Tuesday Tales

Being (predominantly) a short story author, I was asked to join the Tuesday Tales invitation-only online writing group, lead by Jean Joachim, in January 2012. 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 her Tuesday Tales blog (on a Tuesday :)), gives us the link then we go out and shout about it.

The stories I wrote appeared linked below when I posted them on this blog, usually Sunday evenings. I then added the relevant Tuesday Tales blog link when they became available and shared them on Twitter, Facebook etc.

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Christmas (Dec 19th 2011) – before my time, you can read the other writers’ stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here.
Wish (Dec 26th) – before my time, you can read the other writers’ stories here.
Kiss (Jan 2nd 2012) – before my time, you can read the other writers’ stories here.
Lies (Jan 9th) – before my time, you can read the other writers’ stories here.
Broken (Jan 16th) – before my time, you can read the other writers’ stories here.
Game (Jan 23rd) – before my time, you can read the other writers’ stories here.
Save (Jan 30th) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here (which includes my 476-word third-person story: Two backwards, one forwards).
Love (Feb 6th) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here (which includes my 467-word second-person story: Two Rows).
Heart (Feb13th) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here (which includes my 503-word second-person story: Two Hearts).
Cheat (or cheater) (Feb 20th) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here (which includes my 393-word second-person story: Trust Me).
Dress (noun or verb) (Feb 27th) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here (which includes my 162-word second-person story: Small Steps).
To write a <300-word story from Picture prompt 001 – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog here (which includes my 259-word second-person story: Badge of Honour).
Life (6th March) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 134-word second-person story: The Milkman’s).
Sky (20th March) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 301-word second-person story: Consolation Prize).
Night (27th March) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 258-word second-person story: Date Night).
Chest (3rd April) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 316-word second-person story: Siesta).
Airport (10th April) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 200-word second-person story: Cocoon).
Chase (17th April) – I wrote the 356-word 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 300-word 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.
Car (24th April) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 473-word second-person story: Appearances can be deceptive).
Daffodils (or another flower) (1st May) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 454-word story for that prompt: Eddie’s fault).
Finger (8th May) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes the middle of my three stories – 166-worder ‘Full Moon’, 294-worder ‘Elimination’ and 29-worder ‘Lock-jaw’ – for that prompt ‘Elimination’).
Picture Prompt (15th May) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 300-word story for that prompt: A Bad Feeling).
Pie (22nd May) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which sadly doesn’t include my story for that prompt as I was away but it was a 670-worder, They try to with the food, inspired by Roald Dahl’s Fat Chance (and I’ve given my characters the actors’ names).
Chase (29th May) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 356-word 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). I later wrote a follow-up for SADM: 594-word The photographer that no-one else can get. 🙂
Trees (5th June) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my story for that prompt (my Story A Day May for May 12th 725-worder Hold On).
Limousine / jet picture prompt (12th June) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 292-word story for that prompt: Half-human).
Name of a city (19th June) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 933-word story for that prompt: A lot to learn).
Red (26th June) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 536-word story for that prompt: Sentimental keepsake).
Money (3rd July) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my story for that prompt (which welcomes back Eddie and Thelma from Eddie’s fault): 387-word Root of all evil).
Ocean (10th July) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 319-word story for that prompt: Ocean Drive).
Picture prompt: a trunk (17th July) – you can read the stories from the Tuesday Tales blog page here (which includes my 619-word story for that prompt: Police escort).

I decided that this would be my last Tuesday Tales story for the foreseeable as I already write a story a day and want to concentrate on getting my novels online. 🙂

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.

I have a new forum and you can follow me on Twitter, friend me on Facebook, like me on Facebook, connect with me on LinkedIn, find me on Tumblr, complete my website’s Contact me page or plain and simple, email me. Finally, I also now have a new blog creation service especially for writers: I Can Build Your Writing Blog.