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7">Write 1000 words on your take on what it will take to end this COVID madness.</h2><h1 id="1863">Finish The Story…</h1><p id="3abf">…in a new way. Take this well-known Dickens opening and see where it takes you! (750 words or less)</p><p id="bb09"><b><i>It was the best of times; it was the worst of times…</i></b></p><h1 id="4718">Offerings from our last IdeaStream:</h1><p id="bc08"><a href="undefined">Marla Bishop</a> and <a href="undefined">Caroline de Braganza</a> nail the Donald’s pathetic speaking voice and outs him as the white supremacist ejit he indeed is:</p><div id="c062" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/i-concede-not-f81a6ede7aaf"> <div> <div> <h2>I Concede Not</h2> <div><h3>The concession speech T-rump can’t bring himself to deliver</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*cVKxdAb2Wm6PIF4n)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="7532" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/this-concession-ticket-grants-me-the-right-to-fight-forever-93daaf57d7c2"> <div> <div> <h2>This Concession Ticket Grants Me the Right to Fight Forever</h2> <div><h3>Paid for by four years of dedicated service</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*SRZoOiy5DRhmAD_EEJ4SkA.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="f833">If you’re looking for a home for your writing with people that like to read and support other writers then we’d love to take a look at what you’ve got.</p><div id="9a16" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/submission-guidelines-bf92a35f707f"> <div> <div> <h2>Submission Guidelines</h2> <div><h3>Fear and loathing at Sloppy Joe’s</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div>

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    </div><p id="4629">Join us as writer? If you like our style and think we’ll like yours, this is how you can be added as a new writer, send an email to: [email protected] and be sure to write ‘ADD ME AS A WRITER’ in the subject line. Make sure to include your MEDIUM PROFILE or we may never find you!</p><p id="3b07"><b>Marilyn Flower</b> writes political humor and satire to delight socially and spiritually conscious folks. She’s a regular columnist for the prison newsletter, <i>Freedom Anywhere</i>, where she writes about faith and prayer. Five of her short plays have been produced in San Francisco. Clowning and improvisation strengthen her resolve during these crazy times.</p></article></body>

Ideastream

Bah-Humbug — Let Out Your Inner Scrooge — We Know He’s In There!

When not every moment is merry and bright…

If ever there was a Christmas evocative of Scrooge or the Grinch, this would be it. Yes, there’s no escaping Christmas is coming and the goose, if not also the gander, is getting fat.

But that doesn’t mean we have to put on a false face — or mask — and pretend we’ve got visions of sugar plums or fairies dancing in our heads when we do not.

If for nothing else than our mental health, we need space and permission to tell it like it is, keep it real and let it all hang out. So, if you are feeling merry and bright at the moment, turn on the news, it’ll pass.

Even if you have to act as if, let your inner Scrooge or Grinch out onto the IdeaStream playground of your mind and then share the results here on The Bad Influence.

Here are some prompts to get you started…

Writer’s Prompts

Poetry Salvage

Use these ten words to write a poem. Or prose if you prefer.

Scrooge
Rouge
Grinch
Pinch
Cinch
Bah-Humbug
Drug
Mug
Smug
Plug

Poetry prompt

If you like a little rhythm and rhyme with your rant and whine, try a limerick or two or three. Here’s a kick start for you…

There once was a miser named Scrooge

He liked to pink up his face with rouge…

100 * 250 * 500 *1000

Write 100 words about the perfect Christmas gift for out-going — as in leaving, not gregarious — President Trump.

Write 250 words about how you feel right now.

Write 500 words about how you plan to spend Dec. 24–25th.

Write 1000 words on your take on what it will take to end this COVID madness.

Finish The Story…

…in a new way. Take this well-known Dickens opening and see where it takes you! (750 words or less)

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times…

Offerings from our last IdeaStream:

Marla Bishop and Caroline de Braganza nail the Donald’s pathetic speaking voice and outs him as the white supremacist ejit he indeed is:

I Concede Not

The concession speech T-rump can’t bring himself to deliver

medium.com

This Concession Ticket Grants Me the Right to Fight Forever

Paid for by four years of dedicated service

medium.com

If you’re looking for a home for your writing with people that like to read and support other writers then we’d love to take a look at what you’ve got.

Submission Guidelines

Fear and loathing at Sloppy Joe’s

medium.com

This is THE BAD INFLUENCE. — “Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safes, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” — Sir Cecil Beaton

Look forward to seeing your responses. Please tag me or include the link for this IdeaStream. Happy writing!

(And look out for the next Ideastream coming courtesy of Marla Bishop)

Please include #Idea Stream as one of your hashtags, and add a box link of this prompt at the end of your submission. (In case you need it, a box link is created by posting this link and clicking return so it looks like the link below.) Thank you!

Beyond the Pandemic

The struggle continues

medium.com

Join us as writer? If you like our style and think we’ll like yours, this is how you can be added as a new writer, send an email to: [email protected] and be sure to write ‘ADD ME AS A WRITER’ in the subject line. Make sure to include your MEDIUM PROFILE or we may never find you!

Marilyn Flower writes political humor and satire to delight socially and spiritually conscious folks. She’s a regular columnist for the prison newsletter, Freedom Anywhere, where she writes about faith and prayer. Five of her short plays have been produced in San Francisco. Clowning and improvisation strengthen her resolve during these crazy times.