Flash Fiction Prompt 1 Postcards
Take a postcard. What happened just before this? What is the
problem? What will happen next? How
will s/he get out of it? Write your story in 50, 100, 350, 500 or 1,000
words.
Flash Fiction Prompt 2 Twitter pics
Look at your Twitterfeed.
Write a story in just 140 words about the first picture you find.
Flash Fiction Prompt 3 Reversals
Take the baddie or a minor character from a fairy story. Bring
them up to the 21st century if you wish. Start at the “Aha” moment –
the point of no return - and tell that
story in 50 words.
Flash Fiction Prompt 4 Starters
Here are your starters: It all began when ….. I’d never seen
anything like it before I went to Media City …. “Oh,” he said. “What are you
doing here?” …. It was going to crash, he knew it. …..
The rain went on for days ….. Choose
your word length.
Flash fiction Prompt 5 Micro-stories
Hook. Growing complexities. Crisis. Climax. Resolution. Three-act structure. (or five or seven act)
Go on. You know you can. In 350 words.
Flash Fiction Prompt 6 Scrabble power
Play a game of Scrabble. Make up a story including all of
the words. Aim for one per sentence and only as many sentences as there are
words.
Flash Fiction Prompt 7 The aliens have landed
Take a turn around Media City UK and / or Salford Quays.
Don’t speak to anyone you know – or even anyone you don’t know. Then come back
here or go home and write down your impressions as the alien you have become.
What is this strange place? 250 words
Flash Fiction Prompt 8 Paint chart
Go find a paint chart. Pick a colour you like. Bring its
name as words into your story somewhere. If you dare, you might make it the
premise. You choose the word count.
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