The past, the present and future walk into a bar. It was tense.

Hello and welcome back to Writing Prompt Friday! Yes, it’s only Wednesday, but I skipped posting a writing last Friday because I was (and still am) sad about Grumpy Cat, and this coming weekend is Memorial Day weekend here in the U.S. and I get a three-day weekend, so there’s a good chance my brain will get overexcited about the extra day off and totally forget about posting. Posting these prompts is fun, and I don’t want to forget.

This week’s prompt came to me at 2:34 a.m. while I was cleaning up after the cat.

Enjoy!

Begin and end a story with:

“It served the gerbil well.”

Bonus points for using that same phrase ten times without being too repetitive. Yes, you read that right.

Bonus points are valid only for self esteem and bragging rights. Not valid for monetary prizes or any tangible goodie here, with any merchant or anywhere on the planet, real or imagined. Non-transferrable. Never expires.

Enjoy!

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Yours, Ducky

3 responses to “Writing Prompt Friday (Wednesday)”

jesse1968

May 23, 2019

This was a great break in the work day. And it got my blog started…;) https://notesonjesse.blog/2019/05/23/it-served-the-gerbil-well/

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1. Erica
  
  May 24, 2019
  
  So glad you liked i! Even more glad that you took it and ran. And more than that, I love what you wrote. Absolutely love it. (Also: Full bonus points.)
  
  To anyone who’s reading the comments, check out Jesse’s piece. Totally worth reading.
  
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  1. jesse1968
    
    May 24, 2019
    
    Thanks for putting out the challenge. I really enjoyed it. I think this could become a habit…
    
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Hello,

I’m Erica Wall.

Award-winning copywriter.
Real-world creative writer.
Multi-cup-a-day coffee drinker.

Answers to a cat.

Resolutions for 2026

Block off three hours a week to write
Delegate more to reduce overwhelm
Clean up and clean out home office
Practice finishing what I start
Practice good habits and let results be whatever they’ll be

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
> Stephen King

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
> Ernest Hemingway

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
> F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
> Douglas Adams

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
>Albert Einstein