by Kevin E.
Member since:
May 25, 2007

Thursday's Writing Essentials-May 3, 2012 Views We See On Our Journeys

May 02, 2012 01:26 PM UTC (Updated: May 02, 2012 02:09 PM UTC)
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This weeks Thursday writing challenge continue the journey with "Views We See on Our Journeys." The challenge this week is to create a post that reflects on the views we see as we go along our journeys.  The views that we see are far different from up high from our mountain and hill experiences than the ones we see from the valleys and swamp experiences in our lives. For this challenge the posts can share a current view or or a reflection on ones that we enjoyed back aways. It might be interesting if there were even posts that might be about views that we may see up the road even as we predict what the journey ahead of us might be like.

As always all genres and creative posts are welcome. It seems to me that this would be an especially interesting challenge for the many talented photographers who are part of Gather Writing Essentials. I look forward to seeing a number of photos, photo essays, poems and word paintings among other creative posts of course.

Comments: 32

JOHN BECK May 2, 2012, 2:02pm UTC
Opens the door to many views, Kevin.
Kevin E. May 2, 2012, 2:07pm UTC
This ought to be very interesting John, thank you for your support.
karen vaughan May 2, 2012, 3:15pm UTC
Interesting this lends it self to a photo essay
Kevin E. May 2, 2012, 3:17pm UTC
I think so too Karen.
Pam Brittain May 2, 2012, 3:33pm UTC
This is a really wonderful challenge, Kevin.
Angela A. May 2, 2012, 4:01pm UTC
Great prompt...
By the way, the link you gave in the email didn't work, I clicked on your name to get to this post... I was wondering if it's a glitch or if you weren't sure of the formula for a link. Let me know
Kevin E. May 2, 2012, 4:10pm UTC
I am going back to find out what went wrong.
Kevin E. May 2, 2012, 4:37pm UTC
I have redone it and am resending it out now.
Angela A. May 2, 2012, 5:13pm UTC
Okay, I noticed that when I hovered over the link, it said: Gather.com and sent it back to the home page.
Kevin E. May 2, 2012, 5:14pm UTC
So did I get the address wrong?
Kevin E. May 2, 2012, 5:18pm UTC
I believe it is fixed now. I went to the email and it worked for me 3x.
Angela A. May 2, 2012, 5:18pm UTC
For some reason, it didn't get the link at all. It just got the Gather part, and sent it to the home page...
Do you always make sure to include the link of your post with the html code?
Angela A. May 2, 2012, 5:18pm UTC
Oh, sorry, I didn't get your comment till now... Glad it's fixed
Nancy S. May 2, 2012, 7:55pm UTC
I would love to do this one Kevin. I'm not a writer but I love to tell stories with pictures. Unfortunately gather threw me another curve and isn't letting me put pictures in posts. I still have 2 posts to put on of my trip to Italy and in the last 10 days I've only been able to upload 2 pictures. I will still enjoy others posts.
Kevin E. May 2, 2012, 9:39pm UTC
Man I am disappointed. I hope Gather fixes this problem fast!
Barbary C. May 2, 2012, 9:57pm UTC
Interesting prompt - an unexpected component this time that lends itself to many scenarios.
Kevin E. May 2, 2012, 10:38pm UTC
I think so too Barbary. I hope there will be all kinds of responses to this challenge. I am especially looking forward to reading yours.
DIANE D. May 3, 2012, 12:26pm UTC
Great one.
Kevin E. May 3, 2012, 12:43pm UTC
Diane I am very glad you like this one. So nice to see a comment from you. Hope life is getting at least a little bit easier for you.
Hm....one time pops into my head. ;) I'll have to see if I can get the pictures....
Kevin E. May 3, 2012, 12:44pm UTC
I hope you can Stacey. Your work is always worth seeing!
Did I ever tell you that you know how to make a writer blush, Kevin? ;)
Kevin E. May 3, 2012, 1:35pm UTC
As long as I somehow inspire you to write more, blush away my friend, blush away.
Sheila Deeth May 3, 2012, 5:08pm UTC
This sounds interesting. Perhaps I'll go take a walk.
Kevin E. May 3, 2012, 8:50pm UTC
I look forward to viewing your post Sheila.
Pamela Marks May 4, 2012, 9:55am UTC
mine is here http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981309265
Connie C. May 7, 2012, 10:39am UTC
Kevin,

I have to admit that my all time favorite posts on gathe are the photo essays. I love it when a writer uses photos and words to share their stories. Great prompt.
Kevin E. May 7, 2012, 3:03pm UTC
I tend to agree with you on this one Connie. I have been astounded on how many challenges there are simply with journeys. There are at least two more yet to come.

As you know your opinon is more than important to me. I am very glad that you like this prompt. Thank you for your support.
Irina Dimitric May 7, 2012, 8:54pm UTC
Unfortunately, I still don't know how to do a photo essay.
Kevin E. May 7, 2012, 9:37pm UTC
You paint incredible word pictures my friend. I will take your posts every time.
Len Maxwell May 9, 2012, 5:25pm UTC
I was going to pass on this one, but I have something that -- if you really stretch the rules -- might fit into the challenge.
Kevin E. May 9, 2012, 6:27pm UTC
Len you know that I admire and respect you and your work. There is no rules for my challenges stretch as much as you can. It will be an honor to have you accept the challenge.

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