I'd like to congratulate Lillie, who made her first sale with one of the fourteen stories she wrote during the May Flash Fortnight. Way to go, Lillie!
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Welcome to the August Flash Fortnight!
The August Flash Fortnight will run from Monday 15th August (Day 1) to Sunday 28th August (Day 14). Each morning during the challenge, I'll update this post with a new prompt for the day, so please check back if you find them useful! All of the challenge prompts will remain permanently available to you, so if you'd like to use any of them outside of the Fortnight, please feel free to do so.
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Prompts
Prompts
Day 14 : On the last train leaving a region falling to war.
Day 13 : A garden where the flowers all bloom at night.
Day 12 : The unheard adventures of a well-known fairy tale character. (This is the specified prompt for an upcoming issue of Vestal Review).
Day 11 : A stranger in town who you know from somewhere, but can't place.
Day 10 : Stepping through an escape hatch after being trapped for some time.
Day 9 : Arrested.
Day 8 : A small consequence of an alien in a rural village.
Day 7 : An unusual customer in an ordinary shop.
Day 6 : An unexpected conversation during a car journey.
Day 5 : Running a conference while suffering from OCD.
Day 4 : A technology vampire.
Day 3 : A pressed flower found between the pages of an old journal.
Day 2 : A light on, where there shouldn't be.
Day 1 : Dinner at a haunted mansion.
Day 13 : A garden where the flowers all bloom at night.
Day 12 : The unheard adventures of a well-known fairy tale character. (This is the specified prompt for an upcoming issue of Vestal Review).
Day 11 : A stranger in town who you know from somewhere, but can't place.
Day 10 : Stepping through an escape hatch after being trapped for some time.
Day 9 : Arrested.
Day 8 : A small consequence of an alien in a rural village.
Day 7 : An unusual customer in an ordinary shop.
Day 6 : An unexpected conversation during a car journey.
Day 5 : Running a conference while suffering from OCD.
Day 4 : A technology vampire.
Day 3 : A pressed flower found between the pages of an old journal.
Day 2 : A light on, where there shouldn't be.
Day 1 : Dinner at a haunted mansion.
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Tips on using the prompts
Keep going in this way. You could free associate on the thoughts you're getting, or ask yourself questions on each thing: What is it about this that I'm drawn to? What would happen if I followed this train of thought to its logical conclusion?
Try not to censor yourself, or second-guess your imagination. In the end, the idea you end up with might be completely unrelated to the prompt - and that's completely fine!
Good luck!
Optional: Signature art!
Here are some images that you are welcome to use in your post signatures, if you wish, to mark your achievements in each challenge. They indicate the total number of days during the Flash Fortnight on which you've completed a story draft. There are 14 images available, one for each day.
You can update your signature with a single new image each day, or put one image up at the end of the challenge; however you prefer.
The images are currently hosted on Photobucket. To add them to your signature:
Go to your User CP (the left-most link in the blue menu bar that is near the top of every page);
Click on the Edit Signature link from the list on the left of the page;
Paste the URL into the signature box, preceded by
Click on Save Signature.
The URLs of the images are all in this form:
http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad65/elarasophia/AW Flash Fiction Forum/1.jpg
Right-click on the link and copy it, and then edit the 1.jpg at the end to the number you would like (e.g. 10.jpg) after you paste the URL into your signature box.
But there's more!
You can also choose a signature picture from this second set of images, which was very kindly created by Williebee:
Again, there are images available for each day of the challenge. The URLs for these are all in this form:
http://i922.photobucket.com/albums/ad65/elarasophia/AW Flash Fiction Forum/W1.png
Right-click on the link and copy it, and then edit the W1.png at the end to the number you would like (e.g. W14.png) after you paste the URL into your signature box.
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