FIVE SENTENCE FICTION - Angles

This week Lillie McFerrin [http://www.lilliemcferrin.com] gave us the prompt of "ANGLES" for this week's Five Sentence Fiction. Here is my endeavor in response:

YOU’VE ALWAYS GOT AN ANGLE

Steve and Brenda have been together for over ten years, and all during this time she has wished and waited to pop the question every woman wants to hear.  However, Steve remained hesitant until he could provide for everything she could ever want to have the moment she’d mention it; because to him everything had to have an ANGLE, and these ANGLES ultimately became an obsession with him, for if something didn’t have one he wouldn’t be interested in getting involved despite it being the true solution he had been desperately searching for; and the sad thing is Brenda knew it and knew there was nothing she could do to stop him.  One day Steve found a ten dollar bill on the floor of the store where he buys his daily pack of cigarettes and decides for some reason to blow it on lottery ticket; something he had always avoided and said has been a game for suckers; and since the lottery has no ANGLE to playing, he ever had any interest in it.          

Needless to say the next day, when he checked his tickets to his huge surprise he won the jackpot prize of $25 million; and he immediately went to cash it and buy the diamond engagement ring Brenda had always admired.  So when he went to Brenda to finally propose marriage and present her the ring, she thought about it for a moment and replied, “You always have ANGLES in whatever you do, so what’s your ANGLE this time?”

THIS PAST WEEK

This past week had been a GREAT week for me. I finally made the decision to convert my first YA Paranormal/Time Travel/First Kiss romance novel, “I Kissed a Ghost”, into a Kindle ® version which should become available about April 24^th.

I written a few flash fictions this week which really got the creative juices I’ve got in those little grey cells of my head flowing, which finally got me to do another ten pages of re-read and editing for my yet still untitled adult contemporary romance with a paranormal element running through the storyline.  These ten pages brings my total completed rewrite pages to 82%, with one additional page and about 350 additional words; at the same time I can sense how much more centered I am as I write. This can only improve as I find more flash fiction prompts I can respond to.

On LinkedIn.com I received the following comment for one of the threads I’d started,

"April 19th is National #FlashFiction Day - on which the Flash Flood Journal will be posting Flash Fiction all day long. Including one of my pieces! Yay! #amwriting

 You can submit your own short fiction (up to 500 words) before midnight on April 17!

http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.co.uk/ "

I've submitted three of my most recent endeavors from my blogs. They consist of two Five Sentence Fiction and one 33 Word Fiction.

So if you have a chance, I’d to hear your comments on any of us recent Flash Fiction endeavors.

 

TRIFEXTRA - 33 WORD CHALLENGE - WEEK 63

The Trifextra: Week Sixty-Three [  http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com ]

This weekend they’d asked for exactly 33 of your own words inspired by the following quote from the book you could win in the WBN giveaway. Good luck!

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ― Paulo Coelho, Alchemist

I can’t believe the timing of this prompt, especially when it coincides with my having made the decision to convert my first YA Paranormal/Time Travel/First Kiss romance “I Kissed a Ghost” into a Kindle.

MY DREAM WILL BE FULFILLED.

I’d done this for what seemed an eternity.                                             Typing.                                                                      

Re-reading.                                                                                            Tying.                                                                                                       Editing.                                                                                                     Typing.                     
A vicious endless cycle.       
But, with these words, my dream of becoming a real published author will finally be fulfilled.

 

FIVE SENTENCE FICTION - Edge

Another Thursday has come and gone, and yesterday as usual Lillie McFerrin [ www.lilliemcferrin.com ] has given another prompt word for which we're required, if we so choose, to endeavor to write a Five Sentence Fiction; and for this week the prompt word is: "EDGE."

After giving this prompt some thought I wrote a Five Sentence Fiction entitled "An Eternity Together" using the meaning of "BRINK" for the prompt.
Would love to hear your comments.

AN ETERNITY TOGETHER
E dgar has always been a daredevil.
D oreen has always been an extreme cautious individual.
G eographical opposites, yet they have always seem to have made for each other in more ways than anyone could have ever imagined.
E ternity must have always planned that they’ll always be together especially after almost 75 years of being happily married to each other, albeit with lots of suffering and caring for the past three months.
When the time came for one of them to come to the EDGE of dying, the other felt the same thing; for that night they went to sleep holding their hands, ever more to see the dawn of the next day.

If you noticed, once again I've added the element of using an acrostic in my endeavor.

THINGS ARE HAPPENING

By now you probably can tell by my recent posts I haven't done much, if any, writing on my second romance novel. Instead I've been busy writing Flash Fictions, and networking to get interrviews, spotlights for my YA romance nover, I Kissed a Ghost.

As of today, I've had 8 interviews posted, 2 SpotLights for my book posted, as well as 2 guest blog posts. In additional I've completed 8 interview questionaires, and I'm merely for the date when they'll be posted. A complete listing for these can be found on my website at http://mypennameonly.webs.com/myinterviewsspotlights.htm

If anyone does interviews on your blogs, I'd like to be interviewed by you. I'm also available to do a guest blog post.

Lastly, the Kindle version of I Kissed a Ghost, will become available around April 24th.

TRIFECTA 33 WORD CHALLENGE - ADVICE

This week this site  http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/  has us to write 33 words on the subject of ADVICE regardless of what kind of ADVICE it would be. For this challenge I chose to write the following general ADVICE, and to do so in the form of an acrostic

Always go to a

Definite expert when seeking

Very important advice regardless of the subject matter.

Ignorance is not always bliss because it

Can lead to

Extremely disastrous consequences you'd rather not face.

Would love to hear your comments.

FIVE SENTENCE FICTION - Words

Lillie McFerrin gave us   WORDS  as the prompt for this week's Five Sentence Fiction
[ http://www.LillieMcFerrin.com ]

And once again for this week's endeavor, since the prompt once again had 5 LETTERS, I decided to start each sentence with one of the letters in the word.  As a result the prompt appears not only in my endeavor; it also appears looking down the sentences

SOOTHING WORDS

W hen I was young and began to go to school, anytime strange events occurred I told my mother.

O f course she always had the proper WORDS to use to try to comfort me about each one.

R egretfully I can’t return to those days of my youth where all was well in my world; because a tragic event came into my life last week.

D eath, the tragic event which always destroy anything good, came last week and took her away.

S adness did creep into my life knowing she’ll never be around for us to talk to each other any more like we did in those wonderful days of my youth, but the memories of these same days and her WORDS will live in my mind and heart forever.


NOTE: Apparently, I didn’t when I wrote these five sentences, based on the few responses I’ve already received, I didn’t realized how powerful the words might prove to be. Rest assured this is fiction. My mother had died over 19 years ago, but her memory is still with me, in my heart and in my mind; just as all of your loved ones who have passed away are with you.