Category: Community Writing

  • Microfiction Weekend – Tracks to Nowhere…

    Your Best 6, 50, and 100 Word Stories!

  • Microfiction Weekend – Footprints in the Sand

    Your Best 6, 50, and 100 Word Stories!

  • Microfiction Weekend – Let's Take a Drive

    Your Best 6, 50, and 100 Word Stories!

  • Free Writing Friday – Don't Knock!

    Your Best 6, 50, and 100 Word Stories!

  • Free Writing Friday – Angels are Watching

    Your Best 6, 50, and 100 Word Stories!

  • Free Writing Friday – By Invite Only

    Your Best 6, 50, and 100 Word Stories!

  • #Pentober52 – XVII of LII

    Are you up for the weekly challenge?

    In 2024 let’s broaden our horizons with a weekly writing challenge that calls upon us all to write a story using the prompts below. Just a few guidelines otherwise it wouldn’t be a real challenge now would it:

    • More than 100 words but less than 200 words.

    • Must use the WORD of the WEEK in your story.

    • Must use at least 2 of the 3 prompts provided (person / place / thing).

    • OPTIONAL: Must use pen/pencil and paper!

    Let’s become one with our scribbling handwriting and tell a great story!


    WORD OF THE WEEK

    PERSON | PLACE | THING


    Once you have a story, copy/paste it in the comments! I can’t wait to read what you come up with.

    BONUS

    If you want an added challenge, write a story using the WotW, all 3 prompts, PLUS is exactly 200 words in length.

  • #Pentober52 – XVI of LII

    Are you up for the weekly challenge?

    In 2024 let’s broaden our horizons with a weekly writing challenge that calls upon us all to write a story using the prompts below. Just a few guidelines otherwise it wouldn’t be a real challenge now would it:

    • More than 100 words but less than 200 words.

    • Must use the WORD of the WEEK in your story.

    • Must use at least 2 of the 3 prompts provided (person / place / thing).

    • OPTIONAL: Must use pen/pencil and paper!

    Let’s become one with our scribbling handwriting and tell a great story!


    WORD OF THE WEEK

    PERSON | PLACE | THING


    Once you have a story, copy/paste it in the comments! I can’t wait to read what you come up with.

    BONUS

    If you want an added challenge, write a story using the WotW, all 3 prompts, PLUS is exactly 200 words in length.

  • #Pentober52 – XV of LII

    Are you up for the weekly challenge?

    In 2024 let’s broaden our horizons with a weekly writing challenge that calls upon us all to write a story using the prompts below. Just a few guidelines otherwise it wouldn’t be a real challenge now would it:

    • More than 100 words but less than 200 words.

    • Must use the WORD of the WEEK in your story.

    • Must use at least 2 of the 3 prompts provided (person / place / thing).

    • OPTIONAL: Must use pen/pencil and paper!

    Let’s become one with our scribbling handwriting and tell a great story!


    WORD OF THE WEEK

    PERSON | PLACE | THING


    Once you have a story, copy/paste it in the comments! I can’t wait to read what you come up with.

    BONUS

    If you want an added challenge, write a story using the WotW, all 3 prompts, PLUS is exactly 200 words in length.

  • Free Writing Fridays #044

    Your 100 Word Story

    REMINDER: Collaborative writing with me is the FIRST Friday of every month. See you again on May 3rd. Weekly prompts can be found by turning ON #Pentober52 from your subscriber settings here.

    IMAGE PROMPT

    A special building indeed, you walk in at the present time but when you leave it may be a different time entirely and you don’t get to decide when that time is. Will you take that chance? Why? What might you be running away from, I wonder…

    You don’t have to write your story today!
    Free write all weekend long!

    MY 50 WORDS

    Add your own by copy/pasting it in the comments or hit reply to this email.

    She walked down the street at a steady pace, looking back once more to see if she was still being followed. No one there, but she knew it was only a matter of time now.

    The building was dark until she pulled the heavy door open and the clock illuminated.

    WRITE YOUR OWN 100 WORD STORY

    • Write exactly 100 words. Not 99 or 101. The Word Count Police are tracking!

    • Genre? Writer’s choice! So long as you give us all the thrills and the feels.

    • To Fic or to Non-Fic? You decide. What matters most is that you’re satisfied with the output.

    • Copy/paste your words in the comments, then share on your own Substack, and maybe, share to social media!

    • A Note on Substack Notes | Click the 🔄 “Restack with a Note” and copy/paste your story for added reach and growth.