Here’s the photo prompt for this week’s Friday Fictioneer’s: (click here or on the photo to go to the story page on Friday. The links won’t be live until then.)
Winter 2010. The driveway, heading out.
Why only 100 Words
100-words isn’t a *rule* and some of us write more than that. My goal is to have The Friday Fictioneers use 100-word stories as an exercise in choosing concise phrases and strong verbs. It’s an excellent way to show your stuff to the world without exposing too much. It’s okay if you use more words, but if it’s much more let us know in the comments so we’ll know how to allocate our time if we’re trying to read all the posts.
Put your best efforts on display for 100 words (more or less) and hop on board tomorrow with links back to your blog so we can all see what you’ve written. If you don’t have a blog of your own you are welcome to post your 100 words in the comment section of my story’s post tomorrow.
If you accidentally post your link here on this page today, you’ll miss out on a lot of the blog hopping because the action will be stemming from links on the story page tomorrow.
How to become a Fictioneer
- Write a 100-word story (more or less, and it’s okay if you didn’t use this picture for inspiration)
- Post your story to your blog on Friday (or just link to it tomorrow if you wrote earlier)
- Comment on my story Friday and post a link to your story.
- Tweet your link and include the tag #FridayFictioneers if you’re on Twitter.
- Visit and comment on all the other stories that link to my story. If the comment forms allow, leave your link on all your comments, too so others can find you and us later on.
- Check back often because participants post throughout the day. (Or as I often have to do, read and comment later in the evening after getting home from the dayjob.)
- Get psyched up to do this again next week
You can click the tab at the top to read a little more about Friday Fictioneers.
Oh, and PLEASE turn off your Captcha or whatever you call the little words you have to type in to leave a comment. It’s making it difficult to comment on Blogger blogs, mostly, but I think WordPress has options to use or not use them too, and some WP restrictions ask a commenter to register or log-in. For Friday at least, try to make it as easy as possible to comment on your blogs.
I hope to see your creativity shining tomorrow!
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Is that an alpaca?
I’ll be on a plane tomorrow, but this picture is very unsettling. It certainly does call for a second look. Nice choice.
I wrote one… I am going to write a few more on this!
Here’s the first one!
http://faitaccompli.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/ho-ho-ho-ho/
K.D.,
Your link didn’t work, for me. It did go to your blog, but the content section was blank. Other links within your blog worked, but even when I tried the “Dog-in-the-snow” link under your “Flash-fiction” tab, the new story didn’t appear.
Some interesting entries, so far, though not all of them have links within the comments of THIS page, yet.
Be sure to read the comments on OTHER pages, as you go along, since some of the other story links have been posted there, but not here.
Here’s my entry for the week: http://wp.me/p24aJS-Y
Hey Lupus, the links are supposed to be on the story page (Snow Badger), but sometimes someone will post a link before I get the story posted, so they’ll post it here. Usually I try to redirect to the story page, I just haven’t had time this morning to see who’s posted where yet
Keep forgetting that. The last time, the only way I could find your story page was with the link you had posted on Twitter. Here, on the site, it wasn’t in with the rest of the blog roll. Now, this week, there was a message saying that you hadn’t posted your story, yet. Guess I’m still not sure what IS the usual/normal way. LOL!
Thanks!
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