WRITING PROMPTS
August is National Psoriasis Awareness Month! It’s also Audio Appreciation Month, Cataract Awareness Month, and Panini Month! PROMPT: Write about a character who celebrates or…
Happy Birthday, Ernest Hemingway! Today we celebrate the life of one of the best flash fiction writers around. In his honor, do your best to…
On this day in 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received his patent for the very first typewriter. PROMPT: Write a story where a character invents something….
Many times a story is submitted to NANO Fiction and the editors love everything about it except for the last line or two. PROMPT Take…
Sometimes we set out to write a piece of flash fiction, but the story demands more. We may grapple with including details, character history, or…
Writing flash doesn’t have to be like a choose your own adventure novel. You don’t have to write just one version of a story—you can…
Tomlinson tells this complex story (view here) primarily in dialog. This isn’t often successfully done, but Tomlinson pulls it off by recalling some of the speech…
This piece (view here) is amazingly short, and Huddleston leaves out just the right amount of mundane details. Many times, details about break ups or other…
In “For Tourists Such As Yourself” (view here), Morales writes about a country without drawing from cultural stereotypes. Instead, he choses to personify the country…
Hilliard’s piece (view here) takes its inspiration, and title, from the genre of tragedy, then considers how or if that genre still exists as a…