Writing Exercise Competition Week 6 Voting: The Harbinger

Ahoy ye lubbers! The time to weigh anchor and choose a course is at hand – time to begin voting in this week’s Writing Exercise Competition. On behalf of the IU staff, I want to thank all the entrants for doing such a great job with the writing prompt and the merciless constraints of the exercise.

This week, there are nine entries from which to choose. You may review the entries here. Please spread the word and encourage your friends to vote by using the share buttons at the bottom of the post!

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Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards

Writer’s Digest honors self-published authors with the Annual Self-Published Book Awards.This is the 20th year of spotlighting today’s self-published works.

There is a $100 entry fee for the first book.

The deadline is April 20, 2012.

There will be a total of 10 winners.  For prizes and more information, see the Writer’s Digest website.

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Conquering Fear

Fear is a killer. When I think back on my life, I am crushed by the things I missed out on because I was afraid. I was a pretty fearless and stupid kid, so that’s saying a lot. But there were fears. There were girls I should have kissed. There were trips I should have taken. There were things I should have tried…or been brave enough not to try. I missed so many opportunities because I was afraid.

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The Frankenstein Game

Frankenstein is a writer’s game wherein a story is composed of sentences contributed by different authors. We play this game a lot in Book Junkies, and everyone has a lot of fun with it.

So, I’ll kick it off with a prompt sentence, then you guys each add a sentence in the comment thread. Each subsequent sentence should feed off the sentence before it in the thread. So, let’s see what monster of a story we can stitch together.

One note though: PG-13 type blog, so watch the potty-mouth.

Prompt sentence:

Miranda watched from her window as the two men across the street broke into her neighbor’s car.