This week's Friday Fiction is inspired by a post I saw last week on Jay C Wolfe's blog. The challenge was to write a 55 word story in which the first line has ten words, the second has nine, the third eight and so on, ending with just one word. I wanted to have a go...
My Friday Fiction post this week is inspired by the prompt - Celebration - given by Sara from mumturnedmom. Right, have you ordered the champagne? And the canapés? I want a glitz and glamour Hollywood Oscars theme. Make sure there's a red carpet; must have the red...
This week's Friday Fiction is inspired by the prompt 'Family' from Sara at mumturnedmom. Using a prompt is a great source of inspiration for your writing. I don't know where this one came from - it's a bit morbid really but there you go - how the mind works sometimes!...
Welcome to Friday Fiction and thanks for stopping by. If you want to read some fiction, share some work, get help with something you are working on, meet new people, you have come to the right place. You will find a blue frog at the bottom of this post. Click on this...
Welcome to Friday Fiction and thanks for stopping by. If you want to read some fiction, share some work, get help with something you are working on, meet new people, you have come to the right place. You will find a blue frog at the bottom of this post. Click on this...
Welcome to Friday Fiction and thanks for stopping by. If you want to read some fiction, share some work, get help with something you are working on, meet new people, you have come to the right place. You will find a blue frog at the bottom of this post. Click on this...
Welcome to Friday Fiction: a place where I share extracts of writing (my own and that of published authors). This is a link-up, where you can add your own work, read others' and hopefully get some feedback and ideas (see the Blue Frog below to add your link). Here is...
This week, my Friday Fiction post is based on a prompt I found. Like a previous post I wrote, the inspiration comes from a song, only this time, it is the title of the song from which the prompt is based. Here it is in full: Your prompt this week is to take the...
For my Friday Fiction post this week, I am having my first go at The Prompt, from Sarah at Mum Turned Mom. I am delving into the mind of one of the secondary characters of my story, to write this from his point of view. Thank you to all who joined in and linked up...
I have covered different ways of finding writing inspiration in these Friday posts. If you missed part 1 and part 2, please feel free to catch up and I hope you find it useful. This week I am looking at creating fictional pieces from real life stories. I found this...
I met a (retired) lady once who happened to have worked in publishing all her life. We chatted over coffee and I told her I was attempting to write a novel. 'Go on then,' she said. 'Tell me what it is all about.' I froze. Like a rabbit in a headlight. Then I began a...
I am looking at character development this week. I took two characters from the novel I am working on and put them in a new situation. The scenario I created is further on in time than the novel itself. It is something that might happen to my characters in their...
Last week I talked about finding inspiration through music. This week I am moving on to images. This is Jake: In actual fact, I have no idea who this person is. However, when I started writing my novel, I brought my characters to life by giving them a full background...
Where do you find writing inspiration? It can come from anywhere; a photograph, a news story, some choice words, a song. I always loved this song by Richard Marx. The words tell a story of their own and it fascinated me. I had never seen the video until I looked it up...
I am stuck in my room because I have been grounded – all day. It’s so not fair because I was supposed to go London Zoo with Annabel (who is my BFF by the way), but mum said after what I did last night that I’d be lucky if I ever left the house again. No way am I...
‘So, I hear you have a date tonight,’ I said, when we were in Gina’s room. ‘I’m guessing this is what the wardrobe emergency thing is all about then.’ Gina slumped down on the bed with a big sigh. She looked miserable. ‘I don’t know why I’m doing this,’ she said. ...
The worker ant leaves his house early in the morning and marches, head down towards the station. At the end of his road, he turns sharp left and joins another worker ant who is heading in the same direction. This second ant does not acknowledge our worker ant because...
The bar is crammed full of people, standing close together in their groups, chatting loudly and animatedly. I push my way through, trying to ignore the feeling of claustrophobia that is starting to descend upon me. Mixed with the smell of sweat and alcohol, my stomach...
‘Do you think you can stop messing up the orders now Mr Pretty Boy has gone, eh Soph?’ Lee snapped as I came back to the counter. ‘What are you saying that for,’ I asked, picking up a cloth from the sink and vigorously wiping down the surfaces. My stomach was doing...
‘Hey, Jake my man, how’s it hanging?’ ‘Good thanks, Lee. Can I have a, err coffee, please?’ Lee laughed. ‘This is a coffee shop, Man. You ain’t been to many of these before no? Look at my menu; you’ve got Cappuccino, Latte, Mocha, Americano, Espresso.’ ‘I don’t know,’...