March'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 About Your Substack Page
In our call tonight we gave everyone a moment to share and discuss the current focus of their main Substack page. Now it’s your turn.
What is the primary focus of your Substack page?
Is your page reserved for fiction alone or do you spread the writing love around? Are you still figuring out your Substack’s theme? There are no wrong answers, think of this as a great opportunity to share your Substack along with a tiny preview of what types of things we’d expect to read when we get there!
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 another prompt tool: a card from the Write Now: Creative Writing Kit. The kit comes with a blank journal for writing in that incluses some beginner writing tips as well as a deck of cards with various types of prompts (ie. “use these words in a story,” story starters, world building, etc.). This month we are using a story starter (heavily influenced by Nicole’s current medical mystery tour!):
Your prompt:
Continue the story.
When Simon woke up, his hospital room was dark and smelled bad…
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!
Share the Fiction Love!
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.
My Substack is indeed just fiction, a serializing of a fantasy epic. I intend to also write essays about the writing process, the fantasy genre, and choices I made in my books. But that has to wait as it would spoil the books at this point.
My primary focus for my Substack is fiction. I am serialising a novel and just decided to add short stories into the mix. My goal with The Môrdreigiau Chronicles is to immerse you into a world where magical diaries can be found, mythical sea dragons roam the seas, and quests for Arthurian objects just may save the world from ecological destruction.