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04 August 2006 @ 09:31 am

#56, PG: "Born to Run."

Title: Born to Run
Author:

phinnia
Content: Final Cut (schuyler)
Rating: PG
Challenge: #56, "Counting Flowers on the Wall" (296 words, under an hour)
Notes: He's really the only one of my headpeople that can do proper justice to this song. You'd think it was written with him in mind. :-)

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30 July 2006 @ 06:00 pm

Challenge #59 - Strange and Beautiful

Challenge #59 is Strange and Beautiful! (Original by Aqualung.)

To me, you're strange and you're beautiful
You'd be so perfect with me
But you just can't see
You turn every head but you don't see me

Find a way to take those lyrics and apply them to a situation in your writing. Feel free to suggest your own songs or lyrics here!

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10 July 2006 @ 10:58 am

Challenge #58 - Run

This week's challenge is Run! (lyrics by Snow Patrol.)

I'll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You've been the only thing that's right
In all I've done

And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we'll make it anywhere
Away from here

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03 July 2006 @ 03:24 pm

Challenge #57 -- The Walk

Challenge #57! This week's theme is -- The Walk! (Original by Imogen Heap.)

No, it's not meant to be like this
Not what I planned at all
I don't want to feel like this
So that makes it all your fault

Red alert this vessel's under siege
Total overload
All systems down
They've got control
There's no way out
We are surrounded
Give in, give in
And relish every minute of it

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26 June 2006 @ 06:09 pm

Challenge #56 -- Counting Flowers on the Wall

Challenge #56 is-- Counting Flowers on the Wall, by the Statler Brothers

Last night I dressed in tails
Pretending I was on the town
As long as I can dream
It's hard to slow this swinger down
So please don't give a thought to me
I'm really doing fine
You can always find me here
Having quite a time

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19 June 2006 @ 03:07 am

Challenge #55 -- Four Walls

This is usually where I'd put an MP3 post, but they're not terribly popular. We'll think of something else! In the meantime.

Challenge #55! This week's theme is -- Four Walls! (Original by Charlotte Martin.)

Don't think I'll talk
Yeah, I don't think I'll breathe
And I don't think I'll think
What you're thinking

All that I know of us is what was there
In the longest of stares
We were sinking

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11 June 2006 @ 10:07 pm

Challenge #54 - Dignity

Challenge #54 is Dignity! (Original by Solas!)

So many roads, so much at stake
So many dead ends, I'm at the edge of a lake
Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take
To find dignity

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29 May 2006 @ 12:28 pm

Challenge #53 - The Dumbing Down of Love

Challenge #53 is The Dumbing Down of Love! (Original by Frou Frou.) (Suggested by

gatafairy!)

No, no -- I'll get this
I want to treat you
You're still not famous
And you haven't struck it rich

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22 May 2006 @ 09:47 pm

Challenge #52, "This Year"

Challenge #52 is: This Year, by Chantal Kreviazuk!

January, I'll learn to fly
February, love's gonna find me
March, April, May, I'll get carried away
This year is gonna be incredible

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14 May 2006 @ 08:48 pm

Challenge #51, "Born Under A Bad Sign."

Challenge #51 is Born Under A Bad Sign! (Original by Cream.)

Born under a bad sign.
I've been down since I began to crawl.
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all.

Find a way to take those lyrics and apply them to a situation in your writing. Feel free to suggest your own songs or lyrics here!

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14 May 2006 @ 12:49 pm

#50, PG: Soft Serve (The Ice Cream Truck of the Damned)

Title: Soft Serve (The Ice Cream Truck of the Damned)
Author:

phinnia
Content: west end tales
Rating: PG
Challenge: #50, "builder looks for the rotten hole"; less than an hour, 263 words
Notes: This is just ... weird. Yeah. It's a long story behind it.

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07 May 2006 @ 10:09 pm

Challenge #50: "A Builder Looks for the Rotten Hole"

Challenge #50 is another poetry challenge: "A Builder Looks for the Rotten Hole" (original by Rumi)

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

A builder looks for the rotten hole
where the roof caved in. A water-carrier
picks the empty pot. A carpenter
stops at the house with no door.

Find a way to take this excerpt and apply it to a situation in your writing. Feel free to suggest your own songs or lyrics here!

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24 April 2006 @ 07:21 am

Challenge #49 - Devil's Dance Floor

This week's challenge is Devil's Dance Floor, by Flogging Molly (lyrics here).

The color of her eyes
Were the color of insanity
Crushed beneath her wave
Like a ship, I could not reach the shore
We're all just dancers on the Devil's dance floor

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16 April 2006 @ 10:50 am

#48 // Firebrand

Title: Firebrand
Author: maladaptive
Content: Debunking Theology
Challenge: #48, Little Wing
Rating: PG
Notes: These two are just fun to write. I wanted to get the vaguely random, stream-of-conscience narrative with this, but I'm not sure how well I did it without losing the proper narrative itself. Noah really is that charismatic, though it's partly helped by the fact that many angels tend to be naturally well-liked. He is also liberal hippy scum. With a MD.

( the waffle iron of death Collapse )

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10 April 2006 @ 08:37 pm

Challenge #48 - Little Wing

Challenge #48 is 'Little Wing'! (Original by Jimi Hendrix, although I'm mostly familar with Sting's cover, but the lyrics are the same.)

When I'm sad she comes to me
With a thousand smiles
She gives to me free
It's alright, she says, it's alright,
Take anything you want from me.

Find a way to take those lyrics and apply them to a situation in your writing. Feel free to suggest your own songs or lyrics here!

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05 April 2006 @ 08:02 pm

#46, PG: "Just Another Tequila Sunrise."

Title: Just Another Tequila Sunrise
Author:

phinnia
Content: two pair
Rating: PG
Challenge: #46, 'leisure suite' (feist) - 293 words and a ridiculously long time
Notes: I seem to be perpetually running one week behind. Eventually I might even catch up.

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04 April 2006 @ 06:05 pm

Challenge #47 -- My Skin

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Challenge #47! This week's theme is -- My Skin! (Original by Natalie Merchant.)

I’m the slow dying flower
In the frost killing hour
Sweet turning sour anduntouchable

Your face-saving promised whispered like prayers
I don’t need them

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27 March 2006 @ 11:25 pm

Challenge #46 - Leisure Suite

This week's challenge is Leisure Suite. (Original by Feist.)

Sometime
I feel the room surround me
With possibility

Build fires to stoke them
Let's fix what's been broken
Words have been stolen
But silence is golden

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22 March 2006 @ 11:29 am

#44, PG: "peaks, valleys and knots"

Title: Peaks, valleys and knots
Author:

phinnia
Content: timeshifter, second gen (anthony)
Rating: PG
Challenge: #44 (your ex-lover is dead) - 495 words, over an hour
Notes: Another first-person Anthony bit. Don't read it if you're the least bit phobic about planes. :-D

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20 March 2006 @ 08:34 pm

Challenge #45 -- I'm Stupid (Don't Worry About Me)

Challenge #45! This week's theme is -- I'm Stupid (Don't Worry About Me)!

(Original by Prime STH.)

Download the MP3 uploaded onto my webdomain (right-click and select save as) and listen to the song, following along with the linked lyrics if you like. Pick a segment of lyrics that inspires you, or follow the mood of the song as a whole, and write something that relates back to the song. This is an experiment; let me know what you think about it!

Feel free to suggest your own songs or lyrics here!

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