January'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 Sentences!
As we discussed earlier in the month, we are looking at a new way to celebrate the fiction shared here in our monthly writing prompt gathering. The new direction will definitely be leaning in on awesome sentences and quotes in everyone’s fiction, which leads me to my question of the week:
How do you definie or identify a great sentence (either in your own work or work you are reading)?
Are you a vocabulary lover looking for wonderful words? Do your sentence loves contain stories within themselves? Do you appreciate punctuation twists and turns? Is it something else entirely? Let us know what makes a sentence shine in your opinion.
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.
And Finally… The Prompt
Thsi month Nicole shared another “old faithful” prompt tool: The Amazing Story Generator from Chronicle books. The book is broken into three diffferent sections of page flaps that, when each is opened randomly, a sentence prompt is created. For this month, Nicole asked the attenddees to instruct her how to flip. The result was the following.
Your prompt:
While dog-sitting, a tactless diplomat brings home an unexpected houseguest.
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!
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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
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Something to bite our teeth into! Does the prompt appear as a first line or anywhere in the story?
Oh, this is SO cool! I'm a bit late to the party, but I'll see if I can come up with something good next month. I'd love to participate. And as far as sentences are concerned: I like to be surprised! Maybe it's an unexpected turn of phrase, an intriguing comparison, or even just words that aren't typically sentence bedfellows.