Editor’s Writing Prompts 5
1. Take the first line of your Facebook news feed as the first line of your story. 2. Take a…
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Janet Hamill – Synesthesia Writing Prompt
Janet Hamill – Synesthesia Surrealist poet and fiction writer Janet Hamill has adapted her poetry prompt for us. SYNAESTHESIA:…
Cynthia Kraman – Writing Prompt
Cynthia Kraman Cynthia Kraman, author of The Touch, Club 82 and others, suggested we try an “Exquisite Corpse,” or group…
Editor’s Writing Prompt 4
1. Since February is the month for love, write a story about a crush, requited or un-. Title your story…
Jean Hanff Korelitz–Writing Tip
Jean Hanff Korelitz If you spend years writing a novel and every publisher in the world rejects…
Rusty Barnes – Writing Prompt
Rusty Barnes – Writing Prompt The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction Edited by Tara L. Masih…
Mindy Kronenberg – Writing Prompt
I teach a course in Flash Fiction, and have come to appreciate the kind of skill required for brevity of…
Matthew Sharpe – Writing Prompt
Matthew Sharpe I recently spent about two years writing a lot of very short stories. I started by…
Editor’s Writing Prompt
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” This sentence, often attributed to Ernest Hemingway (although the link to him is said…
Bunny Goodjohn – Writing Prompt
Freeing your Strangers We have trapped strangers in the backgrounds of our photographs. Perhaps we are the elderly couple taking…