Richard Alan’s MEANT TO BE SERIES VIRTUAL BOOK PUBLICITY TOUR will officially begin on March 5 and end on March 23 2012. Please contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife(at)gmail.com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing his book. Thank you!
I am so excited to be part of a Virtual Book Tour. Each day I participate in a different interview, blog, or guest blog. There will also be giveaways. I will try to keep you updated by twitter of the various stops I’m making during the tour. Click on the image below for the schedule of events.
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While on tour the second challenge came out from Rachel Harrie’s Fourth Writer Platform-Building Campaign.
Prompt 1:
Two people are sitting together under the remains of a concrete bridge. Their backs are against a rusted bridge support. One person’s leg is cut. The other person has wet hair.
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Second Campaigner Challenge
Do one or more of the following:
- Write a pitch/logline for a book based on the prompts (less than 100 words)
- Write a short story/flash fiction piece of less than 200 words based on the prompts
- Write a poem with a twist using the prompts as inspiration (in less than 200 words)
- Write a story/poem in five sentences, each sentence based on one of the prompts
- Write a poem/flash fiction piece (in less than 200 words) about the water pear *without* using the words “pear”, “spoon”, or “droplet”.
Here is my entry:
Two people are sitting together under the remains of a concrete bridge. Their backs are against a rusted bridge support. One person’s leg is cut. The other person has wet hair. Three children are in the midst of a large garbage dump.
“It’s not a bad cut,” he told his sister. “Besides, the rain has almost stopped. I see another garbage truck coming. We better get out there and see if there’s something for us to eat. I’m so hungry, my belly aches.”
On the other side of the world, my son runs along the pier chasing his ball. He has thoughts of the cotton candy he ate at the fair yesterday. He doesn’t worry about hunger and if anything, he could stand to lose a few pounds.
How will he react when he is kidnapped? How will he manage to exist when he is left on a garbage dump on the other side of the world, to fend for himself? After a life of not knowing hunger, will he have the physical and social skills to join with the other children in a desperate attempt to survive?
I welcome your critique of this piece. Flash fiction is very new to me. Now I can go and read other people’s entries. There were so many wonderful flash fictions stories from the first challenge. It was fascinating how many different themes came out of the same input. I expect to see that here also and I’m really looking forward to it.
Until next time – Happy Reading!
Richard Alan
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