Light and Shade Challenge

Welcome to this week’s Light and Shade Challenge and Happy April Fool's Day! Every Wednesday we put up a new Challenge.  There is a picture, a quotation and a 500 word limit.  The Challenge is to take whatever is sparked by the picture and/or the quotation, however tenuous or remote the connection, and see how much fun you can have in 500 words.  We never count the words.  The main thing that is important to us (Lyssa Medana and Thomas Marlowe) is the fun.  You have until midnight GMT Tuesday. Here is the picture prompt.  Please credit if you show it on your blog.   Image from WikiCommons and in the Public Domain Here is the quotation. A fool and his money are soon parted Anonymous It is really encouraging to have comments on your work and it can give people a real lift.  Sometimes it is nice to just let someone know that their writing hit the spot.  So...

Welcome to this week’s Light and Shade Challenge! Every Wednesday we put up a new Challenge.  There is a picture, a quotation and a 500 word limit.  The Challenge is to take whatever is sparked by the picture and/or the quotation, however tenuous or remote the connection, and see how much fun you can have in 500 words.  We never count the words.  The main thing that is important to us (Lyssa Medana and Thomas Marlowe) is the fun.  You have until midnight GMT Tuesday. Here is the picture prompt.  Please credit if you show it on your blog.   Image from Wiki Commons, taken by Synyan and used under the Creative Commons Agreement Here is the quotation. We touch other peoples' lives simply by existing JK Rowling It is really encouraging to have comments on your work and it can give people a real lift.  Sometimes it is nice to just let someone know th...

Welcome to this week’s Light and Shade Challenge! Every Wednesday we put up a new Challenge.  There is a picture, a quotation and a 500 word limit.  The Challenge is to take whatever is sparked by the picture and/or the quotation, however tenuous or remote the connection, and see how much fun you can have in 500 words.  We never count the words.  The main thing that is important to us (Lyssa Medana and Thomas Marlowe) is the fun.  You have until midnight GMT Tuesday. Here is the picture prompt.  Please credit if you show it on your blog.   Image from Wiki Commons, taken by Jotauveefe and used under the Creative Commons Agreement Here is the quotation. Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age                                                             ...

How do they rise up, rise up, rise up?  How do they rise up, rise up high? Today is the third Monday in the month, and we normally give a 100 word limit and a week to complete your work.  However Thomas and Lyssa are desperately saddened by the loss of Sir Terry Pratchett.  I imagine many people reading this will have read his books, they were insightful, compassionate and hysterically funny.  We both met Sir Terry back in the eighties, when he was touring tiny bookshops promoting Equal Rites.  He was lovely as we briefly met him.  His illness was cruel, it was a form of dementia that affected his ability to write.  As someone who had lived his life through the written word that must have been a very bitter blow. There are lots of people out there who really knew him and can write insightfully about his life.  There are many, many people that can write with greater confidence about his work.  We can't equal that.  However our live...

Welcome to this week’s Light and Shade Challenge! Every Wednesday we put up a new Challenge.  There is a picture, a quotation and a 500 word limit.  The Challenge is to take whatever is sparked by the picture and/or the quotation, however tenuous or remote the connection, and see how much fun you can have in 500 words.  We never count the words.  The main thing that is important to us (Lyssa Medana and Thomas Marlowe) is the fun.  You have until midnight GMT Tuesday. Here is the picture prompt.  Please credit if you show it on your blog.   Image from Wiki Commons, taken by Nmmacedo and used under the Creative Commons Agreement Here is the quotation. Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality Les Brown It is really encouraging to have comments on your work and it can give people a real lift.  Som...

Welcome to this week’s Light and Shade Challenge! Every Wednesday we put up a new Challenge.  There is a picture, a quotation and a 500 word limit.  The Challenge is to take whatever is sparked by the picture and/or the quotation, however tenuous or remote the connection, and see how much fun you can have in 500 words.  We never count the words.  The main thing that is important to us (Lyssa Medana and Thomas Marlowe) is the fun.  You have until midnight GMT Tuesday. Here is the picture prompt.  Please credit if you show it on your blog.   Image from Wiki Commons, taken by Inri and used under the Creative Commons Agreement Instead of the usual quotation, this time we suggest that you use an extended metaphor . I've linked with the Wiki definition but try continuing an image or metaphor through the whole piece. Or just use the picture. Or just write what is sparked off by the idea of an extended metaphor - or just have fun! It is...

It’s the first Monday in the month! On the first Monday in the month we put up the usual picture and quotation but just for a change we give a 2500 word limit (we still don’t count it) and you have fourteen days to have fun.  This is a chance to spread your wings a little and play a bit more.  Don’t forget you don’t need to directly refer to the picture or the quotation, just go with whatever gets sparked off, and (this is really important) have fun! Here is the picture prompt.  Please credit it if you show it on your blog. Image from Wiki Commons, taken by Daderot and in the public domain Here is the quotation.   Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls Sir Edward Coke It is really encouraging to have comments on your work and it can give people a real lift.  Someti...