Jennifer Jean Choose a card from the Tarot deck and write a story inspired by the card–feel free to look up the meaning of the card. Do not mention the title of the card, or Tarot, in your story. Jennifer Jean is a poet and the Poetry Editor of MER.www.fishwifetales.com
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“Mash Stories www.mashstories.com, has a good system, where they take three words, and then require the participants of each contest to use those three words, exactly as they are, in a story that is 500 words or fewer (and in your case that could be 250 words or fewer). You can ask for random words and then pull them out of a hat or something similar before posting them, or use a random word generator (here’s one: http://www.textfixer.com/tools/random-words.php).” Ilana Masad ilanamasad.com | slightlyignorant.com |slightlyignorant.tumblr.com | @ilanaslightly So, based on Ilana’s suggestions here are… Word suggestions from #febflash— CATAPULT, FUNGIBLE, STRIKE Ilana Masad is…
Many writers are visually inspired. An evocative photo can be a great starting point to a story, especially when you are experiencing writer’s block. I’m a big fan of photographer Ashley Inguanta’s work. Spend some time examining this photo, and see where your muse takes you. While this is a flat image, consider the other senses: smells, textures, sound. Photo by Ashley Inguanta. Tara L. Masih is editor of the new annual series The Best Small Fictions, and editor of the bestselling Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction.wwwtaramasih.com
Victoria Redel- Writing Prompt 2 Collect overheard bits of conversation/dialogue during the course of the day. Choose three unrelated bits of dialogue and make use of them (either as dialogue or not) in a piece of flash fiction. Victoria Redel has published books of fiction (novel and short stories) and poetry. Her latest book of short stories, Make Me Do Things, from Four Way Books, is one of my favorites. For more info, visit www.victoriaredel.com.
Victoria Redel Take a title for your story that is an abstraction (e.g. Grief, Love, Bliss) and construct a story that seemingly has nothing to do with the abstraction but earns the title in a unexpected manner. Victoria Redel has published books of fiction (novel and short stories) and poetry. Her latest book of short stories, Make Me Do Things, from Four Way Books, is one of my favorites. For more info, visit www.victoriaredel.com.
Susan Tepper Prompt: Smoke billows thick and black from the chimney of the deserted house. Susan Tepper has been a writer for twenty years. Her sixth book, a fabulist linked-fiction, is set in 19th Century Russia and titled ‘dear Petrov.’
Rick Moody Write a story with no modifiers (I.e., no adjectives, no adverbs). Rick Moody is the award-winning author of twelve books of fiction and memoir, including The Ice Storm, The Black Veil, and Purple America. He has been published in His most recent novel is Hotels of North America. Read more at http://www.rickmoodybooks.com
Lore Segal I want to define habit as that which it is easier to keep doing than to not do. In my twenties I spent a summer with friends in Connecticut, a pain in everybody’s neck because I was never available for the day’s project or outing. I couldn’t, I said, go or do anything till I had done my day’s writing. My particular friend, a man older than I, had the solution. From here on, he said, I was going to get up mornings at seven and sit down and write, or not write as the case might me,…
Minna Dubin – Artist’s Statement: – I am interested in using art to challenge people to think critically about cultural mythologies embedded in our everyday lives. I take familiar things—baseball games or cuddling with a child—and pry them open, look for truths (often my own) that people prefer stay quiet. Writing for me is about careful noticing and reporting back. In March 2015, 2 years after giving birth, I began #MomLists—a guerrilla public art project in the Bay Area, consisting of 150 handwritten lists about my early motherhood experiences—to try to make sense of (and peace with) my new “Mom”…
When I was young, engulfed in a hazy half-life of drug and alcohol- induced close calls, I never imagined that I would live to see children or grandchildren. I could more readily see my spirit sinking away from an emaciated body in a trash bin than looking back on a jumble of lessons learned through years of completions and failures, the continual unveiling of living. Morbid teenaged ruminations have long ago dissolved into a reality-based curiosity. Yes, death will eventually come — there’s no guarantee of a next heartbeat — but more interesting are the infinite unimaginable possibilities of life.…