Photo Prompt for 100-word Flash #FridayFictioneers

A new procedure

To make sure everyone gets at least several reads, let’s try this. When you post your link, come back to read the two before yours and the three after yours.
If you are one of the first, then read back (if there is one behind you, if not consider mine to be the first) and read forward for a total of at least five reads.
Likewise if you are last – just read backwards for a total of five reads.

I think if we start doing this, it won’t be too big a burden to read and comment, plus everyone should get read at least five times. Those who desire to read more are certainly welcome to read as many as they want. I generally cover more than that in my reading but I haven’t been able to get to them all.

If anyone has a suggestion they think will work better to ensure everyone gets enough reads from this, please share it with me. If you’ve participated in other memes like this, perhaps you’ve picked up some ideas from them. I think the A-to-Z Challenge works similar to what I’ve outlined.

A couple other things:

If you have CAPTCHA (the word/letter scramble) enabled, please disable it at least on Friday and Saturday.
If you want crit, be sure to specify that in your comment when you leave your link. We have some very good editor types in this group who have valuable advice to offer.
If you do NOT want crit, it might be a good idea to specify that, too.

One more thing:

Don’t forget to join our Facebook page

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Put your best efforts on display for 100 words (more or less) and hop on board so we can all see what you’ve written this Friday (come back to my blog and follow the links).

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For those of you who want to pre-load your posts, here’s the link to where my story will be: http://madisonwoods.wordpress.com/flash-fiction/rainbows/. The page is there, the picture is there, the link is live. But there’s no story yet. I’ll add that Friday morning as usual. But this will allow those of you who have to be out of town, or for whatever reason want to get started early, to link to it so we can all find you more easily.

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 (Friday) story page. Go to the side-bar calendar and click on the current week’s Friday date. Then follow the link from there to the story page.

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.

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)
If you’re a WordPress user, include “Friday Fictioneers” as one of your tags so you’ll show up on the tag search.
Comment on my story Friday and post a link to your story.
Tweet your link to me @madison_woods and include the tag #FridayFictioneers if you’re on Twitter.
Follow the read and comment schedule listed above the picture. 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

Keep in mind that sometimes I can’t read or comment until late in the day and throughout the weekend because of the day job on Friday.

You can click the “Flash Fiction” tab at the top to read a little more about Friday Fictioneers.

I hope to see your creativity shining tomorrow!

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20 thoughts on “Photo Prompt for 100-word Flash #FridayFictioneers”

my apologies to last weeks’ writers. i barely read very many at all. i have made it a point to attempt to read as many as possible and comment too. the past few, i’d say i go to at least 90%. this past weekend i had many runnings arounds to do and barely read much. i’ll do better. i think i only read the ones that were pasted in the comments for mine, but i prefer to read them in a list in the comments that follow the prompt on friday.

that said – (knuckle cracking) – there’s work to be done.

Hi, Madison! I agree completely with the new procedures. It breaks my heart when I near the end of the day, or the end of the list and either no one has commented or barely anyone at all. Bravo.

As for the photo credit, is this one of yours?

Thanks – I hope this works and no one feels left out And yes, that is mine. That shot caused me to be late for work, hahaha, because I wanted to take as many as I could while there was the opportunity. Plus I really wanted to see if I could poke around out there where the rainbow ended…but I didn’t push my luck that far.

No apologies, Rich, this is supposed to be FUN not guilt -laden We’re having some growing pains and so I’m trying to figure out a way that will make it work smoothly. We’ll see how the recommendation works this week. Meme’s like A-to-Z have a gigantic pool of participants and everyone seems to enjoy themselves with it, so I think we can find something similar that’ll work for us too. I just don’t want to lose the ‘community’ feel of what we have here. So hopefully the FB page helps with that.

i get a great community feel and am enjoying it a lot. i’m not into the a-z thing because that feels like just a way to brag about yourself. it’s not a bad thing, but it’s not as much fun as the picture prompt. i like the 100 words thing because it’s challenging and it also keeps each piece from being too long.

This looks like it would generate lots of interesting stories. Thank you for hosting me yesterday, Madison. One or two comments brought about some strong differing of opinions, though. But all in all, it was a fine post. Thank you once again..

Hi Celestine, differences in opinion are good and stimulate conversation. I know a lot of people don’t like that, but I don’t mind. You were a great guest!