REMINDER: in the months of July, August, and September, there will be a new prompt post only once a month here on Writer’s Island, posted the first Friday of each month — not every week. Prompts monthly, not weekly this Summer.
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9:00 AM Friday morning, June 13th 2008, on the U.S. West Coast, is quickly approaching — so… here I am with a new Prompt! This week’s, and the thirty-ninth Writer’s Island prompt is: “Superstition”.
That word conjurs ominous, foreboding images for me. Maybe visions of good luck? Where does “Superstition“ take your imagination? Share with us what you envision.
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We turn to a surprisingly interesting movie, The Incredible Hulk,
for our twenty first and twenty second Matinee Muse prompts.
The first is: “Transformation”.
Have you witnessed, or envisioned a total change in someone or something –
perhaps in yourself or your feelings or opinions?.
The second is: “Alter Ego”.
Does this spark for you a sense of yin and yang, good and bad –
or perhaps it appears as dark and light, or timid and bold?

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 any one, or all, of this week’s prompts — or use your own, 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 very best — write from your heart! We can’t wait to see what you create.


41 Comments
June 13, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Talk about Friday the 13th, superstition, and bad luck — I have the prompts written in advance, and archived for auto publish by WordPress at 12:01 AM on each Friday morning.
A friend just notified me by cell phone that today’s prompt was not up. I got to a computer, went to the site here — and it had crashed!!!
It took me about an hour of fiddlin’ around, but it appears up.
I made the mistake of setting two posts to each self-publish at 12:01 AM this morning — and it apparently confused the computer’s logic?? I ‘unpublished’ one, and now things seem fine.
So sorry!
June 13, 2008 at 4:19 pm
That’s why I always pick a weird time like 12:17 or something.
This is a short story for another prompt site, but it works here as well.
http://hummingbunny.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/different/
June 13, 2008 at 4:45 pm
This is for the “Alter Ego” prompt:
2-D Space
June 13, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Transformation? It might be imminent in this piece.
June 13, 2008 at 6:50 pm
a part of me wants to take photos from Behind..
http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/04/behind.html
i guess its fits as an alter ego
June 13, 2008 at 6:54 pm
i can transform to these when i am drunk. just for fun
http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/12/drunken.html
June 13, 2008 at 7:06 pm
…And a transformation: Loss of Color
June 13, 2008 at 9:11 pm
http://presentrat.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/wi-superstition/
June 13, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Oh and today is Saturday afternoon……:-P
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/06/writers-island.html
June 13, 2008 at 10:53 pm
‘Superstition’
http://says-sir-ten.blogspot.com/2008/04/dont-sit-there.html
June 14, 2008 at 12:52 am
here is my contribution, on 14, one of my favorite numbers
http://encuentrosextraordinarios.blogspot.com/2008/06/superstition.html
June 14, 2008 at 3:27 am
Suddenly realised I posted my response to Transformation in last week’s section! O help! So here it is again!
What ugliness?
June 14, 2008 at 4:30 am
I managed to get it right this time.
Here is my second response. It answers Alter Ego.
Flow of Other Clothes
June 14, 2008 at 5:07 am
Here is my 3rd response. This one answers Superstition.
Missing Heartbeat
June 14, 2008 at 6:26 am
Masks
June 14, 2008 at 6:26 am
I suppose, what I have here works well for the prompt, transformations:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/06/hot-summer-thoughts.html
June 14, 2008 at 6:27 am
Myself
June 14, 2008 at 6:28 am
For alter ego?
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/06/is-it-what-is-called-love-poetry.html
June 14, 2008 at 6:30 am
This too works. I reproduce this here again:
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/06/witchcraft.html
June 14, 2008 at 6:34 am
Karma
June 14, 2008 at 9:01 am
Superstitious? Me? Never! Well,maybe a little.
http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.html
June 14, 2008 at 1:54 pm
sorry this is late my unexpected prompt from last week is up and I will get this one posted soon.
June 14, 2008 at 2:23 pm
‘Altered’ ego: Dark Self
June 15, 2008 at 4:44 am
Transformation by Taexalia
June 15, 2008 at 7:39 am
here’s my attempt at superstition
http://virtualrambling.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/life_zindagi_jeevana/
June 15, 2008 at 10:21 am
hi everyone,
its been awhile since i last visite the island! i looked at the prompt for this week and realized that the poem that i wrote is somewhat fitting for this prompt. so here it is:
http://makeshiftwords.blogspot.com/2008/06/letter-to-new-father.html
thanks!!!
June 15, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I wrote this piece just last thursday…..guess i was feeling a bit clairvoyant??
it’s on transformation…..
http://mayfairplace.blogspot.com/2008/06/reflections-on-perceptions.html
June 15, 2008 at 10:42 pm
My take on combining all three prompts:
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/shambles/
June 16, 2008 at 12:43 am
I’m very late this week. You’ll find mine in this post:
Tony On Treaty, Data, Will
Enjoy.
June 16, 2008 at 3:33 am
this one from me for transformation
hope u like it
http://raysofthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/05/transformation.html
June 16, 2008 at 3:37 am
http://mandatoryhappiness.blogspot.com/2008/05/wildflowers.html
A poem I wrote a while back on ‘Transformation’
June 16, 2008 at 4:08 am
here I go talking about superstitions
http://raysofthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/06/they-are-there.html
feel free to add your take !!
June 16, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Beware the Raven Mocker:
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/06/16/raven-mocker/
-Nicole
June 16, 2008 at 12:50 pm
alter-ego: #20
June 16, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I combined both transformation and alter ego in one poem:
“He Can Never Know”
http://ravenswingpoetry.com/2008/06/16/he-can-never-know/
-Nicole
June 17, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Okay to all I apologize for slacking on writing on my blog but superstition and unexpected are posted and tomorrow I will begin reading everyones so sorry things came up.
June 18, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I created a new blog site that will deal with the heart where I will post personal posts and articles relating to the health of our hearts and heart disease.
This is my first post on that site: The Physical Heart
(this link does not work, please go to Rebecca’s next post)
…Rob, Writer’s Island moderator
June 18, 2008 at 1:51 pm
rob,
i notice that if you link onto my name, it takes you to the new site! so anyone who wants to read the post, can link that way. but i’ve never had a problem doing this. what am i doing wrong? i’m stumped here.
Hi Rebecca _
Your mistake was ending your link with “thephysicalheart.html”. The correct link ends with “2008/06/physical-heart.html”.
I have fixed your link and inserted it below.
The Physical Heart
rebecca
June 19, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I am a bit late. My story is called Stones In The Bonfire using the prompt superstition. See you soon.
http://selmainthecity.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/stones-in-the-bonfire/
June 20, 2008 at 6:56 am
http://visheshunni.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/love-and-superstition/
June 24, 2008 at 2:38 am
Very late, not so good fiction this week, but oh well. L.A. with Dred