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brightknightie) wrote2023-04-08 11:51 am
brightknightie) wrote2023-04-08 11:51 am
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Some possible brainstormed prompts for FKFicFest '23
I've been brainstorming some possible prompts for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fkficfest (nominations open through April 15; any community member may nominate). Some of these are wholly my own imagining; others are based on Google-searching "great short story prompts."
If any happen to appeal to you, please do feel free to take or modify and use or submit them! If you've already got yours set, and you see how some of these could be better, please let me know.
Some personal favorites so far:
Not good for a common prompt in a fest, but could make a good story in the right circumstances in the right authors' hands:
a "metaphor of the week" parallels Nick's conviction that he should be human, and Lacroix's rejection of that conviction, with a trans character's experiences
fkficfest (nominations open through April 15; any community member may nominate). Some of these are wholly my own imagining; others are based on Google-searching "great short story prompts."If any happen to appeal to you, please do feel free to take or modify and use or submit them! If you've already got yours set, and you see how some of these could be better, please let me know.
Some personal favorites so far:
- a minor or original character must step up and fill in for a major character
- the first thing that happens is that a canonical character dies
- didn't expect to run into that person at the party
- unexpectedly wakes up in the trunk of a car
- forced to stay home
- keeps coming across the same stranger
- two characters switch bodies [a la Freaky Friday]
- a character is aware that he/she/they are in a story and/or have an audience [a la She-Hulk]
- day of rest
- waking up to the best news
- retreats to a remote cabin
- lost old letter finally reaches a reader
- in a packed storage unit
- an unusual photograph turns up during research
- a deep fear holds a character back
- dead body at a house party
- brush with fame
- something we don't usually show visitors
- here, put on a mask
- disowned heir
- decluttering
- all suspects point to each another
- murdered after a company retreat
- the victims had the same taxi driver months before
- an elderly person suddenly confesses to a series of murders
- a virtuoso musician is found dead
- the night before an important social function
- Try again; concentrate; it won't be easy.
- Are you sure you want to do this?
- an antique locket
- Why does that person look familiar?
Not good for a common prompt in a fest, but could make a good story in the right circumstances in the right authors' hands:
a "metaphor of the week" parallels Nick's conviction that he should be human, and Lacroix's rejection of that conviction, with a trans character's experiences