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Writers’ Dash: October 2017

Morning Dash

1. Ambidextrous 2. Archaic 3. Brusque 4. Cavern 5. Deleterious
6. Enigmatic 7. Figurative 8. Grapple 9. Hypnosis 10. Idyll
11. Intrepid 12. Island 13. Jealousy 14. Key 15. Languid
16. Macabre 17. Nascent 18. Onerous 19. Pundit 20. Symbiosis
21. Ruthless 22. Tangle 23. Tyranny 24. Unctuous 25. Valerian
26. Venerate 27. Wistful 28. Xerotic 29. Youth 30. Zen
31. Money

Evening Dash

1. Dance 2. Shake 3. Filthy 4. Glasses 5. Approach
6. Cool 7. Knife 8. Duck 9. Queen 10. Blame
11. Rampant 12. Cap 13. Feed 14. High 15. Fish
16. Dodge 17. Power 18. Alarm 19. Delicious 20. Moonlight
21. Baffle 22. Skinny 23. Tongue 24. Assist 25. Disgust
26. Creepy 27. Scream 28. Delude 29. Glistening 30. Pipe
31. Cheat

Prompts courtesy of Mireille.

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Writers’ Dash: September 2017

Morning Dash

1. Incunabula 2. Genesis 3. Inchoate 4. Inception 5. Recrudescence
6. Exordium 7. Commencement 8. Ab ovo 9. Nascent 10. Logophile
11. Demonym 12. Sesquipedalian 13. Accismus 14. Verbicide 15. Dysphemism
16. Litotes 17. Eponym 18. Parapraxis 19. Spoonerism 20. Solecism
21. Malapropism 22. Mumpsimus 23. Faux pas 24. Cacology 25. Alpenglow
26. Dayglow 27. Apricate 28. Rizzar 29. Turnsole 30. Engild
31.

Evening Dash

1. Apollonian 2. Heliolatry 3. Midnight Sun 4. Aeolian 5. Zephyr
6. Favonian 7. Boreal 8. Subventaneous 9. Harmattan 10. Squall
11. Flabile 12. Mistral 13. Fathom 14. Chockablock 15. Flotsam
16. Groggy 17. Bumpkin 18. Sea dog 19. Landlubber 20. Moonraker
21. Scuttlebutt 22. Lollapalooza 23. Sockdolager 24. Catawampus 25. Hornswoggle
26. Foofaraw 27. Discombobulate 28. Bumptious 29. Qi 30. Faqir
31.

Prompts courtesy of Savage Taurus.

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Writers’ Dash: July 2017

Morning Dash

1. Fish 2. Bait 3. Small 4. Moonlight 5. Offend
6. Vivacious 7. Wax 8. Resist 9. Broom 10. Insult
11. Misty 12. Athlete 13. Flood 14. Fat 15. Mouse
16. Plan 17. Watch 18. Pursue 19. High 20. Shoes
21. Court 22. Repulsive 23. Heaven 24. Overlook 25. Water
26. Educate 27. Acidic 28. Nuts 29. Direct 30. Massive
31. Planet

Evening Dash

1. Scold 2. Necklace 3. Tempt 4. Furious 5. Beer
6. Tickle 7. Juicy 8. Tree 9. Accept 10. Coffee
11. Chastise 12. Noisy 13. Battle 14. Surprise 15. Low
16. Doll 17. Assist 18. Attic 19. Shake 20. Short
21. Gift 22. Dodge 23. Misty 24. Bucket 25. Manipulate
26. Spaghetti 27. Spoil 28. Cold 29. Wind 30. Invite
31. Shadow

Prompts courtesy of Doyle Slen.

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Writers’ Dash: June 2017

Morning Dash

1. Recondite 2. Didactic 3. Puissant 4. Yummy 5. Sleet
6. Quixotic 7. Knotty 8. Blue-eyed 9. Testy 10. Scrawny
11. Obsequious 12. Ratty 13. Buzz 14. Unwritten 15. Undulate
16. Glitter 17. Scandalous 18. Vessel 19. Periodic 20. Lamentable
21. Juvenile 22. Ruddy 23. Adamant 24. Oatmeal 25. Reflective
26. Waggish 27. Vacuous 28. Onerous 29. Nutritious 30. Dime

Evening Dash

1. Coherent 2. Ambiguous 3. License 4. Myrmidon 5. Flaky
6. Irritate 7. Debonair 8. Ambivalent 9. Gruesome 10. Vagabond
11. Non-committal 12. Decorous 13. Highfaluting 14. Unkempt 15. Reproduce
16. Acid 17. Smog 18. Feigned 19. Juicy 20. Incandescent
21. Evasive 22. Parsimonious 23. Abaft 24. Gratis 25. Skip
26. Rambunctious 27. Nondescript 28. Giant 29. Potato 30. Polish

Prompts courtesy of Nathaniel (BenBold)

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Writers’ Dash: May 2017

Morning Dash

1. Verisimilitude 2. Eventide 3. Exogenesis 4. Scry 5. Harbinger
6. Zugzwang 7. Zenith 8. Frangible 9. Panspermia 10. Ludic
11. Singularity 12. Animatronic 13. Astraphobia 14. Tommyrot 15. Nexus
16. Plutonian 17. Migrate 18. Erudite 19. Selkie 20. Gorgonize
21. Parlay 22. Capricious 23. Hoodwink 24. Pavonine 25. Denouement
26. Talisman 27. Circumlocution 28. Alacrity 29. Wheedle 30. Nebulous
31. Rawgabbit

Evening Dash

1. Scintilla 2. Nescient 3. Blacklist 4. Canoodle 5. Redolent
6. Erinaceous 7. Exculpate 8. Frippery 9. Zoolatry 10. Scofflaw
11. Scripturient 12. Apple Knocker 13. Mellifluous 14. Phlegmatic 15. Gigglemug
16. Paracosm 17. Bodacious 18. Fusty 19. Digress 20. Chimerical
21. Blatherskite 22. Wander 23. Intransigent 24. Humbuggery 25. Phantasmagorical
26. Refractory 27. Sardonic 28. Hiraeth 29. Confluence 30. Quagmire
31. Grubbling

Prompts courtesy of Raina Anatra.

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Writers’ Dash: April 2017

Morning Dash

1. Alignment 2. Bastion 3. Cacophony 4. Deconstruction 5. Effeminate
6. Fruition 7. Gastronomy 8. Harmonious 9. Insidious 10. Juxtapose
11. Kaleidescope 12. Languid 13. Monolithic 14. Narcissistic 15. Opined
16. Peripheral 17. Quagmire 18. Reptilian 19. Scintilla 20. Temerity
21. Usury 22. Viscous 23. Waterloo 24. Xenopus 25. Yaw
26. Zenith 27. Metropolis 28. Ancillary 29. Euphoric 30. Pedestrian

Evening Dash

1. Assets and forfeitures 2. Botanical gardens 3. Creative jurisprudence 4. Delineation of duties 5. Elementary, my dear
6. Faint footfall 7. Gargling salts 8. Hedonistic desires 9. Imperial onslaught 10. Justifiable murder
11. Kinetic energy 12. Lazy mornings 13. Mouthy brat 14. Nice of you to join us 15. Open-ended
16. Precious moments 17. Quality, not quantity 18. Reputation to protect 19. Slice of silence 20. Tempted to fail
21. Usual suspects 22. Vacuous intent 23. If wishes were fishes 24. X marked the spot 25. Youthful indifference
26. ZZZZZZZZZZ 27. An idyllic location 28. An act of desperation 29. Aural hallucinations 30. Pent up fury

April’s prompts are provided by Ercila Robbins.

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Writers’ Dash: November 2016

Morning Dash

1. essay 2. autocrat 3. nerdy 4. falsity 5. Venetian blind
6. great 7. muzzle 8. submissive 9. astounding 10. self-consciousness
11. remuneration 12. imperial 13. sublime 14. smitten 15.  nondescript
16. midriff 17. full 18. clock 19. retina 20. stunning
21.  secluded 22. permissible 23. optometrist 24. outreach 25. consuming
26. such and such 27. yelp 28. remarkable 29. gumdrop 30. reformer

Evening Dash

1. communion 2. test drive 3. Protestant 4. gavel 5. hooves
6. settler 7. filly 8. imitation 9. digestion 10. frostbite
11. civics 12. studied 13. forklift 14. yen 15. laurel
16. widely 17. sharpness 18. unmask 19. filling 20. settle
21. disqualification 22. afterward 23. typewritten 24. landlord 25. toughness
26. outrage 27. tactically 28. conservative 29. burger 30. horse

November’s prompts are provided by Doyle.

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Writers’ Dash: October 2016

Morning Dash

1. Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan Thomas’ poem, allegedly written for his dying father, although his father did not die until several years later. Quoted by the president in Independence Day.
2. O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done
Walt Whitman poem honouring the death of Abraham Lincoln. Famously much used in Dead Poets Society.
3. Let us go then you and I
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot – said to represent the frustration and impotence of the modern individual.
4. Because I could not stop for Death
Emily Dickinson poem in which Death, personified as a gentleman caller who accompanies the speaker to her grave.
5. Once upon a midnight dreary
Perhaps Edgar Allen Poe’s most famous poem – The Raven.
6. The apparition of these faces in the crowd
Ezra Pound – describing a moment on the Paris Metro in 1912. The whole poem is only 14 words long. The rest are “Petals on a wet, black bough”.
7. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Elizabeth Barrett Browning – she thought the poems too personal, so published them as though they had been translated – Sonnets from the Portugese.
8. I must down to the seas again
John Masefield, after giving up his dreams of being a sailor due to sea-sickness. Often quoted as “I must *go* down to the seas again”.
9. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
William Shakespeare – possibly one of his most famous.
10. Drink to me only with thine eyes
Song to Celia II, Ben Jonson.
11. I’m sittin’ in the railway station
Homeward Bound by Simon and Garfunkel. Written by Paul Simon while homesick on Widnes railway station.
12. I’d rather be a sparrow than a snail
El Cóndor Pasa – Simon & Garfunkel from a Peruvian composition by Daniel Alomía Robles based on Peruvian traditional songs.
13. Hello darkness my old friend
Sound of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel. The song’s success prompted the duo to reunite after breaking up when their previous album was not a success.
14. A winter’s day, in a deep and dark December
I am a Rock – Simon & Garfunkel. Originally recorded solo by Paul Simon in England.
15.  I am just a poor boy
The Boxer – Simon & Garfunkel. The lie lie lie chorus was once alleged to be an attack on Bob Dylan. Paul Simon denies this and Dylan has himself covered the song.
16. Slow down, you move too fast
The 59th Street Bridge Song aka Feelin’ Groovy – Simon & Garfunkel. The bridge is more officially known as the Queensboro Bridge.
17. Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together
America – Simon & Garfunkel. Apparently written after a 5-day road-trip Simon took with his girlfriend, Cathy, in 1964.
18. Time it was, and what a time it was, it was
Bookends – Simon & Garfunkel. The tune opens and closes the album of the same name.
19. When you’re weary, feeling small
Bridge Over Troubled Waters – Simon & Garfunkel, from the album of the same name. Sail on silver girl refers to Paul Simon’s wife, Peggy Harper having just noticed her first grey hairs.
20. This is the early evening edition of the news
7 O’Clock News – Simon & Garfunkel. A simulated news broadcast (but based on real events of 1966) over S&G singing the hymn, Silent Night.
21.  Is this the real life
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody, aka, Fred’s Thing. Best song ever, don’t even think of arguing.
22. It started out so well.
Queen – Save Me. Written by Brian May about a friend whose relationship had just ended. Verses are in G Maj and the chorus in D maj.
23. Open up your mind and let me step inside
Queen – Play the Game. Written by Freddy. One of the first songs to break their “Nobody played Synth” rule.
24. Another party’s over, And I’m left cold sober
Queen – My Melancholy Blues – just Freddy on piano and a bit of fretless bass from John.
25. I’ve paid my dues, time after time
Queen – We Are the Champions. In 2011, scientists concluded this was the catchiest song in the history of pop music.
26. Oh, oh, people of the earth
Queen – Prophet’s Song – Written by Brian May after a dream about a great flood.
27. Empty spaces – what are we living for
Queen – The Show Must Go On. Recorded by Freddy when he knew he was dying of AIDS but had not yet made this public.
28. I’m just the pieces of the man I used to be.
Brian May/Queen – Too Much Love Will Kill You. Originally recorded by May as a solo project before the Queen version.
29. Sometimes I feel I’m gonna break down and cry
Freddy Mercury – Living on my Own. From Mr Bad Guy.
30. When the outside temperature rises
Queen – I’m Going Slightly Mad. With the wonderful line “I think I’m a banana tree”.
 31. I was working in the lab, late one night
For today’s date? There can be no other song… The Monster Mash, of course.

Evening Dash

1. A single gunshot 2. A flooded cave 3. A brand new car 4. A friend’s unusual pet 5. A murderous plan
6. A waste of time 7. A tiny spot 8. A singing telemarketer 9. A rainy day 10. A fork in the road
11. An insomniac violinist 12. A chance meeting 13. A nosebleed 14. A strange custom 15. A lethal habit
16. A box full of keys 17. An abandoned convent 18. A loud thump 19. A famous dancer 20. A bingo book
21. A candy cane 22. A love letter 23. A scary clown 24. A tragic downfall 25. A different person
26. An immature vendetta 27. A dandelion seed 28. A flooded cave 29. A book missing a page 30. A secret code
 31.  An awkward situation

October’s prompts are provided by Nate and Lizzie.

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