Welcome To Stitched Saturday!

Happy Saturday, Stitches! 

Today is an exciting day for me personally. Why? Because we are kicking off this year’s Stitched Saturday! This little writing exercise has always been a favorite of mine. I love the prompts, the pictures, the creativeness, and the unexpected. I hope you will, too. For me, this is what makes Stitched Saturday so much fun. You never know what you’re going to get when you click on the next post. An entire new, horrific world awaits to get those creative juices in your mind flowing. 

Another reason I’m head over heels about this round is I’ll be moderating. Yep, I’m your Host with the Ghosts, the Paranormal Pastor, Ezekiel Kincaid. I’ll be making sure everyone follows the rules and has a good time. Also, no acting a fool, or I’ll excommunicate you and sentence you to the bowels of hell for all eternity (Muahahahahahaha!).

With that said, let me relay to you how all this is going to work, what the benefits are, and follow up with some ground rules. This is all important stuff so don’t zone out on me. 

Every Saturday we are going to have a writing prompt, usually in the form of a photo or pic. There will be specific rules for each prompt. One week, it might be writing from a certain point of view, and the next could be having to use a certain weapon for your villain to kill with. The main thing is it will be different each week. At the end of the month, a winner will be chosen based on the following: 

1. They have the most likes.
2. If there is a tie, the members of the newsletter will be prompted to vote (So sign up for the newsletter).

At the end of each quarter, the winners will be featured in House of Stitched Magazine. You will get one ad for promoting your other works. If you don’t have anything to promote (book, art, etc.), we’ll ask to print your short story and do a brief write up with a Q&A style interview. 

Sound good? 

Awesome.

Now, a few ground rules. 

First, we want you to share and promote these posts and your stories. This means more exposure for you and your work. Rally your fans and readers to get them involved. 

Second, no trash talking other people’s stories or work. This will get you booted. There’s also to be no trolling of negative behavior on any of the House of Stitched social media, etc. This will get you booted. No arguing, fighting, or trying to win on loopholes. You shall not pass! 

Ultimately, we want everyone to have a good time and get some exposure for their writing. 

If you agree, please spill some drops of your blood in a vail and mail it to: 

House of Stitched…

Ha ha, just kidding. In the words of Seth Gecko, all we ask is, “Everybody be cool. You, be cool.” 

Now, for the moment you have all been waiting for! Let’s get to the first writing prompt and get this shit kicked off, House of Stitched style! 

Today’s art is entitled, “Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here”, and is brought to you by theycallmedanyo from DeviantArt. 

The prompt: Word limit 500 words. It must involve a field of some kind. It can be a ghost story, a slasher, body horror, or aliens. It doesn’t matter, as long as it’s dark and as long as it involves a field. All you need to do to participate is put your stories in the comments on this post. The picture for the prompt is below. 

Happy writing, Stitches! Let me see what you got! 

Zeke