We have our own Facebook page now!
http://facebook.com/FridayFictioneers/
Join us for reading, writing and fellowship.
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We are growing every week, but when we officially began calling ourselves Friday Fictioneers, on September 16, 2011, our contributing members were SusieLindau, Tiyana, Jan Morrill, kbnelson, John Hardy Bell, Siobhan Muir, Sonia Lal, John Wiswell and myself.
***If you’re searching for this week’s prompt, go to the Calendar in my sidebar and click on the Wednesday for this week to find the post with the photo.***
A new procedure
- Make sure you post your link on the story page. To find that page, go to the Friday post that gives the link to the current week’s story. If today is Friday, click on the title of this blog and the first post should be the Friday post. If it is after Friday, go to the calendar in the side-bar and click on the most recent Friday’s date to find the post.
- 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.
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:
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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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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
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 Friday!
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Here’s a wonderful write-up by Bar JD Communications that illuminates the benefits of joining:
http://www.barjdcommunications.com/blog/fictioneers-are-swept-up-in-tales-tall-true-or-tantalizing/
This sounds fun… good way to get the creative flow started. Is it too late to join?
It’s loads of fun and definitely gets my creative juices flowing – and it’s not too late! We do this every Friday, beginning with the photo prompt on Thursdays. If you want to write one on this past Thursday’s prompt that’ll be fine, too. Just post a link to your story under all the comments on my story and I’ll go read yours. The only disadvantage is that I’m not sure how many others are still coming back to read the comments so the only reader you might get today would be me. It goes in a heated flush on Friday and a few are still trickling through reading them on Saturday, but by Sunday I think they’re usually done with the challenge reading.
This is Linda Palund here, aka Lindaura Glamoura – and I am very impressed by the sophistication of this endeavour! Being Glamourous and all, naturally i want to join in. So hope to see your blog on Friday and I will sneak mine into my blog at http://fictionvictim.blogspot.com
I have been trying to get folks to write a story in tandem, but not having much luck. check it out and tell me what you think…
Hi Linda, welcome aboard! We’re fairly informal here but we’ve figured out a method to the maddness so everyone can get their links seen. I’ll watch for you on Friday
Try to remember to post your link on the page where my story will appear so everyone participating will find you and hop your link to your blog. We have a lot of fun and are always happy to have more join us.
I would suspect time is the issue with your tandem story idea. It’s not something I have time to start, but I’ve been following one that a few of my blogger friends are doing. If you’d like to get in on one going on right now, open to anyone who wants to contribute check out this at Evelyn’s blog: http://fillingahole.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/to-nothing-special-with-love-10th/
Now I’ll go check out your blog
I just heard about this today and I love the idea. I won’t write on this week’s prompt, but I’d love to try for it next week. I love keeping the posts to 100 words, it should really help me with honing my editing skills.
(Fledgling writer over here- but hoping to become much better.)
I love your writing voice by the way.
Hi:) you’re welcome to post a late one this weekend if you want. I’ll watch for you to come back next week though if you decide to wait. Thanks for stopping by!
Hey, you’re welcome to join in whenever you want. The most traffic will go to your blog on Friday’s, though I’ll read anytime anyone posts a link. Looking forward to reading your work!
Thanks, I’m flattered you like my voice. Actually, the idea that you can hear it is what flatters me, because it’s kind of like accent…no one ever hears their own.
I know I’m totally out of time here, but this is a link to the 100 word story I wrote before I had a site to link to or even understood the process…
http://repuestodelatabla.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/friday-fictioneer-100-words/
Cool! I’ll read it as soon as I get home. It’s never too late to post a #100word flash link
Sent from my iPhone… Please forgive any typos!
Thanks for the Like; I’m still trying to figure out how to navigate blogworld, it’s all new to me. My original email was wrong, then my second one was also. Unfortunately, I got stuck with the most cumbersome one, carlosrepuestadelatabla@gmail.com. Looking forward to the next photo prompt…
It’s okay, it’ll just take you some time to figure it out. We all start out in the dark with it, but it’s good you’re on WordPress. I think that’ll make it a lot easier once you’ve learned the ropes. See you Friday!
100 word Friday Fictioneers entry “Magic Arrows” found at:
http://www.aces-space.net
Greg Nance
@acenance
In the station lavatory you open the suitcase: boxer briefs, male garters, a bottle of Old Spice. http://furiousfictions.com
Hey, everyone, FURIOUS FICTIONS is now accepting submissions for 100 word stories! Go to http://furiousfictions.blogspot.com/p/submit.html.
My contribution on Friday, Baggage, has just been accepted for publication by the Eunoia Review. Thanks, Madison (and everyone else who has commented on the story).
This is my fourth sale this year. For those of you who’d like to see my first, it’s now up at http://www.100wordstory.org/1283/oblivion/.
Whoo-hoo! That’s so wonderful Joe! I’m so excited for you
Fourth sale this year?! That’s incredible too. I need to get busy while I’m here at work and read the rest of the friday stories.
I am going to give this a try. I write YA and Chick lit. I figure I can take advantage of my writer’s block with something fun like this! Plus, I have a crush on your blog!!
Our little flash fun is great for busting writer’s block. Happy to have you on board!
I admit that I’m not a writer and I don’t speak good English but I love reading short stories. I want to join and write my own short stories too.
We’d love to have you join us! Just leave a link to your story
Sent from my iPhone… You should have seen the typos I *did* catch!
Here’s my story. It’s based of my dog; Monty, instead through.
http://sphrbn.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/monty-my-best-friend/
Hi All – I know I’m a week late posting this for last weeks picture but I’ve been sorting my Bolg and hope very much to be leaving a contribution to the Fictioneers each Friday. I hope you enjoy my poem its on my Blog at http://wp.me/p2lD6e-6 Many Thanks
Hi Jan, thanks for joining us! I hope you’ll go to today’s story page and see if you can get some quick inspiration for this week. I usually post the photos on Wed, and it’ll be there again on the Friday story. Follow the links from today’s post to get there – just hit the ‘Home’ tab to find us if you’re having trouble. I’ll try to get to your blog during break today
Hi Madison. I was made aware of the Friday Fictioneers a few weeks ago by one of the other members and even though I haven’t been commenting or posting anything I have been reading the entries. I have been amazed at the infinite interpretations of the picture prompts and how creative writers can be in just 100 words. I have just set up my blog,which is very simple at the moment but it is a good place for me to start posting some of my writing. Looking forward to joining the other Fictioneers each week. I have really enjoyed reading your work and must thank you for setting up this very inspirational group.
You’re welcome! I’ll be watching for you to join us. Glad you’ve set up a blog, that makes it a lot easier. The Fictioneers have grown so much, both in volume of participants but also in quality and variety of work. It’s great exercise and I know my own skill has improved since we started.