As promised here are the prompts for the next four writing prompts for Fiction Friday challenges! If you’re looking for ideas for what to write about, why not join in the fun? Each month, I’ll post a list of prompts for each week of the month. Each Friday, we’ll share what we wrote.
This should be fun – do not stress out if your draft isn’t perfect. It’s meant as a great way to increase your writing skill and give your creativity a jump start. If you’re not into the prompt for the week, just write for at least five minutes. If you don’t like the prompt, why not start by writing why you don’t like it?
Fiction Friday Writing Prompts Rules:
The rules of Fiction Friday Challenges are simple. Here’s a basic rundown of them:
- Check for the weekly theme or challenge. At the beginning of each month, a list of that month’s Fiction Friday challenges will be posted to give you plenty of notice as to what the theme for each week will be.
- Write using the prompt or theme for five minutes. You can go longer if you want, but remember the challenges are meant to get your juices going. If you don’t have a finished story, don’t worry! That’s kind of the point!
- No editing! Seriously. Don’t hit that backspace key, no matter how tempting it is. These are exercises. No one will be judging you on perfection.
- On Friday, post what you wrote to your blog.
- On social networks, use the hashtag #FictionFriday and share the link to your post.
- Come back to The Editorial Consultant Is In, and share your post in the Fiction Friday Challenge post’s comments section for that week.
- If you like, share others’ posts on social networks using the hashtag #FictionFriday as their work is posted.
- Feel free to comment on the posts of other participants, but remember to be constructive! We’re all working out our writing muscles, not trying to be the next Tom Wolfe, James Joyce, or Jane Austin!
Here are your weekly challenges:
Fiction Friday Writing Prompt 2:
Write your challenge submission as a letter from your character to someone he or she hasn’t spoken to in more than ten years.
Fiction Friday Writing Prompt 3:
Include the following five words in your Fiction Friday submission: freedom, heavy, slippery, calves, blue, leaf, seven
Fiction Friday Writing Prompt 4:
Write this week’s submission based on this photograph:
Fiction Friday Writing Prompt 5:
Set your submission at a high school homecoming football game. Something very unusual and unexpected happens.
That’s it! When you finish with the writing prompts, link up on Friday.
Happy writing!
