100 Word Microfiction: Prompt Request
Apr. 20th, 2022 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roina_arwenI’m eager to get started on the Microfiction challenge, and round one opens this Friday at 11:59 pm ET.
But, I’d like to run a few practice rounds, just for me.
So if you’re interested in helping me out, please provide a comment containing the following:
A) One Genre, from the following: Action and/or Adventure; Comedy; Drama; Fairy Tale and/or Fantasy; Ghost Story; Historical Fiction; Horror; Romance; Romantic Comedy; Sci-Fi; Suspense and/or Thriller.
B) An action that must be done (Details below)
C) One word to use somewhere in the story. As an fyi, the word must be used as spelled, but a word which contains that word is acceptable. In their FAQ, the assigned word is “courage,” but encouragement or courageous are also acceptable, as both contain the exact word inside it.
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Action Info, from the FAQ: The assigned action must happen within the story. For example, if the assigned action is “building a sandcastle”, then the action of building a sandcastle must happen in the story. Referencing the action through dialogue only is not acceptable. For example, a character that says to a friend “Want to build a sandcastle?”, is not acceptable without the actual action of building a sandcastle taking place. The action does not have to be written exactly as it is assigned, as long as it is being described in the story.
The action can be physically performed by the characters, but it can also take place in other ways such as a flashback or flash-forward, a memory, a hallucination, a dream, or in a character’s imagination, as long as it happens within the story.
The action can also be implied rather than shown, as long as it is clear that it happens within the story. For example, if a character says "Want to build a sandcastle?" to a friend, and then they are washing their tools off in the ocean in front of a newly built sandcastle, it is very clear to the reader that the action of building a sandcastle took place within the story even if we didn't see it happen.
But, I’d like to run a few practice rounds, just for me.
So if you’re interested in helping me out, please provide a comment containing the following:
A) One Genre, from the following: Action and/or Adventure; Comedy; Drama; Fairy Tale and/or Fantasy; Ghost Story; Historical Fiction; Horror; Romance; Romantic Comedy; Sci-Fi; Suspense and/or Thriller.
B) An action that must be done (Details below)
C) One word to use somewhere in the story. As an fyi, the word must be used as spelled, but a word which contains that word is acceptable. In their FAQ, the assigned word is “courage,” but encouragement or courageous are also acceptable, as both contain the exact word inside it.
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Action Info, from the FAQ: The assigned action must happen within the story. For example, if the assigned action is “building a sandcastle”, then the action of building a sandcastle must happen in the story. Referencing the action through dialogue only is not acceptable. For example, a character that says to a friend “Want to build a sandcastle?”, is not acceptable without the actual action of building a sandcastle taking place. The action does not have to be written exactly as it is assigned, as long as it is being described in the story.
The action can be physically performed by the characters, but it can also take place in other ways such as a flashback or flash-forward, a memory, a hallucination, a dream, or in a character’s imagination, as long as it happens within the story.
The action can also be implied rather than shown, as long as it is clear that it happens within the story. For example, if a character says "Want to build a sandcastle?" to a friend, and then they are washing their tools off in the ocean in front of a newly built sandcastle, it is very clear to the reader that the action of building a sandcastle took place within the story even if we didn't see it happen.
