Okay, it is September, so it is the story a day time once again. I am going to make a conscious effort not to repeat any of the stories that I used in May. So, the prompt today was: The Prompt Write a story in 30 minutes Every Thursday, I take part in a challenge [...]
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Story a day: Day 31/FFfAW
Are you ready for the final part of that story a day challenge? I certainly am, so let’s go for it! Today’s prompt is: The prompt Go big or go home This is all about writing to your strengths that you may have discovered during the month. I have been using humour in some of [...]
Story a day: day thirty
Okay, we have reached day thirty of the story a day challenge for May. The prompt today was: The Prompt Write a story using the rule of three Now, the first thing that sprung to mind when I read this prompt was the series Charmed and the power of three. Mind you, I don’t think [...]
Story a day: Day twenty-nine
We have reached day twenty-nine of the challenge, and there are only three days left! Today’s prompt is: The prompt Torture your protagonist This is something I do on a regular basis! For example, by protagonist yesterday was an extremely tortured soul who had lost everything. I am not always quite that mean to a [...]
Story a day: Day twenty-eight
It is day twenty-eight already of the story a day challenge for May. So, today’s prompt is: The prompt Write a story paying attention to the pacing I tend to write lots of flash fiction and the pacing of these would be that you hit the ground running. Everything is over and done with and [...]
Story a day: Day twenty-seven
So here we are at day twenty-seven of the story a day prompts. Today's prompt is: The prompt Write to your natural length I am not sure what my natural length actually is because I write short fiction, micro-fiction, and longer pieces. However, when I read the tips of this it said to use a [...]
Story a day: Day twenty-six
We have nearly reached the end of the story a day challenge. However, I have got hold of the prompt for day twenty-six and it is: The prompt Write a story designed to elicit specific emotions in the reader I am not sure what emotion I would be best at invoking in the reader as [...]
Story a day: Day twenty-five
We have reached day twenty-five of the story a day challenge and today’s prompt is: Today were looking at point of you again, but in a slightly different way The prompt Pick a point of view you don’t usually use and write a story in it Now, this is actually quite simple to choose because [...]
Story a day: Dave twenty-four
It is time for yet another story a day prompt. It is hard to believe that we are nearly at the end of May 🙂 but here we are. So the prompt for today’s story is: Since we talked since we touched on the genre yesterday when talking about the tone of your story, today [...]
Story a day: Day twenty-three
Okay, here we go with day twenty-three of the story a day challenge. The prompt for today was: Watch Your Tone Look back at your stories from this month and see which tone comes most naturally to you… Continuing the journey of discovering what comes naturally to you and harnessing that. The prompt Story focusing [...]