Rory’s Story Cubes Challenge: Week 7

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for this week’s Story Cubes Challenge. If you know somebody who might enjoy the challenge, please share the link with them! Just a reminder: Please post a link to your challenge response in comments so we can all see how different people tackle the same prompt.

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Rory’s Story Cubes Challenge: Week 6

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for this week’s Story Cubes Challenge. Just a reminder: Please post a link to your challenge response in comments so we can all see how different people tackle the same prompt. Happy writing!

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Rory’s Story Cubes Challenge: Week 5

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for this week’s Story Cubes Challenge. Just a reminder: Please post a link to your challenge response in comments so we can all see how different people tackle the same prompt. Happy writing!

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Rory’s Story Cubes Challenge: Week 4

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for this week’s Story Cubes Challenge. Just a reminder: Please post a link to your challenge response in comments so we can all see how different people tackle the same prompt. Happy writing!

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Rory’s Story Cubes Challenge: Week 3

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for this week’s Story Cubes Challenge. Just a reminder: Please post a link to your challenge response in comments so we can all see how different people tackle the same prompt. Happy writing!

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Rory’s Story Cubes Challenge: Week 2

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for this week’s Story Cubes Challenge. Just a reminder: Please post a link to your challenge response in comments so we can all see how different people tackle the same prompt. Happy writing!

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Story Cubes Challenge Entry: Into the Future

Two days to go before the first Story Cubes Challenge week ends and I’ve got my ficlet. Cubes: Hanging, yelling/shouting, pushing, thought bubble, padlock, turning, arrow/pointer, dancing, question mark Into The Future “Do I have to dance?” Dan frowned. “Because listening to music is fine. It’s just…” He tapped a calloused finger on the silhouette [...]

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Announcing Rory’s Story Cubes Challenge, Take 2

Today, David Masters and I were chatting on Twitter about Rory’s Story Cubes and he asked if the Story Cubes Challenge still was running. Well, it never really ran in the first place. Mark Bruno had the idea, I found his post and took up the challenge. But I’m not sure anybody but Mark and [...]

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Curious about part of Exeter?

I promise, I haven’t died. I’ve been juggling a few extra balls the past several weeks and one of the side effects has been a lack of blogging. I’ve got one particular aspect that should play itself out in the next week or 10 days, and then I’ll be back to regular blogging, though probably [...]

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Story Cubes Challenge Round 9: Now What?

This isn’t truly a Story Cubes Challenge entry because my cubes are at home, but I woke up this morning with some Thanksgiving football plot bunnies hopping madly in my head. If you’re not from Massachusetts, the annual high school Thanksgiving Day rivalry game is hotly contested and a huge town tradition for most schools. [...]

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E-books and The Writer’s Minimum Viable Product

Joel Friedlander has a great blog post looking at the concept of the Minimum Viable Product for writers, and how e-books have affected that. In journalism terms, we always call it the minimum story, a necessity for any potentially time-consuming project. In both cases, it’s the lowest level you need to publish. In investigative reporting, [...]

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Story Cubes Challenge – Round 8

Finally, this round is done! This one might get developed into a longer piece for another short story collection, but to finish it before the week ended, I opted to keep it simple. If you used the cubes I posted for this round to spark your own story, please leave a link in comments – [...]

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Writing Through The Story Cubes Maze

Another week, another set of Story Cubes. And another obstacle course through which I need to thread my words. I mentioned last week that some sets work better than others, and this week is definitely one of the more challenging ones. Prompts: Pyramid, padlock, house, cane, sad face, compass rose/arrows in many directions, bug/beetle, magic [...]

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Story Cubes Challenge – Week 7

If you read the piece I did the other day about how I write with Rory’s Story Cubes, this is the story I was working on as I wrote it. As always, these challenge entries are basically rough drafts — my editor makes sure stories go through many, many revisions before they make it into [...]

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Use Rory’s Story Cubes as a writing tool

Earlier today, the folks at Rory’s Story Cubes asked me how I use the cubes to write. Good timing, since I was doing just that this morning. If you haven’t seen the cubes before, they’re a set of nine dice with images on each side. If you can’t find the actual dice, or if you’d [...]

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