Day #3 -- November 20, 2012

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by Erratum

by Erratum

Day #3 November 20, 2012

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"If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your creative muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories -- science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."

-- Ray Bradbury

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Prompt :

"She couldn't believe her eyes."

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My turn: (Five sentence fiction.)

She couldn't believe her eyes. The photograph had to be a fake--it had to be. That wasn't her. She was sure of it. This was all wong . . .

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Your turn:

I dare you to write something using this prompt that puts my work to shame. It won't be difficult, I pinky promise.

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A few words:

Bah. Lame effort, I know - still better than nothing, right?

Long day. Goodnight.

- Eric