Stories on Fire Prompt Day 19

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Theme: War and Strife

Prompt 1

In a vie for power, a leader must decide between their greatest love and deepest connections. Show the moment that choice is made and how it came to be settled in the direction it did.

Prompt 2

End the story with this sentence:

Right or wrong, it is now the reality they live with.

Stories on Fire Prompt Day 16

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Theme: War and Strife

Prompt 1

Imagine a moment where the end of war can be leveraged for the to bring peace and further growth for a people or nation.

Prompt 2

Or use this sentence:

An echo of the past resonated among those gathered.

Stories on Fire Prompt Day 14

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Theme: Extraterrestrial Threat

Prompt 1

Unexpected images are released from the International Space Station. Share the impact on your character.

Space Ships in view from afar.

Prompt 2

Use this sentence in your story:

The fact this was not faked shocked me.

Stories on Fire Prompt Day 13

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Theme:

Extraterrestrial Threat

Prompt 1

A race against light leads to what outcome? Share the success or the loss and how it impacts a character’s view.

OR

Prompt 2

Use this sentence – The echo bounced off the walls.

Stories on Fire: Prompt Day 10

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THEME
Extraterrestrial threats

Prompt 1

The night sky brightens like daylight. Show why this happened and how it affected the characters.

supernova in the night sky

Prompt 2

Use this sentence in the story:

There is only one thing this light could be.

BONUS: Video Prompt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI2lsdXJQ40

Watch the above linked video and create a story around it with our theme in mind. Can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with! 🙂

Stories on Fire: Prompt Day 6

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Theme: Animals

Prompt 1

Race through the forest and find the animal to help a character out of the location safely.

Prompt 2

Use this sentence:
Sneaking around the tallest branches left a hidden sense of protection.

Tracking!

For many of you, you’ve got a fun new adventure!

We are going to be tracking our progress this year – together – this is going to be best suited for those who are participating for the polish and editing portion of our challenge.

To be tracked, you’ll go through this form

Everyday you’ll finish your story or wordcount and add it to the reporting sheet. At the end of the week, we’ll leave an announcement about our progress in the discord.

This will also be a challenge for the event coordinator, Catrina Taylor aka TheLadyWrites. She has committed to stream for 12 hours if we can report in 90 completed short stories.

Themes Selected for Stories on Fire

We have four themes for the next 31 days of short story writing! Each week you’ll look at the daily prompts and fit them into the given theme.

Today I’m sharing our Themes for the month!


THEMES!


Week 1 – Animals

Weave any animal into your stories for each of the prompts during the week. There will be 7 story prompts and we’ll be excited to see your stories!

Week 2 – Extraterrestrial threats

No we don’t mean aliens, well… it could be aliens, but really it’s not just aliens.

Week 3 – War and Strife

Yes, we do actually mean war. Write about its affect on people, or a moment in a given war, or whatever comes to mind that inspires you but keeps a thread woven around war. Maybe you can spend the whole week dedicated to a series of stories in a given situation.

Week 4 – Utopia

But is it really? Guess our stories will share it. Find a good tale to tell with the prompts that fits into a Utopia.

AH! Now the Questions –

Do you have to use the Theme? Nope. It’s up to you. It will make the process of selecting stories for a collection easier when we’re getting through the polish and publishing process. You don’t need to use it though.

Do you have to use the prompts? Nope. This isn’t needed either. The goal is to end up with more stories than you started the month with. This is a way to inspire those.

Any other questions? Let us know!

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Themes for Stories on Fire 2024

In September 2023 we began using Themes as part of our weekly updates. This gives us a specific tread to pull through each of our stories for a given week. The themes change each week so we’ll have to pay attention to that.

With the first of January coming on a Monday this year, we’ll be changing our themes on that first day of the work week every week.

Daily we’ll have new prompts that will be fit into the theme.

For example:

The first Theme is animals.

IF the first prompt was ‘Imagine swimming in the pond.’ Your short story should include animals in that experience/story in some manner.

With that in mind, when it’s time to pick stories that we are going to be editing for our collections or our full individual releases, having a theme will make that easier.

I can’t wait to see all of you on Launch Day!