《Daily Dose of Chicklit》#1 | Independent Women
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"We need to stop telling the story about the woman who stayed home, passive and dependent, waiting for her man. She wasn't sitting around waiting. She was busy. She still is."
―Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions.
Hello and welcome to our first prompt of March. This week, we'll be focussing on independent women. Independent women come in all shapes and sizes, and fill up a large role in society today. Based on the quote above, you have the chance to discuss the prompt and come up with a short drabble or story in the comments below.
The best drabble or story from the comments will be mentioned in our end-of-the-week round-up, along with our own discussion on the prompt. Your drabble needs to be about independent women, and can either be a paragraph to a greater story, your own views or even just a few lines of what you view to be an independent woman.
Remember that you can also recommend any stories you think falls in line with our weekly themes, by submitting your or another's story to our submission form. Your story not only stands a chance of being recommended in Daily Dose of Chicklit, but it will also stand the chance to win a place in our current reading lists!
We can't wait to read your comments. Have fun!
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Idea Seven, or Inter Dimensional Explorer Automaton Unit-7, has had a bit of an accident. Hijacking the egg of a dragon rather than its intended target of a bird egg, it isn't fully in control of its host brain. Rather the two, dragon and cybernetic AI interface, must work together to survive in a hostile world of magic, dungeons, beasts and adventurers. The AI must deal with being a machine from a world of science trying to carry out its mission of exploration, while the dragon, Rex, must deal with being a cyborg living with symbiotic nanotech that sets him apart from other dragons. What adventures await them? Author Note: I tagged this story GameLit because it contains concepts like levels, classes, and dungeon/beast cores. But, it isn't tagged LitRPG because no one has status screens, other than occasionally Idea Seven who likes to organize data into blue boxes. It isn't a natural function of the world to display level ups or skill ups with an announcer voice. I mention this to set expectations, because otherwise I feel like LitRPG fans might be disappointed by my lack of LitRPG elements while others might be turned off thinking I have a lot of LitRPG elements. I think that if you approach the story with an open mind you will appreciate the gradual way in which the main character learns and expands his understanding of how the world works, but the game mechanics aren't meant to take center stage to the actual story.
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Wings of Sorrow
Tension permeates the city of Bleakridge as forces within its walls struggle for supremacy. Grim Thorne, the disinherited son of the Earl, is a fly caught in the web of power struggles between these forces. When Grim closes his eyes, he can still see the bodies piled high from the first day of occupation. The day he was branded a bastard in the southern fashion. The day his father let them. Soldiers from the south bearing green cloaks and royal seals maintain order in the streets of Bleakridge, ensuring that the lifeblood of commerce continues to flow through the port city. In the slums beyond the outer wall, the Sons of the Reaper lurk. Some call them heroes, others villains. But all fear them for their relentless devotion to the old ways and the freedom that entails. In the castle above the city, resides the Earl of Bleakridge. The man who bent the knee and saved the lives of his people, if not their souls. After twenty years of occupation, the tension is coming to a head and Grim has to choose. Sympathetic to the Sons, duty bound to his father, and forced into service to the king. He must rise above the brand on his neck and decide where his true loyalties lie. But, after so long, it can be hard to tell who is deserving of loyalty. The King’s men who enforce order with a blood-soaked iron fist? The Sons who more resemble terrorists and crime lords than revolutionaries? Or the father who watches the bloodshed and does nothing? In the end, it is always the place of the young to bear the sins of the old.
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There is something more about rumors you would hear around. There must be more than anything anyone could hear because a secret is indeed a secret that no one must hear, no one must know. Everyone thought they know about something if they heard rumors about it, but there must be something to surprise them about the truth because no one could know a secret once it's called a secret. No one could know the truth of a secret unless it is not a secret anymore. ---- Hi. I already have patreon profile. Please support me there. You will get to read the advance update or chapter of TBBP. Thank you! Here's the link: patreon.com/briavry
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Elemental Sword
The Heavenly Continent is home to only two clans: The Berseker Clan and the Magician Clan. These two clans are are constantly at war, breaking apart the terrain and ruining the lives of commoners. Then, an ominous event occurs. The greatest talents of both Clans elope, and they have a child, the first with parents from two clans. Attempting to protect their child, the couple performs a Forbidden Technique, sealing the child within an energy cocoon and slowing the child's aging process by tenfold for one hundred years. These two talents also exchange their lives to transfer their innate talents to this one child. They leave one wish behind: for this child to unite the bersekers and magicians into one clan.One hundred years later, the energy surrounding the cocoon weakens and eventually fades, releasing this ten-year old child into the feuding world of berserkers and magicians.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hey guys~ This is my first time writing a book ever! If possible, please leave some feedback and constructive criticism. I would love to hear your opinions! Thanks for reading!I will probably add chapters a once a week.
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