#WeekendWritercize 6 Winner! - LupusAnthropos

Thank you Lupus and Nicole for your fantastic entries in this week's #WeekendWritercize!  How strangely coincidental that you both ended up with 15-year-old professional singers at the mall!  It was a very close match-up - the modern-day mystery disappearance versus the ultimate reality star dream of fame.

As a reminder, this week's #WeekendWritercize asked participants to roll three dice to learn the who, where and when of their story. It was really fun to see what you did!

Without further ado ...

This week's winner is:

LupusAnthropos / @LupusAnthropos

This is the SECOND win!

What can I say? This was a fun entry. It could be my recent dive into the Hunger Games trilogy, but I'm kind of digging the vast possibilities of unreasonable vanity that the future holds. The Instafame store. Awesome. I also really like that you took a risk and played around with what professional singer could mean to you.

Pick up your badge below! Congrats again! I will message you for the gift card!

 

Honorable Mention:

Nicole (Madlab Post) / @MadlabPost

A missing kid singer at the mall, every security guard's worst nightmare, let alone mom and manager. I want to read more! I want to know what happened, whether this girl is hiding from fame, if she's been kidnapped, had an accident or worse - murder. You set up a fantastic opening to a story here, and I am very intrigued to know more!

Nicole, pick up your badge below:

Once again, congratulations to ALL of the entries and thank you for participating!  I love reading what you write every week and look forward to seeing what you create next week!

All Entries:

LupusAnthropos

Nicole (Madlab Post)

#WeekendWritercize 3 Winner: LupusAnthropos

It looks like this week's prompt stumped the lot of you, but there was one entry that was quite well executed and is absolutely deserving of the #WeekendWritercize winner badge.

Once again, here was the prompt:

writercize: Use the published poem of your choice to inspire original prose.

Congrats to Winner

LupusAnthropos (a #WeekendWritercize 1 Honorable Mention!)

LA chose a poem about fickle fortune and life's difficulties that I was previously unfamiliar with, called "Das Glück ist eine leichte Dirne," by Heinrich Heine and used it as the inspiration for a modern-day tale about a man who wins at gambling but loses in life along his drive home. 

The inspiration was clear, but the story was entirely new, which was exactly what I was looking for!

In the course of one night, Kevin Sanderson goes from winning $50,000 to getting served, while he steps out of a newly dented car and watches a tree limb being lifted from his crushed roof. That's a world of conflict in a mere 620 words! Read the entire story here.

Very well done. Please pick up your badge below.

I would also like to acknowledge November Rain who wrote a lovely story about an artist and his love, looking in through a wrinkle in time. It was for the Friday prompt, so ineligible for this week's badge, but a very nice entry into the writercize world and I look forward to more of her work in future #WeekendWritercizes!

Please come back Saturday morning at nine for another #WeekendWritercize with a slightly simpler premise. And of course check in throughout the week for lots of great non-competition writercizes to try!