Welcome back, my friends.
Developing a consistent weekly writing habit is one of the most effective ways to sharpen your skills and maintain your creative momentum. If you’re feeling stuck, these flash fiction prompts can help you break through.
Use them as a simple foundation to start building your next dark narrative.
Pick your length and roll with the prompt to get your creative process started. And if you publish your fiction online, please link back to this page. Thanks!
100-word prompt
Write a short story in any genre that’s 100 words or less and includes the following three words: garden, forget, salty
Advanced Challenge: Make your story drabble. Drabble is exactly 100 words, including the title.
500-word prompt
Write a short story in any genre that’s 500 words or less and includes the following elements:
Location: Somewhere underground
Item: A digital watch
Character: Someone who is desperately trying to remember a name
Feel free to get creative with how you include the elements. The story doesn’t have to be trapped in the location, for example. The way you interpret the character summary can be as unconventional as you like.
Just make sure you touch on each.
Advanced Challenge: Make your story microfiction. Microfiction is 300 words or less.
1,200-word prompt
Write a short story in any genre that’s 1,200 words or less and uses the following situation as a starting point:
Your character stands before the heavy, rusted doors of a vault they didn’t know exists until today. Whatever waits inside will change how they see the world.
Advanced Challenge: Include the three words from the 100-word prompt.
Happy writing!