Today’s guest prompt is from the legendary Jerry B. Jenkins, co-author of the Left Behind series and many, many other best sellers, and host of the fabulously generous writing resource: JerryJenkins.com. I’ve been poking around inside his new Writers’ Guild (a memership site for writers). It’s well worth a look, and I’ll be posting a review of it later in the summer.
Updated: As a bonus, Jerry’s asked me to share this article with you:How To Become An Author
The Prompt
You head the credit union at a company that requires employees to explain needs for loans. One pleads privately for confidentiality, and you talk the the board into his loan, based on their trust in you. You go to your grave without revealing his secret, which is…
Jerry B. Jenkins has written 187 books with sales of more than 70 million copies. He’s had 21 New York Times bestsellers, including the Left Behind series. He now shares his writing knowledge with aspiring authors at JerryJenkins.com.
I’m late, I’m late for a very important date…so sang the White Rabbit. My story for Day 2 is a little late. Pain is part of my daily life, and sometimes it becomes overwhelming. Today my day started at 3:00 pm. I offer the following…
https://theencouragingscribe.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/1868/
wow! i used to follow the “left behind” series religiously! no pun intended. it was a great series! i’ll find out what happened to it. in the meantime. …
https://atomicindigo.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/the-side-inventor/
I wrote today, I posted it on my blog. It is here. https://vickgoodwin.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/story-a-day-day-2-my-fathers-brother/
It didn’t end up first person. But I think it worked.
I took some liberties with the two prompts for today: https://storiesbystolle.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/day-2-time-will-tell. I had more in mind that I wanted to write, but I have a feeling I’m not going to have the time I desire this month to write long stories. But at least I have a draft that perhaps I can do something with in the future.
Wow … am I the only one who went with this prompt? I did a mash up of this prompt with the 4th grade word list … hopefully I did a decent attempt!
https://annieswritingchallenge.wordpress.com/may-2016-story-a-day-challenge/day-2-story-a-day-in-may-the-secret/