Category: Odd Prompts
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Odd Prompts: Dust Storm
A snippet from the next Lilania Begley story! Dust Storm is now available for purchase as an ebook. “The sheriff will need help.” He poured her mug first, then put some into the glass. He left it on the counter to cool for a moment. “If the storm was that bad, there will be people…
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Odd Prompts; Djinn
This is a snippet of a short story which I plan to publish shortly Available Now! under my penname, Lilania Begley. *** “Oh no, here it comes again.” “What?” He sounded confused. Which made sense, as he was under the vehicle and she was in it, staring out at the dusty landscape. “That dust devil.…
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Odd Prompts: Slice of Pie
If you’ve read my story in He Was Dead When I Got There, you’ll recognize the setting and a couple of characters. This is set in my Bluehills series, which will be released under my romance penname, Lilania Begley. *** Coffee and pie in hand, she stepped back out of the kitchen. She’d gotten halfway…
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Squeeze the Moonbeams Lightly: Odd Prompt
This delightful prompt gave me such good imagery in my head I couldn’t resist making it another visual week. One of the fun things about using the art program to render out my illustrations is tweaking it with illustration styles, like poring over books of old art and adopting little quirks that suit me.…
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Odd Prompts: The Kitten
Rather than attempt to write fiction and disrupt the work in progress, I opted to go with a visual response. What I got is a perfect illustration of why AI will never replace the human artist completely. I can immediately picture multiple ways to depict this: “The kitten knocked on the mousehole door.” I attempted…
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Odd Prompts: A Juicy Big Tomato
A standalone vignette. I promise! I’m not going to turn it into a whole novella like I did with Running Into Time! *** Kerchunk-splat! Devon ducked back behind the relative safety of the auditorium door. There had been a direct hit on the window in it, just moments before. The glass shattered, the metal mesh…
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Odd Prompts: Strange New World
Two things: my site was down for a few days, I am sorry for any inconvenience. Should be good now, but don’t hesitate to let me know if something isn’t right. The host I’m using until January has been starting to tinker with the backend. Looking for hosting… And likely moving a lot of the…
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Odd Prompts: Running Into Time
This is a portion of what I wrote today, which was supposed to be a short vignette to bridge me between two projects and ballooned into over 3000 words of… something. Dunno what it is yet. You tell me! *** “Why did you say Dr. Yeager was wrong?” She asked, after they had circumnavigated the…
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Odd Prompts: Beware the Pink
“How was it?” Having a seven-foot-tall octopoid hovering while you ate was a bit weird. Having him wringing a pair of tentacles while he watched you consume food he’d prepared was a whole other level of strange. Steven didn’t think he’d ever get used to this. He put his spoon down, and contemplated his bowl…
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Odd Prompts: Autumn’s Guardian
I’ve been struggling to find time for creativity these last few months. My mind seems to be filled with other stuff that pushes the urge to imagine right out of the way. I thought I’d explore styles with this last week’s prompt. My prompt came from Becky Jones with “The Guardian was napping in the…
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Odd Prompts: Stylized Work
The prompt was ” There were rows and rows of monks standing, watching… It didn’t fit in any way into the WIP, so rather than starting something new, while I’m under a deadline, I decided I’d feed the prompt into Midjourney, and see how many ways I could stylize the results by tweaking the prompts.…
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Odd Prompts: No Don’t Stop
When told to stop, don’t do that, how do you react? Sometimes, we listen and respect the caution. Sometimes, it makes us charge ahead harder. Sometimes, we cock our head in skepticism and verify that what we’re told is true. My prompt this last week from the More Odds Than Ends Crew, and specifically Fiona…