Reena’s Xploration Challenge #305

Welcome back! PROMPT #305 The prompt this week is a collage. You are free to use any one or all elements as a muse to write your piece. Bonus points if you can weave the elements together in a theme. There is no restriction on format of the piece. There is no last date either, … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #305

Turning a Page

Talk about a damp squib, and it was Year 2000 โ€“ or Y2K as we called it then.  The techies worked overnight to ensure that systems didnโ€™t fail, and we partied away the night with cake, champagne, music and dance. After all, it was the turn of the century, and we wouldnโ€™t live to see … Continue reading Turning a Page

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #304

Welcome back! PROMPT #304 It's time to get on with another prompt, in a world that is fast changing form and voice. Here are a few phrases you can use in your piece melody in a shriek beauty of chaos wisdom of insanity sadness in profanity lightness of intensity Let the muse take you wherever … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #304

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #303

Welcome back! PROMPT #303 I am inspired by Melissa Lemay to use art as a writing prompt. The three paintings chosen are by Indian artist Anjolie Ela Menon, from her series called Divine Mothers. Just to give a background, the first image on the left depicts Gautam Buddha and his mother. Gautam Buddha was born … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #303

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #302

Welcome back! We are nearing an eclipse, called the โ€˜ring of fireโ€™ eclipse. Itโ€™s just two days away. PROMPT #302 The prompt word is Eclipse or its synonyms You will find synonyms on the link given above. This is not intended to interfere with or influence your creative instincts. But Iโ€™m sharing what I found … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #302

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #300

Welcome to Episode #300 of RXC! It may not be a significant achievement to reach an incidental milestone. It had to come anyway, just as we walked through 100 and 200. 3 happens to be my personal number too, since I was born on the 30th day of the month. I looked up the numerological … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #300

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #299

Welcome back! PROMPT #299 You have a line here, which can be inserted anywhere in the beginning, middle or end of your piece. You are also free to not include the line but use it as a theme. Memory is all around us, as well as within. There is no restriction on format of the … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #299

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #298

Welcome back! PROMPT #298 I don't need to say much. Let the image take your pen, pencil or keyboard. There is no restriction on format of the piece. There is no last date either, unless you wish to be featured in the Weekly Wrap.ย  Any post that is found to be offensive, vulgar or something … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #298

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #296

Welcome to another week! PROMPT #296 A phrase by Arundhati Roy (winner of the Booker Prize for fiction in 1997) caught my attention โ€“ Fiction in the time of fake news. I coined a few of my own inspired by it. Letters in the time of instant messaging Books in the time of apps Lies … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #296

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #294

Welcome back! I see the responses to last week's prompt as an intersection between human thought and artificial intelligence. The prompt words I'd keyed in to generate those images were "gaps between thoughts, emotions and action." Some of the write-ups did reflect the theme, but overall humans performed better than AI ๐Ÿ™‚ I decided to … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #294