Prompt: A phoenix-like being lives there and crawls within the seas.

Inktober: bottle

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: Magic drink causes memory.

Inktober: swollen

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: “Winter was the only season we could be together.”

Inktober: angular

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 shy priestess, a weaver, rain.

Inktober: weak

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: Something dances there, unnaturally wishing for the others.

Inktober: clock

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: Old man of the sea

Inktober: guarded

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 think about war.

Inktober: whale

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 murderer sees love inside a glass cemetery.

Inktober: cruel

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: “Smoke hung so thick in the library’s rafters that she could read words in it.”

Inktober: flowing

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 will dream of a star tonight. The star will destroy you.

Inktober: precious

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?)