Welcome to the June Flash Fortnight!
The June Flash Fortnight will run from Wednesday 15th June (Day 1) to Tuesday June 28th (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 : A face in a painting.
Day 13 : A strange new exhibit in a travelling circus.
Day 12 : Trapped overnight in a workplace, or public place, by snowfall.
Day 11 : On a lifeboat, in space.
Day 10 : Sacred. (This is the specified prompt for an upcoming edition of 5x5 magazine.)
Day 9 : Handling an employee who has stolen from you.
Day 8 : Fire in the blood.
Day 7 : A midnight feast.
Day 6 : A casual encounter with a famous former prisoner.
Day 5 : Two years and still counting. (This is the specified prompt for the current issue of 10Flash.)
Day 4 : In the garden, or private room, of a collector.
Day 3 : In the home of an absent, or missing, woman.
Day 2 : One summer spent drifting down to New Orleans.
Day 1 : A distress flare launched from an impossible location.
Day 13 : A strange new exhibit in a travelling circus.
Day 12 : Trapped overnight in a workplace, or public place, by snowfall.
Day 11 : On a lifeboat, in space.
Day 10 : Sacred. (This is the specified prompt for an upcoming edition of 5x5 magazine.)
Day 9 : Handling an employee who has stolen from you.
Day 8 : Fire in the blood.
Day 7 : A midnight feast.
Day 6 : A casual encounter with a famous former prisoner.
Day 5 : Two years and still counting. (This is the specified prompt for the current issue of 10Flash.)
Day 4 : In the garden, or private room, of a collector.
Day 3 : In the home of an absent, or missing, woman.
Day 2 : One summer spent drifting down to New Orleans.
Day 1 : A distress flare launched from an impossible location.
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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!
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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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