Welcome, Writers and Wannabe Writers in
#vss365 #prompts
Word Challenges in Poetry or Prose!
#vss365 challenges take many twists and turns.
It Can Happen To / For You!
You never know who might be appreciating your work! This was a gorgeous surprise that greeted me when I went to Twitter to see what had been posted during a difficult day. I had not met this woman who then brought me a moment of joy!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1465033132911046656
@NancyKnowsLife #MMPkickabout pic.twitter.com/loag7F4VCr
— Magnolia🌺✍ (@magnolia3169) November 28, 2021
As I discovered, this woman happens to lead the new poetry challenges that I have been suggesting we join in my last two posts! Let’s highlight them again now as a thank you to Magnolia!
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BREAKING NEWS!
#Move Me Poetry has instituted a new feature in which people read one another’s poems on video and share them with credit to the author. I LOVE it! Discovered it “after the fact” though, so I’m just sharing the “handle” you can use to find them on Twitter. #MMPkickabout.
Now, Down to Business
Below, I’ve shared my #vss365 #prompt posts for this time period. Just scroll fast to This Week’s #vss365 Samples if you want to skip the following items as shown in
My Pseudo-Table of Contents for This Post!


- I’m not trying to sell you products,
- It’s not an MLM, and
- It doesn’t involve your having to give sales pitches –
so don’t get nervous!
I’m simply sharing an idea that is easy and might help you, as it has helped me.) I’ll provide a link where you can learn more later.
(Note: for those of you who read these weekly updates regularly, I have shortened the Pixels Part a bit, and put all the info into a separate page for artists and authors to make it easy for you to find at any time.
Next, I’ll explain what #vss365 is about for the new people.
At last, you will see my #vss365 responses for this time period.
Then, What?
Some day I’ll figure out how to make the jump links work to take you directly to the #vss365 responses. Again, apparently, this is not one of those days. Grrr-rrrr-rrr)
LET’S GET STARTED!
The Thought / Motto for This Week
SUGGESTION TO GAIN FOLLOWERS
CONSIDER PUTTING YOUR ART (paintings, illustrations, collages), BOOK COVERS, LOGOS, ETC. ONTO PIXELS (aka FINE ART AMERICA) PRODUCTS TO USE FOR YOURSELF, AS GIFTS FOR OTHERS, OR IN PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS.
Just scroll fast to This Week’s #vss365 Samples if you don’t care.
Special Collections for Writers and Poets
Let me explain.
BACKGROUND
Nancy’s Novelty Photos on Pixels Products
I’m in the midst of adding to the special collection for writers and poets. However, I’ve created many more themes (flowers, sports, activism, children, tech, landscapes, humor, fantasy, politics, quotes, love, etc.).
You Can Do It, Too
Since I don’t have your book cover,
I’m using mine to give you some examples.
Here is a link where you can find all the (over 500 designs and counting) on spiral notebooks available in my Collections of Nancy’s Novelty Photos on Pixels Products. This is the same kind of thing you’ll be able to do if you wish. Click Here to learn how.
To help me get into the mood for writing, I often match my notebooks with mugs and tote bags.
(So many themes from which to choose – here are a couple of holiday versions!)
Here is a link where you can find all the (over 500 designs and counting) mugs (2 sizes) available in my Nancy’s Novelty Photos on Pixels collections.
I can “lug all my writing stuff around with ease.”
Then, I put all my writing stuff into a tote bag of the same style, so I can find everything fast and get to work! If I want to include my laptop in the collection of tools, I use a “weekender” tote bag.
I usually keep the image size and background colors consistent when I buy from a collection, but I’m changing both here to show you that you and your customers can choose from the selections of sizes and background colors offered on Pixels for each product.
Here is a link where you can find all the (over 500 designs and counting) weekender tote bags in Nancy’s Novelty Photos on Pixels. Smaller tote bags also are available here.
I keep the pens, pencils, sticky notes, page tabs, etc. in one of the zip carry-all pouches. Here is a link where you can find all the (over 500 designs and counting) on zipping carry pouches in Nancy’s Novelty Photos on Pixels.
If I want to give items as gifts, I add a matching greeting card. Here is your link for Greeting Cards.
LoveBirds for you Romance Novelists and
Missing You Now for Holiday Loved Ones.
(Note: you can change background colors and image sizes.)
Easy Peasy
After you get a Pixels account (the free version or for $30/year), all you do is supply the image (which you own or for which you have usage rights).
Pixels handles everything else (the financial transactions, manufacturing, and shipping.) It’s a great deal!
Separate Blog and Web Page So You Can Find Info About This Without Searching Here
I created an entire blog post for artists and authors on this subject so that I could describe it less here. Click Here to go to that educational piece about how you can do this, too. Alternatively, Click Here to see my web page for more ideas (not just for authors) and instructions about how to do this.
Below, I’ll provide a list of the many and varied products to help you decide whether to try doing this.
THE POINT of Putting Your Stuff on Pixels
I’m sprinkling many examples while spending time and space on this now to show you that it might be both fun and worth it for YOU to do something similar with your own photos.
As of this writing and without my advertising, over 141,000 people have viewed my site! (BTW: I forget to ask people to like, comment, and follow me on my many websites! Please follow me here and there if you visit.) Again, this could work for you, too.
I’d love for you to buy some of my offerings – even as a “thank you” for teaching you this. However, if you participate with your own images, it could be a way in which to attract new customers to your work.
To truly class up your act with a professional theme, you also could combine the images with my presentation infographics for speakers and events, but that is an entirely different subject covered FAR below.)
Now, Drum Roll, Please ~ The List of Goodies
When you click on each link, you can see all of my over 500 images in each category on each item of merchandise. These items are the same items your images will go onto when you participate in Fine Arts of America / Pixels.
Nancy’s Novelty Photos Are Available On The Following Merchandise
- wall art (prints)
- canvas, metal, acrylic, wood, framed
- posters, tapestries
- home decor
- t-shirts, tank tops, and sweatshirts for people of all ages, including infants
- coffee mugs(2 sizes)
- face masks
- beach towels (rectangular and round)
- yoga mats
- tote bags, weekender tote bags, and carry-all pouches
- iPhone covers, Galaxy phone cases, and portable battery chargers
- jigsaw puzzles
- spiral notebooks
- greeting cards
- stickers
- holiday ornaments
OK, that’s enough about photos on Pixels for now!
At Last, Let’s Talk About the Benefits of Participating and
How #vss365 #prompts Work – for Your Daily Enjoyment!
Just scroll fast to This Week’s #vss365 Samples if you already know how #vss365 #prompts work.
#vss365 #prompts Start on Twitter
The facilitator on Twitter gives us a mind-exercising word #prompt that we are to use in creating poetry or prose.
The prompts get our creative juices flowing and help us start each day with something delicious and new to contemplate.
It is also a great way to keep your brain active and healthy.
So, I hope more of you will join us in the
- #vss365 (which means ‘very short stories – 365 days a year’)
- #prompt(the word you use when you create a Twitter-sized response in poetry or prose)
challenges on Twitter!
All Are Welcome To Play With #vss365
#vss365 #prompt challenges are for everyone – from people who never have written poems or prose before – all the way to real Pros!
Just ~
Put on your writing clothes.
Get your tea or coffee.
Grab your writing tote bag for laptop and writing materials
Find your spiral notebook and your phone if you use it to post. Don’t forget your portable battery charger, if you might need it.
...and then let’s get started!
(I post from a pc – it’s so much easier on the eyes!)
More #vss365 Tips & Tricks
- You can write something humorous, elegant, scary, or abstruse. We don’t do porn or hatred, but, except for that, whatever you want to do will work! So, get your coffee and join us!
- People don’t usually do this, but you may submit more than one entry per #prompt word.
- Adding photos is not a requirement. However, I love color and images, so I usually choose to use them, unless no photo could depict what I wrote (like on esoteric and spiritual topics).
- I don’t know about you, but I rarely have more than 5 – 10 minutes to do almost anything. Unfortunately, that includes finding the day’s prompt, thinking of a response, and finding the corresponding image I want to use, PLUS posting. Therefore, comma, as I would say, it’s okay to go back later and refine the work to make it better – particularly, if you plan to publish it. I have done that with a few of the things I post here.
You don’t have to respond immediately. You have the whole day to figure out what you want to post.
Also, you can have the prompts emailed to you daily if you wish.
Meet Other Writers Online and Join the Communities
If you add #vss365, #prompt, and #writingcommunity, #amwriting, and/or #poetrycommunity to your post, you can meet writers of all genres who may see your work. I find them to be very supportive of one another.
This Week’s #vss365 Samples
Followed by More Things You Can Do and
How You Can Ask Questions
November 27, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #text
When I text you,
You text me back.
The text you text
Shows me that you
Took my text
Out of context
November 28, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #crisis
November 29, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #genetic
Her behavior is always frenetic.
Her persona is also magnetic.
Does she consciously create her aesthetic
Or do you think that it’s all just #genetic?
November 30, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #worth
#vss365 #prompt #ribbon #tantra #31syllables
Her emotions swirl in brightly colored ribbons of imaginings, never pastel, but intensely wondering wanderings.
December 2, 2021
#vss365 #prompt #oracle
In the portal places of power,
Pythia,
An Essence of historical Oracle,
Speaks in languages metaphorical.
One has to be as wise as Sibyl
In order not to quibble
Or fathom the mystical messages
As readings that are merely rhetorical.
#vss365 #prompt #mantle
Come Back Next Week for More!
And/Or
Keep Scrolling for Additional Ideas
and More Word Challenges on Twitter
Plus How to Be A Guest Contributor!
Other #Prompt Challenges
There are SEVERAL fascinating and fun word challenges in which you can participate, regardless of your skill level! Let’s grow together!
As you can see, I created a logo for my weekly posts in the category #vss365 (#veryshortstories #365 days a year). This is the logo I’ll use when sharing my responses to that challenge. (BTW, if you click on the picture just below, it will take you to a whole page of details about #vss365 prompts.)
However, I also participate in some other brain-teasing word challenges that you can join as well. If I’m sharing several of my posts to those sites, like I’m doing for the #vss365 #prompts, I’ll use similar logos, like these. The writing on the coffee cup will tell you which challenge the posts used.
When I create those posts, I’ll give more details about their specific requirements. Meanwhile, you can check them out, as follows: BraveWrite | Haiku (and other Japanese poetry forms) | Move Me Poetry Battle…(formerly known as Poetry Battle Friday #PBF).
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Don’t Forget the BREAKING NEWS!
#Move Me Poetry has instituted a new feature in which people read one another’s poems on video and share them with credit to the author. I LOVE it! Discovered it “after the fact” though, so I’m just sharing the “handle” you can use to find them on Twitter. #MMPkickabout.
Do You Want To Be A Guest Contributor to My Website?
Join over 8,000 users on this site and keep reading to get some other ideas, including about being a Guest Contributor for #vss365 and #Haiku poetry. It is just a nice way in which we can share our work with more people and, perhaps, gain more followers.
If you want to be a Guest Contributor to my website for #vss365 or for #Haiku work, Click Here for details, and we can talk about it. (You keep the copyright; I simply have permission to publish on this website.)
#vss365 Guest Contributor Options
To get comfortable with the challenges and my website and to see only the #Vss365 #prompt posts in one place on this website, Click Here. It will give you “the rules” plus lots of examples to kickstart your imaginings. Of course, you can stop here, or…
Click Here to learn about the benefits of submitting some of your work as a guest contributor. (Again, you keep the copyright. We just agree that I may post the work on my website.)
You can always contact me for a free, initial consultation to get details about anything I present. It’s called a Sip & Share Session on Zoom, and I’ll set it up for us.
Just email me at #MyPersuasivePresentations@gmail. com. and put “Inquiry – Infographics” (or whatever you want to talk about) in the subject line.
In the Meantime,
I Have Much More to Teach and Share
So Keep Scrolling!
Follow Me On Twitter and Other Social Media
I hope you’ll follow me on Twitter @NancyKnowsLife. Of course, you should vet/screen me first to see if I post things suitable for your values and interests on this page.
To summarize, I post about:
- wellness topics (from Eastern and Western medicine, metaphysics, meditation, and holistic healing modalities (I have many certifications). These posts may be taken from experts or from my other website (My Get Well Guru)
- photography and other arts (dance, painting, music, etc.)
- motivational or philosophical quotes, writing, poetry, training, small business topics.
Nancy’s Novelty Presentation Infographics
for Speakers and Event Coordinators
Nancy’s Novelty Presentation Infographics for Speakers, Trainers, and Event Coordinators for Conferences, Retreats, and Training Sessions. These work beautifully on Zoom or in person, and as slides, table displays, and part of the handouts.
You don’t have to use a PowerPoint presentation to use them, but they are easily inserted into PowerPoint.
Breakfast On Your Own – One of Many Nancy’s Novelty Presentation Infographics
- Since I am a public speaker and conduct classes and consultations, I felt the need to use infographics to announce breaks, instructions for break-out sessions, and more, so I created these inexpensive collections to benefit others, as well.
- Most themes have several individual “slides” that can be bought separately or as a collection.
- These can be used online or in person.
- People who have used them came back for more! Some also asked me to customize infographics for them.
- Here are some quick samples. As you can see, there are different themes correlated to the kind of group that is holding an event.
Again, you can always contact me for a free, initial consultation to get details about anything I present. It’s called a Sip & Share Session on Zoom, and I’ll set it up for us. Easy Peasy.
Just email #MyPersuasivePresentations@gmail. com and put “Inquiry – Infographics” (or whatever you want to talk about) in the subject line. To see more samples first, Click Here.
Again, you can always contact me for a free, initial consultation to get details about anything I present. Just email me at MyPersuasivePresentations@gmail. com. Put “Inquiry – Photos on Pixels” – or whatever your interest is – in the subject line.
Nancy’s Novelty Memes & Quotes
Similarly, I make memes, often using quotes, that people may purchase inexpensively. Click Here to learn more. (I occasionally include some of these in Nancy’s Novelty Photos on Pixels also for people who would like them on t-shirts, mugs, spiral notebooks, or posters, etc.)
Once more, you can always contact me for a free, initial consultation to get details about anything I present. Just email me at #MyPersuasivePresentations@gmail. com. and put “Inquiry – Memes” in the subject line.
Writing/Editing, Public Speaking, Classes, and Consultations
I hope you’re having fun with #vss365 #prompts and that you’ll join us on Twitter. For other kinds of writing services and tips, Click Here.
I do so many things – from writing and editing services, to teaching and training and holistic healing services. You can always contact me for a free, initial consultation to get details about anything I present. To talk about classes, consultations, and/or writing and editing projects, email me at MyPersuasivePresentations@gmail.com. Put “Inquiry” plus your topic into the subject line.
Click on the Sip & Share picture to learn more.
I look forward to hearing from you! In the meantime, …
Do It The Write Way! Let My Fingers Do Your Talking!