Congratulations FlashNano Participants!
Join us again next November 2016, when I will again be challenging flash fiction writers to participate in
FLASHNANO: 30 Stories in 30 Days.
In the meantime, check out my Sculpting Flash Fiction workshop to edit and tighten some of these great stories you wrote!
FlashNano Day 1: Write a story that takes place in a car
FlashNano Day 2: Write a story where the weather changes, and this also changes the story.
FlashNano Day 3: Write a story in the form of a monologue (just one person speaking)
FlashNano Day 4: Write a story involving fire
FlashNano Day 5: Write a story that includes (or at least mentions) a childhood toyncludes (or at least mentions) a childhood toy
FlashNano Day 6: Write a story in less than 100 words
FlashNano Day 7: Let this quote inspire a story.”Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of
creating that he had done.”
FlashNano Day 8: Write a story based on something that happened to you yesterday
(Fictionalize as needed)
FlashNano Day 9: Write a story in the form of a Letter to the Editor
FlashNano Day 10: Write a story involving an operation
FlashNano Day 11: Write a story featuring the color orange
FlashNano Day 12: Write a story inspired (in any way) by this video:
https://www.facebook.com/nova919/videos/947092675351115/
FlashNano Day 13: Write a 13-word story
PS: Did you know that Triskaidekaphobia means a fear of the number 13?
FlashNano Day 14: Write a story that uses the device of repetition
FlashNano Day 15: Write a story set in the summer
FlashNano Day 16: Write a “Sweet 16” story
FlashNano Day 17: Write a story that takes place while it’s snowing
FlashNano Day 18: Write a story using the 2nd person point of view (you)
FlashNano Day 19: Write a story where the ending comes first
FlashNano Day 20: Take a story you have written (this month). Cut the wordcount by half. Give it a new title.
FlashNano Day 21: Write a story that involves some sort of contest
FlashNano Day 22: Write a story where someone is trying to hide something
FlashNano Day 23: Write a story while listening to Prokofiev’s “Dance of the Knights” (from his ballet Romeo and Juliet)
FlashNano Day 24: Write a story where something is found
FlashNano Day 25: Write a true story that nobody believes is true
FlashNano Day 26: Write a story involving food
FlashNano Day 27: Write as story with the theme “the day after”
FlashNano Day 28: Write a story that consists of only one long sentence
FlashNano Day 29: Write a story that takes place in the lobby
FlashNano Day 30: Write a story set in the futurethat takes place in the lobby
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Great list of prompts, Nancy! 🙂
Thank you for posting! Please continue in coming years, I love writing these prompts. 🙂
I was just wondering, could you make it possible to see prompts from past years?
Thank you! And in answer to your other question, I take them down after a year and keep them compiled for a possible future project…
How many words should each flash fiction story be?
Flash Fiction should be under 1,000 words on the high end, but many stories are much smaller…