official website of Erin M. Klitzke, historian and author of Awakenings and Epsilon: Broken Stars
It’s Tuesday, and back to work for me (and most of us, right?)
I spent my Labor Day slaving over the edits for the deluxe/print edition of Awakenings: War Drums. I hope you had an equally lovely and productive Labor Day as well!
Today’s prompt is actually one of the chapter openers from War Drums.
Prompt Type: Opening line
Prompt: Every so often, his thoughts returned to the girl he’d left at the border.
Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.
Happy Sunday! Hopefully, for you, your weekend doesn’t end today.
Prompt Type: Opening line
Prompt: I had never seen a night so black and felt so desolated in all my days, not before and not since.
Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.
Here’s to a lovely Saturday for all.
Prompt Type: Opening line
Prompt: He had the bluest eyes I’d ever seen and I found myself obscenely jealous because of it.
Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.
Halfway there, guys! It’s Wednesday, only a few days to go.
Prompt Type: Opening line
Prompt: I’ve met a lot of people in my life, but I’d never met anyone like him before–or since.
Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.
Happy Monday, folks! One week until the Labor Day Monday off here in the States if you’ve got a job like mine.
Prompt Type: Opening line
Prompt: “Damnation, I’ve never seen one that big before.”
Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.
Sunday already? Bummer. At least next weekend in the States is a holiday! I’m looking forward to the extra day off myself.
Prompt Type: Opening line
Prompt: “It’s like we’re riding some ridiculous escalator to hell.”
Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.
Yay, it’s Friday! I hope everyone’s as excited for the almost-holiday weekend as I am.
Prompt Type: Opening line
Prompt: “What kind of idiot–well. That kind of idiot, I guess.”
Got an idea for a prompt? Email me at emklitzke (at) gmail (dot) com.