Real estate is fascinating. The buying and selling of houses. The buying and selling of homes — not just a place you rest your head, but for some, your heart. And then there’s the potentially criminal aspect. Or the callous capitalist aspect. And then if you contextualize it across genres — real estate horror, real estate […]
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It’s May the Fourth, c’mon. So obviously the only choice of what to write is: SPACE OPERA SPACE OPERA SPAAAAAACE OPERAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa So, get on that. Whatever it means, it means. Length: ~1500 words Due by: Friday, May 11th, noon EST Post at your online space (“space”) — Link to it in the comments. GET THEE […]
Did a big-ass storytelling thread today about people’s complicated reactions to THE LAST JEDI (don’t worry, next week it’ll be Marvel) — and I’m fascinated by the ideas of how we see heroism, and how hero characters are complicated or changed or tarnished — and the costs of sacrifice that have to go into being […]
Here’s the challenge this week: I want you to take the title of one of the following Stephen King books, and write a short story based on it. The trick is, your story should be entirely different — you’re divorcing the title from the novel from whence it came, and writing Your Own Damn Thing. (Bonus […]
Two words: “New life.” Lot of power in those two words, and a lot of ways to interpret them. I want you to take those two words, and use them as the basis for this week’s challenge — write a story using those two words as a springboard. Again, feel free to get creative — […]
This is a great Twitter account. You should go to it — the Magic Realism Bot — and therein you’ll find an endless array of story prompts. I’ve no idea if they’re actually written by a person with intention or somehow cobbled together by a wise and weird neural network (I’d guess the former, but […]
