Every week Siobhan Muir runs #ThursThreads – a Flash fiction contest that runs from 7 AM Time to 8 PM Mountain Time. The prompt is chosen from a line from the previous week’s winning tale, and you must include the prompt in the story – you cannot change the tense and the only thing you […]
Read More This week’s Thursday’s Threads entryWhat happens when a bunch of writers decide there isn’t enough FlashFiction in their lives? Why, they issue a challenge – Write a story inspired by Annie Lennox ‘s “No More I Love Yous – 500-700 words – post it on your blog… and share the link. Here is my Monster Mash-up for the Halloween […]
Read More MonsterMash Blog HopAnnouncement (Copied from the Blog entry on the matter) New year, new flash. Starting this Saturday, the ATA Flash Contest is going weekly. Each Saturday at noon, we will post a new prompt – It could be a picture, a word or phrase, or even a link to a song. You will then have 36 […]
Read More The Author Transformation Alliance – New Flash ContestFriday was once again ‘Flash!Friday’ and I almost didn’t participate. I didn’t have anything, not really and the word count requirement was even more challenging: 100 words, no more, no less. At 18:00 I sat down and told myself “If you can write a 300-500 word story in an hour or two, this should be […]
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