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Whoa, I haven't done the monthly Flash Fiction Draw that Cait Gordon presents since June. I would say I slacked off over the summer, but nah: I finished revising a novel and put all the pieces in place for my sci fi novella The Final Decree, which is coming out at the end of the …
So, I missed Cait Gordon's Flash Fiction Draw last month—that is to say, I started it but didn't have time to finish it. And I've got to admit, it would have been a fun one: an action adventure set at a fandom gathering and featuring a silk garment. My entry would have been titled "The …
Sneaking in just under the wire with this one. As you may recall, every month, Cait Gordon gives a flash fiction challenge based on luck of the draw. On the first Monday, she chooses at random from a deck of cards and gives a prompt with a genre, setting, and item. This month, she chose …
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As you may recall from last month, writer Cait Gordon is leading the charge this year on a monthly Flash Fiction Challenge. Every month, she draws three cards at random from a deck of playing cards that provide the genre and setting for the story, as well as an object that must be included. This …
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You may recall that in 2018 my friend ’Nathan did a monthly flash fiction draw. He'd assign a writing prompt with three details based on the draw of three cards: genre, setting, and object. If you wanted to participate, you wrote a flash fiction story in the chosen genre, set in the chosen place, incorporating …
As I've mentioned in the past and which you no doubt already know, my friend ’Nathan Smith dba ’Nathan Burgoine has done a monthly flash fiction draw at the start of every month this year. The idea is he draws cards at random from a deck to select a genre, a setting, and a random …
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I sometimes feel as if I'm cheating when it comes to ’Nathan's monthly flash fiction draw. Instead of writing a self-contained piece of fiction, I often use these to work out a continuation of an earlier story. That's the case for September, which follows up on this post. (Which was a follow-up to an earlier …
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Every month on the first Monday of the month, ’Nathan posts a series of prompts for a flash fiction story due the following Monday. (Well, I say “due” but it’s not as if it’s a homework assignment; it’s completely no-pressure and I’ve saved up prompts and done them weeks or months later. Prompts never expire, …
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So, this entry in ’Nathan Burgoine's June Flash Fiction Draw is a bit of a cheat in two ways. First off, it's Tuesday, and these are supposed to go up on Monday. Hey, I'm slow. Sue me. Second, the prompt for this month's flash fiction is: Well, I've got the hot chocolate and the scrapyard, …
...yes, I know it’s already Wednesday. I’ll blame jet lag as I’ve just gotten back from a writing retreat and book festival in Nottingham, England for Bold Strokes Books. In a word, wonderful. In another word, exhausted. More on that later. Be that as it may, the last day I was there, my friend ‘Nathan …
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