http://johnpender.net official web site of author john pender Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:12:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://johnpender.net/2010/09/fiction-friday-172/ http://johnpender.net/2010/09/fiction-friday-172/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:12:17 +0000 John Pender http://johnpender.net/?p=1496 Continue reading → Related posts:

1. Fiction Friday #166 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: A covert trip into an attic reveals something unexpected. I felt the need to pay...
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3. Fiction Friday #170 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: This week’s prompt is a retro prompt from August 29th, 2008 (#70!). It requires a...
4. Fiction Friday #168 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: The conversation took off when Louise mentioned Bruce Willis. I decided to go short and...
5. Fiction Friday #167 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Strains of Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry Be Happy” floated into the room. As Eric Sandburg...

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1. Fiction Friday #159 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Include this in your story: “I wish he’d knock on my door instead……..” Jan Weathers...
2. Fiction Friday #157 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: A writer’s computer begins to flash messages on its screen, as if trying to communicate....
3. Fiction Friday #163 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: In her right hand a woman holds a loaded gun, in her left, a coin...
4. Fiction friday #172 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Use one or more of these words in your story (but resist the temptation to...
5. Fiction Friday #169 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: The note taped to the door said: See you at Wild Notes Karaoke Bar. I...

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1. Not So Short Story I’m still working on the first short story of my book. As of right now I’ve got twenty pages written...
2. Gonna Start Writing Again Methinks I might start writing again. Years ago I wrote a bunch of short stories. A lot of them got...
3. I think I’m going to take a break. I’m having a bit of a hard time with this month’s short. Part of me wants to scrap it and...
4. Books I’ve Read In 2009 I don’t know why I started doing this. On my trip last year to Biltmore Estate, I learned that George...
5. To outline or not to outline? … that is the question. Seeing as how I’ve been having a little trouble with my novel, the biggest part...

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3. Fiction Friday #161 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Include a telepathic parrot in your story. I had loads of fun with this prompt....
4. Fiction Friday #158 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: A Coming of Age Tale Marty lounged in front of the crackling fire in his...
5. Fiction Friday #162 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Write about a man with an impossibly bad streak of luck on his birthdays, who,...

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1. Fiction friday #172 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Use one or more of these words in your story (but resist the temptation to...
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3. Fiction Friday #166 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: A covert trip into an attic reveals something unexpected. I felt the need to pay...
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1. Life Path 7 I decided to do a numerology reading today at lunch. Let’s see if this thing is at all accurate. “Angry...

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3. Fiction Friday #139 “Turn left up here” “At the big Oak?” “Yeah, that’s it” she said with that youthful exuberance that drew him...
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1. Fiction Friday #161 This week’s Fiction Friday prompt: Include a telepathic parrot in your story. I had loads of fun with this prompt....

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1. Writer’s Block Sucks Sure does.My new year’s resolution to blog more frequently (at least every other day) has been a complete and utter...
2. How my writing career began. I remember sitting in the small supposed dining room in my grandmother’s house on Lay Lake in Alabama sometime in...

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