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Short Fiction Weekly Challenge

Time for a new prompt from the Short Fiction Weekly Challenge, tumblr edition.  Let it spark your imagination.  Any character, any fandom, any original world.   Reblogs welcome!

Post your story to your blog and send the link to Short Fiction Weekly Challenge!  We’ll send the link out to all our followers to enjoy.

This week’s SFWC prompt:

Week of February 9, 2024

My Treat: If your character decided to plan something special for a friend or loved one, what would they do? Go beyond gifts or basic favors--this is something extra-special. Would it be elaborate or simple? Celebrating something or just because? An entire day or one thing? Does your character take the recipient’s feelings and desires into account, or do they do what they themselves would want? Is it a heartfelt gesture or a chance to showoff? It’s common to think about how supporting characters would treat your character--consider this week your character being the giver.

Feel free to continue submitting stories for any prompt.  A masterpiece missed the deadline?  Don’t let it gather electronic dust.  Submit it anyway and Short Fiction Weekly Challenge will publish it.  

This week’s featured previous prompts are: 

Listen: More important than being able to act, perhaps, is the ability to listen. To hear someone voice their concerns or point of view without filtering through their own experience or opinion. When has your character really listened to another one in your story? They need not be converted, but they ought to gain understanding. Some characters don’t care; that’s fine and valid. This week, let your character be the quiet one and really listen to someone else in the story, then show what they do with their new perspective.

Love Triangle: Two men vying for the affections of one woman, the oldest trope around. But there are endless permutations possible: Three men, three women, any combination of two genders and one of the opposite, nonbinary, aliens.  Consider, too, nonsexual/aromantic triangles, where "affection” is "deep and abiding friendship" and the point of contention has nothing to do with physical attraction, but social status, physical distance, or something else. This week, write some version of a love triangle.

Got an idea for a prompt?  Submit it here.

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So many prompts to choose from. What can we find in the archive today?

Love Triangle: Two men vying for the affections of one woman, the oldest trope around. But there are endless permutations possible: Three men, three women, any combination of two genders and one of the opposite, nonbinary, aliens.  Consider, too, nonsexual/aromantic triangles, where "affection” is "deep and abiding friendship" and the point of contention has nothing to do with physical attraction, but social status, physical distance, or something else. This week, write some version of a love triangle.

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SFWC Blast from the Past!

As with the regular challenge, post your story and submit the link to SFWC; we’ll reblog it to our followers. The main prompt, posted Friday, still includes two featured previous prompts. 

Happy writing!

This week’s Blast from the Past prompt:

Love Triangle: Two men vying for the affections of one woman, the oldest trope around. But there are endless permutations possible: Three men, three women, any combination of two genders and one of the opposite, nonbinary, aliens.  Consider, too, nonsexual/aromantic triangles, where "affection” is "deep and abiding friendship" and the point of contention has nothing to do with physical attraction, but social status, physical distance, or something else. This week, write some version of a love triangle.

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Short Fiction Weekly Challenge

Time for a new prompt from the Short Fiction Weekly Challenge, tumblr edition.  Let it spark your imagination.  Any character, any fandom, any original world.   Reblogs welcome!

Post your story to your blog and send the link to Short Fiction Weekly Challenge!  The link will appear in our feed and the site index, and your blog will be listed on the Participating Blogs page.

More New Year’s Resolutions for January 2020’s Month of Meta!

This week’s SFWC prompt:

Week of January 17, 2020:

Travel Without A Map: This one is easy for those habitual pantsers out there. Write a scene or a whole piece without having any (or as little as possible) preconceived idea of where it’s going. Let your characters tell the story they want to tell. They might surprise you! Write the whole thing, beginning to end. Don’t go back and change things! Not even typos! Or try not to fix typos--that’s hard. The goal this week is a word-vomit, totally unplanned draft that nevertheless is complete of itself. Travel without a map or GPS, but do make it home at the end. 

Feel free to continue submitting stories for any prompt.  A masterpiece missed the deadline?  Don’t let it gather electronic dust.  Submit it anyway and Short Fiction Weekly Challenge will publish it.  

This week’s prompt not for you?  Look for something more to your taste in the Prompt Archive.  Consider all the prompts active and waiting to inspire you.  

This week’s featured previous prompts are:

Love Triangle: Two men vying for the affections of one woman, the oldest trope around. But there are endless permutations possible: Three men, three women, any combination of two genders and one of the opposite, nonbinary, aliens.  Consider, too, nonsexual/aromantic triangles, where "affection” is "deep and abiding friendship" and the point of contention has nothing to do with physical attraction, but social status, physical distance, or something else. This week, write some version of a love triangle.

There's No "I" in Team: As you play you pick up companions aplenty, maybe make friends in groups, and head-canon a lot of NPC involvement in your personal story. Over time, you wind up developing a team of players who work together in some fashion. Without that team, your character would never have the level of success they've achieved. Write about either how your team learned to mesh with each other, how they function as a unit now, or how they bond in the aftermath of a mission. Prompt courtesy of @sillymonkey71.

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