Monthly Archives: January 2014

Weekly Photo Challenge – Object

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Joe Owens

In this week’s challenge, use one tangible object as both your inspiration and subject. It can be the obvious focal point of your shot — like my husband’s juggling ball above, snapped on a beach on the north shore of Kauai. Or … Continue reading →

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Weekly Writing Challenge – Leave Your Shoes At The Door

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Joe Owens

This week, we’re asking you to consider things from a different point of view — to walk a mile in someone’s shoes. Leave your moccasins and bunny slippers at the door, and tell us a tale from a fully-immersed perspective … Continue reading →

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Angry Love – Haibun Thinking – 28th January

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Joe Owens

Al Forbes has a new weekly invitation to join some others in creating something called a Haibun. Here is something from Al’s blog to explain what a Haibun is: Haibun is a Japanese literary form that combines one or more paragraphs … Continue reading →

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Building Muscles in the Workshop – Friday Fictioneers – 31 January

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Joe Owens

Welcome back to the addictive fun of Friday Fictioneers! You know the best fiction can be found right here. Led by  Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, we take the photo and weave our magic with prose and poetry to entertain you. Claire Fuller … Continue reading →

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Adventures In Downsizing (Yeah Write Moonshine 146)

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Joe Owens

When you land a job, it can be one of the greatest feelings you will ever experience, especially if it is something you have been in school or trained for over several years. The feeling of accomplishment is something to … Continue reading →

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Speakeasy 146 – The Stranger

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Joe Owens

The instructions for Speakeasy 146: The last line in this Speakeasy should be: “I sat there and waited, but he never came back.” Also, there should be some reference to the video clip below from the British comedy show, Bladder the … Continue reading →

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Trifextra – Week 101 – Don’t Judge My Books

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Joe Owens

This weekend Trifextra requests we weave a tale with 33 of our own words inspired by the Photo which follows: **********************************  The books, the books, the books. How could I ever attract a man with these books? Girls were supposed … Continue reading →

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Not Just Water Under The Bridge – 26 January – Sunday Photo Fiction

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Joe Owens

Sunday is the beginning of another weekly invitation from Alastair to open our imagination and tell the world what we see in his photo prompt. There is always several rich stories that flow from this interesting photographic offering. If you … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Juxtaposition

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Joe Owens

A juxtaposition is “the act of placing things side by side, especially for the purpose of comparison or contrast”. In this week’s photo challenge we are to find a photo with an interesting juxtaposition. More Weekly Photo Challenge – Juxtaposition responses: My.Vivid.Visions … Continue reading →

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What Winter Olympic Sport Would You Try? – 24 Jan – Yeah Write Moonshine Grid

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Joe Owens

The XXII Winter Olympic Games come to us from Russia, namely in the city of Sochi. There will be 98 events over fifteen disciplines of the 7 major sports during the 2014 Olympics, the most ever.  Nearly 2,800 athletes from … Continue reading →

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Daily Prompt – All It’s Cracked Up To Be

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Joe Owens

Tell us about a time when everything actually turned out exactly as you’d hoped. I would have to say the trip I made to Belize in Central America in December of 2013 is a prime example of everything turning out … Continue reading →

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Losing a Brother (Yeah Write Weekly Challenge 145)

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Joe Owens

How do you deal with losing a sibling? This is someone you live with every day for years and suddenly they are ripped from your life. It is one of those “life events” as they call them that will send … Continue reading →

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A Room For Peace – Friday Fictioneers – 24 January

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Joe Owens

Welcome back to the addictive fun of Friday Fictioneers! You know the best fiction can be found right here. Led by  Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, we take the photo and weave our magic with prose and poetry to entertain you. Bjorn Rudberg … Continue reading →

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Weekly Writing Challenge – Lunch Posts

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Joe Owens

The Weekly Writing Challenge for the week of January 20, 2014 is about what we see during our lunch time moments. Over a ten year period in the 1950s and 1960s Frank O’Hara took notes about the lunch experiences he … Continue reading →

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Speakeasy 145 – Time Travel? What Time Travel?

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Joe Owens

The instructions for Speakeasy 145: Time to play your cards Because today just happens to be Paul Cézanne’s birthday, we’ve chosen one of his paintings for our art prompt. This painting is one of a series of five, known as The … Continue reading →

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