March's Let's Write Together

PROMPT POST!

If you didn’t make it tonight’s Writing Prompt Party, now is your chance to join this month’s fun with a little chat and your opportunity to write to our prompt!

First, Let’s Talk About Your Relationship to Poetry

Both in Stop Writing Alone and with the help of local poet facilitators (basically, this guy) I have begun to play with poetry again. I don’t have any lofty ideas about myself as a poet, but I have noticed, since beginning this journey, both reading and crafting poetry has had an effect on my writing process. So, my question of the week is:

What is your relationship to poetry?

Are you a casual consumer of poetry, an avoid-er of the verse, or do you actively pursue it for either pleasure or edification? 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.

The Great Substack Prompt Celebration

And Finally… The Prompt

This month I dug out a long forgotten book I purchased from my local FIVE BELOW store called The 1-Minute Writer by Leigh Medieros.

This book contains four prompts for every topic within, they are categorized as 1-minute, 5-minute, 10-minute, and 20-minute prompts. For this month’s prompt I shared the 10-minute prompt under the topic “Strange Object.”

I will first share a photo of the prompt found on page 157 of the book:

Here is what the prompt says…

Your prompt:

Police receive a phone call from s homeowner who’s fixing his roof. From his higher vantage point he’s able to see that there’s a large, oddly shaped object in the bottom of a nearby pond. What happens when the police arrive to investigate?

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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I’m Jackie, a fiction author, freelance writer, and historian. I enjoy rooting for the underdog and stirring up trouble. Unsurprisingly, my alignment is Chaotic Good. My Substacks are Unseen St. Louis and Story Cauldron.

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.