“I can’t wax poetic,” you confide. “The spark has gone from my writing,” you lament. You say your ideas are stale, your stories stillborn.
Let me hold you to the light like an egg. You’ll witness your next tale waiting to hatch.
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that cynking feeling 
Very innovative and nothing stale about this one! Liked it.
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Thank you!
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now this = 1 nice extended simile.
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I love this image. So magical and somehow tender.
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I Googled candle to get some inspiration and loved the image of peering into an egg.
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I have a friend who once worked as an egg-candler, the first I had ever heard of the process. So fun where these prompts will take us.
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I wish it were this easy! I’m totally in a dry spell! Candle me! I love this.
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Well, my first answer was the antithesis of this – sad, dismal and negative. I’ll publish it over the weekend for comparison.
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This was absolutely perfect! I’m just so happy to know so many people that can help light my candle when I’m feeling low, like all you peeps!
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In the coffeehouse and on another Facebook page some writers were lamenting a lack of ideas. I guess I wanted to tell them to hang in there.
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This is lovely. If only it were that easy!
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Yes, I channeled my inner Pollyanna.
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The egg is so gentle and delicate; it fits perfectly in the story.
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I hadn’t even thought of that – our writing egos can be so fragile and crack at the slightest criticism. Careful handling is required to nurture that.
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I think I have had this conversation, or at least the side that isn’t spoken.
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I’ve had my own “never is when I shall ever write! Never again!” moments.
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And then… Just to prove us wrong, we write. The cycle.
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Lovely and uplifting!
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Me first! 😉
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*strikes a match*
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Wow – that was a great take on the prompt!! Well done!
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