Weekly Creativity #172 | Flash Contest #36: Write about Someone Writing a Story
Write about someone writing a story. To submit to this month's Flash Contest, click here.
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Write about someone writing a story.
To submit to this month's Flash Contest, click here.
Write a story about you, but in a parallel universe where you had a different life. What would happen if you went to a different school, had different parents, or lived somewhere else?
Submit to the September Flash Contest here.
Use J.M.W. Turner's painting The Banks of the Loire as a starting point for a stream of consciousness piece. You can write a stream of consciousness piece about the painting itself, about how you imagine the world in the painting to be, or you can just use the painting as a jumping-off point.
Submit via our Submittable site here.
Choose one of these proverbs, and write a story in which the opposite is true:
“A stitch in time saves nine”
“The early bird catches the worm”
“A problem shared is a problem halved”
“A leopard cannot change its spots”
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder”
If you want a full-week’s challenge, do a different one each day!
Make up at least five terrible book titles (they don’t have to make sense!) and write a story based on the most ridiculous one.
Submit your entries here.
Visit the same place—precisely the same location—multiple times a day, or at the same time every day for a week. Document what you see through photography, other art forms, or writing!
To be considered for the the April 2021 Flash Contest, visit our submittable site here and submit by Sunday, April 11 at midnight.
Write a story set somewhere you’ve never been. It could be set in outer space, Antarctica, or even an alternate reality!
Write a short story that begins with “Once upon a time, in a land far away...” and ends with “...and they all lived happily ever after.”
This prompt is our November Flash Contest. Please check the Contest page for full details.
Flash Contest #24: Write a Poem That Can Be Read Up or Down.
Our October Flash Contest was based on our weekly creativity prompt #121, another great prompt from Stone Soup intern Anya Geist. It always feels like a little miracle that our writers can craft these pieces of work, and give us two poems in one!
What would the world be like without color? What if there were a few select people who could see colors? Write about the effects of not being able to see color, or of there being no color, and how that affects people and society in a good or bad way.
Remember: this is a Monday prompt, so if you are writing your response in the week it was first published, you can submit it to our Weekly Flash C...