Morning creatives we're a third of the way through our journey, it's day 5 already!

One of my favourite songs of the punk era is Gary Gilmore's Eyes by the Adverts, so today's #vss365 #prompt 05/10/25, is #advert . Happy writing 🎶✍️🎶✍️

What is your favourite song of all time?

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Good morning poets/writers/authors, it's day 3 of our magical musical mystery tour.

It's another giant of Britpop, we're sorted for E's and Whizz because today's #vss365 #prompt, 03/10/25 is #pulp. Happy writing 🎶✍️🎶✍️

Also tell me about your favourite song of all time in the comments.

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Morning poets writers authors it's day 2 of our musical mystery tour.

After Blur it's only right we follow up with their great chart rivals, today's #vss365 #prompt, 02/10/25 is #oasis. Roll with it. Happy writing 🎶✍️🎶✍️

Are you team Blur, team Oasis or team Other?

The #vss365 host for October 1-15 is:

@thedevilstuna.bsky.social (Paul)

Prompts will drop daily at 10 AM GMT (UTC)

Follow Paul, if you haven’t already!

Good morning writers and friends.. We all hide some of what we feel.

Form is changed, maybe, But not essence...

29 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #sublimate

Good morning writers and authors. Keys heard jingling in the hallway...

From caves to castles, to your front door...

27 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #escutcheon

Good morning writers, authors, and questioners of fate...

Find the words of inquiry that shed the most light...

27 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #scrutiny

Good morning writers, Sound is the expression of language, Be prideful speaking yours.

Make your words speak loud and with force....

26 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #sonorous

Good morning writers, hoping this will be a day of expression for you.

Look for those words that might come out of nowhere...

25 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #caprice

Good morning writers, Seven days in and seven to go, midway through my prompting...

Find the words that make your writing special, and enjoy it.

24 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #eventuality

Welcome writers, and friends to this Tuesday.

Take the lead, lift your story from imagination to ink

23 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #bellwether

Welcome writers, to the genesis of Autumn

Grab your pen and make a statement!

22 September 2025 #vss365 #prompt word, is #reinvigorate

Welcome writers, friends, and students of fate.

The moment of #catastrophe could come in an instant. It could be the mark of heaven or hell.

20 September 2025 #vss365 prompt word, is #catastrophe

Welcome writers, friends and consumers of fora.

In the blink of an eye, the #extrusion of emotion, fell in the drop of a tear

19 September 2025 #vss365 prompt word, is #extrusion

Welcome writers, friends and storytellers

~Keep a #stock of firewood
for those cold winter nights~

18 September 2025 #vss365 prompt word, is #stock

Good morning writers, poets and vagabonds of words

~Silence #conspires with the soul
until imagery becomes complete~

16 September 2025 #vss365
prompt is #conspire

You trusted me.

The #vss365 prompt for 15 September is: Rein.

“You gave too much #rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.” (Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles)

#prompt #rein

Mix and match the patterns.

Today, 13 September, the #vss365 prompt is: Style.

“As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where it’s going out of #style.” (Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep)

Image: Maksim Goncharenok (Pexels)

#prompt #style

#vss365 News! My name is Gene @GeneVatow
I will be assuming the wheel of the ship on 15 September from C.S. Voll @Steph_Lepht to continue our journey through the ocean of words together.
Prompts will be posted at 0600 GMT
Join me in thanking C.S. for selfless service.

👏👏👏

On 11 September, the #vss365 prompt is: Exhausted.

“You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly #exhausted you are, until somewhat stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now...” (Taylor Jenkins Reid)

#prompt

The #vss365 prompt for 10 September is: Bearable.

“Sorrow was like sleeping on stone, he decided. You had to settle all its bumps and sharp edges, come to terms against them, fit them around until they became #bearable...” (Patricia A. McKillip, Od Magic)

#prompt #bearable

Movers and shakers love it.

The #vss365 prompt for 8 September is: Power.

“But there is only one thing that has #power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.” (Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country)

#prompt #power

A new path appears.

The #vss365 prompt for 7 September is: Doorway.

“Flowers you can get every year, but only with time the tree that shades your #doorway and grows into the house with each year's sun and rain.” (Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine)

#prompt #doorway

Flip a coin.

On 6 September 2025, the #vss365 prompt is: Chance.

“Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by #chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.” (W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge)

#prompt #chance

Words that singe our soul.

The #vss365 prompt for today, 5 September, is: Article.

“The more wasteful the people were, the more #articles they did not want which they could be induced to buy, the better for these sellers.” (Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887)

#prompt #article

Your awareness grows.

On 4 September 2025, the #vss365 prompt is: Conscious.

“I was not wholly #conscious of myself, but was more keenly alive to the fire within.” (Zitkala-Ša, American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends)

#prompt #conscious

Image: Oscar Steiner (Pexels)

The #vss365 prompt word for 3 September 2025 is: Arbitrary.

“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of #arbitrary signs.” (Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence)

#prompt #arbitrary

Sometimes it is always out of reach.

On 2 September 2025, the #vss365 prompt word is: Elude.

“It is those that we live with and love and should know who #elude us.” (Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It)

#prompt #elude

Books from my past will provide the prompt words.

So it’s fitting that today, 1 September 2025, the #vss365 prompt word is: Past.

“Anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the #past.” (Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister)

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#past #prompt