December 2023 The Great Substack Prompt Celebration "LITE" EDITION!
Your Inspiration Invitation
Earlier this year, Heather Huffman and Nicole Rivera joined the Fictionistas crew to help build community around our fiction creations on Substack. We call this adventure The Great Substack Prompt Celebration (read a detailed explanation here).
Each month we share writing prompts, have a live Zoom call where we write together, and then wrap up the month by asking all participants to share their stories and read submissions from their fellow Fictionistas. However, since it’s the end of the year and holidays are coming at all of us from all different directions, we are going to do a lighter version for December:
JUST THE PROMPT & PARTY!
Let’s Talk Holiday Distractions!
Whether it’s family obligations, office get togethers, shopping, or volunteering to help those in need, the holiday season tends to offer up a slew of new obligations to every writer’s schedule. Let us know in the comments
How do you balance holidays seasons and your writing life?
Are the kind of writer who schedules writing time around the the obligations, or have you planned on giving your writing brain a bit of break to dive fully in to the hustle and bustle? Do you have some wonderful secret plan you wish to share, or are you looking for advice? Wherever you are in your holiday/writing life journey and juggle, let us know in the comments.
Mark Your Calendar & Grab Your Link
You officially have one week to warm up before this month’s fun begins. Remember, Fictionistas who join the Writing Prompt Party will be the first to get this month’s prompt and the first to get some real-time reactions to their first drafts!
How This Month Is Different
After we host the Writing Prompt Party next Thursday, we will post the prompt here on Fictionistas in case you can’t make it to the party, but that’s the last you’ll hear from the Prompt Party ladies this month! We still encourage you to post your stories to your Substacks and share them in Notes (if you tag us, we’ll be able to read them), but we will not have a sharing thread or list of favorites this month.
Your Official Invitation to Party
The November Writing Prompt Party will be on December 14, 2023 at 6PM Eastern. We would love to see you there (but keep in mind, if you can’t make it, we will be posting the prompt to Fictionistas after the meeting)!
Topic: FICTIONISTAS Writing Prompt Party DECEMBER 2023
Time: Dec 14, 2023 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81098047860?pwd=cVI1SmNNTjRSakZ3RU5vc2xXNmxlUT09
Meeting ID: 810 9804 7860
Passcode: FICTION!
Let’s write together this month, Fictionistas!
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.
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Fortuitously, I finished a first draft of my eighth novel today, so I'm giving myself the usual rest of the week off. Typically I try to ease off on myself in the weeks before and after the 25th and charge into the New Year refrfreshed.
“Let’s Talk Holiday Distractions”. For us, we try to use all the parties and get togethers as inspiration. Conversations with friends and family and strangers become food for scenes and dialogue. It’s a time of year where conversations tend to go to deeper places. And let’s face it, alcohol as social lubricant means we hear things we might not otherwise. 😉Each night we do a brain dump and carve out new parts of different characters’ identities, beliefs, and behaviors based on things we have heard, observed and learned.