March's Let's Write Together

Prompt of the Month

Nicole Rivera

and

Heather L Huffman

Mar 10, 2023

Hey Fictionistas,

We just had our kick off call for March’s edition of The Great Substack Prompt Celebration. We had a great time and heard some amazing first draft fiction. Thank you to all of the writer who attended and participated!

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

Fictionistas

March 2023 The Great Substack Prompt Celebration

Last month we launched and introduced The Great Substack Prompt Celebration, a month long looking to Inspire you (we shared a writing prompt with you), to give you a chance to Write Together (we invited you to a Writing Prompt Party), to Share Your Stories…

2 years ago · 24 likes · 5 comments · Heather L Huffman and Nicole Rivera

The Prompt

This month we used one of Nicole’s favorite writing prompt tools, The Storymatic cards created by Brian Mooney. Check out Storymatic Studios (https://thestorymatic.com)

to see how you can get your own set of cards!

The rules are simple:

Pick two gold cards to create a character
Pick two copper cards to lead you into story

Here are the cards we selected

Gold Character Cards

The first two cards selected were as follows

This means you are to write about a slacker who steals cats!

Copper Story Cards

The next two cards selected were

Something beautiful yet useless AND something is wrong with the water

This means your story should include something beautiful but so useless and there should be something wrong with the water at some point in your story.

Next Steps

Now it’s time to write, or polish the piece you began in the Writing Prompt Party earlier tonight. Then, when the discussion thread is posted next Thursday post it on your Substack page and put the link in the comments; If the story doesn’t go with what you typically post you can leave a link to a view only Google doc and post it in the comments. Stories should be 1,000 words or less.

Once you share your stories, the community will start reading, and we’ll be looking for the stories that impress us most!

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.