This week’s writing prompt courtesy of Carrot Ranch’s – Flash Fiction Challenge is to write a 99-word story (no more no less) that includes the “greatest gift“. When you sit and think about it, we have so many gifts. Some are not always obvious and some can appear to be more like curses. This may not seem like the greatest of them until you need it!
Well, this is something a little different. I’ve been focussing on writing fiction of late but I stumbled across Sadje’s response to Fandango’s weekly Provocative Question and it has inspired me to wander a little off-piste.
This week’s photo writing prompt courtesy of Sue Vincent’s fun #writephoto challenge is entitled simply “reaching”.
Much of the inspiration for this, came from the repeated phrase “I will not sit and wait for a break in the clouds” from the stunning track “Break in the clouds” by Frightened Rabbit. It literally started playing as I sat down to write, and unconsciously I’d taken a counterpoint perspective. I then got a few paragraphs in and realised it was turning into a poor imitation of H.G.’s Well’s – Time Machine and decided to have some fun with it.
Week 5 participating in the very popular #vss365 challenge on Twitter. The aim. To write a daily Very Short Story in less than 280 characters, a single tweet. Yes, that’s characters! Not words.
This week’s writing prompt courtesy of Carrot Ranch’s – Flash Fiction Challenge is to write a 99-word story (no more no less) that embodies “true grit“. You could always rely on John Wayne to stick to his guns. It wasn’t his guns that gave him grit, it was following his conscience, no matter how tough it got.
Here we go, the revamped Discordant Love Beyond Death Anthology has launched on Kickstarter. I’m so excited that one of my first short stories will make it into print. I’m especially honoured, given the calibre of the other authors that have contributed their dark twisted tales. I honestly can’t wait to read them, but possibly not before bedtime. Big thanks to Dickon over at Beyond Death Publishing. He’s done an amazing job on the new cover art, as well as all the promotional material that goes along with such a launch.
Regular visitors to the blog will know I love the challenge of a great writing prompt, and they don’t come any more intriguing than “Love after Death”. I think you’ll agree, its a great open-ended prompt that offered so many possibilities, especially when you consider the many forms of love beyond the obvious romantic angles:
Love takes on many forms, as does death, and this anthology features twenty-two stories that dance the line between Dark Affection and Paranormal Romance, where death is not the end but merely the start of some truly original tragedies, tales that will often stop you dead in your tracks, challenging you preconceptions of what is right and wrong, before allowing you to return and continue reading.
If that sounds like your cup of tea why not head over to the Kickstarter page and show some support for an indie publisher by snagging your copy today. You’d be mad not to when there’s 50% off the first 50 paperbacks 😉
