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I wasn't sure if I'd written something with the word “lizard” in it, and obviously I have a micro-fiction (folk story) involving a crow collecting shiny objects. #WIPSnips
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Been a while #WIPSnips, but here's a snippet from my WIP—needs some re-writing and maybe I'll expand beyond the current length—for today's word: “comparison”
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You Seein’ This?
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today’s prompt, write about someone who sees something no one else does.
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31 days. 31 prompts. Let's see what you come up with 👀🖋️
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We teamed up with #FatedTheMusical for Fated to Ink, running all October! A new prompt drops each day, and every entry you submit gives you another chance to win. The real challenge? See if you can write something for every prompt of October!
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Writing Prompts, 4 Oct '26
Creative writing prompts for the week.
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What Is A Myth? 20 Myth-Inspired Writing Prompts: https://buff.ly/ttXoiTF via @Writers_Write
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A poem written from the heart ❤️, pun intended. Also metaphor for the world.
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The End of Adventure
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today’s prompt, write about someone who realized their adventure is over.
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Writing Prompts, 27 Sept '26
Creative writing prompts for the week.
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October's prompts for #TimeTravelAuthors. If you wrote, write, or will write time travel, you're welcome. Movies, radio plays, whatever are welcome too. Hope to see you then! #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #WritingPrompts
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@writingprompts Marijuana is legal, but alcohol is now banned. You’re in charge of a hipster club in Hamburg.
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The Regular
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today’s prompt, write about a diner's regular customer.
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Writing Prompts, 20 Sept '26
Creative writing prompts for the week.
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From a #WIP for today's #WIPSnips “call”
Another body-horror that needs to be finished and sent out to collect its rejections and other badge of honours
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@writingprompts The Grand Duke of Luxembourgh dies without an heir. These are the chronicles of the war of succession.
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Show Off
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today’s prompt, set your story at a small town car show.
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The Writing Slump That Led to ‘The Most Beautiful Woman in the World’
The Writing Slump
A few months ago. I challenged myself to write at least one piece of flash fiction every month after realising I hadn’t written any this year. The words seemed to have dried up, or was it that other stuff was grabbing my attention? Yeah, probably the latter.
Then I started looking at prompts, images, or photos in writing challenge posts. Sometimes the ideas and words flowed, but I also struggled.
Finding Inspiration in Prompts
Two of my most recent pieces of flash fiction came from prompts Esther Chilton posted on her blog.
‘The Man That Knew Too Soon‘ was written in response to the prompt word ‘Cross,’ while ‘The Shape Of His Loneliness‘ came about from Esther’s prompt word ‘Figure.’ I was pleased with how both stories turned out, and so, it seems, were many readers.
A Story Forty Years in the Making
This month’s flash fiction piece didn’t require a published prompt word or photo. The story came from an image that’s been locked in my head for over forty years. It’s of a smartly dressed, curly-haired woman in her late 20s, with a black shoulder bag hanging over her left shoulder, shopping in a large department store on Oxford Street in London’s West End.
I worked at the store, and although I knew the woman, I didn’t know her that well. But the image I saw of her that day immediately gave me an idea for a story that took me over 40 years to write.
Last year, I finally let my fingers bring the image of that woman from my mind onto my computer screen, and I wrote the story, ‘If You Happen to See the Most Beautiful Woman In The World.’ But you won’t find the story here.
Where to Find the Story
If you’re curious who the woman is and what her story is, you’ll find it on the blog of Marsha Ingrao, the very talented host of Story Chat Digest.
The story is a 5-7-minute read, so it won’t take long.
I’d love to hear your feedback about the story, which you can leave in the comments section of the post on Marsha’s blog. Click the image below to go straight to the story and meet the woman who inspired it over 40 years ago.
Image credit – Marsha IngraoAlternatively, click the following link.
If You Happen To See The Most Beautiful Woman In The World
However (there’s always an ‘however’ with me and my stories, isn’t there?), this woman isn’t all she seems.
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If you want to know who she is, ask me some questions about her in the post’s comments section on Marsha’s blog, and I may let you in on a secret with a twist.
My thanks to Marsha for accepting my story for this year’s Story Chat Digest, a place where everyone is welcome to submit a story and join other authors over coffee or another beverage to discuss all the wonderful stories.
If you’re interested in submitting a story, contact Marsha.
The latest Story Chat Digest book is now available for purchase. Click here for details.
Writing is a funny thing. Sometimes the words refuse to come, and other times a forty-year-old image quietly waiting in the back of your mind turns into a story you’re proud to share.
I hope you enjoy reading ‘If You Happen to See the Most Beautiful Woman in the World’ as much as I enjoyed finally writing it. If you do pop over to Marsha’s blog, don’t forget to say hello in the comments. I’d love to know what you think.
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Here's a snip from a body-horror sci-fi WIP for today's #WIPSnips word “month”
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Here's a snip from a body-horror sci-fi WIP for today's #WIPSnips word “month”
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Writing Prompts, 13 Sept '26
Creative writing prompts for the week.
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For today's #WIPSnips word “distract” here's a grab from my story “Visible Burden of Invisibility” and you can read it on Twisted Tongue Press: twistedtonguepress.com/issue-2/the-...
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For today's #WIPSnips word “distract” here's a grab from my story “Visible Burden of Invisibility” and you can read it on Twisted Tongue Press: twistedtonguepress.com/issue-2/the-...
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For today's #WIPSnips word “wedge” here's a grab from a story that was published back in June. You can read “A Gnawing Silence of my Sleep Demon” here: www.patreon.com/NandNNarrati...
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For today's #WIPSnips word “wedge” here's a grab from a story that was published back in June. You can read “A Gnawing Silence of my Sleep Demon” here: www.patreon.com/NandNNarrati...
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for today's #WIPSnips word: “exhaust” a screengrab from a Vampire story (which is also looking for a home)
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for today's #WIPSnips word: “exhaust” a screengrab from a Vampire story (which is also looking for a home)
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A #WIP that needs polishing for today's #WIPSnips: “Teeth”
A weird sci-fi x body horror story that needs to find itself a home.
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@writingprompts Bigfoot exists. And he speaks Jamaican creole.
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Writing Prompt: Trying Again?
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Writing Prompt: Trying Again? Hank Phillippi Ryan…
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Stronger Than You Think
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today’s prompt, write about chronic illness from a position of strength and power.
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Writing Prompts, 6 Sept '26
Creative writing prompts for the week.
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Into the Madness #6
Image generated using ChatGPT The Fire The dreams came the first night and did not leave. He dreamed of a man in a dark coat. The man stood on a porch. He held a hammer. The head of it was dark and the handle was hickory, blackened with age and oil, and the man stood over something that lay on the porch boards and the hammer rose and fell and the sound of it was small and wet and final. He could not see the man's face. The dream gave him everything else. The coat. The boots. The hands […]https://markneweden.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/into-the-madness-6/
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@writingprompts At your school reunion, you discover that you’re the only one who aged.
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Last Day of Summer
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today’s prompt, write about the last day of summer.
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For today's #WIPSnips word “Garden”, so here's a screengrab from an earlier draft of “The Garden of Unfinished Stories”.
The final draft is part of The Anthropocene Epic (Eco Horror Anthology) that you can order here: link.amazon/B03kqohGz
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For today's #WIPSnips word “Garden”, so here's a screengrab from an earlier draft of “The Garden of Unfinished Stories”.
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Writing Prompts, 30 Aug '26
Creative writing prompts for the week.
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For #TFOTSnip word for the day: “Advertising”
Here's a snip from a cozy horror “The Nauticals” that was recently published:
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