May

Courting Calliope — 100 Word Wednesday

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Title: Courting Calliope
Source: 100 Word Wednesday: Week 17
Word count: 100 words

Image Credit: Scott Webb

Joan checked into Hotel Monteleone, the Ernest Hemingway Suite. The one week reservation wiped out her account, but Calliope insisted the seclusion and the setting would solve her problems. Joan trusted her, as always, and made the arrangements.

In the suite, Joan barely glanced at the view out the window before closing the drapes. She dropped her roller bag in the bedroom and took her laptop into the parlor. She powered it up without connecting to WiFi and opened the document. The blinking cursor mocked her.

“Calliope? I am here,” she whispered.

Moments later, Joan’s fingers flew across the keyboard.

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

Ode to A Trout — 3 Line Tales

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From Sonya’s 3LineTales at Only100Words. You can find the original prompt here. Thank you, Sonya.

photo by Clay Knight via Unsplash

You are the best of all, my little trout, the kind that awakens my hunger and makes me shout for more.

I love you smoked, fried, roasted, poached, grilled with lemon and dill and better sill as Trout Almandine or even Trout Pate.

My little trout I love you so many ways, you simply make my day.

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

Garden Party – 3 Line Tales

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From Sonya’s 3LineTales at Only100Words. You can find the original prompt here. Thank you Sonya.

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She wore a beaded gown by Paul Poiret, a diamond and pearl necklace and carried a bouquet of imported white lilies when she stepped into the yellow Rolls Royce.

Frances had meticulously overseen every detail to guarantee her party was nothing less than perfection.

Jay Gatsby’s parties would appear positively modest in comparison.

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

Glorious Day — Friday Fictioneers

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Title: Glorious Day
Source: Friday Fictioneers sponsored by Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple
Word count: 100 words

PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook

Desi skipped across the street. Reaching the corner, she flung her arms wide, threw back her head and twirled in a circle three times as she started straight up into the sky. Her blue flowered skirt swirled around her like windflower petals fluttering in the breeze. Her enthusiastic spins culminated in gentle swaying, eyes closed she breathed in sweet spring air.

“What are you doing?” mother’s voice asked.

“It’s a glorious day,” Desi exhaled without opening her eyes.

Mother stopped next to her seeing the flowers adorning the building and the bright blue sky.

“Why, it is a lovely day.”

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

Special Delivery – 3 Line Tales

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From Sonya’s 3LineTales at Only100Words. You can find the original prompt here. Thanks Sonya.

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The big rig bumped and rumbled west along the highway, catapulting Chuck and his precious cargo west towards the setting sun.

He made this run three times a week, every week, hundreds of times a year, but he had never pushed his rig this hard, this fast, this desperately.

The skeletal old man, clothed only in rags, labored with each breath he took and Chuck swore he would not fail him.

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

May Motivation

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The A to Z Challenge got me into a habit and I don’t want to break it. Writing every day feels good. But how do I carry that into May? First, I missed participating in the writing prompts I follow. I enjoy them; I believe they have improved my writing and some of the photos are screaming at me to tell the story they invoke.

Then there is the half-written novel nagging at me to write an ending. The plan in my head is crazy big, even bigger than the April A to Z.

Are you ready?

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     Goal #1: Catch up on the writing prompts I missed during April.

     Goal #2: Continue with the writing prompts for May.

     Goal #3: Write 1,000 words a day on the novel.

Numbers 1 & 2 are do-able by themselves and number 3 by itself is also achievable. All three of them together, along with the 9 to 5 and the rest of my life?  That’s another story. That’s the challenge.

I might be certifiably crazy. Still, I bet I score more goals than the Blackhawks in the playoffs.

How about you? What are your plans for May?

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer

#AtoZ Challenge – The Aftermath

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#AtoZChallege Survivor

Ah, we made it to the end. All 26 letters posted on the appointed date. This was my first year doing the challenge. I only discovered it a few days before the April 1 start date and I had my reservations. I wasn’t sure I could succeed. The first of April I also started a new position with my 9 to 5 and I knew it would require a lot of my time to get things sorted. As in 12 hours a day kind of time. Considering I am supposed to sleep 8 hours of each day (I didn’t) that left little time for everything else in my life.

Week One: Things went well in week one since I had mapped out the words to use for the challenge. I even wrote most of the posts for the week before the challenge started. I had time to visit other blogs and keep up with my flash fiction posts. Yeah team!

Week Two: Even though I kept working ahead, by the end of week two nothing was pre-written. Still I wrote posts, published and kept up with the flash fiction posts, but there wasn’t time to visit many other blogs.

Week Three: Call it hell week. I wrote most of the posts just in time to publish. The demands of the 9-5 were piling up, and I sacrificed sleep. No flash posts written, no other blogs visited.

Week Four: Trudging through mud. I got this far, and I wasn’t giving up. Every night was a commitment to writing and a commitment to getting to the finish line. Everything else would have to wait, even sleep. It worked. I finished.

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So yesterday I indulged myself. I gave myself a little reward and slept.

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Keep on writing.

Jo Hawk The Writer