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Marco Polo 100 x 100 Contest winners announced


Of the approximately 500 submissions, Darin Beasely of Marco Polo has made his calls. Check out #24 on that awesome list of 100 ;)

Prize:

Vincent Fino Mother’s Day Retreat


Honorable Mentions:

Ellen Azorin Dionisio
Mary Byrne Qa’id
Robbie Maakestad Seasick
Ellie Anglin Two Women
Anne Germanacos Language
Benjamin Zaban-Boylan You Are a Boat
Chris Sgro Ten Minutes Outside Kuriyama Hokkaido


100 X 100

  1. Cameron Scott Un-drunk
  2. Lindsay Garpestad The Gift of Silence
  3. Patricia Richards She’s Stolen the Silver
  4. Matthue Roth Adam
  5. Goldie Kossow Leftovers
  6. Susan Hodara Unwrapped Newspapers
  7. Erika Pasquino Goodbye Means Hello Again
  8. Dallas Woodburn Clink
  9. Bobbi Owen A Valuable Lesson
  10. James Sandham Living Small
  11. Nedjo Rogers Long Story Short
  12. Kyle Hemmings Not Far from a Very Small Town in Ohio
  13. Allie Batts He Brought the Silver from Texas
  14. Katherine Christensen The Greyhound Bus Depot
  15. Len Kuntz Possessions
  16. Benjamin Zaban-Boylan You Are a Boat
  17. Lauri Maerov Church
  18. Mishou De Champlain The Broken Song
  19. Chris Sgro Ten Minutes outside Kuriyama, Hokkaido
  20. Yorgo Douramarcos The Farm at Sunset
  21. Zana Previti Husband
  22. William Cordeiro Family Way
  23. Rachel Turner Mr. Gurtle’s Roses
  24. Madison Woods The Lover’s Return
  25. Lea Menport Roots
  26. Ellie Anglin Two Women
  27. Anne Germanacos Language
  28. Claude Clayton Smith The Great Water
  29. Timothy Baker Hajji
  30. Gabby Ercolani The Universal Hexagram
  31. E. Louise Beach Post Modern
  32. Alyx Johnson Sunday’s Walk
  33. Howie Good Blind Man’s Bluff
  34. Jonathan Divine A Doubter Amidst
  35. Rob LaRocque The Gypsy and the Jester
  36. Stefan Martin So, Like a Ship Past a Lighthouse, She Leaves Him Behind
  37. Brett Davidson Gliding
  38. Adele Annesi Falling Water
  39. Oscar Rivera I Only Asked Him One Question
  40. Katrina Pallop Elizabeth in the Desert
  41. Robert Vaughan Forget It
  42. Arlene Mandell Millenium + 20
  43. Matthew Dexter Mango Deck
  44. Ellen Azorin Dionisio
  45. Emily K. Bright The Bunker
  46. Zac Henderson His Two Weekends A Month
  47. Marissa McNamara Unwrapped
  48. Thom James Lips
  49. Carol Smallwood How Things Really Are
  50. Aaron Maltz Happy Hour
  51. Adriana Fuentes Somewhere Between Arkansas and Oklahoma
  52. Benjamin Norris Myth
  53. Barbara Lovenheim On the Dock
  54. Lydia Pyne A Fortune Not Fowl
  55. David Bogdan Piquod
  56. Amelia Hankins The Great Palace
  57. Christina Murphy Bread
  58. Mary Byrne Qa’id
  59. Bobbi Lurie Je T’aime
  60. Bonnie Ogle Souvenir
  61. Nathan Alling Long My Father & I in Syria
  62. Lynn Bey Not Both
  63. Danielle Villano Predestine
  64. Robert Wooten The Doe
  65. Paul Hadella Pee
  66. Jim O’Loughlin The Answer
  67. Mieke Stoub When the Grass Grows Greener
  68. Steve Kaminsky A Million Reasons
  69. Gavin McCall Sap
  70. Chris Wiewiora Again & Again & Again
  71. Angela Hamilton The Simple Art of Pulling out One’s Own Hair
  72. BH James Buckets
  73. Gene Fairfield A Sunday to Remember
  74. John Wilson Held Back
  75. Gene Lempert Travels Abroad
  76. Michael Walton In Honor of Dr. Strangelove
  77. Lawrence Elliott The Man with the Photogenic Memory
  78. Doug Bond Waiting and Half Asleep
  79. Shellie Lempert A Future Complex
  80. Nancy Boyce (J Boyce email) Anger
  81. Marc Sheehan My Post-War Childhood
  82. Erin Armstrong Backwards
  83. Tara Masih The Red Door
  84. Kenneth Pobo Spacker Railway
  85. Jennifer Moffet On Not Saying Who Went to Paris
  86. Thomas McColl S
  87. Pedro Ponce The Rosary Killer
  88. Deanna Morris Semi-Life
  89. Michael K. Gause Hindsight
  90. Robbie Maakestad Seasick
  91. Lily Dodge Custom House Square
  92. Joe L. Murr Process
  93. Craig Calhoun What I Knew I’d Have to Do If Dogs Could Talk
  94. Dawn Budge Darwinism, 9am
  95. Vincent Fino Mother’s Day Retreat
  96. Tendai Mwanaka You Must Also Run…Faster
  97. Jaq Andrews Old Girlfriend
  98. Eric Spears Flashback
  99. Nate Worell The Open Box
  100. Dorothee Lang Sometimes
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Photo Prompt for 100-word Flash #FridayFictioneers


This week, if I get the software/app installed in time we’ll use a different way of leaving links. Keep your fingers crossed because it might make it a lot easier to visit each other’s blogs. Some of you have mentioned it to me in the past and I’m only just now getting around to researching it after Lora mentioned it this afternoon. No early linking this week until I get the software installed so we can all be on the same system. For now, here’s the photo for this week:

woods

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).

***

For those of you who want to pre-load your posts, here’s the link to where my story will be: (Pathways). The page is/will be there, the picture is/will be there, the link is/will be 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

  1. Write a 100-word story (more or less, and it’s okay if you didn’t use this picture for inspiration)
  2. Post your story to your blog on Friday (or just link to it tomorrow if you wrote earlier)
  3. If you’re a WordPress user, include “Friday Fictioneers” as one of your tags so you’ll show up on the tag search.
  4. Comment on my story Friday and post a link to your story.
  5. Tweet your link to me @madison_woods and include the tag #FridayFictioneers if you’re on Twitter.
  6. 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.
  7. Check back often because participants post throughout the day.
  8. 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 Friday!

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Photo Prompt for 100-word Flash #FridayFictioneers


blimp

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 :)

***

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).

***

For those of you who want to pre-load your posts, here’s the link to where my story will be:  (click here). The page is/will be there, the picture is/will be there, the link is/will be 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

  1. Write a 100-word story (more or less, and it’s okay if you didn’t use this picture for inspiration)
  2. Post your story to your blog on Friday (or just link to it tomorrow if you wrote earlier)
  3. If you’re a WordPress user, include “Friday Fictioneers” as one of your tags so you’ll show up on the tag search. 
  4. Comment on my story Friday and post a link to your story.
  5. Tweet your link to me @madison_woods and include the tag #FridayFictioneers if you’re on Twitter.
  6. 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.
  7. Check back often because participants post throughout the day.
  8. 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 Friday!

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Photo Prompt for 100-word Flash #FridayFictioneers


Photo credit belongs to Douglas McIlroy

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 :)

***

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).

***

For those of you who want to pre-load your posts, here’s the link to where my story will be [CLICK HERE]. 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

  1. Write a 100-word story (more or less, and it’s okay if you didn’t use this picture for inspiration)
  2. Post your story to your blog on Friday (or just link to it tomorrow if you wrote earlier)
  3. If you’re a WordPress user, include “Friday Fictioneers” as one of your tags so you’ll show up on the tag search. 
  4. Comment on my story Friday and post a link to your story.
  5. Tweet your link to me @madison_woods and include the tag #FridayFictioneers if you’re on Twitter.
  6. 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.
  7. Check back often because participants post throughout the day.
  8. 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 Friday!

by

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 :)

***

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).

***

For those of you who want to pre-load your posts, here’s the link to where my story will be:  Moths at the Drive-Through. 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

  1. Write a 100-word story (more or less, and it’s okay if you didn’t use this picture for inspiration)
  2. Post your story to your blog on Friday (or just link to it tomorrow if you wrote earlier)
  3. If you’re a WordPress user, include “Friday Fictioneers” as one of your tags so you’ll show up on the tag search. 
  4. Comment on my story Friday and post a link to your story.
  5. Tweet your link to me @madison_woods and include the tag #FridayFictioneers if you’re on Twitter.
  6. 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.
  7. Check back often because participants post throughout the day.
  8. 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 Friday!

by

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 :)

***

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).

***

rainbows

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

  1. Write a 100-word story (more or less, and it’s okay if you didn’t use this picture for inspiration)
  2. Post your story to your blog on Friday (or just link to it tomorrow if you wrote earlier)
  3. If you’re a WordPress user, include “Friday Fictioneers” as one of your tags so you’ll show up on the tag search. 
  4. Comment on my story Friday and post a link to your story.
  5. Tweet your link to me @madison_woods and include the tag #FridayFictioneers if you’re on Twitter.
  6. 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.
  7. Check back often because participants post throughout the day.
  8. 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!

by

Photo Prompt for 100-word Flash #FridayFictioneers


I’ll be interested to see the responses to this one…

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moon

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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).

For those of you who want to pre-load your posts, here’s the link to where my story will be: Friday Story Page. 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.

Hey! I almost forgot to mention our new Facebook page:
http://facebook.com/FridayFictioneers
 – you can also post your link there. We also have a running post on the page where we are listing our author pages, so come add yours to the list. If you haven’t already ‘Liked’ my author’s page, would you ? The button’s over there in my side-bar. Thanks!

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

  1. Write a 100-word story (more or less, and it’s okay if you didn’t use this picture for inspiration)
  2. Post your story to your blog on Friday (or just link to it tomorrow if you wrote earlier)
  3. If you’re a WordPress user, include “Friday Fictioneers” as one of your tags so you’ll show up on the tag search. 
  4. Comment on my story Friday and post a link to your story.
  5. Tweet your link and include the tag #FridayFictioneers if you’re on Twitter.
  6. 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.
  7. Check back often because participants post throughout the day.
  8. 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!

by

Photo Prompt for 100-word Flash #FridayFictioneers


NOTICE: THE FICTIONEERS HAVE MOVED TO Rochelle Wisoff-Field’s blog. Please follow us there to participate every Friday. Photos are posted ever Wednesday. My blog has moved to www.Madison-Woods.com and I’d love to see you there!

A couple of news items:

  1. I’ve created a Facebook page for Friday Fictioneers. If you aren’t on Facebook, don’t worry, you’ll still be able to leave your links here. I’m not sure how it will work out, but a few people have asked for one, so I’m going to do it.
  2. Second. On the first Wednesday of the month from now on we’ll feature a Fictioneer’s photo . This one is from Mary Shipman. If you want to send in a photo to use next month use the email addy in the sidebar at the top. It has to be one of your own pictures, not one you’ve found on the internet. Okay, 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.

Here’s the link 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

  1. Write a 100-word story (more or less, and it’s okay if you didn’t use this picture for inspiration)
  2. Post your story to your blog on Friday (or just link to it now if you wrote earlier)
  3. If you’re a WordPress user, include “Friday Fictioneers” as one of your tags so you’ll show up on the tag search. 
  4. Comment on my story Friday and post a link to your story.
  5. Tweet your link to me (@madison_woods) and include the tag #FridayFictioneers if you’re on Twitter.
  6. 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.
  7. Check back often because participants post throughout the day.
  8. 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. If it looks like I won’t be able to read them all, I’ll try to at least read the new participants and then I’ll start randomly reading others.

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!

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Photo Prompt for 100-word Flash #FridayFictioneers


A couple of announcements this week. First, those of you who follow me on Facebook might begin to notice a trend…I’m going to start posting the photos there on Tuesday night if I have it picked out already by then. Sometimes that doesn’t happen until Wednesday morning.

Second, one of the new Fictioneers  wants to invite another type of writers to join us on Fridays. They create languages and I don’t know much about this but he will get a guest post up here in a little while (it’s scheduled for 0700) to tell us about it.

If any of them decide to post links in our stream they’ll tag it with “CL” at the end of their post title, so we’ll know it’s not our usual flash. Personally, I’m curious and can’t wait to see what it is they do. So watch this space for another post at 0700.

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Back to our regularly scheduled programming…

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/barbed-wire-and-bulls/
. 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

  1. Write a 100-word story (more or less, and it’s okay if you didn’t use this picture for inspiration)
  2. Post your story to your blog on Friday (or just link to it tomorrow if you wrote earlier)
  3. If you’re a WordPress user, include “Friday Fictioneers” as one of your tags so you’ll show up on the tag search. 
  4. Comment on my story Friday and post a link to your story.
  5. Tweet your link and include the tag #FridayFictioneers if you’re on Twitter.
  6. 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.
  7. Check back often because participants post throughout the day.
  8. 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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Photo Prompt for the Friday Fictioneers’ 100-words. Join us Friday!


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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Take a look at the postcard idea. You can get your own stories or mine with the photo prompt on a postcard. Mailed in the real mail.

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

  1. Write a 100-word story (more or less, and it’s okay if you didn’t use this picture for inspiration)
  2. Post your story to your blog on Friday (or just link to it tomorrow if you wrote earlier)
  3. If you’re a WordPress user, include “Friday Fictioneers” as one of your tags so you’ll show up on the tag search. 
  4. Comment on my story Friday and post a link to your story.
  5. Tweet your link and include the tag #FridayFictioneers if you’re on Twitter.
  6. 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.
  7. Check back often because participants post throughout the day.
  8. 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!