Here’s the photo prompt for this week’s Friday Fictioneer’s.
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 Friday 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 (Friday).
If you just landed on this page and are confused about where to go – use the calendar in the sidebar to click on the post for the current Friday and it’ll take you to the correct set of links (they’re updated each week).
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 on Friday.
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, so others can find you and us later on.
- Check back often because participants post throughout the day.
- 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.
I hope to see your creativity shining tomorrow!
This one should be interesting.
This looks like a challenge! Also – I nominated you for an award here:
http://allwaysjudee.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/awardingly-alphabetical/
though you probably already have it, and are under no obligation. I just wanted to say thank you for being so inspiring and getting me writing again after so long.
Thank you Judee – you’re sweet
That’s one I’ve never done before. I’m going to have fun with these tonight. And I’m glad to have helped you in any way at all, but especially glad if anything I did helped to get you writing again. I know how badly I miss it when I’m not doing it myself.
Well. I didn’t get to pass on my award yet – sorry! I’ll try to gather them this weekend and make a post.
So it’s been boggling my mind as to who would rate a photo prompt. Are they giving it 3 out of 5 stars because they think there is a better one? The point of a prompt is to get one to think creatively — it’s challenging and the more challenging the photo, the better the practice. I’m sorry to go on a mini-rant, but really, who rates a photo prompt?
Lol, maybe it’s just a measure of how much they like it. I like some of my own better than others, but I *really* like this one. It’s a trash pile of bone shards, some of them human. That gives my imagination lots of fodder.
Sent from my iPhone… You should have seen the typos I *did* catch!
Yikes! Wonder what sort of stories will come from this? Not to be offensive but it personally gives me the creeps.
Hi Madison: This photo gave me the creeps but my Muse didn’t think so., Here’s my story: http://www.triplemoonstar.blogspot.com.
Oh..I had to post it a day early because I have a crazy, full day on Friday and won’t have access to my laptop. Hope it’s ok.
I’ll try to remember to come grab your link and post it to the other page Friday
Ha. I didn’t think it was creepy, but then I love archaeology and bones of all sorts.
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This looks like this could be fun as well!
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Roxann, may I use your photo prompt this week for a poem I wrote? I will give your photo credit and link back to here but it’s not flash fiction. If not, I understand. Thank you!
Of course you can, Jeannie!
Sent from my iPhone… You should have seen the typos I *did* catch!
Many thanks! Getting ready to post it then…
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here is a link to the poem I wrote using your photo prompt:
http://thewriternubbin.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/sorrow/
Thank you again!
I’m a little late for this one (a day late). Is it too late to participate, if it’s just today that I do it?
You’re not too late – just leave your link on the other page (follow the links in this post about halfway into it), so everyone else can find you. It takes me days to get through all the stories
Welcome aboard!
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