Writing

It’s Short Story Month!

It’s that time again my lovelies, I’m back to writing, the sun is shining and I am looking for your short story prompts, ideas and opening lines to inspire the next offering to the club members. (In case this is your first time here, hello! The idea is that I pick a prompt, write a story and the person who gave the prompt gets to read it before the rest of the club members. It’s all free and you can join here.)

I’m delighted to announce that we now have 150 members, hooray! But as some of you know, I’m keen to get to 300 by my birthday on August 2nd. (Not because that matches my age, but because of the Spartans. No really. No, shut up!)

This call also corresponds with a rather lovely thing I stumbled across on the interweb: Short Story Month, which is May apparently. How lovely! It’s been started off by a chap over at the Emerging Writers Network, which I plan to explore very soon.

As it’s Short Story Month, I want to do something grand (you know I like doing that), but I need your help. I want to write an extra story – I already have one in mind which will be set in the Split Worlds – but this won’t be sent out automatically to my club members. Instead, I’ll send this one out to any kind soul amongst you who does one of the following:

• Writes a post (or a chunk within a post) about the Short Story Club with a link to the sign-up page, preferably encouraging people to join

• Writes a review of a recent story, or of my Split Worlds flash series that I can use on my site (with a credit to the writer of course) as I find talking about my own stories so hard!

I’ve given the second option as I know some of my readers don’t have blogs and I didn’t want to penalise you. If you want to do both, I’ll send a big virtual kiss with the story.

When you have done either of the two, send me a link/the review through the contact form so I can add you to the list of recipients. The deadline is the end of May.

It’s my hope that between all of our efforts we’ll start building the club up to reach 300 members, and giving you a story in return is my way of thanking you for your help. Sound good?

So, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to pop a prompt into the comments below, and if you want to read the extra Split Worlds short story, to choose one of the other tasks above. Over to you…