“Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.” - P.D. James, Advice to Writers: A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights

Be sure to place the link for your completed story in the comments section of this post so we can find it. If you are late in posting, placed the link in both the comments section of the prompt, and the comments section of the current prompt, but please tag it as a late comer.

You might consider making your own TP icon to announce your story as such. Readers watch for this and will respond.

If you do choose to participate in the Thursday Prompt, remember that it is good form to read your fellow participants. If you wish to give a critique, ask if the writer wishes one and then send it along in a private note.

Always remember; we are all writers together.

A word (yes a pun) first about last weeks story exchange: awesome
Yes, we had some rough spots as well as wiggles and giggles, but, all in all, judging from all of the positive feedback, and my own feelings on the week’s stories, I think everyone had a pretty good time. I would like to thank all of you, readers and writers both.

This week’s prompt is given to us by a random word generator: belief