prepare – CleanWIP Magazine

Today’s #CleanWIP theme and collaborative article is Prepare. [More info]

Featured photo is an altered copy of a photo by Andy Chilton, cropped to compliment this article.

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

Use CleanWIP Magazine’s #CleanWIP hashtag with lines from a work-in-progress and your tweet might be included in a https://t.co/yUHUbxZp23 collaborative article for authors who lean *clean* and readers who love them. The #CleanWIP theme for Wednesday, November 20 is PREPARE pic.twitter.com/4INPvwyFuf
— CleanWIP Magazine (@cleanwip) November 20, 2019

#CleanWIP (theme PREPARE)
Dolan took Kyria’s hand, but she pulled back. “Then tell me, show me. Help me understand.”
Anger flashed in her eyes. “Do you really want to know?” Her mouth twisted when he nodded. “Then, prepare to hear a tale of sorrow and woe and . . . ugliness.”
— Katy Huth Jones (@KatyHuthJones) November 20, 2019

“And then what? Wait? They’ll not attack if they see us prepare. If we can draw them into an attack, we’ll know who is part of this and end it.” #cleanWIP (prepare)
— ML Farb (@FarbMl) November 20, 2019

She prayed quickly for a miracle–that the money her ex-husband Derrick had promised her would somehow be there.
Three hundred fifty-three dollars. No miracle tonight.#CleanWIP
— Jessica Marie Holt — Author (@Jessica06311722) November 20, 2019

I soaked up the sun on the north beach as the week flew past. On Saturday night, moonlight filtered through the Casuarina trees, a gentle breeze blew in from the east. I began to prepare mentally to leave my uninhabited island, knowing I’d return to Casadora very soon. #CleanWip
— John Wilde (@WriterJohnWilde) November 20, 2019

#CleanWIP -PREPARE
Yuliya collected all the gifts into her ancient, hollow branches. Slowly, painstakingly slowly, she was building herself a metal core, a lightning attractor to overcome even the height of the cathedral’s great spire.
Yew trees were patient.
— Corinna Turner (@CorinnaTAuthor) November 20, 2019

“I wish I could make it better.” Shoot, where did those tears come from. “I mean, it’s gonna be fine. We just, you and I, we worry about things. We chase every trail marked ‘how it could go wrong.’”
Merry laughed. “Yeah, we do. All in the name of being prepared.”#cleanwip
— Lea Carter (@LeaCarterWrites) November 21, 2019

“Take it into the city,” she’d urged.
So I did. I planned a great book signing right in the heart of Atlanta.
Thirty days before the signing, I was to spend two hours with Rachel Sparks of the Write Connections morning show…#CleanWIP theme: PREPARE #amWriting #amReading
— Earl Chinnici (@earlshelpdesk) November 20, 2019

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