It’s a new year, and a new set of awesome challenges. If you signed up, you should have received your prompt via email.

If you didn’t receive an email, please check your spam folder. If you still can’t find it, please send us an email at editors@scriptic.org and we will check it out.

There aren’t many rules. Write something that responds to the prompt. Include the footer; the information for that is in the email, too. If you are on Twitter, please tweet your response and make sure to give credit to the person who gave you the prompt. Once you are done, post a link in the comments here so we can read your work and include it in the weekly roundup. If your response to a prompt completely blows us away, we may ask you to submit a piece to Scriptic for publishing.

The deadline is Thursday, January 10, at midnight Eastern time.

Here is a list of people who signed up for this week, and the prompts to which they’ve been assigned. If your name isn’t on the list, please visit this page to sign up for next week.

• Tara Roberts Prompt: misspellings and misconceptions
• Michael Prompt: Like it never even happened.
• Melissa Prompt: “So much of how we live consists of making meaning out of a bewildering jumble of images, of attempting to move as seamlessly as we can from one stage of life to the next.” -Nick Hornby
• SAM Prompt: Begin your story with “I have a friend who is an excellent liar.”
• Eric Storch Prompt: a talking cat, a forgotten room, and a not-quite logical explanation.
• Lisa D.B. Taylor Prompt: Claustrophobia
• kgwaite Prompt: The rabbit was made of iron, though she swore she’d see its foot twitch.