Writing Prompts

Thank you to everyone who participated in last month’s short story challenge. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the amount of involvement people have had with these prompts. Truth be told, I didn’t expect anyone to participate. So. Thank you. I do love reading new stories, so if you haven’t participated, I’d encourage you to do so — to or to encourage your writer friends to do so — this month.

Your prompt is for this month below. If you do decide to blog your short story, link back to me and I’ll be sure to promote it where I can.

• Suggested number of words: Maximum 1000 words
• Your theme: A letter to someone you’ve never met
• Seven words to work into your story: fear, challenge, blip, consoling, wisdom, green, chemistry
• Genre: None
• Rating/Content Limitations: None

Your story should be posted on November 1st. Be sure to link back to this post so I can see your story ans share. Good luck and happy writing.

Thank you to everyone who participated in last month’s short story challenge. I’ve been going back through and adding links to Google Docs to those who have shared their stories from previous months with me on their respective month’s posts. If a few months pass and there’s enough interest and/or enough posts done, I may add a new page to the blog and curate all of the short stories there.

Your prompt is for this month below. If you do decide to blog your short story, link back to me and I’ll be sure to promote it where I can.

• Suggested number of words: Minimum of 500 words, no maximum
• Your theme: The demon within
• Seven words to work into your story: red, philanthropy, safe, flight, shifty, cultural, feminism
• Genre: None
• Rating/Content Limitations: None
• Other Notes: Story must be told from a first-person perspective

Your story should be posted on October 1st. Be sure to link back to this post so I can see your story ans share. Good luck and happy writing.

Looking for responses to this prompt? Here are some:

Mine: https://thattinywebsite.com/2017/09/01/1356/

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Thank you to everyone who participated in last month’s short story challenge. While I only had my link to share, a couple of people reached out to me with Google Docs of their story contributions to the challenge. As a result, I wanted to do the challenge again this month for those interested.

Your prompt is below. If you do decide to blog your short story, link back to me and I’ll be sure to promote it where I can.

• Suggested number of words: Limit of 2500 words
• Your theme: Write about someone who is learning the history or lore of a sacred weapon, spell, or symbol.
• Seven words to work into your story: army, oracle, squid, voltage, sparkling, duet, deeds
• Genre: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
• Rating/Content Limitations: None

Your story should be posted on September 1st. Good luck and happy writing.

Looking for responses to this prompt? Here are some:

Mine – https://thattinywebsite.com/2017/08/01/foxtails/

Grand Moff Joseph – https://docs.google.com/document/d/13rE0pyS_mOl5DS97yklXztkWX8c1fB5X6O5MpwCDCvs/edit

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Over the past few months, I’ve been trying really hard to figure out what I want to do creatively. I’ve struggled to find something that spoke to the writer and creator in me. I’ve had multiple projects over the last year or so fail pretty hard and get me down. So on July 4th, I took to Twitter to try to get ideas as to what to write about.

At the recommendation of long time reader Tabitha, I want to try something to engage whoever out there might be reading this blog. I know that there’s not a ton of you out there, but I would love to interact and engage with you through creative writing. After all, creative writing was one of the first things to give me an outlet for my mind and make me care about writing. I’ve always loved writing communities I’ve been involved with…so why not try to build one here, however small that community is.

I’ve listed a short writing prompt below. Feel free to take it whatever direction you’d like. I’ll be posting my response to the prompt on August 1st. If you link back to this post, tell me about your prompt response, or write your own piece inspired by the prompt, I’ll try to share it along with my short story on the 1st (likely by adding links to that post, as well as this one, when it goes up). Didn’t see the prompt until well after the deadline has passed? Still shoot me a note or a link back. I’ll add where I can.

• Suggested number of words: 1000-1500
• Your theme: Recapturing a long-lost feeling
• Seven words to work into your story: Gazebo, hollandaise, archive, caffeinated, quixotic, aglet, campfire
• Genre: Your choice
• Rating/Content Limitations: None