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Muse Muggers* weekly idea
Your Monday Morning MuseMuggers Prompt
Muse Mugger's idea #75
Option 1
Write a true or seemingly true story about truly remarkable relationships and experiences shared by grandmothers and/or grandfathers and their grandkids. Stories may be humorous or heartwarming, insightful or delightful, poignant or amazing, or all of the above — on any topic specific and/or significant to the grandparent-grandchild connection — and about grandparents and grandchildren of all ages, ethnicities, circumstances, and backgrounds
• Story Length: 1,000 - 2,000 words
• Point of View: First-person or third-person
• Composition Style: Narrative essay or creative nonfiction, dramatic or humorous, but it must be a story.
• Stories must be original, true, positive, and in English.
Option 2
We are interested in short stories of between 500 and 3000 words about the
following areas of London:
The West End | Islington | Camden | Hampstead | Maida Vale | Paddington & Bayswater | Brixton | Kensington & Chelsea | Victoria | The South Bank | Notting Hill | The City | Shoreditch & Hoxton.
Option 3
Are you overweight?
Have you ever been overweight?
Do you know what it is like to live or work with obesity?
Option 4
Any genre, Maximun of 3000 words
Option 5
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Maximum length 1000 words
Option 6
A self contained Mystery Story in 1000 words or less
Option 7
Poetry : a poem in Baiassi stanzas, as devised by the Hungarian poet Ha Balassi; a nine-line stanza rhyming bbaccadda, with syllable counts 667667667. The form itself imposes no length limit - for this competition, the maximum number of lines will be 45 and the minimum - 27
Option 8
Poetry: The subject is 'Gold' and the maximum length is 50 lines
Option 9
Write a bizarre request for help with a cleaning problem. Blood on the shagpile? Chicken stains on the ceiling?
Option 10
Why did the stranger ring Christy's doorbell?
As ever, mix and match, go with whatever has been sparked. Some of these are free to enter competitions, but don't worry about it.
Part 2:
Option 1
http://www.cupofcomfort.com/share.htm
Option 2
http://www.fluidfoundation.com/breakingNews.asp?EventFlag=0&News_ID=123
Option 4
http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/the_north_east/story/
Option 6
http://p223.ezboard.com/fmysteryauthorsfrm1.showMessage?topicID=32.topic
Option 7
http://www.manifold.cjb.net/
Option 8
http://www.manifold.cjb.net/
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