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Hello and welcome to Write Club! We are a small workshop of fiction writers who love the craft of short story writing. Each month we write a short story from a writing prompt, and then review each other’s stories and improve our work based on feedback from the other members.
This post provides an invitation to write for our prompts, as well as the prompt of the month.
Invitation to Short Story Writers
If you are a writer of short fiction, we welcome you to follow us and watch for our monthly writing prompts.
To connect with us and check out our workshop, just pop in as a visitor to our Discord channel and tell us about your interests. We will ask you a few questions and see if it seems like we’re a good fit for your writing journey!
This month’s writing prompt
That brings us to the prompt! For the month of April 2021, Write Club members must write a story based on this prompt: regeneration.
What will you do with it?
You could write a story about life beyond COVID-19 and the challenges of reconnecting with friends, when everything has changed. Or a story about two people whose relationship has fallen apart and are finding their way back to one another. Or the coming of springtime and the metaphor of rebirth for those emerging from isolation after the pandemic.
Where will your imagination take you?
Get your engines running
Start thinking about your story’s conflict, who is experiencing it, and how they might seek to overcome what they are facing. The more your conscious and sub-conscious brain are working on developing your MC (main character), and defining the scenario that has brought us to the time and place of this story, the sooner your story will take shape.
You could write out some loglines – one-sentence story plots – and then choose the one that resonates the most with you. Or join our discussion on Discord and get input on which idea seems like the most promising one to move forward.
Looking for Writing Resources?
I love to share tips and ideas about creative writing! Here are two treasure troves for you:
- You can find many of my tips and resources on my website, in the On Writing section.
- I also share weekly writing tips from The Ink Well on Hive. See the latest tip for the complete list.
Have fun