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…
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
heres a short story that i wrote in regards to the prompt-“Flight”
http://thejoypop.blogspot.com/2008/04/esta-tarde-this-afternoon.html
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
Wow! Don’t believe I am so far up the list! Incredible.
Here is my posting!
BE
here’s my take on the prompt-“flight”. its a short story
http://thejoypop.blogspot.com/2008/04/esta-tarde-this-afternoon.html
Titled: Flight n Fearless
http://presentrat.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/flight-n-fearless/
Tackling both prompts together. Here goes:
Flight
Here’s my take on the prompt ‘Flight’. Titled Why 7?
http://medhini.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-7.html
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!
Hello everyone ..what an inspiring prompt 🙂
Here’s a poem on “Flight”
http://la-muse07.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight.html
Enjoy the weekend !
Here’s chance encounter…
in quiet moments
Here’s mine – Taking flight, with memories of my reporting days…http://parisparfait.typepad.com/paris_parfait/2008/04/taking-flight.html
A couple of short pieces about flight. Enjoy!
http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2008/04/writers-island-flight.html
here’s mine, it’s for sunday scribblings too.
grace
for “chance encounter” – Home
A chance encounter with spring…
harbingers
A chance encounter with a friend and a train
trains in passing
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.
Lucy sent me here… I have one she said would be perfect: Falling like a Feather.
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
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
Brilliant, brilliant prompt. I’ve been itching to post this!
Turbulence
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
Kiting
Oh thosechance encounters!
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/04/chance-encounter-writers-island.html
Inspiration refused to comply to me!
children’s day out
i hate goodbyes..
http://distillingthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/04/click.html
Here’s mine, one for a cause, so please take time to stop by
http://ul-typingaway.blogspot.com/2008/04/female-foeticide.html
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
My post flight is up.
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
My take on the flight prompt…
Hope u enjoy it !!
http://rachanak.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight-to-life.html
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Here’s a little sketch called A dark flight.
Enjoy!
James Steerforth
An unsettling ‘chance encounter’ with stark reality – #14
An unsettling ‘chance encounter’ with stark reality – #14
dream time! flight of fancy!
http://lionchiller.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight.html
FINALLY a poem………..****SIGH!****
http://rainbowsreflectraysofthesun.blogspot.com/2008/04/flightwriters-island.html
I hope this works as both a “chance encounter” and as an interrupted “flight.”
When flight and flowers collide… Syringa in Space
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
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/
I’m a first time writer here!
http://paperpencilstat.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight.html
Thanks for the inspiration. Here’s my Ode To A Despicable Person.
Etta’s flight.
b
http://torristravels.blogspot.com/2008/04/flightrunning-or-traveling.html
Thanks for the prompt.
Here’s mine: ‘Imagination’ http://sewina.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight.html
Boarding
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My attempt at combining the prompts together:
http://bemusedthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/the-last-flight/
here’s mine
http://www.justwritingwords.com/2008/04/stranger.html
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!
Here is my story of flight.
Here is my contribution. Have a great Sunday everyone!
Chance Encounter
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
here’s my attempt this week
http://virtualrambling.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/days-ahead/
I’ve got writers block! ARGH! Finally something comes to me… http://texasblu3.blogspot.com/2008/04/okay-ive-been-stumped-since-thursday.html
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
Try here; even better. 😉
http://pciyrtpy.blogspot.com/2008/04/30-flight-fear-of-flying-was-not-yet.html
Am I last yet? Nifty prompt.
They Call the Wind
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
maybe you could solve this puzzlement…
http://luluspetals.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-flight-of-fancy.html
The flight of a bride and yonder.
As I look back
http://www.mixedmetaphor.net/2008/04/13/the-letter-part-twenty-two/
Ah, I must be last again.
chance encounter
love-bd
here is something i wrote sometime back… 🙂
http://visheshunni.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/dreaming/
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
My take on the flight:
http://trailbrooklane.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight.html
http://poetry-by-stacey.blogspot.com
Welcome to the Island to our first-timers, nice to see you here.
another day another flight!
http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight-2.html
Here’s mine.
Flight
It’s also my fourteenth poem for NaPoWriMo.
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
drat…caught this flight late…!!!
my attempt…
http://ontheprompt.blogspot.com/2008/04/flight-to-nowhere.html
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/
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
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
I combined both prompts this week.
Strangers
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I posted a photo I couldn’t resist manipulating and the resulting poem: Dare I?
http://horizonnext.blogspot.com/2008/03/crash-landing.html
http://horizonnext.blogspot.com/2008/03/crash-landingsequel.html
..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!]
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
http://horizonnext.blogspot.com/2008/03/language-no-bar.html
A first time participant at Writer’s island… am probably late
http://monthofapril2008.blogspot.com/2008/04/crack-of-dawn.html
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