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Welcome to the April Challenge! Laura here. We saw some wonderful posts for the first challenge in our Year of Music, and I can't wait to see what all of you come up with next.
We understand that many of you might be participating in the April A-Z Challenge this month. Feel free to combine the two challenges by basing your entry on both the music prompt and the letter of the day you post. We've seen many successful entries over the years that do just that.
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We welcome all writers whatever your level -
- Still learning your craft? This is where you can get feedback and encouragement.
- Want to try out a WIP on us? Publish an extract.
- Want to continue a series? This is for you.
- Just adore writing to prompts in a supportive writing community? Go ahead
- Want to win a prize? 3 on offer. Go for it!
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Please remember to include a blurb/tagline with your story!
Short and sweet. A tagline doesn't have to tell the story. It captures the theme. Go on, give it a try!!!!
April Prize:
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You've got to be in it to win it!
THE JUNE CHALLENGE
From our CHALLENGES 2022 PAGE
This month's prompt is based on Please Read the Letter by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - a break up song and a moving plea for understanding at the termination of a relationship. Neither of these musicians need an introduction of course, both have umpteen awards to their names individually. The album Raising Sand where the track is included is a platinum with more than a million sold.
There could be many possible ways to treat this prompt. Who's going to write that letter? And who's it addressed to? Will you let it remain a letter or update it to a text? Or even a voicemail message? And most importantly, what's it going to be about - what's it going to say?
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We are looking forward to seeing where this month's prompt takes you!
Looking forward to the entries this month.
ReplyDeleteNas is fabulous - someone is going to be a very happy winner!
Hey where is everybody? Busy with the A - Z? Hope you're gonna be able to post to this exciting challenge! Not hard to find inspiration seeing as there's a lot of hard rain falling at this point in history. Love to read what you come up with! Roll on the 20th!
ReplyDeleteAnd forgot to say, the prize this month is going to make someone very happy. Nas Dean is a master at her game. Be in it to win the online course provided by Nas!
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ReplyDeleteHi all - I'll be there ... and no not busy with the A - Z ... but have an interesting idea for 'Hard Rain' ... cheers to one and all - take care - Hilary
ReplyDeleteHi. Just to say I will be posting tomorrow, although neither a Sparkle case nor a Skadi saga. As Denise wrote, 'there's a lot of hard rain falling at this point in history'. So, events on February 24th triggered my flash - a sequel to my winning IWSG anthology short 'Feathered Fire', whose MC was a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl, Vasy Chayka.
ReplyDeleteWe have removed comment moderation, hoping the spammer we were dealing with has left us alone. So go ahead and comment your heart out! Here's hoping for a deluge of hard rain stories!
ReplyDeleteI was unable to comment on Sonia's site. I tweeted her post.
ReplyDeleteI also couldn't comment on Nilanjana's blog. That surprised me because I usually don't have problems commenting on Blogger blogs.
ReplyDeleteBlogger has tweaked its comment system as you will see here. At first I couldn't comment on Laura's post, but when I tried a few days' later, it worked. Frustrating I know. Thanks for taking the trouble.
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