Today's Inspiration

Sentence Prompt: "There's nothing to say."

Word Prompt: Drawing

Random Item: A remote control.

Quote: If I tell you that you need to shut up, it isn't my way of suggesting that you need to talk more.

Suggested Reading: Twain's Rules of Writing

Suggested Listening: Sarah Kay Steals The Show

Today's Stumble: A Day In California

Today's Inspiration

Sentence Prompt: "It isn't an infection."

Word Prompt: God

Random Item: A movie poster.

Quote: If you freak yourself out, then you really shouldn't expect sympathy when you've ended up freaking out over nothing. When you don't freak out over something major, you don't deserve praise either.

Suggested Reading: Angels and Demons -- Dan Brown

Suggested Listening: Jumper -- Third Eye Blind

Today's Stumble: The Frenemy.com: Your Life Is Not A Movie


So, here's a bit of background about the Random Item addition that I tossed into the mixing pot a few days ago. I have a fedora that's full of little slips of paper.

On these little slips of paper are the names of random objects. There are approximately two hundred of these little slips of paper (printed out in size 9 Times New Roman and painstakingly cut out by hand) in the fedora.

Now, when I'm feeling incredibly stressed out over a scene that's just not going anywhere, I pick out a slip of paper and no matter what it is or what my characters are doing or where they are, I find a way to use the item in the scene and that usually gets me going again.

So take one of the random items and use it in a scene. You might just figure out something useful.

Today's Inspiration (x2)

Sentence Prompt: The girl with the red devil tail pulled her cellphone out of her bra and proceeded to make a call.

Sentence Prompt: "Are you sure you saw a vampire and NOT an Edward wannabe?"

Word Prompt: Jump

Word Prompt: Hide

Random Item: A tabby cat.

Random Item: A piece of Grasshopper pie.

Quote: Love is going to be hard. Love is going to hurt. Love is going to suck.

Quote: It doesn't take much to ruin my day.

Suggested Listening: Macavity The Mystery Cat -- Andrew Lloyd Webber

Suggested Listening: Baby You Can Drive My Car -- The Beatles

Suggested Reading: A Found Note

Suggested Reading: Days

Today's Stumble: Real "Sybil" Admits Multiple Personalities Were Fake

Yesterday's Stumble: Quote V. Reality




So this is a double-dose of inspiration to make up for last night. My computer is verging on DEAD, so it's a pretty herculean effort that I was able to get this up and going before work.

I might not get another inspirational post out tonight and if I don't, I apologize, and I'll give you another double-dose tomorrow morning.

Have a good night and good luck with your last minute preparations for NaNoWriMo!

~Emily Grace

Today's Inspiration

Sentence Prompt: It felt like pins and needles, only it wasn't.

Word Prompt: Hum

Random Item: Antique brooch.

Quote: Every day that you wake up, you decide right when you get out of bed what kind of day it is going to be, so make the effort to be positive right from the get-go. You'll like the results.

Suggested Reading: Onward by Howard Schultz

Suggested Listening: Adia -- Sarah Mclachlan

Today's Stumble: Do As One: Universal Breathing Room

Today's Inspiration

Sentence Prompt: "Pardon me, Mr. Kettle, but I have some concerns about your current hue."

Word Prompt: Rick-Roll'd

Quote: Beauty isn't just skin deep. Anybody can be beautiful on the outside, but it takes real strength and real work to be beautiful on the inside too.

Suggested Reading: 10 of History's Biggest HIV-Positive Celebrities

Suggested Listening: Better Than Revenge -- Taylor Swift

Today's Stumble: Family Kitchen: Nutella Mug Cake

Today's Inspiration

Sentence Prompt: "Used underwear?"

Word Prompt: Unicorn

Quote: I'm sorry about earlier.

Suggested Reading AND Listening: Stone Telling: The Changeling's Lament by Shira Lipkin

Today's Stumble: Dear Blank Please Blank (The initial text is in what I believe is German, but the pictures are why I've chosen it as Today's Stumble.)

Today's Inspiration

Sentence Prompt: There was an alien the size of a grape hiding in the produce section.

Word Prompt: Cracker

Quote: When you do arts and crafts, you're doing more than just making something pretty.

Suggested Reading: Jaclyn JK's Rambles From Insanity Blog

Suggested Listening: The (Free) Podcast Version of Today ...

Today's Stumble: What's the square root of sustainability? This Coke bottle.

Today's Inspiration

Sentence Prompt: "What's a ninja?"

Word Prompt: Alcohol

Quote: Crazy is only as bad as Not Crazy on a bad day.

Suggested Reading: Bram Stoker's Dracula

Suggested Listening: Yellow Submarine -- The Beatles

Today's Stumble: Cutest Fistbump Ever

Today's Inspiration

Sentence Prompt: When the phone began to ring ...

Word Prompt: Powder

Quote: Sometimes, there's nothing you can do but stand there and stare. You'll feel helpless and lost and lonely and you'll feel like crap because that's all you can do. All that you can possibly do when you're feeling like that is hope that somebody else knows what to do, and pray that they're willing to do it. -- Emily Grace Lamontagne

Suggested Reading: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Suggested Listening: As The World Falls Down - David Bowie

Today's Stumble: Extremely Well-Captured Animal Photographs By Steve

Today's Inspiration

Sentence Prompt: "You delving into my sticky messes does not sound cool."

Word Prompt: Happy

Quote: Be faithful in small things, for it is in them that your strength lies. -- Mother Theresa

Suggested Reading: A Post From My Blog

Suggested Listening: Going In For The Kill -- La Roux

Today's Stumble: Clothes From Milk



Today, I had an absolutely amazing day, and I reached out and made every effort to make the lives of the people around me more positive. The responses I got were unique and uplifting, and they made me feel even BETTER than I already did. What have you done lately to make the people around you happy?