Rachael Ritchey

#BlogBattle Week 28 “Orchid” Entries & Voting

#BlogBattle 28 Story Theme: Orchid

(basic rules at the bottom of the post)

Look for everyone’s stories using #BlogBattle on Twitter, too! Wednesday, the poll gets added. Be sure to read them all. All the links will open in a new window so that you can easily navigate back to this list.

RULES for VOTING: Anyone can vote as long as you’ve read ALL the stories for this week by 10 PM PDT, SUNDAY. Vote for your TOP 3 favorites. Winner announced on Monday! (With as many great stories as get submitted, I think we all need just a little more time to read them and vote!)

Comedy/Humor:

  • The Gossips of Westpark Flowers by Kristin @ Pursuit of a New Adventure
  • What’s for Lunch by Rachael Ritchey
  • Amateur Disasters by Lauren Gunter

Drama:

Fantasy:

  • Awakening by Melissa Barker-Simpson
  • A New Path by PhoenixGrey85
  • Confrontation by E. Rawls

Inspirational/Contemporary:

Mystery/Crime:

Romance:

Science Fiction:

  • The Scorched Planet by Simon Farnell @ Universe of Possibilities
  • Agent Orchid by Blonde(Lucy)WriteMore
  • The Roots of Orchids by Candice Coates
  • Ghost Orchid by David (SonWorshiper)

Action/Thriller/Suspense:

Western:

PS If I’m missing your story, just leave me a comment to let me know!

Anyone, regardless of participation, who reads ALL the stories for the week may vote.

PLEASE VOTE for your top THREE favorites (not all for the same, though!).

Vote by 10 PM PST on Sunday so I can announce the winner on Monday Thank you so much. I enjoy our weekly stories a great deal, and I hope you do, too!

Rules:

  1. 1000 words max
  2. fictional tale (or true if you really want)
  3. PG (no more than PG-13) Content – let’s keep this family friendly!
  4. Your story must contain the word(s) from the theme and/or be centered around the theme in a way that shows it is clearly related
  5. Go for the entertainment value!
  6. State the Genre of your story at the top of your post.
  7. Post your story on Tuesday, by 11:59 PM PST
  8. Use the hashtag #BlogBattle when tweeting your story, put a linkback to your #BlogBattle Short Story in the comments section of this page, and/orinclude a link to this page in your own blog post(it creates a “ping-back” which will alert me and our friends to your #BlogBattle post)
  9. Have fun!

Each winner will receive this awesome #BlogBattle Winner Badge to display with their winning story on their webpage:

BlogBattle award 1

Rachael Ritchey

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37 responses to “#BlogBattle Week 28 “Orchid” Entries & Voting”

  1. TrinidadMorell8 Avatar
    TrinidadMorell8

    Really no matter if someone doesn’t be aware of afterward its up to other users that they will help, so here it occurs.

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  2. phoenixgrey85 Avatar
    phoenixgrey85

    Good stories again this week. 🙂 Loving the new theme, by the way. Very nice. 🙂

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    1. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
      Rachael Ritchey

      Thanks, Phoenix. So much to enjoy. I’m glad you like the theme. I wasn’t 100% sold on it at first, but I’m liking it more and more.

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      1. phoenixgrey85 Avatar
        phoenixgrey85

        Sometimes it just takes time to get used to something new. And the beauty about WP themes, is that you can just change it again. 🙂

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        1. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
          Rachael Ritchey

          exactly so on all accounts. 🙂

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  3. orana velarde (@CLFAdventure) Avatar
    orana velarde (@CLFAdventure)

    Its too bad I missed “orchid” I had good ideas. Maybe I’ll just stick in this weeks prompt and double up! 😉

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    1. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
      Rachael Ritchey

      Haha That works! 🙂

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  4. sonworshiper Avatar
    sonworshiper

    Work and lapses of creativity conspire against me!

    Ghost Orchid

    It’s an interesting plant I knew nothing about prior to this, so hey, there’s something. 😀

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    1. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
      Rachael Ritchey

      I like when we learn new things because of our writing. 🙂 It’s two-fold fun!

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  5. Amateur Disasters – #BlogBattle Week 12 | making the novel a better place

    […] have no idea what prompted this BlogBattle, but it amused me, so here it is. Genre: […]

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  6. Andrew Budek-Schmeisser Avatar
    Andrew Budek-Schmeisser

    Can The Dude deal with orchids..?

    But of course!

    http://blessed-are-the-pure-of-heart.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-gift-blogbattle.html

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    1. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
      Rachael Ritchey

      Yes! 😀

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      1. Andrew Budek-Schmeisser Avatar
        Andrew Budek-Schmeisser

        It was a tough one. I’d love your take on it, because I had to make a creative decision…and the way I decided either requires the reader to know Vietnamese, or look up some stuff.

        Explaining it…in the alternate passages I wrote and discarded…killed the flow.

        Writing’s tough.

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        1. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
          Rachael Ritchey

          I’m looking forward to reading it!

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  7. Carrie Ann Avatar
    Carrie Ann

    Here’s my story…http://wp.me/pgklb-It. I like the new look!!

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    1. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
      Rachael Ritchey

      Thanks! So far, so good!

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  8. Rawls E. Fantasy Avatar
    Rawls E. Fantasy

    A new theme, lovely, Rachael! How are you liking it?

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    1. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
      Rachael Ritchey

      Thanks. I’m still working on cleaning it up, but it’s growing on me. Lovecraft seemed to have all the features where I wanted them of the ones I checked out for free. 🙂

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      1. Rawls E. Fantasy Avatar
        Rawls E. Fantasy

        Hunting for themes takes so long, doesn’t it? Took me days to finally decide.

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        1. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
          Rachael Ritchey

          I spent pretty much all day trying to decide. I did a different one at first, but my daughter was in computer lab at school and was looking at it. She didn’t like it and Todd me so when I picked her up from school. Haha of course I changed it. Daughter knows best. 🙂

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          1. Rawls E. Fantasy Avatar
            Rawls E. Fantasy

            Haha, me and my mom do that too. 🙂
            Have you noticed themes look different on other devices too? I didn’t realize how off some of my backgrounds were because my computer didn’t show it. When I looked using a laptop, then I saw how messed up it was, lol.

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            1. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
              Rachael Ritchey

              Yeah. That’s why it’s a good idea to keep it simple. 🙂

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            2. Rawls E. Fantasy Avatar
              Rawls E. Fantasy

              True, haha, it’s so hard for me to keep things simple. 🙂

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  9. Confrontation #MadnesSolver | Rawls E. Fantasy Avatar
    Confrontation #MadnesSolver | Rawls E. Fantasy

    […] is my entry for this week’s #BlogBattle challenge by the wonderful author Rachael Ritchey, where the challenge is to write a short story based […]

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  10. What’s for Lunch | Rachael Ritchey Avatar
    What’s for Lunch | Rachael Ritchey

    […] #Orchid #BlogBattle Week 28 […]

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  11. Candice Avatar
    Candice

    Here is the link to my story! http://icameforthesoup.com/2015/09/22/man-of-grace-part-2-the-roots-of-orchids-a-short-story-blogbattle-week-28-orchid/ P.S I love that you are using “Lovecraft” theme. I still may use it for my future author page. 😀

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    1. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
      Rachael Ritchey

      YAY! Thanks Candice. I was having a horrible time finding a new one. The one I was using before didn’t allow for a side bar on the static main page, so it was a frustrating hunt yesterday for one that would allow for this, but also give me the menu bar at the top that I prefer. I also wanted a free one, so that was limiting, but so far, after a few more tweeks, I think this one will do very nicely. 🙂

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      1. Candice Avatar
        Candice

        Yes I see why you love it. I loved it for the same reasons. I almost retired my theme for this one a few weeks again.

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        1. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
          Rachael Ritchey

          Oh yeah? What changed your mind?

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          1. Candice Avatar
            Candice

            Well I just really loved Libretto and only needed to learn how to better work it and its functions. That and Lovecraft for some reason, kept glitching on my computer. It was weird. The same thing happened with my previous theme Book Lite.

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            1. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
              Rachael Ritchey

              Yeah, I’ve noticed that Lovecraft has some issues with text disappearing. If I edit and then need to edit something else, it will leave lots of text blank, but the space is still there. I have to close out the window and reopen the blog to correct it. I find that happens to me sometimes when viewing different blogs, too. If it continues, I’ll have to switch again, and I’d really rather not! You know what I mean? 🙂

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            2. Candice Avatar
              Candice

              That was the issue I was having! I suppose WP will have to fix it. I thought it was just me. Hopefully it will be worked out soon so that you can keep it. It is a couple theme

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            3. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
              Rachael Ritchey

              It happened occasionally with my old one, but not like it does with this one. It’s rather irksome. haha I like the way it looks when it’s working, though. haha

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            4. Candice Avatar
              Candice

              I totally agree, hence why I am still planning to use it in the future for my author page 😉

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            5. Candice Avatar
              Candice

              Cool not couple…autocorrect or should I say incorrect

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            6. Rachael Ritchey Avatar
              Rachael Ritchey

              My old phone had “Swype” technology, so I started calling the autocorrect changes SWYPOS 🙂

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            7. Candice Avatar
              Candice

              hahaha!

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