Summary

The Lodestar Gazette's Starlight Prompts Week 3 features a collection of creative works from various authors, including poems and stories centered around the theme of "Starlight," with a focus on unity, morality, and strong messages, inviting community engagement and support through a Ko-fi link.

Abstract

The "Lodestar Gazette, Starlight Prompts" section has unveiled the latest creative challenge, Starlight Prompts Week 3, showcasing a range of submissions from talented writers. The website highlights several standout pieces, such as Jezebelle Darling's seductive poem featuring a dark femme fatale, Laiba Sattar's villainess Queen poem, and CJ Coop's intriguing story with an additional character. Richard Dee's contribution is noted for its unique anthropomorphic society and underlying themes of unity. The website also presents AI-generated images for further inspiration, sets out the rules for this week's submissions, and encourages writers to include the word 'Starlight' and convey a moral or strong message in their works. The submissions are to be tagged with #StarlightPrompts and #LodestarGazette, and participants are reminded to follow both Lodestar and Medium guidelines. The call to action includes tagging specific writers and supporting the curator, Jessica's Quill, through Ko-fi donations or engaging with her work.

Opinions

The editor expresses gratitude for the community's engagement with last week's submissions, emphasizing the importance of mutual support through claps, highlights, and comments.
The editor praises the quality and creativity of the featured poems and stories, noting their elegance, intrigue, and unique perspectives.
Richard Dee's work is highlighted for its original take on an anthropomorphic society and its relevance to human societal issues.
The inclusion of AI-generated images suggests an openness to embracing new technology as a source of creative inspiration.
The rules for submission reflect a commitment to fostering thoughtful and concise storytelling with a clear moral or message.
The editor encourages ongoing community interaction and financial support for their efforts in curating the Starlight Prompts, indicating a desire for sustained engagement and growth.

Lodestar Gazette, Starlight Prompts

🌟Starlight Prompts Week 3 🌟

The newest round of challenges from this week’s Starlight Prompts segment!

Thanks for everyone for the last week’s submissions which I’ll list below. If you haven’t already, check out each other’s submissions and give them all your claps, highlights and comments! 💖

Check out this wonderfully seductive poem by Jezebelle Darling with dark femme fatale as its focus.

The Dark Side of Queen Starlight

Starlight Prompts #2

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Another poem with a villainess Queen at its centre but just as elegantly told is our submission from Laiba Sattar.

Shadowed Queen

The queen of Darkness, lost in Regret.

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By CJ Coop, another take on the dark Queen prompt with an intriguing story and an additional intriguing character added to the mix.

Night’s Regal Shadows

A queen’s battle under the cloak of darkness

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Richard Dee gifts us a unique poem of an anthropomorphic society with underlying messages of unity that human society could do to follow.

The realm of fur and feather

A tale of foreign lands

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Now onto this week’s images, all created with Bing Image Generator (AI). Go nuts!

Rules for this week:

🌟 As always, include the word ‘Starlight’ at least once!

🌟Both poetry and short story is fine for submission but all stories must have this in common this week: a moral or a strong message that can be anything you like, the world’s your oyster.

🌟Wordcount Max: 1500.

🌟As always, follow Lodestar guidelines and Medium guidelines.

Don’t forget to submit all your stories as #StarlightPrompts and #LodestarGazette. Tag Jessica's Quill so I can ensure I find them all to include in the shoutouts, comment on, etc.

Tagging our Writers:

Colleen Millsteed, Jessica’s Quill, Delaney Patterson, Gabriela Trofin-Tatár, Richard Dee, LC Lynch, Laura Ann, Jamel Hendley/Greenviool, Mary Morton, Judy Haratz Cohen, Laiba Sattar, Jerry Dwyer, zizi majid, Ken Van Camp, Jezebelle Darling

Enjoy my weekly prompts? You can support me by keeping me caffeinated via my Ko-fi below!

https://ko-fi.com/jessicasquill

Or check out some of my works and help support me by reading, commenting, highlighting, and clapping! It would mean a lot🥺.