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We all eavesdrop, and if you don’t you should probably start

August: Overheard

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Photo by Samuel Dixon from unsplash of a beautiful woman listening.
Photo by Samuel Dixon on Unsplash

In July, we looked at world building using mythology.

So what are we up to?

We’re pondering the spoken word.

How listening to whispers can inspire the most interesting stories.

Our imaginations can run wild with an overheard sentence or two.

Shuffling in a dreary shopping aisle your mind wandering about spaghetti or macaroni, cheap or fancy, and you overhear…

“You don’t understand the pressure I’m under.

This could kill me.”

And you think, I wonder what that’s about?

That sort of thing.

TL;DR

  • One weekly snippet of dialogue
  • You remix the context and characters and stir them into a story

Prompts shall gather here:

Overheard Prompts

Photo by Samuel Dixon from unsplash of a beautiful woman listening.
“Feeling a little peckish?” an artful generation by Zane Dickens
Person in black hood sitting on a red bench in a park. “Is it a wolf or sheep in that riding hood?” an artful generation by Zane Dickens
Microcosm Divider Tell Your Story variant by Zane Dickens

Interested? Then write with us.

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