Easy Street Prompts

Welcome to the 10th edition of Easy Street's Carnival of Writing and Art. This month's submissions are full of insight and surprise, so be sure to visit all the writers and leave comments on their blogs.

(Changes are in the air here on Easy Street... after you read this month's fine writing, scroll down for a peek.)

Fiction

Cynthia Bateman presents The Loss posted at Blog About It.

Mohit Salgaonkar presents Do mastaane chale zindagi banane... posted at Still Waiting to Wake, saying, "Read what happens when two resources from an Indian compnay travel to Redmond to get a project "executed"! Part fact, part fiction, this is a story narrated with the aid of a Bollywood movie stills!"

Chris Cooper presents Prologue « Chris Cooper posted at Chris Cooper, saying, "I wrote an 89 000 word novel called VIRAL. It is a thriller with a good dose of romance. I am publishing the book on my blog, two chapters per week. A new chapter is published every Wednesday and every Saturday."


Flash Fiction

Susan Helene Gottfried presents Trevor and Mitchell Fiction: Wet Jeans posted at West of Mars, saying, "I loved the interplay between the boys in this one."


Genre Bender

C. Bosco presents Reduction of the Prisoner posted at Hammers of Flight, saying, "Penelope weaves as we consider strings of thought about fate, identity, and ephemeral sorts of ideals."


Nonfiction

Jordy Clements presents Hopey Changey Things posted at Omaha Arts and Culture, saying, "An interview with Bemis curator Hesse McGraw and info on the Bemis' new exhibit: Hopey Changey Things. The show is a collaborative effort bringing together the work of over 15 artists, germinating from McGraw's reaction to a famous Sarah Palin quote."

Kevin Erickson presents Car Review: 2010 Ford Focus SES posted at Preachers and Horse Thieves.

MummyT presents Madam, Your Husband? posted at Travels with a Nine Year Old, saying, "On the perils of travelling with your son's father, when he is not your partner."

Sonny presents John F. Kennedy's Golden Presidential Campaign posted at Seize the Day.

JHS presents My Life as a Parent: Milestones, New Chapters, and the Status Quo | Writing My Life posted at Writing My Life.


Poetry

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Not-So-Clean Limerick posted at Mad Kane's Humor Blog.


That concludes the 10th and final edition of Easy Street's Carnival of Writing and Art. Don't worry, the carnival itself isn't going away. It's resurrecting as Block Party. Submit your writing and art to the 1st edition of Block Party using the carnival submission form. Past posts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Submission Guidelines are important. Do read these before submitting.

Deadline for the 1st edition of Block Party: Friday July 30th, midnight CST


Please Note: Easy Street has a new address - http://www.easystreetprompts.com. The old blogspot address will redirect, but you might want to update a feed reader or saved favorite. You don't want to miss out on anything!

I've done a little housekeeping on the site lately. This always happens when school is out and I have a little time on my hands to play around. There's also a new Easy Street Facebook page, because I know scads of folks begin and end their days there. In addition to Twitter updates, it's an easy way to keep up with new prompts on The Street.

If you're like me, you've been letting the effluvia of everyday to-do get between you and your daily scribbling. Now is the time to give yourself the gift of writing time - ten minutes if that's all you can manage, more if you can swing it. It's your creme filling, your winning lotto card, your birthright. Let the rest of your life continue in it's chaotic scrabble, that ten minutes will save you. I promise.

When you're finished writing, go take a look at this Site of the Week. Something about a circus always makes me giddy.

Big Tent Poetry is a fairly new site where you can post to prompts, find interviews and reviews, and join a growing community of poets. Check out their link collection - excellent resources. I love what they've done with the place. Note: BTP's "ringleaders" were part of the creative group that gave you Read Write Poem, which became inactive a few months ago. This site's even better.

Don't forget - deadline for the 10th edition of Easy Street's Carnival of Writing and Art is June 25th. Be sure to read the submission guidelines HERE, then choose your best post for this edition. Haven't written it yet? Click the "Random" button at the bottom of the screen, set the clock for ten minutes, and go to town.

It's just that easy.

Hmmm.

Posting this a little sloppily via a cell phone I still don't quite know how to use. Blogger will be back up soon (I hope) and the prompts will be up. In the meantime, go scribble something fabulous. Maybe a haiku about the Blogger meltdown.

Sadly, you may not be able to comment here until all is repaired and shiny again.

I'll keep trying to figure out this phone...