Writing Prompt “Dominoes”
Theme: Dominoes A story in which cause and effect are quite central to the plot. Perhaps something bad ends up
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Writing Prompt “Fox Forest”
Theme: Fox Forest Required Elements: leaves from a tree singing Word Count: 1,200 Description: Legend says Fox Forest is named
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1st Line Writing Prompt “The Car on the Roof”
Theme: The Car on the Roof Your story must start with: “I still want to know how you managed to
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Writing Prompt “Opera”
Theme: Opera Your story must include the line: “What do you have against Opera houses?” Required Elements: An Opera Valentine’s
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Writing Prompt “Enduring Love”
Theme: Enduring Love It’s what really matters. The people we have in our lives when we need to talk to
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Writing Prompt “The Vow of the Peacock”
Theme: The Vow of the Peacock Word Count: 1,200 As with many holiday traditions, most New Year’s resolutions have religious
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Writing Prompt “Christmas Lovers”
Theme: A Christmas Conundrum Word Count: 1,200 It’s Christmas Eve. Somehow two enemies end up lovers by Christmas morning. The
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Last Line Contest “Night Becomes Day””
Theme: Last Line Contest Requirements: Your story must end with the line, “As night became day, he started to understand
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Writing Prompt “Superstition”
A 1 week Halloween prompt revolving around the end result of a superstition that’s come true.
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Writing Prompt “Culture Clash”
Theme: Culture Clash The story should contain a misunderstanding due to either a language barrier or cultural differences. Requirements: a
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New post publishing soon. The writer suggesting this week’s prompt, requested we change the theme from “The Misunderstanding” to “Culture
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Writing Prompt “Winter Love”
This 30 day bonus contest will allow 2,500 words.
Winter Love – Winter is the only time two lovers can be together.
First Line Prompt “An Unusual Summer”
Theme: An Unusual Summer Story must start with “What was quite unusual this summer …” Word Count: 1,200
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Writing Prompt “Revenge”
Theme: Revenge The line “you ruined me, I plan on returning the favor” must appear somewhere in the story itself.
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Bonus: July 9 – July 29, 2020 Flash Fiction Contest Prompt “Beneath the Sea”
Theme: Beneath the Sea The sentence: “Oh darling, you should never trust a {insert humanoid water creature mermaid/water sprite/rusalki/water nymph/Poseidon
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June 2 – July 15, 2020 Writing Prompt “Chaos”
Theme: Chaos Requirement: No Requirements Word Count: 1,200
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Writing Prompt “Something Wicked This Way Comes”
Theme: Something Wicked This Way Comes Many writers draw their inspiration from art or images. There are so many different
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Writing Prompt “A Plan Gone Horribly Wrong”
Theme: A plan gone horribly wrong. Requirement: Story should include a Top Hat and an Astrological Sign. Word Count: 1,200
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Writing Prompt “Somewhere Else”
Theme: Somewhere Else. A character has to be in (or go to) a place quite different from their normal environment.
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Writing Prompt “Black Feathers”
Theme: Black Feathers
Many writers draw their inspiration from art or images. There are so many different stories that could be told from this one detailed picture.
Use this image as inspiration for your story, it can be the image as a whole, a single part of it or several elements inside the image itself.
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Writing Prompt “What’s Wrong With You People?”
Theme: Line Inclusion. The line “what’s wrong with you people?” must appear somewhere in the story itself. Word Count: 1,200
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Writing Prompt “Heartbreak”
Dialogue Prompt: two people are chatting in a café/restaurant/bar/park etc, they are discussing a recent broken heart. How did they
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Last Line Writing Prompt “A Hard Time”
Theme: A Hard Time You must use the line: “it was a hard time for most of us…” It must
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Writing Prompt “Reindeer Baby”
Christmas Writing Prompt: Reindeer Baby. 1200 word count, Story Requirements: A live reindeer.
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Dialogue Writing Prompt “River Discussion”
Theme: Dialogue Prompt “River Discussion”
Two figures argue about six {insert whatever monetary item you like) they found down by the river.
Monetary items may be anything i.e. six gold coins, six rupees, six one hundred dollar bills, six silver chests full of riches. Whatever you want.
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First Person Writing Prompt “The Man in Black”
Which character will you be? First person writing prompt:
A little girl is sitting on a train next to a man in black. “What do you do mister?” She asks him.
Taking off his sunglasses with a faint smile, he says, “I make bad people go away.”
Writing Prompt “Impulse Buy”
Theme: Impulse Buy An impulse buy leads to a life changing event. Word Count: 1,200
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Writing Prompt “Dark and Stormy”
Theme: 1st line contest The story must start with: “It was a dark, stormy night.” These words will NOT count towards
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Writing Prompt “A Christmas Miracle”
Theme: A Christmas Miracle. Stories must end with the line: “With that, he/she walked into the snowstorm, never looking back.”. (Does
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Writing Prompt “Something Strange”
Theme: Something Strange The story must start with: (I)(He)(She)(They)(We)(It)(A Name)(The) … knew there was something strange…” Requirement: NO spaceships in
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Writing Prompt “Return”
Theme: Return (any meaning) Any genre or style, but has to have a happy/upbeat ending. Must use these four words directly: ‘suit,
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Writing Prompt “Wedding”
Theme: Wedding. Must contain- Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Word Count: 1,200
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Writing Prompt “Travel”
Theme: Travel You take a trip to any location you choose. Describe the scenery, the people, and the social system in
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Writing Prompt “Styx”
This post is for stories related to the contest theme: “Styx”. Take the viewpoint of the bidder, take the viewpoint of the main character, take the viewpoint of the victim (if she’s an assassin or death reaper), just have fun with it.
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Writing Prompt “What’s in the Attic”
Theme: This post is for stories related to the contest theme: “What’s in the Attic”. Story Requirements: An elderly man
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Writing Prompt “Fence”
Theme: This post is for stories related to the contest theme: “Fence”. 1. a physical barrier either existing or in
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Writing Prompt “Murder at Midnight”
Theme: This post is for stories related to the contest theme: “Murder at Midnight”.
Story Requirements: completely open to writers interpretation.
Word Count: 1,200
Writing Prompt “Elements”
This will be our final contest of 2017. We would like to thank all of you who have participated, and
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Writing Prompt “Post Apocalyptic”
Flash Fiction Contest “Post Apocalyptic”, a writing prompt with required elements and a specific word count. These writing prompts help us hone our craft and keep us fresh.
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Writing Prompt “Stuck in an Elevator”
Theme: This post is for stories related to the contest theme: “Stuck in an Elevator”. Story Requirements: You are stuck
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Writing Prompt “Tragedy”
Theme: This post is for stories related to the contest theme: “tragedy”. Story Requirements: completely open to writers interpretation. Word
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Writing Prompt “The Letter”
Theme: This post is for stories related to the contest theme: “The Letter”. Story Requirements: A teacher finds a letter in
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Writing Prompt “Train Station”
A “just for fun” writing prompt to get your creativity going.
The prompt is “Train Station” and can be up to 2,000 words.
Writing Prompt “The Service”
Theme: This post is for stories related to the contest theme: “The Service”. Story Requirements: could be military service, could
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Last Line Writing Prompt “Unexpected”
Last line flash fiction contest. Submit a story in this bonus 30 day contest for your chance to win either a Starbucks or a Kindle Gift Card.
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Writing Prompt “Snakes”
Theme: This post is for stories related to the contest theme: “snakes”. Story Requirements: Can be singular or plural, but
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Writing Prompt “Clouds”
This post is for stories related to the Contest theme: “Clouds”. The clouds can be storm clouds, chem trails,
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Writing Prompt “Time”
New short story contest theme: “Time”.
Anything to do with time. A watch maker; a clock tower; time travel; a historical era, the essence of a musical arrangement; a pocket watch; a deadline, (as in a limited time), a rare opportunity (one-time only). Etc., etc.
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Writing Prompt “A Fresh Start”
This post is for STORIES related to the Contest theme: “A Fresh Start.” The link to the LinkedIn Comment Thread
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Writing Prompt “A Christmas Tale”
This post is for STORIES related to the Contest theme: “A Christmas Tale.” The link to the LinkedIn Comment Thread
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Writing Prompt “The Day After”
This post is for STORIES related to the Contest theme: “The Day After.” Your story must take place after some
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Writing Prompt “Irreconcilable Differences”
This post is for STORIES related to the Contest theme: “Irreconcilable Differences”. The link to the LinkedIn Comment Thread can
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Writing Prompt “The Main Character is Physically Impaired”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here.
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Writing Prompt “Chance Encounter”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here.
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Writing Prompt “A Change of Mind”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here.
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Writing Prompt “Book Title”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here.
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Writing Prompt “The owlet led me to…”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here.
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Writing Prompt “In A Few Moments, There Would/Will Be No More Doubts”
DEADLINE EXTENDED!! LAST DAY TO SUBMIT A STORY IS NOW AUGUST 24TH. LET’S GET SOME MORE STORIES SUBMITTED!! The LinkedIn
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Writing Prompt “Forgotten Deity”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here.
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Writing Prompt “Invasion”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here.
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Writing Prompt “Discovery”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here. This post is for STORIES related to the theme “Discovery – of
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Writing Prompt “Fear”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here.
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Writing Prompt “Fairy Tale Redoux”
(The LinkedIn discussion thread can be found here. This post is for stories only.) What childhood would be complete without
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Writing Prompt “Unwanted Gifts”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here.
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Writing Prompt “Desert”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here.
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Writing Prompt First Line Contest: “It Was The Most Beautiful…”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here.
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Writing Prompt “Valentine’s Day Love Advice”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here.
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Writing Prompt “Could it have ended any better?”
The LinkedIn Comment Thread can be found here.
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