Prompt: A party, six pastries, a duel.

Inktober: slice

THE CHALLENGE

• Write a piece of flash fiction daily for the month of October — 31 first drafts for 31 days.
• Each flash fiction piece should be <1000 words long and must contain an arc/plot/conflict (vignettes and slice-of-life stories don’t count).
• Feel free to use the list of prompts collected.
  • Try to go two to three layers down from where your brain first goes with the prompt.
• Share the piece: to your blog, to a kind friend, to an internet rando (feel free to send it to me!). Maybe tag it with #flashfictioninktober. (Or not. I don’t know how clever hashtags work. How do internet?)

Prompt: Eating an enormous amount

Inktober: jolt

THE CHALLENGE

• Write a piece of flash fiction daily for the month of October — 31 first drafts for 31 days.
• Each flash fiction piece should be <1000 words long and must contain an arc/plot/conflict (vignettes and slice-of-life stories don’t count).
• Feel free to use the list of prompts collected.
  • Try to go two to three layers down from where your brain first goes with the prompt.
• Share the piece: to your blog, to a kind friend, to an internet rando (feel free to send it to me!). Maybe tag it with #flashfictioninktober. (Or not. I don’t know how clever hashtags work. How do internet?)

Prompt: We long for somewhere new.

Inktober: double

THE CHALLENGE

• Write a piece of flash fiction daily for the month of October — 31 first drafts for 31 days.
• Each flash fiction piece should be <1000 words long and must contain an arc/plot/conflict (vignettes and slice-of-life stories don’t count).
• Feel free to use the list of prompts collected.
  • Try to go two to three layers down from where your brain first goes with the prompt.
• Share the piece: to your blog, to a kind friend, to an internet rando (feel free to send it to me!). Maybe tag it with #flashfictioninktober. (Or not. I don’t know how clever hashtags work. How do internet?)

Prompt: You discover your mother is a god.

Inktober: gift

THE CHALLENGE

• Write a piece of flash fiction daily for the month of October — 31 first drafts for 31 days.
• Each flash fiction piece should be <1000 words long and must contain an arc/plot/conflict (vignettes and slice-of-life stories don’t count).
• Feel free to use the list of prompts collected.
  • Try to go two to three layers down from where your brain first goes with the prompt.
• Share the piece: to your blog, to a kind friend, to an internet rando (feel free to send it to me!). Maybe tag it with #flashfictioninktober. (Or not. I don’t know how clever hashtags work. How do internet?)

Prompt: A literary one night stand

Inktober: thunder

THE CHALLENGE

• Write a piece of flash fiction daily for the month of October — 31 first drafts for 31 days.
• Each flash fiction piece should be <1000 words long and must contain an arc/plot/conflict (vignettes and slice-of-life stories don’t count).
• Feel free to use the list of prompts collected.
  • Try to go two to three layers down from where your brain first goes with the prompt.
• Share the piece: to your blog, to a kind friend, to an internet rando (feel free to send it to me!). Maybe tag it with #flashfictioninktober. (Or not. I don’t know how clever hashtags work. How do internet?)

Prompt: A boy saves up his money in order to buy solitude.

Inktober: stretch

THE CHALLENGE

• Write a piece of flash fiction daily for the month of October — 31 first drafts for 31 days.
• Each flash fiction piece should be <1000 words long and must contain an arc/plot/conflict (vignettes and slice-of-life stories don’t count).
• Feel free to use the list of prompts collected.
  • Try to go two to three layers down from where your brain first goes with the prompt.
• Share the piece: to your blog, to a kind friend, to an internet rando (feel free to send it to me!). Maybe tag it with #flashfictioninktober. (Or not. I don’t know how clever hashtags work. How do internet?)

Prompt: “The floor tasted like…”

Inktober: prickly

THE CHALLENGE

• Write a piece of flash fiction daily for the month of October — 31 first drafts for 31 days.
• Each flash fiction piece should be <1000 words long and must contain an arc/plot/conflict (vignettes and slice-of-life stories don’t count).
• Feel free to use the list of prompts collected.
  • Try to go two to three layers down from where your brain first goes with the prompt.
• Share the piece: to your blog, to a kind friend, to an internet rando (feel free to send it to me!). Maybe tag it with #flashfictioninktober. (Or not. I don’t know how clever hashtags work. How do internet?)

Prompt: Extraordinarily sharp knife

Inktober: chop

THE CHALLENGE

• Write a piece of flash fiction daily for the month of October — 31 first drafts for 31 days.
• Each flash fiction piece should be <1000 words long and must contain an arc/plot/conflict (vignettes and slice-of-life stories don’t count).
• Feel free to use the list of prompts collected.
  • Try to go two to three layers down from where your brain first goes with the prompt.
• Share the piece: to your blog, to a kind friend, to an internet rando (feel free to send it to me!). Maybe tag it with #flashfictioninktober. (Or not. I don’t know how clever hashtags work. How do internet?)

Prompt: Apples at Christmas

Inktober: muddy

THE CHALLENGE

• Write a piece of flash fiction daily for the month of October — 31 first drafts for 31 days.
• Each flash fiction piece should be <1000 words long and must contain an arc/plot/conflict (vignettes and slice-of-life stories don’t count).
• Feel free to use the list of prompts collected.
  • Try to go two to three layers down from where your brain first goes with the prompt.
• Share the piece: to your blog, to a kind friend, to an internet rando (feel free to send it to me!). Maybe tag it with #flashfictioninktober. (Or not. I don’t know how clever hashtags work. How do internet?)

Prompt: We remember unkind eyes.

Inktober: expensive

THE CHALLENGE

• Write a piece of flash fiction daily for the month of October — 31 first drafts for 31 days.
• Each flash fiction piece should be <1000 words long and must contain an arc/plot/conflict (vignettes and slice-of-life stories don’t count).
• Feel free to use the list of prompts collected.
  • Try to go two to three layers down from where your brain first goes with the prompt.
• Share the piece: to your blog, to a kind friend, to an internet rando (feel free to send it to me!). Maybe tag it with #flashfictioninktober. (Or not. I don’t know how clever hashtags work. How do internet?)