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30 Minute Story #1 - The Big Cruise

While sticking to schedules is not usually my thing, I have shockingly just done so! As promised, I found a website that gives you a very bare bones prompt and send you on your merry way to write whatever your heart desires. The site also gives you a word limit, but since we have a time limit in place already, I will be following that instead of the word limits of the site. I have picked this site over many others because of it's very familiar to me format - that of the prompts given at the 48 hour film festivals. Besides being familiar, it has also made me really happy and has brought back a ton of fun memories. So, here is the site and the prompt it generated for me: https://thestoryshack.com/tools/writing-prompt-generator/ Genre: Children Character: A film producer Material: A bicycle Sentence: "I love you." Bonus: Your character is shipwrecked. The Big Cruise The jungle is a busy place. All year round the animals work very hard to make sure thei...

Five Years Isn't Enough to Kill a Blog aka THE HAUNTING SHADOW THAT COULD!

I get it, it's been forever. All zero of you might have thought of this blog as straight up dead, but fear not you ghostly bunch - it's alive!!! Sure, I have been in a blog coma for something close to five years, but does that really mean that I was outright blog-dead? It turns out PLOT TWIST - it really doesn't! This was a surprise even for me. On my way here I thought for sure that's all there was left for the poor chap, ya know? I came back with full intentions to bury the skeleton and send off the ghost to the ethereal realms where ghosts belong, but at the last minute something shocked me. The blog had some flesh on his bones! I realized that the blog IS FLIPPING ALIVE and needs a celebration! A wake-up celebration! A sort of an out of coma celebration! Kind of a thank the lord you are not dead yet please never die I kind of secretly always loved you- type celebration! Well, you get the point, I'm very excited to be doing this again. Unfortunately, while I le...