The first of the visual prompts, this one may be a bit late for Halloween, but it’s still pretty provocative!
Horror House by ~tobisagt on deviantART
Good luck!

For folks who are also on my personal Facebook, I posted this in my notes section the other day after reading it on Lisa Ulibarri’s page. Today, I felt I needed to post it here as well.
The Trouble Tree
Author Unknown

The first week of NaNoWriMo is nearly over and if you are participating, you should be somewhere near the 10k mark today. Here’s a single line for your imagination to grab onto, build, and add to that elusive count.
Nonchalantly, she reached into the other woman’s handbag and pulled out the cash.
What does that do for your story?
Good luck!

For the past two months, nearly three actually, I’ve been having serious computer issues, which has resulted in Belfire and myself being out of commission. I can’t tell you how annoying it is to start a bunch of promos, begin final stages on files… only to have the computer die. I can’t tell you, because you really don’t come here for that kind of language (or do you?) and besides… most of you know of what I speak.
All of my high and lofty plans for catching up, getting ahead …

This has been a very long, very trying summer. I am glad to see the back-end of it, let me tell you! Even though there were some ups, there were a lot of terrible downs. And let-downs, a lot of let-downs; the silver lining there is that I know now who I can turn to when I need to stop being the strong one, the dead one. Bless ‘em!
Inevitably, things run their course, right? And here at casa de crazy, the good is finally starting to out-run the bad.

Last week was the last of the Writersphere prompt posts, and rather than start all over, I’ve decided to check in with readers to see what they’d like. I’ve got a poll running —– > over there.

 
The first Indiegogo campaign was wonderful, and we raised $310 before the time ran out. We’ve started another, and hopefully we’ll get closer to the goal this time.
 
From the campaign page:
For two years, The New Bedlam Project survived as a free-to-read, blog-based webzine. TNBP is a paying market, registered with both Ralan.com and Duotrope.com, supported by small ads and donations. Some of horror and sci-fantasy’s most promising up and coming writers have been spotted on the streets of New Bedlam, possibly looking for a way out, or perhaps they …