You can access my short story archive on this blog, ranging from 50 words to 2000 (mostly 1000) using this button.
Note that there are also short stories on the Princelings of the East and Viridian System Series websites.
Do you need prompts…
I find flash fiction needs prompts. I’ve been writing flash fiction, posting on my blog weekly on Fridays, since May 2013, and monthly on second Wednesdays since 2020. I owe a huge debt to Chuck Wendig for posting weekly prompts and generally wrangling all his writing followers. He’s now such a busy author and dad that the prompts are irregular, and I hope he doesn’t mind me storing some of the best of them here for future reference. If you use them, please give him some credit.
Alternative ideas:
- base your story around one of the seven deadly sins
- start it with a bang
- start it with a knock at the door
- base it around a map
- take an iconic scene from a classic film or book and retell it in your own genre and setting
- find a headline that needs a better story
- Use a photo – from a random photo site, or just one you come across
- combine some ridiculous elements – I did ‘ridiculously over the top humorous romance with a vampire under the sea in a spaceship eating sushi in a convent’
Five story seeds – choose one:
- A child is born under mysterious circumstances.
- A dead body goes missing.
- A mysterious journal is found.
- An accident occurs that may be no accident.
- An impossible animal appears.
Join in with someone else’s prompt – e.g. the late Sue Vincent did #writephoto on a Thursday, taken over by K L Caley, but unfortunately now inactive. The prompts were still there last time ( searched on ‘photo prompt’.
Other resources on the web: Try http://writingexercises.co.uk/index.php for a host of different approaches.
