Three on Friday 22 November

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem

The challenge today offers three quotations to inspire the creative muse, using one, two or all three as a prompt.

The quotations for this week are:

• The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself - Mark Messier

• Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives - Susan Sontag

• Lord, what fools these mortals be - William Shakespeare

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Three on Friday 15 November

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem

The challenge today offers three quotations to inspire the creative muse, using one, two or all three as a prompt.

The quotations for this week are:

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily – D.H. Lawrence

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return – Salman Rushdie

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat – Seneca

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Three on Friday 8 November 2013

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem

The challenge today offers three quotations to inspire the creative muse, using one, two or all three as a prompt.

The quotations for this week are:

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town - Michael Ondaatje

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with - Don Marquis

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance - Derek Bok

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Three on Friday 25 October

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem

The challenge today offers three quotations to inspire the creative muse, using one, two or all three as a prompt.

The quotations for this week are:

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better – Oliver Goldsmith

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning – Louis L’Amour

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening – Wallace Stevens

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Three on Friday – 18 October 2013

The idea of these challenges is to use the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem

The challenge today offers three quotations to inspire the creative muse, using one, two or all three as a prompt.

The quotations for this week are:

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them – Willa Cather

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die – Franz Kafka

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Three on Friday – 4 October 2013

The challenge today offers three quotations to inspire the creative muse, using one, two or all three as a prompt.

The quotations for this week are:

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure to a duty – Helen Rowland

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldn’t find honest employment – Mark Twain

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence – Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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Three on Friday – 27 September 2013

The idea of the challenge is to use any one or more of the given prompts to create a piece of flash fiction (100-500 words) or a poem. The challenge today offers three quotations to inspire the Muse to create, using one, two or all three of the given quotes.



This week’s quotes are:

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend – Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth – Virginia Woolf

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while – Albert Einstein

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Three on Friday – 20 September 2013

The challenge today offers three quotations to inspire the Muse to create, using one, two or all three of the given quotes.



This week’s quotes are:

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot – Dave Barry

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world – Jewish Proverb

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal – Joe Paterno

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