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#FantasyIndiesSpooktober
#LGBTQWriteathon
#LoreOutLoud
#OctoberWorldbuilders
#PlotTober
#PretendPanel
#Prosetober
#QueerPrompts
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#WritingLifeMonthly
#Char_Roleplay
#DavidsMonthOfHorror
#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#FantasyIndiesSpooktober
#LGBTQWriteathon
#LoreOutLoud
#OctoberWorldbuilders
#PlotTober
#PretendPanel
#Prosetober
#QueerPrompts
#TimeTravelAuthors
#WritingLifeMonthly
October 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
#prosetober hot take 🔥
Filter words have their place. You lose an element of voice if you press yourself to get rid of every last one of them. Same with adverbs. Same with telling rather than showing.
Filter words have their place. You lose an element of voice if you press yourself to get rid of every last one of them. Same with adverbs. Same with telling rather than showing.
#Prosetober Day 7: There is rest for the wicked---what's your hot take about sentence craft?
October 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
#prosetober hot take 🔥
Filter words have their place. You lose an element of voice if you press yourself to get rid of every last one of them. Same with adverbs. Same with telling rather than showing.
Filter words have their place. You lose an element of voice if you press yourself to get rid of every last one of them. Same with adverbs. Same with telling rather than showing.
Am I doing this right #prosetober?
The young grey-brown wolfhound rounded the corner of the wall, leaping over the crumbling masonry at its foot, bounding after the laughing boy whose fine brown hair bounced with every leap.
The young grey-brown wolfhound rounded the corner of the wall, leaping over the crumbling masonry at its foot, bounding after the laughing boy whose fine brown hair bounced with every leap.
For #Prosetober Day 1 we have a bit of an appetizer, Propositions! As the bedrock ideas we use to build sentences, starting with propositions directs us to think about ideas and be more purposeful when we start building those sentences tomorrow
Bonus: Make one sentence from your propositions
Bonus: Make one sentence from your propositions
October 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Am I doing this right #prosetober?
The young grey-brown wolfhound rounded the corner of the wall, leaping over the crumbling masonry at its foot, bounding after the laughing boy whose fine brown hair bounced with every leap.
The young grey-brown wolfhound rounded the corner of the wall, leaping over the crumbling masonry at its foot, bounding after the laughing boy whose fine brown hair bounced with every leap.
#prosetober
There's something about Sarah and the way she styles her hair - not that she'd be particularly happy about you focusing on her hair, or any other physical quality, since she considers any judgement of a woman's exterior to be a sign of misogyny in the viewer.
There's something about Sarah and the way she styles her hair - not that she'd be particularly happy about you focusing on her hair, or any other physical quality, since she considers any judgement of a woman's exterior to be a sign of misogyny in the viewer.
#Prosetober Day 5! Combine both of the last two techniques together
October 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
#prosetober
There's something about Sarah and the way she styles her hair - not that she'd be particularly happy about you focusing on her hair, or any other physical quality, since she considers any judgement of a woman's exterior to be a sign of misogyny in the viewer.
There's something about Sarah and the way she styles her hair - not that she'd be particularly happy about you focusing on her hair, or any other physical quality, since she considers any judgement of a woman's exterior to be a sign of misogyny in the viewer.
The world spinning around him, Lawrence steadied himself against the table
#Prosetober
#Prosetober
#Prosetober Day 3 brings us to coordinating modifiers! The trick here is to keep elaborating, making the ideas *wider*
The modifying phrases can go before or after or both, but if you're doing this strictly (you don't have to!) they should only modify the base clause
The modifying phrases can go before or after or both, but if you're doing this strictly (you don't have to!) they should only modify the base clause
October 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The world spinning around him, Lawrence steadied himself against the table
#Prosetober
#Prosetober
I missed this yesterday because #Prosetober was misspelled 😅
⛵️ The boat sailed jauntily over the choppy waves.
🥕 The chef chopped the carrots into fine batons.
👑 Her Majesty was not pretty, and never had been; rather, she was handsome in her advanced age, having grown into her strong jaw and nose.
⛵️ The boat sailed jauntily over the choppy waves.
🥕 The chef chopped the carrots into fine batons.
👑 Her Majesty was not pretty, and never had been; rather, she was handsome in her advanced age, having grown into her strong jaw and nose.
For #Prostober Day 2 we have something you probably know: Modifiers! It's worth brushing up on terms and thinking about them explicitly, and they make talking about writing easier. But whatever you call them, see if you can get all of them into your three sentences
October 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I missed this yesterday because #Prosetober was misspelled 😅
⛵️ The boat sailed jauntily over the choppy waves.
🥕 The chef chopped the carrots into fine batons.
👑 Her Majesty was not pretty, and never had been; rather, she was handsome in her advanced age, having grown into her strong jaw and nose.
⛵️ The boat sailed jauntily over the choppy waves.
🥕 The chef chopped the carrots into fine batons.
👑 Her Majesty was not pretty, and never had been; rather, she was handsome in her advanced age, having grown into her strong jaw and nose.
#prosetober
The servants, dressed in their pink and green silk livery, blue and silver phoenix embroidered large on the chest, heels clipping the marble floor in choreographed synchronicity, placed the feast on the table: long sticks of bread fresh from the oven, twisted evenly and gleaming with
🧵
The servants, dressed in their pink and green silk livery, blue and silver phoenix embroidered large on the chest, heels clipping the marble floor in choreographed synchronicity, placed the feast on the table: long sticks of bread fresh from the oven, twisted evenly and gleaming with
🧵
Happy spooky season on this #Prosetober Day 6. Please write a monstrously long sentence, as big as you can grammatically muster!
If you're following the trail Prosetober trail, the challenge is to only use coordinating and subordinating modifiers (no conjunctions) but all chonky sentences will do!
If you're following the trail Prosetober trail, the challenge is to only use coordinating and subordinating modifiers (no conjunctions) but all chonky sentences will do!
October 7, 2025 at 9:33 PM
#prosetober
The servants, dressed in their pink and green silk livery, blue and silver phoenix embroidered large on the chest, heels clipping the marble floor in choreographed synchronicity, placed the feast on the table: long sticks of bread fresh from the oven, twisted evenly and gleaming with
🧵
The servants, dressed in their pink and green silk livery, blue and silver phoenix embroidered large on the chest, heels clipping the marble floor in choreographed synchronicity, placed the feast on the table: long sticks of bread fresh from the oven, twisted evenly and gleaming with
🧵
Somehow it's the last day of September, which means tomorrow we are going to start doing writing exercises most days
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Sharpen your quills, gather your pens, and blow out your keyboard---#Prosetober, a game of short themed writing exercises, is coming! Whether rhetoric and sentence types are old hat or something you've been doing by ear, 25 of the days are a chance to write a few sentences with form in mind
September 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Sharpen your quills, gather your pens, and blow out your keyboard---#Prosetober, a game of short themed writing exercises, is coming! Whether rhetoric and sentence types are old hat or something you've been doing by ear, 25 of the days are a chance to write a few sentences with form in mind
#prosetober
🛒 Beverly noticed Miranda, when really she should have been noticing how her shopping cart was about to scrape into the Honda Civic next to her parked Nissan.
♒️ The ocean, which was red on this planet, roiled.
🤺 Eduardo, blade at the ready, sprung into action.
🛒 Beverly noticed Miranda, when really she should have been noticing how her shopping cart was about to scrape into the Honda Civic next to her parked Nissan.
♒️ The ocean, which was red on this planet, roiled.
🤺 Eduardo, blade at the ready, sprung into action.
#Prosetober Day 4, a bit late!
The difference from Day 3 (coordinate) is that here we are drilling down, finding more specifics for the reader's mind, becoming more focused on what the writer is focused on, thinking on the precise point that they are making.
The difference from Day 3 (coordinate) is that here we are drilling down, finding more specifics for the reader's mind, becoming more focused on what the writer is focused on, thinking on the precise point that they are making.
October 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
#prosetober
🛒 Beverly noticed Miranda, when really she should have been noticing how her shopping cart was about to scrape into the Honda Civic next to her parked Nissan.
♒️ The ocean, which was red on this planet, roiled.
🤺 Eduardo, blade at the ready, sprung into action.
🛒 Beverly noticed Miranda, when really she should have been noticing how her shopping cart was about to scrape into the Honda Civic next to her parked Nissan.
♒️ The ocean, which was red on this planet, roiled.
🤺 Eduardo, blade at the ready, sprung into action.
#Prosetober
Can't help but string them all together into a little story this time 😝
The witch cackled, her head going back with the sound, wild and unfettered. Lawrence steadied himself against the table, the fact finally hitting him: he'd drunk rather more than he'd intended to, and perhaps,
🧵
Can't help but string them all together into a little story this time 😝
The witch cackled, her head going back with the sound, wild and unfettered. Lawrence steadied himself against the table, the fact finally hitting him: he'd drunk rather more than he'd intended to, and perhaps,
🧵
#Prosetober Day 3 brings us to coordinating modifiers! The trick here is to keep elaborating, making the ideas *wider*
The modifying phrases can go before or after or both, but if you're doing this strictly (you don't have to!) they should only modify the base clause
The modifying phrases can go before or after or both, but if you're doing this strictly (you don't have to!) they should only modify the base clause
October 3, 2025 at 2:22 AM
#Prosetober
Can't help but string them all together into a little story this time 😝
The witch cackled, her head going back with the sound, wild and unfettered. Lawrence steadied himself against the table, the fact finally hitting him: he'd drunk rather more than he'd intended to, and perhaps,
🧵
Can't help but string them all together into a little story this time 😝
The witch cackled, her head going back with the sound, wild and unfettered. Lawrence steadied himself against the table, the fact finally hitting him: he'd drunk rather more than he'd intended to, and perhaps,
🧵
And we're back!
My computer blue-screened, derailing #Prosetober and everything else I was using it for
My computer blue-screened, derailing #Prosetober and everything else I was using it for
October 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
And we're back!
My computer blue-screened, derailing #Prosetober and everything else I was using it for
My computer blue-screened, derailing #Prosetober and everything else I was using it for
I am reading Call of Cthulhu to see if Lovecraft left any good examples for Prosetober and I am reminded again how comically* racist he is; we are parsing the "mystery" of how a 92-year-old man died suddenly and the proposed resolution is he was near a black person before it happened
September 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I am reading Call of Cthulhu to see if Lovecraft left any good examples for Prosetober and I am reminded again how comically* racist he is; we are parsing the "mystery" of how a 92-year-old man died suddenly and the proposed resolution is he was near a black person before it happened
#Prosetober Day 7: There is rest for the wicked---what's your hot take about sentence craft?
October 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#Prosetober Day 7: There is rest for the wicked---what's your hot take about sentence craft?
I'm going to drop #Prosetober prompts a bit after midnight GMT, not out of any allegiance to Great Britain, but because it happens to be a good hour for me
You can, of course, hop on them like an early release or wait for the next day if you're in another time zone
You can, of course, hop on them like an early release or wait for the next day if you're in another time zone
Somehow it's the last day of September, which means tomorrow we are going to start doing writing exercises most days
September 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I'm going to drop #Prosetober prompts a bit after midnight GMT, not out of any allegiance to Great Britain, but because it happens to be a good hour for me
You can, of course, hop on them like an early release or wait for the next day if you're in another time zone
You can, of course, hop on them like an early release or wait for the next day if you're in another time zone
Happy spooky season on this #Prosetober Day 6. Please write a monstrously long sentence, as big as you can grammatically muster!
If you're following the trail Prosetober trail, the challenge is to only use coordinating and subordinating modifiers (no conjunctions) but all chonky sentences will do!
If you're following the trail Prosetober trail, the challenge is to only use coordinating and subordinating modifiers (no conjunctions) but all chonky sentences will do!
October 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Happy spooky season on this #Prosetober Day 6. Please write a monstrously long sentence, as big as you can grammatically muster!
If you're following the trail Prosetober trail, the challenge is to only use coordinating and subordinating modifiers (no conjunctions) but all chonky sentences will do!
If you're following the trail Prosetober trail, the challenge is to only use coordinating and subordinating modifiers (no conjunctions) but all chonky sentences will do!
For #Prosetober Day 1 we have a bit of an appetizer, Propositions! As the bedrock ideas we use to build sentences, starting with propositions directs us to think about ideas and be more purposeful when we start building those sentences tomorrow
Bonus: Make one sentence from your propositions
Bonus: Make one sentence from your propositions
October 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
For #Prosetober Day 1 we have a bit of an appetizer, Propositions! As the bedrock ideas we use to build sentences, starting with propositions directs us to think about ideas and be more purposeful when we start building those sentences tomorrow
Bonus: Make one sentence from your propositions
Bonus: Make one sentence from your propositions
#Prosetober Day 4, a bit late!
The difference from Day 3 (coordinate) is that here we are drilling down, finding more specifics for the reader's mind, becoming more focused on what the writer is focused on, thinking on the precise point that they are making.
The difference from Day 3 (coordinate) is that here we are drilling down, finding more specifics for the reader's mind, becoming more focused on what the writer is focused on, thinking on the precise point that they are making.
October 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#Prosetober Day 4, a bit late!
The difference from Day 3 (coordinate) is that here we are drilling down, finding more specifics for the reader's mind, becoming more focused on what the writer is focused on, thinking on the precise point that they are making.
The difference from Day 3 (coordinate) is that here we are drilling down, finding more specifics for the reader's mind, becoming more focused on what the writer is focused on, thinking on the precise point that they are making.
#Prosetober Day 3 brings us to coordinating modifiers! The trick here is to keep elaborating, making the ideas *wider*
The modifying phrases can go before or after or both, but if you're doing this strictly (you don't have to!) they should only modify the base clause
The modifying phrases can go before or after or both, but if you're doing this strictly (you don't have to!) they should only modify the base clause
October 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
#Prosetober Day 3 brings us to coordinating modifiers! The trick here is to keep elaborating, making the ideas *wider*
The modifying phrases can go before or after or both, but if you're doing this strictly (you don't have to!) they should only modify the base clause
The modifying phrases can go before or after or both, but if you're doing this strictly (you don't have to!) they should only modify the base clause
#Prosetober Day 9: Climax
Another tool you doubtless reach for without too much thought, but it can give your writing a real sense of forward motion, accomplishment, or conclusion when you take the time to consider its uses
Another tool you doubtless reach for without too much thought, but it can give your writing a real sense of forward motion, accomplishment, or conclusion when you take the time to consider its uses
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
#Prosetober Day 9: Climax
Another tool you doubtless reach for without too much thought, but it can give your writing a real sense of forward motion, accomplishment, or conclusion when you take the time to consider its uses
Another tool you doubtless reach for without too much thought, but it can give your writing a real sense of forward motion, accomplishment, or conclusion when you take the time to consider its uses
#Prosetober Day 5! Combine both of the last two techniques together
October 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM
#Prosetober Day 5! Combine both of the last two techniques together
#Prosetober Day 8. You probably don't need an introduction to metaphor. But I think it's often overlooked how much room there is for subtlety, and you may find a reintroduction makes you see your acquaintance in a new light
October 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
#Prosetober Day 8. You probably don't need an introduction to metaphor. But I think it's often overlooked how much room there is for subtlety, and you may find a reintroduction makes you see your acquaintance in a new light
Due to a migraine, I will post Prosetober in the morning local time
October 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Due to a migraine, I will post Prosetober in the morning local time
Thread of threads for #Prosetober so it's all in one place. This should be my pinned post into November, for those looking to reference it during that time
October 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Thread of threads for #Prosetober so it's all in one place. This should be my pinned post into November, for those looking to reference it during that time