Best wishes to all TOP participants as you continue, start, or restart your prompt play elsewhere. It's been a fun ride.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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What is Totally Optional Prompts?
Totally Optional Prompts is a community of people who gather to share poetry. We provide weekly prompts which are
Totally Optional
read each other's offerings, and generally have a good time.
Totally Optional
read each other's offerings, and generally have a good time.
Want to participate?
Every Saturday evening, we'll post a prompt here. Then you post a poem on your blog. Then Thursday morning, come back here and find the Thursday post. Leave the PERMALINK (that is, the link to just that post, not the link to your blog itself) in the Linky widget.
Remember, prompts are Totally Optional-- if this week's prompt doesn't turn your crank, then feel free to post something else entirely.
Remember, prompts are Totally Optional-- if this week's prompt doesn't turn your crank, then feel free to post something else entirely.
Want to suggest a prompt?
Leave a comment on one of the Saturday evening posts suggesting the prompt. If you leave it on one of the Thursday posts, we may not see it.
Disclaimer
If you are posting a poem by someone else, please obtain that person's permission or make sure it's in the public domain.
TOP participant collections!
Mike McCulley of Word Anger: "Word Anger" and "Loose Thoughts"
sbpoet (Sharon Brogan) of Watermark: Oratory and small poems
Tiel Aisha Ansari of Knocking From Inside: "Knocking From Inside"
Sue Turner of Tumblewords: "North of Summer"
sbpoet (Sharon Brogan) of Watermark: Oratory and small poems
Tiel Aisha Ansari of Knocking From Inside: "Knocking From Inside"
Sue Turner of Tumblewords: "North of Summer"
Have a poetry collection?
Do you have a poetry collection available? We'll post it here. Email your name, the title of your collection and the URL where people can get it to tielansari AT gmail DOT com. TOP participants only, please.
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11 comments:
Thanks, Tiel, for hanging in as long as you did!
This was the first prompt site I ever participated in and I hate to see it end.
But...such is life, I guess.
How do I restart my engine? If it's poetry, I go for a walk or read a poetry book. If it's crafting, I look through magazines to get inspired. If it's anything else, like housework, I break it into short segments with some poetry or crafting in between as a reward.
Other than that, I just wait and trust that things will restart on their own.
Happy writing! And I'll see you around the blogging world!
Tiel, I'd like to thank you for the work you've done for this site. I've always enjoyed it and the poets who posted here. Quality work.
http://allaboutsoul.livejournal.com/139398.html
Hi Anonymous, I tried to leave a comment on your blog but Livejournal doens't like me! In case you didn't get it, I'll leave it here, also.
Live journal is so confusing. Hope you get this comment.
I really like the simplicity of your poem! How many times have I wished for a restart button to change a past event! Beautiful job!
Linda, I so admire the way you picked up to help out this year when you had so much on your plate - Admirable! You did a great job! Thanks.
Thanks! xoxo
A truly totally optional one - Oh celery.
Very sorry that Totally Optional Prompts is coming to an end :(
Participating has been fun.
I find this an interesting site.
I write poems.
I hope to visit here again.
So sorry to find you closed for good, really enjoyed participating here in the past.
I have poetry on one of my own
blog pages. I called it
"Lines About Loss of Privacy."
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