April 2025 Blog Battle
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Our word this month is:
You can start writing at any time, but make sure you post your story by the
25th of April
to have a link shared here and on social media.
Once you’ve posted your story to your blog, put a link to it in the comments section, and we’ll add your story to the Battle Stories Line-up post that goes live the 3rd Friday of the month (the same as the post-by date).
Make sure to check back and read some of the stories of your fellow battlers. Leave comments to encourage these writers. And go a step further in supporting one another by sharing each other’s stories on your own blog or social media, whatever you’re most comfortable with!
Basic Rules:
The Prompt Word will be given the First FRIDAY of every month.
Post your story by the 3rd Friday of the same month (this is the same date as the Stories post goes live).
RULES
- Up to 2000 words max (give or take a few).
- Fictional tale (or true if you really want, but see rule 8 first).
- Any genre that fits within PG-13 (or less). Please keep this family friendly.
- Your story must contain the randomly chosen word(s) and/or be centred around the word meaning in a way that shows it is clearly related.
- Go for the entertainment value and have fun.
- Put a link back to your #BlogBattle Short Story in the comments section.
- Please tweet and otherwise share your battler buddies’ stories across social media. (Use the #BlogBattle when using the platform formally know as Twitter so that we can cross-share. and otherwise share your battler buddies’ stories across social media.
- Avoid opinionizing your piece or associating it with a real person. i.e. if you have strong religious or political views then do not use them as a storyline to avoid indirectly insulting anyone or creating an argument.
BlogBattle 
Finally found my way back to you folks. I hope you’re all okay. Life’s been a bit bumpy for me, but I still find the time to write, every now and then. Here’s what I penned for this month: Walkers
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You’re doing better than me, Joshua. Miles behind here trying to complete The Bequest. I’ll get round to adding this later this week.
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Hi Gary.
I don’t think I’ll be able to make it to this month’s challenge.
My latest attempt at another trilogy has gone beyond escape velocity and there’s another short term project which won’t get out of my head, and between them they are filling up my writing time.
Also busy time on the home front too.
Hope things are going ok for you.
Best wishes
Roger.
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No worries Roger. I’m miles behind on BB myself trying to complete that old WIP. Mind you I got great feedback from my proofreader on POI. So many ideas are floating it’s hard to know where to start! All of DS is reluctantly paused until this albatross is sorted. That said it’s not far off now. Two more chapters I think.
All good here apart from that blasted hernia.
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Congratulations on that feedback👍.
Yes sometimes things have to be put on hold, particularly when ideas are flooding in. Navigating through choppy seas.
Keep on keeping on.
I hope you have some encouraging news on that hernia soon. 🤞
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Thanks Roger. Hernia date is 16 July. One thing she said was I’ve lost track of time reading it 😇
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Time is relative I say. 🙂
16th July. Long time 😐 Hope the ‘time’ goes quickly for you.
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Very true. Days fly by and yet July never seems to get closer…. Still, onwards and upwards as they say. We ought to email more. Touch base now and then as it seems here is in the backfoot as “projects” run interference…
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Sorry for the long delay in getting back to you Gary.
Another busy week or this and that, and more some and as Barliman Butterbur would say ‘One thing drives out another,’ 😕.
Yes I’ll try and get an email organised to you (Now where’s Nob, or Rob?…)
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Not a problem. I’m in the same boat, Roger. Time slides faster than I’d like, although I’m now encapsulated by a new youtube thing-based in Lovecraft which is right up my street.
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That sounds compelling.
Netflix are spoiling me by running ‘Orphan Black’ 🥰
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It is Roger. Seems Lovecrafts world is possibly larger than Tolkeins. Its also where my favourite band get their inspiration. Never too old to learn and all that.
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Much larger in terms of Time and Space
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Very true. Currently watching The Codex of Eternal Night. De Vermis Mysteriis on YouTube. Very fascinating stuff
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