Round robin anyone?
Read about round robin story writing here. To do it you need to be in a room with or connected online maybe, to a bunch of other writers. A round robin starts when everyone involved writes down a random … Read more ...
Tag: flash fiction
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Gardenias again
I wrote this piece of flash fiction after I’d been given, what we writers call ‘a prompt’. A writing prompt is a word or phrase that is intended to stimulate a story of some type or a poem. The prompt … Read more ...
Interruptions
Steve got a writing toolkit for Christmas, so we each took one of its’ emery boards containing a prompt, and started writing. He interrupted us every 5 minutes with another line which we used to change the direction of our … Read more ...
About 35°C in the shade
‘Opening the wardrobe door’ was a recent writing prompt I was given. Quick as a flash fiction writer, I came up with this… … Read more ...
6 word story anyone?
Ernest Hemingway, I love you for everything you ever wrote..
but don’t worry… it’s love in a big, manly, bear hug type of a way. I’m gratified but ashamed all at once, because even though I haven’t read it all … Read more ...
Murder. No mystery.
The runes were cast and these are what the gods came back with – a black cat, a lightning bolt, a light bulb, an eye, a question, a footprint, an abacus, a compass and a magic wand – see the … Read more ...
Photo prompt kills!
The rain was falling in rivulets down the windows by the time the car pulled up outside the police station.
Redundantly Jacobs intoned “We have arrived madam”.
The family’s faithful retainer opened and held the car door for me. The … Read more ...
The City
Here’s something I wrote based on a ‘throw’ of 5 Rory Story Cubes
The Bridge
The sky has turned dark over the course of the afternoon, and threatens me with a soaking. I’m looking forward to finishing my daytime vigil. … Read more ...
Is there life?
More photographic prompts er… “prompted” me to combine 2 snaps into a quick sci-fi 70’s pastiche. Simples!
… Read more ...I woke from a dreamful sleep, feeling very peaceful. My remembrance of the previous evening was quite different. That had been horrifyingly painful,
bots
At a writers meeting, we wrote a piece based on the “interruptions” game. Lauren gave us a starting prompt, and each of us did a piece of free writing. Every few minutes Lauren interrupted us with another prompt until the … Read more ...
Streets of fire
… Read more ...A picture of a boy and a miner freshly out of the mine inspired me to write this piece of flash fiction…
The Morning After the Night Before
… Read more ...Lauren brought in 6 paintings to inspire. The one that “spoke” to me was “Rooms by the Sea” painted in 1951 by Edward Hopper. Who knows where the connections come from which our brains make? The light coming in through
Dialogue
… Read more ...Here’s a conversation between two people in completely different worlds…
Horror flash
… Read more ...I wrote this piece when my friend Lauren brought in another yet another great idea – write some flash fiction. She gave us the idea that a little boy was in bed, meant to go to sleep, but he couldn’t,
Hand in hand with the great Stephen King?
… Read more ...Recently in my creative writing class we carried out an exercise, adding to the beginning or end of a fragment of text we’d been given by our tutor. I was excited by the start of the story and piggybacked my
The Rock
… Read more ...This was one of the first pieces of ‘flash fiction’ I ever wrote. I wrote it at the first Creative Writing class I attended in 2009. Amongst other prompts the tutor brought in a smooth khaki coloured rock, and told