Welcome to the year 2018!
Let WEP brighten your life and your writing!
Join us for these exceptional prompts especially developed by your team to expand your creativity!
Who knows? Like many others have experienced, participation may lead you to expand your flash/idea into a novel or novella.
And join with me in thanking Olga Godim for her exceptional badges. Aren't they wonderful?
If you intend being a WEP participant, please feel free to copy the year badge and paste it on your blog with a link to WEP.
If you intend being a WEP participant, please feel free to copy the year badge and paste it on your blog with a link to WEP.
YEAR AT A GLANCE! |
FEBRUARY
In too deep –
February. It’s the Valentine’s month, but WEP’s always open to all
genres, not just romance. However, no erotic romance.
Any situation with the potential for unforeseen conflict. Or it could be
literal – a flood, a hurricane, a mining disaster, you name it. This one is
wide open. A million possible takes.
Love. War. Anything in between. An affair sours. A hobby (hubby?) goes
berserk. An addiction teeters on the edge of out-of-hand. A sports tournament
goes horribly wrong.
Let your creativity soar!
APRIL
Road less travelled -
Options. Options. Decisions. Decisions.
A monumental career choice. Or something trivial like turning up dressed
in some odd, exotic costume for a black-tie event, whoops. A trail blazer MC, a
loner and a misfit. Journeys to out-of-the-way places, physical and/or
metaphorical. A unique holiday trip, an unusual parenting or mentoring journey.
From experimental music to extraordinary lifestyle choices. So many ways to
spin this prompt.
JUNE
Unraveled yarn –
No, we’re not necessarily talking knitting and crochet. Although,
knitting/crochet/embroidery could easily be woven into a backdrop, even take
centre-stage, in the interpretation of this prompt. A yarn is a long and
rambling, often improbable, story. But we’re not talking long and improbable, a
crisp and convincing flash or whatever genre you choose is what we’re after.
Serenity, meet Disaster. A lie found out, the unpicking of a tall tale.
A crime taking an unexpected turn. A bad-hair day. An ordinary walk spiraling
into a crisis. A romantic encounter ending in chaos. Take your pick
with the unpicking!
Who hasn’t had one? This one’s easy, right?
A commitment made when a prospect looked attractive, a decision on a
course of action, and then regrets and reluctance to follow through. It
could be an engagement, a date, a diet plan, a chore someone said they’d do and
didn’t follow through. A strip poker-game. Or maybe a gamble with
super-high, panic inducing stakes. A break for independence that once
made, gives pause for second thoughts. A bolt for the
grass-always-greener pasture and then wanting to vault-n-turn right back.
Something offered, then withdrawn. Myriad ways to go.
OCTOBER
Déjà vu or Voodoo -
Most WEP-ers go with horror for October but…you have a horror of the
scarefest? No problem. Just interpret these prompts without a smidgen of
anything extra-sensory. Amaze us with a romance or adventure flash without a drop of gore!
Want to keep it scary? Want to write ghosties and ghoulies in? Plenty of
choice for the Halloween month. Both these prompts can be worked into horror or paranormal. Let ‘er rip.
A nightmare comes to life. A not-so-pleasant experience repeated after
years. A vague memory that ends up being something more ominous. A house of
horrors revisited with fearsome results. See if you can scare us.
DECEMBER
Ribbons and Candles –
Perfect for the festival/festive season. Perfect also for flashes not themed
around festivities or holidays. All prompts here work year-round and are pan-global. Genre,
themes, settings, mood, no bar. Only the word count counts. And you could ignore
that too and come in with a photo-essay or art, minimal words required.
A party. A power-cut. Gift-giving. Hair braids. Ribbons of roads,
rivers, paper, love, hope. Candles in the room. Candles in the church. Candles
in the wind. And any combo thereof. It could go in a thousand different
directions, choose yours and step outside the square!
Denise, Yolanda, Olga and Nilanjana.
Hmm....and the ideas begin. Maybe a "-punk-" themed anthology, using various details and iterations inspired by cyberpunk and steampunk motifs.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I think I'll take the dive. Happy Holidays!
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