April's Let's Write Together

PROMPT POST!

With another Prompt Party in the books, it’s time to update those of you who couldn’t make it. Get your pens and pencils ready, here comes your Writing Prompt!

First, Let’s Talk About Your Current Creative Inputs

In our call tonight we had a little chat about the television shows and movies we’re watching this month.

What are you watching, reading, and listening to this month?

Are you intentional with your creative input while writing, or is it simply an escape that doesn’t factor in to your writing life. If you have a method to your creative input madness, let us know what it is!

Now, On To Our Month-Long Fictionistas Prompt Celebration!

If you missed the post with all the information and instructions you can read via the link below. Don’t worry you can still participate. Grab your laptop or pen and paper and join the fun!

The doc below describes the original model of this celebration, remember this month WE won’t be deciding which substacks will be getting a spotlight shone on them, YOU will! Next week we will come back with a more detailed explanation, but, in short, when the thread post comes out next week, we will be asking participants to read, react, and RESTACK each other’s stories with a special focus on sentences, or passages, they quote in their Notes.

The Great Substack Prompt Celebration

And Finally… The Prompt

This month Nicole shared another prompt tool: Rory’s Story Cubes! It’s a box of nine cubes with images on them. I rolled the dice and took a picture, here’s what we rolled.

Your prompt:

Use the following nine images in a story (Note: you do not have to stick to the literal objects in the image, you may also use them symbolically. For example, the open eye can be wide awake, or someone being watched, or going to an eye doctor, or a cyclops character, or whatever else an eye makes you think of!)

pictured 9 white cubes in a plastic shell arranged in a 3 by 3 square.

The images on the cubes are as follows:

a fire, a wand with 8 stars, an eye,

a falling or shooting star, a lightning bolt, a sleeping face with three zs,

an airplane, a magnifying glass, a silhouetted figure with a parachute

What now?

Now that the party is over, it’s time to polish your piece to get it ready for next week’s discussion thread. Get your polished story (no longer than 1000 words) on your Substack page, or on a a view-only Google doc, and put the link in the comments of the thread post we will share next Thursday.

Once you share your stories, the community will start reading, reacting, and restacking your fiction!

Let’s write together this month, Fictionistas!

Share the Fiction Love!

Do you know a writer who is looking for this kind of inspiration and community support? Don’t forget to share this post so we can read their stories too!

I’m Heather, creator and face behind Sprinkled Inspiration. If you’re looking for more prompts, I’m your girl! I post daily prompts and Have a feature Friday where other creatives share a prompt of their own. Join Here

I’m Nicole creator of all things Stop Writing Alone including a podcast, a YouTube channel, and a Substack community hosting multiple monthly Live Zoom Events for writers seeking community. If you are ready to truly stop writing alone, join here.