Thursday, June 05, 2008

JUNE's PROMPT CONTEST aka STORY STARTER

June Prompt Contest
RULES:
• Write a 500 word scene using all ten Prompt Words.
• Begin each scene using one of three Scene Starter Sentences.
• Mail your scenes in the body of an e-mail to Cheryl @ CherylWyatt . com (close spaces before and after “@” and “.”)
• Put “June Prompt Contest” in the subject line.
• Entry deadline is the last day of the month.
• Winners will be notified the first week of the next month.
• Winners will receive a free Steeple Hill book, mailed the month winners are notified.
• All monthly entrants (not just winners) will be entered into the annual contest for one of several chances to win a six month subscription to any Steeple Hill line of their choice.
• Entries will not be posted or published anywhere and entrants retain all rights to their work.
• I will post winners’ names each month if permission is granted either at the time of entry, or upon notification of placement.
• New prompts will be posted on the first of the month.
• Most of all, have fun!

June Prompt Words
1. decree
2. Prints
3. Princess
4. Stadium
5. Gladiator
6. Journey
7. Hand
8. Joust
9. Victor
10. Play
June Scene Starter Sentences:
“She hit town yesterday.”
“What category?”
“How long you figure we got?”

HAPPY WRITING!

Cheryl Wyatt aka Squirrel

3 comments:

Eileen Astels Watson said...

Oh, this looks like another good one. I used your last one to help me out of a writer's slump. Such fun to work with! Will keep this one for my next slump to get me going again.

Thanks for doing these!

WK said...

Oh fun. Maybe I can actually get one written this time around!

I couldn't come up with a thing that worked with May's.

WendyK

Hope Chastain said...

Ack! Where did June go? I missed this one!!!!
:o(