Write Wednesdays
For a while now I have been trying to think of a good weekly feature to do on here. I tried the “Movie Review” thing, but don’t get to watch movies the way I used to so it just kinda fell to the wayside. I have decided to try this…I know we all get stuck, in a funk, or writer’s block from time to time. So, on each Wednesday I’m gonna try to post an idea for you to take & use. I might come up with some good things that would be tough for me, but some of you may be able to run with it. I don’t mean you have to wait til Wednesday to write your post (do it whenever you feel it)…just check back here each Wednesday if you get stuck to look for something new. I may or may not participate, just really want to give out ideas. I would like for you to come back here to the post you get the idea from & leave a comment with a link to your post so all of my readers can come check it out. I may have some readers that you might not have & this could bring you some new ones. That being said…let’s get this rolling.
Week 14 Idea: Create a story in/from outer space..
Til next time peeps…
Hey I might have one of those to offer straight away Mindslam but it could be a tad frieky to say the least and I wouldn’t want to be scaring any of your fine reader base away
lol How is your little baby son, he must be the joy of your family, you know all that cooooooooooooooooing and talking like a baby as one does with babies 
You have a great rest of evening my friend and don’t be doing anything that I might do either 
Androgoth
January 18, 2012 at 4:15 pm
That would be cool Androgoth. All you do here is post the link to your post…they can read it if they want. You want scare anybody away. My son is doing great. Thanks for asking. He’s really good. Sleeps good & hardly cries at all. He will be a month old on the 21st. Thanks for coming by.
January 18, 2012 at 5:52 pm
A month old already
Soon he will be attending
school and excelling
If I add a Space offering
I will definitely call and add
the link…
Be well my friend
Androgoth
January 18, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Yep…a month old Androgoth. Crazy. I hope you do write one.
January 19, 2012 at 7:36 am
Please do, Androgoth!
January 19, 2012 at 3:10 am
I was sure I was going to have to pass on this one, and I’ll be burned at stake if the story didn’t just hit me like a jet flying in the broom zone. I’ll be late. But I’ll be back.
January 19, 2012 at 3:12 am
Take your time Anne. I know you can create a great one. Looking forward to it.
January 19, 2012 at 7:38 am
Okay, I’m back. I got out of my Thursday engagement so here’s What If?
January 19, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Loved it Anne…brought back some childhood memories.
January 20, 2012 at 2:45 pm
I wrote a 100 word short story that kind of fits. Here’s the link to it:
http://buddhafulkat.com/2012/01/19/100-words-3-times-pan-and-dora/
January 19, 2012 at 11:09 am
Thanks so much Buddha…great post.
January 19, 2012 at 11:30 am
It was fun. I’ll have to make this a regular weekly thing =)
January 20, 2012 at 8:44 am
I hope you do…that will be cool.
January 20, 2012 at 2:41 pm
I always read these, but never think I have a great idea. I’ve really got to just go for it one day. Not today though.
January 19, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Come on with it Lorrelee…I know you could do one justice. I don’t blame you on this one …no idea what made me think of it…lol. Guess I was trying to push somebody to write the next Star Wars.
January 19, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Haha, I have to admit, my first thought was, “OMG! I’ve never had a dream about outer space!”
Something Scriptor Obscura wrote recently made me realize you might enjoy reading the story behind the story…
Space Seed
I really had nothing… one little dream about a crab waving its claws at me that reminded me there was something called a crab nebula. It just wasn’t calling to me. Jason’s prompt staring me in the face offered no quarter. I claim I never have writer’s block, that my stories just write themselves. But there I was. Thursday was already snuggled up on my pillow and waiting for me and I had nothing for Wednesday’s challenge.
Why? Why have I never had a dream about outer space? It seemed like just a question, asked in frustration. Ironically, the crab in my dream gives me a seed to plant, and just such a seed was trying to grow. I never dream about outer space because there is no such thing! Aliens travel by inner space. They would talk to us psychically. The thoughts strung together and suddenly when the crab in my dream waved it’s claw, a whole solar system moved. I Googled crab nebula, jotted some notes down and went to cuddle in Thurdsay’s loving arms.
I woke up and pushed Thursday off of me. Of course he took all the covers with him. I had to laugh at the dream still floating in my head as I got up to shower. NASA was reporting that a crab nebula had moved. What a perfect ending! All through my morning routine I was building a dialogue with aliens in my head. On my way to work, I remembered Rudyard Kipling’s crab, Pau Amma, and my aliens had a perfect metaphoric name.
Ideas are seeds. By themselves, they are little teeny tiny things. But they aspire to be something much bigger. They can only grow if you first place them in the soil.
© 2012 My crab dream and the ideas suggested in this context are the intellectual property of Anne Schilde, already included in other stories protected by copyright. They are shared exclusively for your enjoyment reading Mindslam. Thanks for your courtesy.
January 20, 2012 at 12:13 pm
You should just post a quick paragraph about the day you thought your kids might be from outer space to get your feet wet.
January 19, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Space – the final frontier…
Wait.. that’s been used, hasn’t it?
January 25, 2012 at 11:34 am
Yea Hook…was trying to see if somebody could create a whole new Star Wars or Star Trek….lol. Thanks for coming by.
January 25, 2012 at 2:21 pm