The Flash Fiction Project was born on Google + in November of 2011. Created as an alternative to National Novel Writing Month, this project enables writers to create and share works of fiction based on shared inspirational images. There are no rules for participation – simply write whatever comes to you when you see the inspirational image and post a link to your work either on the G+ post or as a comment here on this blog. You are encouraged to provide feedback and inspiration to your fellow writers – hopefully this can enable you to build your own virtual writing network.
Below you will find links to the inspirational posts from November and December 2011 (posts from January 2012 onward are available on this blog – all in the “flash fiction project” category). Please join us and write some fiction!
Inspirational Images from November 2011 – All images by Google+ artists / photographers:
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Inspirational quotations from December 2011 – All prompts are from famous fiction writers:
12/4/11: Today’s Flash Fiction Project prompt is from early in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: The sight of Mr. Smith and his wide blue wings transfixed them for a few seconds, as did the woman’s singing and the roses strewn about.
Toni Morrison, born Chloe Anthony Wofford on 2/18/31, is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved.
12/10/11: Today’s Flash Fiction Project prompt is from Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire. Start with these two sentences from early in Hazzard’s book, and let your creativity do the rest: Now they were starting. Finality ran through the train, an exhalation.
Shirley Hazzard, born 1/30/31, is an Australian author of fiction and non-fiction. Her 1970 novel The Bay of Noon was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010. Hazzard’s first book, the story collection of Cliffs of Fall was published in 1963. In 1977 her short story “A Long Story Short,” originally published in the New Yorker in 1976, received an O. Henry Award.
