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Writing Prompt Wednesday: Week 4

Posted in Writing Prompts on May 4, 2011

Ready for another visual writing prompt? Sweet then. Let me delve into my bag of goodies.

You’ll find the original here.

Get to it. Happy writing!

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Writing Prompt Wednesday: Week 3

Posted in Writing Prompts on April 27, 2011

Welcome back to another Writing Prompt Wednesday. If you missed the last couple of weeks, you can find them under “Writing Prompts” in the labels.

All right, without further ado, here is your next writing prompt. You might want to view this picture full-size, so click on it to get to the original site.

Happy writing!

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Asimov's Three Laws of Second-Hand Book Shopping

Posted in random on April 25, 2011

This weekend I returned to my hometown to visit my parents over the Easter break. While I was there I discovered the local Rotary Club was holding its Annual Easter Book Sale. People from all over the city donate their books to the sale, and all proceeds go to charity (I believe funds from this sale went to help victims of the Christchurch earthquake).

Naturally, I was all over that shit.

After battling my way through the crowds swarming the Romance tables, I managed to reach the Science Fiction and Fantasy books. Several minutes later I emerged with several well-loved books, among them two short story collections: The Best of Isaac Asimov and Tomorrow’s Children, edited by Asimov.

Beautiful, aren’t they? I especially love the artwork on Tomorrow’s Children. Naturally, the stories are even better than I hoped. Tomorrow’s Children has stories from many of the greats of SF, including Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein and Asimov himself. I had to tear myself away from these classics to write this post.

Inspired by Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, I have created the Three Laws of Second-Hand Book Shopping to aid any intrepid travellers who want to put down their Kindles and Nooks to fight the frenzied masses and inhale the scent of mothballs and paper books.

C. R. Hindmarsh’s Three Laws of Second-Hand Book Shopping

A shopper may not leave with more books than he can carry or, through inaction, allow another shopper to become crushed by the sheer weight of his books.
A shopper must obey any impulses to buy classic or awesome-looking books, except where such impulses would conflict with the First Law.
A shopper must protect the books he has claimed against all comers as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

So there you have it. You are now prepared to brave the madness of a book sale and come out with both your health and some sweet finds.

Go forth, my children!

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Writing Prompt Wednesday: Week 2

Posted in Writing Prompts on April 19, 2011

Hello friends. Welcome to part 2 of Writing Prompt Wednesday. I’m your host, C. R. Hindmarsh. If you missed last week’s writing prompt, you’ll find it under “Writing Prompts” in the labels.

So the idea is simple: let this picture spark your imagination and write something. Got it? You sure? I don’t need to repeat myself? All right. Let’s get this shit moving.