Tuesday Tales

Being (predominantly) a short story author, I was (still am, of course ) honoured to be asked to join the ‘Tuesday Tales‘ invitation-only online writing group, lead by Jean Joachim, in January this year. The idea is that we’re given a new prompt each week, we write a story using it and post it on our blogs / websites. Then we email the link and first two or three sentences to Jean. She then posts them on the Tuesday Tales blog (on a Tuesday ), gives us the link then we go out and shout about it.

The stories I write appear linked below when I post them on Sunday. I then add the relevant Tuesday Tales blog link when they’re available and share them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc.

Posted

1. Christmas  (Dec 19th 2011) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here.
2. Wish (Dec 26th) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here.
3. Kiss (Jan 2nd 2012) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here.
4. Lies (Jan 9th) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here.
5. Broken (Jan 16th) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here.
6. Game (Jan 23rd) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here.
7. Save (Jan 30th) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here (which includes my third-person story: Two backwards, one forwards).
8. Love (Feb 6th) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here (which includes my second-person story: Two Rows).
9. Heart (Feb13th) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here (which includes my second-person story: Two Hearts).
10. Cheat (or cheater) (Feb 20th) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here (which includes my second-person story: Trust Me).
11. Dress (noun or verb) (Feb 27th) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here (which includes my second-person story: Small Steps).
12. To write a <300-word story from Picture prompt 001 – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here (which includes my second-person story: Badge of Honour).
13. Life (6th March) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my second-person story: The Milkman’s).
14. Legs (13th March) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my third-person story: Once-perfect).
15. Sky (20th March) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my second-person story: Consolation Prize).
16. Night (27th March) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my second-person story: Date Night).
17. Chest (3rd April) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my second-person story: Siesta).
18. Airport (10th April) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my second-person story: Cocoon).
19. Chase (17th April) – I wrote The photo that no-one else can get) for this prompt was unfortunately postponed to 29th May so I shall put the links there when it comes round. Instead of ‘chase’ for 17th April was a picture prompt which prompted my story: Where’s the fun in that?… which was fun to write. You can read the stories from this prompt on the Tuesday Tales blog.
20. Car (24th April) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my second-person story: Appearances can be deceptive).
21. Daffodils (or another flower) (1st May) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my story for that prompt: Eddie’s fault).
22. Finger (8th May) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes the middle of my three stories for that prompt ‘Elimination’).
23. Picture Prompt (15th May) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my story for that prompt: A Bad Feeling).
24. Pie (22nd May) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (I’ve not posted my story for that prompt yet, will do shortly).
25. Chase (29th May) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my story for that prompt: The photo that no-one else can get, (already posted on 17th April as the prompts were changed and I didn’t pay attention).
26. Trees (5th June) – I’ll put the link to the relevant Tuesday Tales blog page here when it’s available and it’ll include my story for that prompt (my Story A Day May for May 12th Hold On).

Scheduled
27. Name of a city (12th June) – I’ll put the link to the relevant Tuesday Tales blog page here when it’s available and it’ll include my story for that prompt.
28. Red (19th June) – I’ll put the link to the relevant Tuesday Tales blog page here when it’s available and it’ll include my story for that prompt (already written and one of my favourites so far).
29. Money (26th June) – I’ll put the link to the relevant Tuesday Tales blog page here when it’s available and it’ll include my story for that prompt (already written, and welcomes back Eddie and Thelma from Eddie’s fault).
30. Ocean (2nd July) – I’ll put the link to the relevant Tuesday Tales blog page here when it’s available and it’ll include my story for that prompt.
31. Dawn (9th July) – I’ll put the link to the relevant Tuesday Tales blog page here when it’s available and it’ll include my story for that prompt.

So, not only can you read these stories but you could also write your own using the prompts given each week. There’s no word count limit.

Single-word prompts are something I regularly give my Monday night workshop and it’s amazing how different our stories can be. I am now also looking for flash fiction (<1000 words) for Flash Fiction Fridays and poetry for my Post-weekend Poetry page.

You can also read / download my eBooks and free eShorts at Smashwords, Sony Reader Store, Barnes & Noble, iTunes Bookstore, Kobo and Amazon, although the free shorts aren’t free on Amazon, with more (novels) to follow, and I also have a quirky second-person viewpoint story in charity anthology Telling Tales.

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