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SFWC Blast from the Past!

This week’s Blast from the Past prompt:

Limits-- No character is all-powerful, or at least, interesting ones aren’t. There are limits to what they can do, be it legal, physical, mental, or self-imposed. What happens when they come up against them? Do they push past it, accept it, or back away? Limits are often there for a reason and breaking them can have consequences. Explore some this week.

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SFWC Blast from the Past!

This week’s Blast from the Past prompt:

Taboos - some things are off limits, be it for cultural, personal, or legal reasons. How do they relate to your character? Do they not even realize the restriction? Notice, but abide by the rules? Or do they flout society's conventions and laugh? Why? Does their attitude cause trouble for them, or does it grease the wheels?

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Short Fiction Weekly Challenge

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Week of November 29, 2024

Biggest Fan: If your character has any kind of public renown, they must have fans, and if they have fans, they must have a Biggest Fan. The Stan. Usually this person is portrayed as obsessed, even dangerous. Is this the case with your character’s biggest fan? Do they follow every bit of news? Learn the minutiae of your character’s life and exploits? Rather than some rando, are they someone inside your character’s circle? Someone on the edges, whom your character might know, but not know of their fascination. Does your character ever find out? Does the Biggest Fan find a way to interact with your character? Is it creepy or flattering?

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Set the Standards: What's the minimum your character will accept, be it service, the kinds of jobs they'll take, or the places they'll go or stay? What about the people they'll work with or date? Do they have standards for decency or conduct? How do they define them? What's their reasoning for their personal limits? Have they ever been tested? Are they reasonable, inflated, underrated, irrational? 

Friends to Enemies: Hate is always easier to evoke than love or friendship, so easy prompt this week. Or is it? Imagine one of your character's friends becoming an enemy. Why do they diverge when they obviously got along well? A slow drift or one inciting event? Losing a good friend hurts, and making one an enemy means the wound never really heals. How does your character live with it?  

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Week of May 17, 2024

Nightly Routine: Does your character have a routine to go through before falling asleep? What is it? Something very human, like a soothing beverage and a book, followed by some personal hygiene, changing, and then bed? Is their only routine staying awake until they can't anymore? Do they have insomnia if they can’t perform their routine, or are the steps habits they can skip if need be? What about a specific bedtime or time spent sleeping? Why do they do what they do? Can they change? If their species doesn't sleep, what nighttime habits do they notice among their companions?

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Culture and Cuisine: Expansive worlds have many different cultures--think Wheel of Time or Game of Thrones--while others are more limited or less described for a variety of reasons. Even in the most detailed worlds, there are places to put your own stamp on things. How about a town or planet with its own unique celebration or hero (Jaynestown, anyone)? A character who rejects a belief or observance otherwise widely accepted? Food, cuisine, and manners are intricately tied up with culture--see the aforementioned works--how does your story explore them? What do they miss, what are they glad they left behind, and what new things have they adopted? Did they do so to get along or because they genuinely enjoy or believe them?

Enemies to Friends: Occasionally, your character and an enemy end up on the same side. And beyond sharing a common goal or working together just this once, they begin hanging out and relying on each other. Why? What converts their enemy to a friend? Note: this is not necessarily a heel-face turn. If your character is villainous their enemy might end up on the dark side. They have cookies, after all. Maybe both decide the struggle is futile and retire together. What about your character’s other friends?

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SFWC Blast from the Past!

This week’s Blast from the Past prompt:

Good Things Come in Small Packages: write a drabble, around 100 words, on any previous prompt or none at all. Some sources put drabbles at anywhere from 53 words on the low end to 500 at the upper end. I recall the majority of our stories being in the 500-1500 word range. Let’s push that lower limit. We had an unofficial drabble week a long time ago. This time it’s for real.

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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:

Life has no Reset Button — Your character makes decisions every day, from minor ones, like what to wear, to vital important ones that change lives.  Whether to capture or kill a prisoner.  To stay with a partner or break up.  To follow an order or disobey.  They do the best they can under pressure and with limited time.  What choices do they regret?  Which ones might they do differently, now that they’ve had time to reflect?  Would they make the same choice, knowing the consequences?  Are they even more convinced  they made the right decision?  

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Short Fiction Weekly Challenge

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This week’s SFWC prompt:

Week of February 24, 2023

Opportunity Knocks: It might be the chance that sent your adventurer on their way. It might be a chance to evade punishment for things they’ve done. Maybe it’s smaller: a job opening they didn’t expect, a contact from an old friend, or an invitation to a special event with a plus one--and they know exactly who to ask. Or their favorite person asks them to be their plus one! What opportunity--large or small--knocks on your character’s doot this week?

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This week’s featured previous prompts are:

Athletics: Sports and athletics contests are story staples, and the drama doesn’t have to be all backstage. There's real drama in the competition itself, with how well one character scores compared to another and why. Who makes mistakes? Who’s flawless? Who throws the game on purpose, and who cheats to win? It can be a significant, official competition, as in the Olympics, all the way down to a pick-up game with friends (or enemies!). It might not even be athletics in the sense of sports. There are plenty of athletics pursued solo, where the challenge is overcoming the environment or personal limitations. This week, make your character’s performance tell the story.

Heart Eyes: The emoji commonly suggests love for, being in love with, or infatuation with a person or thing. So who would your character send heart eyes to? What thing inspires heart eyes for them? Consider this week something or someone that your character would definitely respond to with heart eyes.

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Week of January 6, 2023

Under a Rock: No one can be aware of all current events and drama, no matter how connected they are and what form those connections take. Some characters deliberately limit their social knowledge. Others live more on the outskirts--literally or figuratively. What big story or juicy bit of gossip have they missed? The one that everyone knows about. How do they find out? When? --or do they? What happens? How is it that your character missed this tidbit?

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Luxuries - It’s easy to think in terms of expensive things: fine wine, silk, exquisite meals, and panoramic views. Luxuries don’t have to be expensive, or even things. One character might consider time alone a luxury. For another, enough to eat and a safe place to live. Yet another may relish the privileges their wealth affords them. What does your character consider a luxury and how do they indulge? 

Forgotten Places--A ghost town, an ancient ruin, a hidden valley, an island settlement, now abandoned. Places where people were, but no longer are. What does your character think about them? When has your character encountered one? Did they stumble on it? Seek it out? Read or hear a tale about it? Does it, like El Dorado, exist only in stories?

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Get ready for September Month of Meta: Relationships! This month, explore various kinds of relationships your character has, had, dreamed or fantasized about, or engages in as a matter of course. 

This week’s SFWC prompt:

Week of September 2, 2022

Fuck, Marry, Kill: A game people play either for themselves or for their characters. Name three people, one for each category. Who would your character choose? Why? Do concepts or non-people count for them? Like “chocolate” or “stability” or “love”? Use the prompt as a thought experiment, or have your character play through a game with others in their story. 

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This week’s featured previous prompts are:

Taboos - some things are off limits, be it for cultural, personal, or legal reasons. How do they relate to your character? Do they not even realize the restriction? Notice, but abide by the rules? Or do they flout society's conventions and laugh? Why? Does their attitude cause trouble for them, or does it grease the wheels?

Largess - A gift, usually of money, though in English the word retains its older connotations of generosity and charity. Characters often become wealthy over the course of their stories. Does yours spread the wealth or keep it for themselves? Do they make sure everyone knows all about their generosity, or are they quiet and anonymous? Maybe they were the recipient early in their careers. Did it help? Or do they see other's largess passing them by?

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It’s time for another Month of Meta! The theme is: A Whole New World! Worldbuilding for fanfic writers as well as original settings. Stories happen when your character meets the world, regardless of who imagined that world first.

This week’s SFWC prompt:

Week of April 15, 2022

Culture and Cuisine: Expansive worlds have many different cultures--think Wheel of Time or Game of Thrones--while others are more limited or less described for a variety of reasons. Even in the most detailed worlds, there are places to put your own stamp on things. How about a town or planet with its own unique celebration or hero (Jaynestown, anyone)? A character who rejects a belief or observance otherwise widely accepted? Food, cuisine, and manners are intricately tied up with culture--see the aforementioned works--how does your story explore them? What kind of culture and cuisine did your character experience growing up and where are they now? What do they miss, what are they glad they left behind, and what new things have they adopted? Did they do so to get along or because they genuinely enjoy or believe them?

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.

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Snappy Comebacks - in real life, people rarely have the perfect response to a rude question or comment. It usually occurs hours or even days after the conversation that prompted it. But fiction is different. Your character has the advantage of time-your time-to devise a fantastic zinger. This week, write about your character winning (or losing!) a verbal joust.

Sentimental Value: We’ve covered heirlooms, inheritance, and souvenirs, but what about things with value only your character can assign? What’s something your character keeps for its sentimental value alone? Something that sparks good memories. Something that makes them think of a particular event, place, or person. It could be a loved childhood toy, a photograph, a book, anything at all. They might even keep something that reminds them of a bad event or time--one they overcame or survived. Write about something that holds sentimental value for your character.

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Short Fiction Weekly Challenge

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October is Month of Meta! The theme? Actions Speak Louder Than Words. Tell your story through the physical actions your characters take.

This week’s SFWC prompt:

Week of October 22, 2021

Athletics: Sports and athletics contests are story staples, and the drama doesn’t have to be all backstage. There's real drama in the competition itself, with how well one character scores compared to another and why. Who makes mistakes? Who’s flawless? Who throws the game on purpose, and who cheats to win? It can be a significant, official competition, as in the Olympics, all the way down to a pick-up game with friends (or enemies!). It might not even be athletics in the sense of sports. There are plenty of athletics pursued solo, where the challenge is overcoming the environment or personal limitations. This week, make your character’s performance tell the story.

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:

When I'm Sixty-Four: What happens when the infatuation wears off? When the rush of novelty and discovery fades? What do your characters still love about each other? Why do they choose to stay together? It is a choice, after all, and they could decide otherwise. Perhaps they do. That's a story, too.

Sole Survivor: Sometimes it’s a mission gone bad. Only one of the team made it back. Maybe no one was expected to return, but one did. Maybe it was a game, and they were the last one standing when everyone else got eliminated. If it wasn’t your character, perhaps it is a close associate or even a new contact. This week, consider a character who survived a situation no one else did. How did they get there? Where do they go afterward? How do they deal with it? Has it happened before? Is the character considered Bad Luck personified? Are they Good Luck--guaranteed to win? Write about your character being the sole survivor, or encountering one.

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Week of January 7, 2022

Unfinished Business: There can be any number of things your character left for later, and for any number of reasons. Maybe it’s something they’d rather not deal with and hope will stay in the past. Maybe they want to, but have been prevented from doing so. Maybe they ran away from it, but it caught up with them at last. Maybe it just slipped their mind. This week, it’s time. Make your character deal with some unfinished business. Bonus points if it causes your character trouble!

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.  

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This week’s featured previous prompts are:

Limits-- No character is all-powerful, or at least, interesting ones aren’t. There are limits to what they can do, be it legal, physical, mental, or self-imposed. What happens when they come up against them? Do they push past it, accept it, or back away? Limits are often there for a reason and breaking them can have consequences. Explore some this week.

Star-Crossed Lovers - Back when most marriages were arranged, falling in love with someone wasn't always wonderful. It caused all sorts of complications. Love can be an all-consuming fire, beautiful and terrible at the same time. People in love were prone to ridiculous acts--and that hasn't changed. Cupid's golden arrow doesn't always choose a wise or appropriate match. This week, write about a time when your character or someone they care about loved not wisely, but too well.

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Week of February 26, 2021:

Heart Eyes: The emoji commonly suggests love for, being in love with, or infatuation with a person or thing. So who would your character send heart eyes to? What thing inspires heart eyes for them? Consider this week something or someone that your character would definitely respond to with heart eyes.

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.  

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Propaganda:  Regardless of their affiliations, it’s inevitable your character encountered propaganda or disinformation of some sort.  Did they recognize it at the time?  Later?  Not at all?  Did they challenge it or write it off as ridiculous?  Were they offended?  Shocked?  Some classes--Agent and Trooper come to mind--might even be active participants.  Write a story about your character and questionable official truth.

Injury: Since our characters often get into physical altercations, what injuries have they suffered? In a cinematic world it might be limited to minor scrapes, or serious wounds that heal in no time and without a scar. More realistic stories may have more lasting repercussions. How are their injuries treated? Technology, magic, herbs and other ‘traditional’ remedies? Some of everything? How long is their recovery? How complete? Does it make a difference if they received aid right away or if it took time before they could do so? Do they avoid doctors? What are the doctors like in your world? Think about a time your character was physically hurt and the medical help they received.

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This week’s SFWC prompt:

Week of April 24, 2020:

No!: Not just no, but hell no. Absolute refusal, you can’t make me, never gonna do it. When has your character outright refused another’s request? What about orders? Demands? Did they agree and then think better of it? Did they go along and quit when they reached their limit? Did the request seem reasonable on the surface but turn out less so? Was it just awful from the get-go? Did they say no just for spite? What were the consequences for refusal? 

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Description: In the Short Fiction Weekly Challenge, we generally leap right into our characters, relying on quick sketches and familiarity to carry a reader.  After all, that's how short stories usually work. How about we take a step back and really describe a character. How do they look? What kind of mannerisms do they have that a casual observer might notice? How do they dress? Go nuts giving a detailed description of what you'd see, looking at one of your characters.  This prompt courtesy of AKHadeed through the official SWTOR forums.

Blame: When something goes wrong it’s human nature to try to figure out who’s at fault. Blame isn’t quite the same as being at fault, though. And while they can coincide, blame is often assigned regardless of actual responsibility. Has your character taken the blame for something? Blamed others or events? Were they innocent? Guilty? A combination of both? Blame often isn’t logical and events have complicated causes. How do they change someone’s mind, or make amends?

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Week of February 21, 2020:

Found Family: Many of our characters collect a wide circle of friends and hangers-on. Do they have a closer inner circle that’s more than friends? A found family, a collection of characters that interact the way a tightly bonded family might but aren’t related? No one has to fall into stereotypical roles. There doesn’t have to be a “Mom” or “Dad,” “Kid Brother�� or “Big Sister.” They don’t always get along, but they always support and care for each other. Write a story involving your character’s found family if they have one, or their adventure with someone who does.

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.  

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Another Day on the Job: Our characters lead pretty interesting lives.  Things they consider routine are anything but.  So what does one of those days look like?  What’s a regular day in the life of a special-forces trooper or Dark Council member?  What problems do they face on a day-to-day basis?  What unique occupational hazards do they avoid--or what perks do they enjoy?  Even an ordinary day for your character is bound to be extraordinary in some way.  Write about it.

Set the Standards: What's the minimum your character will accept, be it service, the kinds of jobs they'll take, or the places they'll go or stay? What about the people they'll work with or date? Do they have standards for decency or conduct? How do they define them? What's their reasoning for their personal limits? Have they ever been tested? Are they reasonable, inflated, underrated, irrational? 

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Short Fiction Weekly Challenge

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This week’s SFWC prompt:

Week of February 7, 2020:

Right Person, Wrong Time: When has your character met another who could be a perfect fit...but not now? It might be a soulmate, a mentor, a social connection, or a patron. But your character isn’t ready for their help, guidance, friendship, or love yet. Maybe your character is, but the person they meet is the one at the wrong time. Why are “the stars wrong”? Does the relationship require a personal change on someone’s part, or are there social or cultural forces in play? Do they ever figure it out? Or do they remain out of sync for the whole story?

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.  

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Missing Something: We have things we’re good at and things we’re not.  What happens to your character when something they rely on is suddenly useless or unavailable?  The obvious situation is if your Jedi or Sith can not call on the Force for some reason.  But what about a sniper without their trusty rifle, a smuggler without their contacts, or a trooper without their squad?  How did it happen?  What does your character do?

Life has no Reset Button — Your character makes decisions every day, from minor ones, like what to wear, to vital important ones that change lives.  Whether to capture or kill a prisoner.  To stay with a partner or break up.  To follow an order or disobey.  They do the best they can under pressure and with limited time.  What choices do they regret?  Which ones might they do differently, now that they’ve had time to reflect?  Would they make the same choice, knowing the consequences?  Are they even more convinced  they made the right decision?

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