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 Free Writing
Depending on who you ask, free writing can be a fun distraction or a pivotal tool in a writer’s life. This question for this week is simple enough:
How do you use free writing?
Is it part of your practice, or a frivolous diversion? Let us know in the comments!
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
This month Nicole shared a prompt from the book The Very Short Story Starter by John Gillard.
Your prompt:
Write a story where the protagonists are whispering.
Why might they be whispering? Is it because what they are saying is a secret? Where are they — in a library, a cinema, a closed closet?
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
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.
I like to use freewriting as a way to get the idea juices flowing. I often start drafts freewriting, allowing my stream of consciousness to think about and take control of the story ahead of me. It allows me to clear out all the thoughts and write the actual story.
I use free writing as a way to "warm up" before a long writing session. OR as a way to vent my frustrations.