November's Let's Write Together
November's Let's Write Together
PROMPT POST!
We had our November Writing Prompt Party earlier this evening and it was a blast. It’s now time to reveal the prompt to the rest of the Fictionistas community!
First, Let’s Talk About Gratitude
In the United States we are ramping up to our season of gratitude, so this week we’d like to know
What are you thankful for in your writing life?
Are you grateful for time, inspiration, community, readers, or something else entirely? Let us know in the comments what you are currently celebrating, and grateful for, when it comes to your writing.
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 pulled one her favorite writing prompt books off her shelf: The Very Short Story Starter: 101 Flash Fiction Prompts for Creative Writing by John Gillard
Your prompt:
Write a story about a character who has had an epiphany while doing a mundane, everyday task. Perhaps somebody sweeping leaves from their driveway stops to look at the pile of leaves being formed on the lawn and sees only the sterile, perfect existence of their life, resolving to cut loose and let both the leaves and themselves be taken by the wind.
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 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.
Most grateful for finding out that I have a "trait" I share a writing trait with both Piers Anthony and the late Isaac Asimov - an ability to work on multiple projects at the same time. This may get confusing and may delay one or more, but it also makes "writer's block" FAR less of an issue - when one story stalls, another is waiting to take over.
So grateful right now for the creative freedom I have felt since removing the need to write for a reason (person, channel, sales, objective). I was burned chasing a dream which was never real, and my writing became work. Now, I am writing for myself and exploring ideas and themes I care about, and the words are flowing at a rate I have never experienced before.