...I have created a SINGLE FOLDER for poetry called The Odd Poem . THIS FOLDER and THIS FOLDER ALONE is where you can post poetry. Alternatively it can go to our sister group My-Soul-Bleeds-Ink .



Hello guys! I am MagicalJoey, and I will be heading up some fun times and prompts from here on out (with the help of the team). We would like to jump start the group again, and with that – a bit of a challenge for April. If you aren’t all familiar with Special Holiday Fun, we are going to introduce you in the best way possible. Each month will feature a Special Holiday prompt for you guys to gain inspiration from and give us something wonderful!

ALSO! We shall be doing some weekly prompts for you as well. These are generally going to be photo or phrase prompts, but could also be word, music, video or Special Holiday Fun related and will vary in word counts to mix up the challenge. Everyone who enters this challenge will get a month long feature by the group, so we hope the incentive is high enough for you guys to really participate! Let’s see what you got!!

This year, 2017, is "International Sustainable Tourism for Development" year. While this doesn't sound all that 'writable', it does allow for short stories about other 'foreign' places or people, even some non-fiction too (think travel experiences, sans Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). So, if you want to write anything on this prompt you have 2017 words (see what I did there) minimum to write your story. (Try not to make it more than 10k words...some of us readers are old and wear glasses and all that jazzy stuff).



April, among other things, is "Inventor's Month" (it's also 'Poetry Month' and 'Decorating Month') so your challenge will be to write something relating to inventor and their inventions. There is a lot of room in this for stories about A.I. and how it can/did go wrong, so let your imagination soar. You could also put a historical spin on things and write about an inventor whose inventions are too futuristic for his century/community...just a thought. You have 3029 words minimum to do this in.



Now, for Weekly Prompts. Due to a very high work load I am unable to update this regularly each week, so what I will do is place all four week's prompts at once. This gives you the added option of doing a future week's prompt if you don't like the current week's one. Weekly prompt entries will be placed in the featured folder for the next month, along with the month's entries, giving you a whole month's feature on our page.

Week One: 1 April - 9 April:
Sunday 2 April is "Children's Book Day" and so for this challenge you need to write a children's story. This story needs to be aimed at children aged 5-8 or aged 9-11, you can pick, and must be able to stand on its own (i.e. not a chapter). If you have artist pals you can maybe ask for a mock-up from them of an illustration/illustrations for the story, but this is not necessary. You have unlimited words for this, and the challenge is more to make it age appropriate than how many words you used.



Week Two: 10 April - 16 April :
Thursday 13 April is 'Scrabble Day" and so for this challenge you must write a story, or a poem, in which you use made up words (faux words) in some manner. There must be at least five faux words in your story, and these can be as simple as 'clicky' or as complex as 'spiderstrung'. Because the focus is more on the faux words than word count, you once again have no word limit...just try to not make your stories, or poems, too long or too short.



Week Three: 17 April - 23 April:
Wednesday 19 April is 'Garlic Day', and what comes to mind when you think of garlic...VAMPIRES of course. Your challenge is to write a story about/including vampires. Added challenge? Make it a flash fiction piece of 500 words or less.



Week Four: 24 April - 30 April:
Saturday 29 April is 'World Wish Day' and so your challenge is to write about a wish gone wrong. Think Ella Enchanted and every fairy tale where wishes turn out to not be what they appear at first. You have 9474 (spells 'wish') words to play with.



And that, my friends, is when April ends and the month of my birthday begins. Enjoy! And remember, any questions can come directly to the group, to myself MagicalJoey or to any one of the admins.



Domaex , WhiskeyDreamer , nothing-creative and MagicalJoey