The Prompt

Write a story inspired by the recent Artemis II mission.

There are so many options here, even if you don’t want to write about space travel:

• someone is far from home;
• four people are living in cramped conditions;
• someone has worked for years on a life-changing project and then has to turn it over to the people who will be the public face, and learn to stand back and watch;
• someone sees a thing for the first time in human history;
• someone who opposed a project has to watch while it succeeds;
• people who have been fighting for years are suddenly united in support of an extraordinary event…

There was so much wonder surrounding the Artemis mission, with all it’s ‘first time in 50 years, with all this new technology!’ hype, I’m going to argue for writing a story, today, that contains some of that wonder, awe, and togetherness.

But that’s just me. You write what you want 😉

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Julie Duffy

Julie Duffy is a writer and the host of StoryADay. She can no longer say “the last time we went to the moon I was 6 months old!!” and she’s OK with that. She wonders what we will do with the 50 years of stellar sci-fi ‘what ifs’ that we’ve written since then…

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