This coming weekend, the Stop-Watch Gang will be partaking in their annual writing retreat. From roughly noon Saturday to noon on Sunday, various members will write like fiends.
As is tradition, we provide a few challenge prompts to inspire SWG members and those of you playing along with the home game.
For 2013, inspiration is drawn from the letter "S".
Using the five senses...
Taste – saffron, scallops, spinach
Touch – suede, syrup, steel
Smell – stew, sewage, scotch
Sight – snow, sign, syringe
Sound – sand, saxophone, siren
Using Words...
A quote by Socrates: "The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."
A quote by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences."
A quote by William Shakespeare: "Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know"
Using visual prompts, follow the links below...
"Vice Admiral Sir George Anson's Victory off Cape Finisterre" by Samuel Scott
"The Girl" by Emily Shanks
"Pine Pavillion Near a Spring" by Shitao
Using auditory prompts, follow the links below...
The song "Shake Me Down" by Cage the Elephant
The song "Spaceship" by Puddle of Mudd
The song "Scumbag Blues" by Them Crooked Vultures
The song "Something to Remind You" by Staind
The song "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Alt. Version)" by Marilyn Manson
The song "Sofi Needs a Ladder" by Deadmou5
Feel free to post your word counts in the comments section below.
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