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Exquisite Corpse for Writers 2023

January 2, 2023 by admin 32 Comments

Welcome to our game for writers. Welcome to our Exquisite Corpse. An Exquisite Corpse is a writing or art game where you complete the poem. Each author or artist cannot see the previous artists/writers’ work. In this case, we are writing poetry together. It is a poem about anything. If you don’t know, The Exquisite Corpse is from the French words cadaver exquis, and was popular in the 1920s. Initially created by the surrealist on a folded piece of paper played by several players. It’s a classic writer’s game full of fun and surprise. The group is basically writing a poem together. Much in the current spirit of Burning Man, this game is at the heart of creativity. This is our second EC. Please try it. Others have had great fun doing this.

In this case, there is no restriction on words. This EC goes until we get to 100. Some numbers may be repeated. If they do they will be entered in the order they were received.

Here is how this will work. When you loaded this page, there was a number loaded below. It is a random number. To play, you will write your random number in the comment below, along with 1 line of poetry. For example, if your number is 1E, write 1E in the comment with your line of poetry. Write only one line. If you want to write more than one line, reload the page for a new number.

Once we have enough lines between 25 and 100, we will show the results. That means I’ll collect all the lines, put them in order, and then publish the poem we created.

Tell your friends! Share this. Let’s complete this Exquisite Corpse. Refresh the page for your number, then leave your line below.

(On a sidenote, our random number generator has been spitting out letters on occasions. I thought this to be impossible. If it gives you a letter, just refresh the page again).

 

 

Your Number is (write in the comment with your line of poetry)

38

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Never-Ending Horror Haiku Post

January 19, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Writing exercise: Can you write a Horror Haiku?  The ones we like most from this page will be selected to publish in an upcoming issue of Every Writer, so please use your real email. We will NOT contact you other than to tell you have been selected. We are looking for horror haiku. I love these, and we read everyone of these published on our site. Feel free to post as many as you like, there is no deadline, and this post goes forever.

Anyway quick guidelines:

Haiku
5 7 5 form
Scary, freaky, ironic, not gross
No deadline
Post the Haiku in the comments below

If you have any questions the only other answers I have is this example. I wrote it. It’s not fantastic or anything. Also, I’ve screwed up the count many times on these things, so if it is off, you let me know in the comments:

Ex-lover

The transformation
left her naked, shivering
beside the remains

I know it’s not traditional to put a title with it, but I think it’s a nice touch, so feel free.

Write your haiku in the comments below, enter as many times as you like. 1 haiku per comment please.

Have fun!

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Never Ending 50 Word Horror Stories

January 19, 2022 by admin 1 Comment

This is not a contest. This is the post where we are asking you to post your 50 word horror stories. There are few reasons for this post. 1. I love 50 word horror stories. 2. I want place to collect them for our readers without our readers feeling judged by rankings. 3. I want to collected these for a future issue of Every Writer, so please use your real email address. We will not use your information in any other way other than to tell you have been selected to have your work in our magazine. This does NOT sign you up for our mailing list.

We are looking for 50 word horror stories:

  • Must be high quality horror stories
  • Must be 50 words or under
  • Must be a complete story
  • There is no deadline
  • Post as many as you like
  • Post your story in the comments below.
  • Scariest Stories will be selected for publication.

We read everyone of these, and being these are not a contest expect comments back from your fearless editor. Have fun. This will run forever!

 

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6 Word memoir: Put your life into 6 Words!

January 19, 2022 by admin 2 Comments

6 Word memoir: Put your life into 6 Words!

Ok, this is not a contest. We are making a home for some 6 Word memoirs on our site. This is something that if you look around the web, you will see have become kinda popular. This isn’t a contest, it’s just a place to leave your memoir and a link to your website or book if you have one. The 6 word memoirs on this page need to be about your life. It’s basically an overall memoir I guess like a real memoir. Anyway, I’m going to put some guidelines before. Please leave your memoir below, and if you miss our contests, don’t worry, we have some coming in the future.

Anyway quick rules:

Must be 6 words, no more, no less.
Must be in some way summing up your life
Must be “moving”
You can enter as many times as you like
Memoir must be written in the comment
Must be original

I have high hopes for this. Please have fun with it, and I’m really looking forward to these. These memoirs are always amazing.

Good luck!

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Continue the Story

April 30, 2018 by admin 86 Comments

story2

We haven’t done one of these in a long time. Our Haiku, Horror Story, and 2 Sentence Stories are doing so well, we thought we’d add one more, Continue the Story…

This is not a contest, but if we publish the story, which I hope it turns out that we do, then you will get full credit for a publication with us.

The way you play this little game is simple. You just continue the story. You have to write a paragraph, each time that you continue the story, but you can write as many as you want as long as others are jumping in. You can take the story in any direction you like. Make sure it’s scary. We’ll start with one paragraph, and you continue it. If in the end we like the story, we want to publish it on EWR: Short Stories. Each person who adds to the story will get their name on the credits, with a bio and links to sites or books or whatever. One link per person.

We will edit this when we go to publish the story.

Continue the story is a time honored tradition of writers. It’s related to the Exquisite Corpse, which we also do on our site. Anyway, I hope you will add to this. It’a fun little exercise.

Here we go. Continue this story:

He heard the girl screaming in the distance. He was at least an hour from his home. The long walk in the night air had done him well. He felt rejuvenated until he hear the screaming, in the distance. He took his one headphone out of ear, so he could possibly get a direction to go to find her.

He had stopped jogging, and now roamed a large stone fence, listening. As he came to a break in the fence he could hear she was only a short distance away. He looked up to see, illuminated by the street lights, “Allan Park Memorial Cemetery.” He passed under the sign, and headed for the screams.

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