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Featuring those who submitted to the previous writing prompt from Live-Love-Write , here are the participants, listed order of submission, along with information on the newest prompt. Please remember to fave this journal to help support your work and the prompt!

To submit to the prompt, please remember to put "for the Live-Love-Write writing prompt" in your artist's comments and submit to the Writing Prompt gallery for your feature every week. Entries without this info will be denied. To submit to a past prompt, send us a note with a link to the entry and the prompt information.

All literature and comics in response to the prompt are welcome and encouraged.


Previous Writing Prompt

Respond to the following theme:

The only thing that's worse than one is none


Admin's Choice:

Pulling Weeds“Good morning, Brother Chris. Your tomatoes are spectacular.” “Praise be to God.” “Would you like some help weeding?” “Thank you, Brother Jacob, I would love some. My knees are killing me.” “Are they? You always look so content here, working in your garden.” “I am, in mind and spirit, but the body does have a tendency to complain.” “The soil is moist with yesterday’s rain. What a pleasure to dig in! Why, look at this worm, as fat as my finger.” “Let me see. Oh, yes, I call him Percy, one of my favorite little workers.” “Don’t tell me you’ve named the earthworms!” “One must occupy one’s mind, Brother Jacob! Though I tend to call most of the... weltschmerz.I am easily confused and often incorrect, my routines are something amiss in that I cannot stick to them, and I'm still not too sure how to walk without my shoulders pulled back, my stride filled with the harsh taps of my heels, my eyes daring men to come and test a hand, a turn, a try at me and see if they can return with no limp or bruise.(The days roll past with no markings in its wake—all that it gives is a way to see, a way to feel, a morning and an afternoon, a dawn and a dusk, a sunrise and a sunset - but what makes today a different today; which many yesterdays is speaking; how is tomorrow a tomorrow when nothing changes?)Memories ...


Poetry

Understanding HeartbreakDear heart, I beseech thee to relinquish thy hold. Thy lady hath left me, and my torment is cold.I tried to drink the tears, shed for her vagrant heart, but drowned in my own fears: Did my soul, then depart?Should they dig up the dirt, and throw me in the ground? Would I still feel the hurt, with no one else around?To answer my despair with death, would be perverse. To have no one else there may still, hurt so much worse.Heart broken, soul attached. Tears rolled over a smile. My sadness not dispatched, but covered for a while.Sadness dealt with later. Now I’ll relish in my past. I thought pain was greater, than the love we amassed.The lov... One Small SparkWhen you start off small One try is better than none The idea can growWith patience and persistence A difference can be made AloneBreathe You're ok NO. Someone's there. Not anymore.  Someone's missing. For just a long time.People to protect you.  People to go to.  There used to be just one. Wasn't that ok? Someone you could go to, Someone you could trust with anything. Someone you could call when the attacks were too much.The voice of someone who cared, Was just enough to calm you enough, To be in control.But now? There is no one I can trust. I am alone. The only thing worse than having one, Is having none.


Prose

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New Entry to Old Prompt

animal teethi. I found her in the hyper-real pop art dream, scooping my heart from the reeds, ditch weeds, she held it in her hands to dine upon; she was an animal.I stopped her. That heart is poisoned by cyanide and all the horrible things that passed between the beast’s teeth. The first thing she learned from me is that the heart holds terrible things the same way she held the muscle between her fingers.ii. The barn was painfully red, set back beneath the painter’s streaks of sunset on rolling beds of tall grass and wild flowers and it was beautiful and mine but she could not stay there.I promised to take her home.Every grain of dirt and broken ston...


This month's writing prompt, from now until August 31st:

Write anything that features one or more of the following:

- a complicated happiness
- make up
- Alaska
- a historical knife



Superb entries, everyone! I really enjoyed reading them, and I particularly appreciated your creative interpretations.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask below.

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Comments: 7

Glaciama [2017-08-30 00:54:06 +0000 UTC]

For the feature "make up" are you referring to makeup or making something up?

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DrMeh In reply to Glaciama [2017-08-30 13:28:57 +0000 UTC]

Hello,

I was referring to makeup as in cosmetics, but you're welcome to interpret it any way you like!

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The-Teal-Trilby [2017-08-29 21:54:45 +0000 UTC]

I'm a little unsure how to upload this, I'm kinda new. I uploaded it to the file and my own gallery with the group's tag. Is this correct?

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DrMeh In reply to The-Teal-Trilby [2017-08-30 14:23:38 +0000 UTC]

Hello,

Welcome to the club! For instructions on how to submit your work, please refer to the How to Create a Deviation and Submit to LLW section of the submission guidelines: 

Submission Guidelines Live-Love-Write Submission Guidelines
Submissions
Global submission limit of three deviations per week to the gallery (regardless of folder). You may submit three deviations of any type to any folder each week. Program-exclusive folders, such as Writing Prompt and Dodecathlon, are exempt: submissions to these folders does not count towards your global submission limit.
Help keep our galleries organized for readers! Please submit to the correct folder. For example, the Tutorials folder is for tutorials only.
We accept the following types of deviations:
         > text deviations
         > pdf deviations
         > manga and comics
         > visual literature: prose and poetry arranged in a design or with artwork to convey the story
         > links to published work outside of dA: submit to Pr

Please let us know if you have any further questions!

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The-Teal-Trilby In reply to DrMeh [2017-08-30 21:13:17 +0000 UTC]

Okay, so I uploaded the writing prompt into the folder with the tag in the description, so would that be counted or have I done it wrong?

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DrMeh In reply to The-Teal-Trilby [2017-08-31 14:48:32 +0000 UTC]

Nope, you did perfectly! Your submission has been accepted.

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The-Teal-Trilby In reply to DrMeh [2017-09-05 17:27:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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