Hello, friends 🙂
Welcome back to, Sunday Writing Prompt!
The prompt I chose for this week resonates with me for many reasons, as I’m sure it does for others. But, even if it doesn’t, hopefully it gets your creative wheels turning.
I find the term, Beautiful Mistake very intriguing in its complexity.
Did you choose the wrong partner, but developed boundaries and self-confidence that prepared you for the right one?
Did you accidently knock your coffee over your written manuscript, but when you re-wrote, it turned out even better?
Did you take a job you ended up hating, but made a new best friend?
Today’s Sunday Writing Prompt: Beautiful Mistake
The Rules:
- The style is completely open; poetry, prose, even a single sentence…Go where the prompt takes YOU!
- Keep your submission to 500 words or less.
- Post it on your page, and TAG it Sunday Writing Prompt, SWP, MLMM, Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. And be sure to leave a link in the comment section below.
- Feel free to use my photo for inspiration, or as your own cover image.
- Please have your submissions in by the END OF EACH FRIDAY (Pacific Standard Time). Every Saturday, I will post a “standout” piece in a post entitled, SATURDAY SPOTLIGHT. Bear in mind, it will be based on my personal opinion. If you are not chosen, that does NOT mean your piece was not superb.
- Be creative and HAVE FUN!
Please, take a moment and visit last week’s selection for the Saturday Spotlight series, Susan St.Pierre, https://sillyfrogsusan.com/2021/04/30/mlmm-prompt-5-2-21-celestial-theme-wasnt-done/
HAPPY WRITING, EVERYONE!!
Is there a “Mr. Llnky” page or do we just post links to our stories here in the comments?
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I haven’t set it up quite yet…still finding my footing 🙂 For now, here works great!
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A link or pingback, please 🙂
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My contribution…. https://bysarahwhiley.wordpress.com/2021/05/09/beautiful-mistake/
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Introspection is definitely key. Nicely done, Sarah!
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[…] response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Sunday Writing Prompt Beautiful MistakesSurprisingly or not, this one almost came as a stream of consciousness… it is close to a […]
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Here’s mine for this one…
https://stephaniecolpron.wordpress.com/2021/05/09/unplanned-consequences/
might have another to share before Friday… my mind is too full of stories these days.
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Stephanie! You never cease to amaze me. What a wonderful story told with so few words. Excellent submission! And absolutely feel free to submit another, and another, and another! No limits 🙂
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Thank you so very much 🙏🏻
I like this prompt also because it forces me to keep it short; that helps because I can be so verbose sometimes 😜.
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That’s great, Stephanie! You’re doing a very good job of getting your story told within my constraints. You are talented, and I look fondly forward to your future writings 🙂
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[…] for the Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Sunday Writing Prompt which is hosted by Sara from relaxitsallwrite which today is a Beautiful […]
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[…] It’s Autumn 2023, and the Covid-19 scare has lost its clout with many Americans.Cases are down but, far more importantly, deaths from Covid-19 are well below those being recorded from the seasonal flu. A success that vaccinations fully claimed.Chancy had not been vaccinated. She was a nurse who’d found the suppression of information on excellent early treatments terribly unnerving since 2020 and she also resisted the flood of media propaganda rationalization that the ‘vaccine’ was totally safe. There was NO way of being that certain. It was, after all, an experiment.Chancy wasn’t obese, and had no other comorbidities that would lower her chances of survival from the virus below 99%. So, after checking with her doctor that he had access to early treatments, she couldn’t reasonably consider an “emergency experimental vaccine” as a good choice. Chancy couldn’t put her finger on it, but something just seemed terribly wrong.Still, she was told by everyone she knew that her decision was a mistake. Ultimately she responded to all of them, “It’s my mistake to make!”.Of course, with a barrage of many coercive forces, a part of her wondered if she had made the wrong decision?It was early November 2023, when an alarming news story suddenly filled the media. The headline was: A New Version of Corona Virus Is Sweeping the World!The rest of the story claimed that it was primarily targeting, and killing, the vaccinated population.“How could that be?” she wondered.Apparently, the new virus was also coming from China. Those citizens, who’d been vaccinated, had artificially, and inadvertently, trained their immune system to simply ignore new corona viruses through the experimental vaccination process! The success rate had been good but the unanticipated future of the ‘experiment’ was now decimating the world.Chancy slipped on her shoes and headed straight for the hospital to offer aid. This was going to be cataclysmic! A futuristic nightmare of epic proportion.For matters of her own health, she took only a little comfort in knowing she’d made one beautiful ‘mistake’ by not getting vaccinated. But, this wasn’t a time for ‘I told ya so’.Sunday Writing Prompt, May 9/2021 – Beautiful Mistake | Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie (wordpres… […]
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https://sillyfrogsusan.com/2021/05/09/mlmm-sunday-prompt-a-fictional-futuristic-nightmare/
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Great one, Susan! Weaving Covid into the prompt wasn’t something I had considered, and you did it wonderfully.
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I appreciate your pleasure. It wasn’t the ‘happily ever after’ that your prompt expected and a sensitive topic. Provoking emotions and thoughts is a writer’s purpose, IMHO. 😀
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100%! I see prompts as “suggestions” myself 🙂
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Here’s mine: https://theabjectmuse.me/2021/05/09/the-anomaly/
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I can personally relate to this. Good one!
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Here’s mine Sara
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2021/05/09/sunday-writing-prompt-may-9-2021-beautiful-mistake/
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My partner has made many “mistakes” in the kitchen, and some turned out SO much better and ultimately changed the way he cooks those dishes 🙂 Thanks for participating!
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My pleasure!
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a mélange and a beautiful mistake:
https://myfrillyfreudianslip.wordpress.com/2021/05/09/a-saturday-sunday-melange-to-cast-the-fortune-beads/
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Nice story, and fitting cover photo!
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My entry – http://transitionofthoughts.com/2021/05/10/for-love-nature/
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What a view! Lush, clean, worth the “difficult” venture. Where is this?
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My poem https://experiencewriting.com/2021/05/09/thinking-about-the-smell-of-beautiful-mistakes/
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I’m honoured my prompt inspired you 🙂
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Thank you.
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[…] had won the lottery! This was the most beautiful mistake to ever occur. How do you spend that much […]
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[…] out to be a wonderfully happy accident, was written for yesterday’s Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Sunday Writing Prompt. And yes, I know that today is Monday, but yesterday was Mother’s Day and we were celebrating […]
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https://fivedotoh.com/2021/05/10/sunday-writing-prompt-a-beautiful-mistake/
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As you already know, this struck me directly behind the sternum. Lovely, Fandango 🙂
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Thanks, Sara.
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[…] In response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Sunday Writing Prompt Beautiful Mistake […]
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A bit later than anticipated but this week was crazy 🤦🏼♀️
https://stephaniecolpron.wordpress.com/2021/05/15/surprising-discovery/
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