Describe a scene in which there is only a moment of action: a very small activity.** This short story was partially written by the Australian Writers’ Centre. The first part was written by them for the First Friday Fix – November 2022 writing challenge, with that particular challenge focusing on writing the ending of a story. The black, bolded part
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for November 2022 was writing the ending to three micro stories. ***
Read moreWrite a story for children in which there’s ‘lots of food and lots of fighting’. (Norman Lindsay)** N.B. I chose to write a story about children instead of for them for this prompt. Rehearsal I hate running the school play. All the kids were together on stage, sitting at a dining table set with mostly fake but some real food.
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – June 2022 short story competition was as follows: *** Rehearsal I hate running the school play. All the kids were together on stage, sitting at a dining table set with mostly fake but some real food. They were getting restless as we’d been rehearsing all morning and it was nearly lunchtime, so
Read moreTake a bath by candlelight then write a poem about it.** Wash Away The day is done, it’s time to rest before I can I need to get things off my chest, relieve my stress, by washing the day away. No romantic, candlelit bath for me a long, hot shower is what I need. The darkness outside my window, balances
Read moreWrite a set of nonsense instructions for…for what?** How to Make Rubber Duck Salad To make rubber duck salad, you obviously need a rubber duck, a lettuce leaf, and a banana. Rinse the lettuce leaf under cold water, peel the banana and slice it. You can either have the rubber duck whole or slice it finely. Mix everything in the
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for July 2022 was to write a 50-word story using three of the five following ingredients: a lettuce leaf, a rubber duck, a pair of roller skates, a garden gnome, and/or a banana. My story can be found below. *** How to Make Rubber Duck Salad To make rubber
Read moreWrite a story that consists entirely of dialogue.** Rough Landing “Are you a nervous flyer?” “Is it that obvious?” “Only because I used to be like that.” “You? You’re kidding!” “No, every pilot feels like this. Don’t worry it will all be over soon.” “It will?” “Yeah, the plane’s nearly out of fuel. That’s what they get for firing me.”
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for April 2022 was to write a 50-word story that takes place on an aeroplane and had to begin with dialogue. My story can be found below. *** Rough Landing “Are you a nervous flyer?” “Is it that obvious?” “Only because I used to be like that.” “You? You’re
Read moreWrite about the death of an animal.** Left Behind For fifty days the bushfire raged on, burning away everything in its path. Once an emergency had been declared, everyone started to flee. Not everyone, humans and animals included, made it out. Some had died and others were stuck, slowly trying to make their way by foot, Percy included. Percy, the
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