#sfwc “lost and found”

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SFWC Blast from the Past!

As with the regular challenge, post your story and submit the link to SFWC; we’ll reblog it to our followers. The main prompt, posted Friday, still includes two featured previous prompts. 

Happy writing!

This week’s Blast from the Past prompt:

Lost and Found: Characters lose things: keys, rings, treasures, friends, their way.  They find things too: rings (again), companions, their courage.  This week, write about what your character has lost, or what they found.  Or both.  

Have a suggestion for a prompt? Submit it here!

More prompts, you say? Visit the Prompt Archive!

SFWC FAQ

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Ten Years Ago Today

A decade of prompts from Short Fiction Weekly Challenge.

Week of May 29, 2015

Lost and Found: Characters lose things: keys, rings, treasures, friends, their way.  They find things too: rings (again), companions, their courage.  This week, write about what your character has lost, or what they found.  Or both.

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Short Fiction Weekly Challenge

Time for a new prompt from the Short Fiction Weekly Challenge, tumblr edition.  Let it spark your imagination.  Any character, any fandom, any original world.   Reblogs welcome!

Post your story to your blog and send the link to Short Fiction Weekly Challenge!  The link will appear in our feed and the site index, and your blog will be listed on the Participating Blogs page.

This week’s SFWC prompt:

Week of July 22, 2022

An Arm and a Leg: Your character may well have scars from healed injuries. But have they lost more than a little skin and blood? A limb or part of one? An eye, their hearing, a sensory organ critical to their species? What about one or more of their companions? What replaced it and why? Do they have a fully-functional prosthetic, better in some ways than their original part? A serviceable replacement that works, mostly, and while it’s not great it allows them to function? A cosmetic appendage only, because there is no replacement possible or perhaps that’s what they prefer? Nothing? What adjustments have they made, and what things still catch them off-guard? Are they treated differently in society?

Feel free to continue submitting stories for any prompt.  A masterpiece missed the deadline?  Don’t let it gather electronic dust.  Submit it anyway and Short Fiction Weekly Challenge will publish it.  

This week’s featured previous prompts are:

New Year, New You: Make a new character, or write for a character you haven’t before. It can be a completely new OC, a new character in your game or story, or an established character in a property you like but never wrote them before. Write anything from a short scene to a complete fic or story. 

Piercing the Veil--When has your character seen things for what they truly are? Seen past the plots and the machinations of other characters to what was really going on? That sudden flash of insight when the pieces come together and everything makes sense. Was it real? How do they deal with their new-found insight? Do others believe them, or are they alone with the truth? Explore a time when your character’s intuition guided their actions.

Got an idea for a prompt?  Submit it here.

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Short Fiction Weekly Challenge

Time for a new prompt from the Short Fiction Weekly Challenge, tumblr edition.  Let it spark your imagination.  Any character, any fandom, any original world.   Reblogs welcome!

Post your story to your blog and send the link to Short Fiction Weekly Challenge!  The link will appear in our feed and the site index, and your blog will be listed on the Participating Blogs page.

This week’s SFWC prompt:

Week of May 14, 2021

Left Behind: A friend, a lover, a prized possession, relationship baggage, clothes that don't fit, heirlooms they hate, roles they can't fill. What did your character leave behind to start their adventure? Was your character the one left behind when everyone else went away? What happens in a story where the adventure comes to them? In the “go ahead without me” trope, who gets left behind and why? If your character, why were they left and why did they ask? Who faces consequences when all the others return home?

Feel free to continue submitting stories for any prompt.  A masterpiece missed the deadline?  Don’t let it gather electronic dust.  Submit it anyway and Short Fiction Weekly Challenge will publish it.  

This week’s prompt not for you?  Look for something more to your taste in the Prompt Archive.  Consider all the prompts active and waiting to inspire you.  

This week’s featured previous prompts are:

Devil Boss: Our characters aren’t always independent. Sometimes they have to take orders. And sometimes those orders, the one giving them, or both, are impossible. How does your character deal with a ridiculous situation? One they maybe aren’t meant to survive, complete, or would have to be insane to attempt? Suppose the orders they get are incompatible or in direct opposition. Maybe the orders aren’t so bad but their boss is just a pain to deal with. This week, imagine your character dealing with their boss, or at least someone around whom they should tread carefully, but who isn’t at all obliged to do the same.

Lost and Found: Characters lose things: keys, rings, treasures, friends, their way.  They find things too: rings (again), companions, their courage.  This week, write about what your character has lost, or what they found.  Or both.

Got an idea for a prompt?  Submit it here.

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SFWC Blast from the Past!

As with the regular challenge, post your story and submit the link to SFWC; we’ll reblog it to our followers. The main prompt, posted Friday, still includes two featured previous prompts. 

Happy writing!

This week’s Blast from the Past prompt:

Lost and Found: Characters lose things: keys, rings, treasures, friends, their way.  They find things too: rings (again), companions, their courage.  This week, write about what your character has lost, or what they found.  Or both.

Have a suggestion for a prompt? Submit it here!

More prompts, you say? Visit the Prompt Archive!

SFWC FAQ

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Short Fiction Weekly Challenge

Time for a new prompt from the Short Fiction Weekly Challenge, tumblr edition.  Let it spark your imagination.  Any character, any fandom, any original world.   Reblogs welcome!

Post your story to your blog and send the link to Short Fiction Weekly Challenge!  The link will appear in our feed and the site index, and your blog gets listed on the Participating Blogs page.

Continuing March’s Month of Meta with Conversation Street, a focus on writing dialogue.

This week’s SFWC prompt:

Week of March 24, 2017

Persuasion - A salesman, a con artist, a propagandist, an advertiser. But also a lover hoping their beloved feels the same, a scientist with a new theory, a lawyer defending their client or prosecuting the law, a child wanting to keep the cat that followed them home. Persuasion is all about convincing someone and bringing them over to your side of the argument. It doesn’t have to be successful! Some characters never agree, but they do like to argue.

Feel free to continue submitting stories for any prompt.  A masterpiece missed the deadline?  Don’t let it gather electronic dust.  Submit it anyway and Short Fiction Weekly Challenge will publish it.  

This week’s prompt not for you?  Look for something more to your taste in the Prompt Archive.  Consider all the prompts active and waiting to inspire you.  

This week’s featured previous prompts are:

Best Buddies:  Does your character have a best friend?  The one they’d like to hang out with just for fun, whether fun is cross-country skiing on Hoth or downing shots in a Nar Shaddaa Huttball cantina?  The person who completed their sentences long before they met their significant other?  Maybe became their significant other?  Did your character stay in touch?  Have they grown apart or away, the friendship almost remembered, but not quite important enough to restart?  This week, write about your character being with, losing, forgetting, or reconnecting with their best buddy.

Lost and Found: Characters lose things: keys, rings, treasures, friends, their way.  They find things too: rings (again), companions, their courage.  This week, write about what your character has lost, or what they found.  Or both.

Got an idea for a prompt?  Submit it here.