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PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:48 pm


Alright, so if you've read the summer newsletter (and you better have...or else wink ) you'll know that we have some new members. And if those members have been prowling around the guild, they'll see that, for the most part, it's the same few people posting for every challenge. Now, I know you've all got a writer or an editor in you somewhere, and I want to meet them! So, without furthur ado...Challenge 5!:

Pick a line:
"Hope is the dream of a man awake." -French Proverb
"Life's a voyage that's homeward bound." -Herman Melville
"Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will win the game." - Winston Churchill
"The first and greatest commandment is: Don't let them scare you." -Elmer Davis

Now Write:
Something in your style. Use your original characters (even if they were made for a fandom) and maybe even a few smatterings of original plot.

Write it:
In whatever voice you would normally use with that character/story. Show me what you love to write.

Include:
A beloved pet, a moustache, a skillet, a flag or a faucet. (or all of the above)

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:38 am


I choose : "Hope is the dream of a man awake"

She laid there, not moving one inch, her feet draped over the edge of the couch. A remote in one hand, in the other a picture of him. The one she lost, the one she can't seem to forget. Se stares for hours forgetting her surroundings. It's hard to believe she isn't a statue.Her heart thumps to the beat of a drum hidden far off in the coner of her mind. Her eyes wide open, without bliking or wasteing time.
She just lies there watching that picture, as if she were waiting for it to move.Waiting for him to smile at her, waiting for that moustache of his to slowly curl. She starts to cry, as she realizes his dog is al she has left of him. All she has to hold on to, and she holds the picture tighter. It's not hard to see, that the one thing he loved more than her was his love of dreaming. His love of waking up and living that dream. He left her, without a goodbye, to remember, to become that man he once admired.
That chef in the kitchen with the big skillet in his hand. Leaning over the faucet, he washed off his hands. Then she took that picture, she now squeezes in her hand. She snapped it right then, while he was still her man. She sheds another tear, forgeting the present. The date of today. The moment shes waiting so long to have.
She jumps off that couch, and runs to her room. Coming out a few moments later, all brand new. She now holds a flag, in the other hand is that picture. She can't seem to leave it there. As she goes and meets the one man she will ever love. On the 4th of July, she will finally see him again........ See that man who loves to dream with his eyes wide open......

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:02 pm


How many times have you asked yourself?
Is this the hand of fate now that I’ve been dealt?
You’re so disillusioned this can’t be real
And you can’t stand now the way you feel
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I just finished this challenge and it is in my Library if anyone wants to read it. biggrin

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I don’t care about what they say
I won’t live or die that way
Tired of figuring out things on my own
Angel’s wings won’t you carry me home?
PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:20 pm


Challenge completed and in my Library!

Indigo Pheonix

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