Our writing prompt for December was graciously provided by one of our newer members and a friend of mine, James Edward Gray II. I can’t wait to see the submissions for this one! It will be quite entertaining!

With NanNoWriMo just wrapping up and Christmas looming, I’m sure we
all want to take things a little easier this month. Given that, and
the next scheduled meeting time, you have 51 days to write another
50,000 words… No, wait Dana, it was just a joke!

This month’s writing prompt is to show some event or tell some story
from more than one point of view. You can accomplish that in any way
that you like from explaining a character’s internal revelation to
literally telling a story more than once with different narrating
voices.

I gave several examples at the meeting. I mentioned Tales From the
Mos Eisley Cantina which is a book about the stories of all the faces
the camera pans across during the famous scene in Star Wars, Rand’s
battle with the Seanchan in book eight of The Wheel of Time in which
both sides decide they lost, and the British TV sitcom Coupling which
uses the shared story telling tactic heavily for hilarious effect
throughout its second and third seasons.

I forgot to mention, and should probably be punished for doing so,
Ender’s Game, which is easily a science fiction masterpiece. If you
haven’t read it, do yourself a favor and pick it up. It’s an easy
read you can knock out in a weekend and you will be deeply rewarded
for doing so. The entire story is about point of view.

That’s the task. The writing from multiple points of view part, not
reading Ender’s Game. Unless you haven’t read Ender’s Game and then
maybe you would be better off to reverse them. OK, we will call
having read Ender’s Game by the next meeting extra credit, but it’s
worth major points.

We decided not to impose any limits on the prompt, so run wild if you
like. We may need two meetings in January though, the normal one and
the other to read Tim’s submission.

The writing prompt due by October’s meeting was submitted by Douglas. It is a visual writing prompt making it an interesting and creative challenge. Utilizing any style of writing you prefer, write something utilizing the following images. Try to use them all if you can! When you’re done, submit it to our mailing list to share with other members!

“My backlog of motivating photos and other art leans more to fantasy/scifi range than I’d considered before. I’ve picked a set that I hope isn’t too far into the genre than you’d like. Our first prompt encouraged us to show not tell. In addition to that I’ll tack on a sensory element. Use description that highlights a sense other than sight. Here you go:”