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Theme: Natural Disasters
A group of survivors of a tsunami must band together to find food and shelter in the aftermath of the disaster.
OR use this sentence in the story:
Waves washed through town like ice rolling off glass.
Theme: Natural Disasters
Prompt 1
A city is plunged into darkness after a massive power outage triggered by a weather problem, and the residents must find ways to survive without electricity.
Or use this sentence:
Just because the powerlines are down, doesn’t me we have to be.
Theme: Animal Antics
A dog adopts a human.
Or use this sentence in the story:
This dog just followed me home, and he’s been here ever since.
Theme: Animal Antics
A sea turtle finds a strange new home. What is it and where? Show us! 🙂
OR use this sentence:
That is a racing turtle!
Theme: Animal Antics
Huge hoof prints are found in the sand, trailing along one direction. If followed, show us what made the prints and the adventure taken to determine it.
Or use this sentence:
The echo rang out, starting a panic as people strive to determine what made the sound.
Theme: Animal Antics
Arriving home brings a surprise as a big cat has made themselves comfortable on the couch.
OR
Use this sentence:
The tiger sleeps tonight.
Theme: Animal Antics
A lion cub escapes from the zoo and goes on a wild adventure.
Use this sentence:
I’ve never seen a cub look adorable.
Our Theme for the first week is Animal Antics (decided on during the live stream on twitch!)
Our first Prompt for today is:
A bird builds a nest in a mailbox, and the postman has to find a creative way to deliver the mail.
Show us how this worked out! 🙂
At midnight US /Canada Central Time we’ll be hosting a live stream writing event. We will create our first short story of at least 3000 words. This seems like a fun way to start the challenge with great company. You’ll have to visit to see who will be stopping in!
The stream will feature some fun things. We’ll be sharing how everyone can get free anthologies to read. We will even share plans for the event streams going ahead.
So, how do you get in on this? How do you find out where the anthology is? You visit http://twitch.tv/theladywrites or you can follow along with updates at http://youtube.inexhaustible.media
Also, there will be some youtube live streams at http://youtube.com/theladywrites (still working that out for the inaugural stories on fire event for 9/1)
Sept 1st we’ll see you on stream! Let’s have some great fun together.
Starting in Sept. 2023 – Stories on Fire will be themed by week.
What does this mean? It means we’ll be organizing every prompt by the theme of the week.
For example, the twitch chat selected Animal Instigators as a theme. For one week during the challenge, every prompt will be designed to feature an animal getting either themselves or another character into trouble.
As with all prompts, you are free to ignore it if it does not fit into your writing style or it inhibits your goal of creating a short story every day.
Watch for more fun things on the horizon!
