fanatsy post is up.
May 9, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Church attendance in the UK is at an all-time low, but there will always be the Faithful Few!!
http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-weeks-prompt-on-writers-island-is.html
May 9, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Faithful
http://says-sir-ten.blogspot.com/2008/05/wi-faithful.html
May 9, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Breathing
May 9, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Church attendance in the UK is at an all time low. But there always will be the Faithful Few
May 9, 2008 at 4:36 pm
This little guy is just adorable.
Faithful Smile
Gemma
May 9, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I am off prompt this week but still writing faithfully …
May 9, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Hello to all on my first WI Friday! If you like bad poetry, be sure to visit my blog where I scribbled on the theme of “faithful.” It’s meant to be lighthearted.
http://teareads.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-doggerels-bark.html
May 9, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Faitful/Fantasy: Stopping By Walmart on a Snowy Evening
based on Robert Frost
http://thebadpoetsociety.blogspot.com/2008/05/stopping-by-walmarts-on.html
PoetMouse: Stopping By Walmart on a Snowy Evening and Robert Frost
May 10, 2008 at 1:38 am
http://visheshunni.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/a-faithful-wager/
May 10, 2008 at 3:20 am
Well I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and …. my take on faithful
http://whitesnake45.blogspot.com/2008/05/faithful-writers-island.html
May 10, 2008 at 3:22 am
#2 for me this week, a combined response to both fantasy and Sunday Scribbling’s telephone prompt:
http://aroundtheisland.blogspot.com/2008/05/not-what-shed-planned.html
May 10, 2008 at 3:25 am
This Journey
May 10, 2008 at 5:41 am
Here is my piece. I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Modern Love
May 10, 2008 at 6:46 am
Here’s one:
SPAM-JAM, at Nickers and Ink
Blessings all,
Linda
Simply Snickers – weekly poetry prompts
May 10, 2008 at 8:27 am
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/05/fantasy-writers-island.html
May 10, 2008 at 9:16 am
http://jenshumbleopinion2.blogspot.com/2008/05/freedom-or-fantasywriters-island.html
I did something that is unchartered ground for me, a political post. That’s why its late, it took some research…lol
May 10, 2008 at 11:25 am
Hello, folks – -
This is my second time to participate in WI. I posted an allegory on an obscure meaning of the word “fantasy.”
Cheers!
May 10, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Hello Islanders,
‘Anyone care for a jog around the island?
A plan, faithfully followed:
http://pciyrtpy.blogspot.com/2008/05/semper-fidelis-semper-fi-latin-for.html
Thanks,
rel
May 10, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Happy Mothers Day!
Here’s a fantasy song of The Mother’s Lullaby
For all our mothers.
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
May 10, 2008 at 10:59 pm
http://www.mixedmetaphor.net/2008/05/10/the-letter-23/
May 11, 2008 at 3:54 am
here is my unfaithful attempt
http://virtualrambling.wordpress.com/2008/05/11/kiss/
May 11, 2008 at 7:52 am
Here is my attempt at “faithful”
May 11, 2008 at 9:14 am
here’s mine
betrayed
May 11, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Happy Anniversary!
“fantasy” is here…
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/05/fantasy.html
May 11, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Thank you for being here…for giving me prompts when I need them.
“faithful”…
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/05/faithful.html
May 11, 2008 at 1:26 pm
“identity” here…
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/05/identity.html
May 11, 2008 at 1:28 pm
“ferocious” is here…
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/05/ferocious.html
May 11, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Finally catching up after a crazy few weeks.
“completion” is here:
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/05/completion.html
May 11, 2008 at 1:29 pm
“outrageous” is here:
http://marilyn.typepad.com/moojo_cafe/2008/05/outrageous.html
May 11, 2008 at 2:42 pm
A recent posting is just right for this week: Words
for walking – Faithful!
May 11, 2008 at 4:07 pm
An attempt at this…
May 11, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I’m back again, with a story this time, and I’ve used both prompts.
http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2008/05/sean-and-shep.html
May 11, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Wrote this a while ago and forgot about it… seems appropriate for the Fantasy prompt.
Treasure Hunt
May 12, 2008 at 2:35 am
totally unlike me…but here it is…
http://ontheprompt.blogspot.com/2008/05/fantasy.html
May 12, 2008 at 5:02 am
The Wrong Kind of Fantasy
May 12, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Just got my computer back from the shop – ya-hoo!
http://texasblu5.blogspot.com/2008/05/writers-island-faithful-and-fantasy.html
May 12, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I tried to post earlier, let’s try a 2nd time around.
http://texasblu5.blogspot.com/2008/05/writers-island-faithful-and-fantasy.html
May 12, 2008 at 7:39 pm
another one…this time for faithful…
http://ontheprompt.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-faithful-friend.html
May 13, 2008 at 7:57 am
so late it is almost next week… this one is about fantasy; about collaging with a collaged item
http://ascenderrisesabove.com/wordpress/?p=3443
May 13, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Here’s one under the “Fantasy” label, although it’s not a fantasy for my protagonist.
http://danleo.blogspot.com/2008/05/railroad-train-to-heaven-part-73-summer.html
May 13, 2008 at 8:09 pm
a twist on the word “faithful” – as some things always are — in flash fiction form.
Fingerprint
May 14, 2008 at 5:41 am
I am terribly late but very faithful.
http://selmainthecity.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/the-faithful/
May 14, 2008 at 10:51 am
My take on faithful.
http://trailbrooklane.blogspot.com/2008/05/faithful.html