JONATHAN MABERRY is a NY Times bestselling novelist, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book writer.
Today we’re kicking off StoryADay May 2016 with a prompt from the fabulous Jonathan Maberry. Â (If you have a chance to hear him speak at a writer’s conference/group/signing, go! You’ll be inspired to run home and write!)
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Good prompt. I had only thought I’d have time to write a little prose yesterday. But with Jonathan’s prompt, a full story just flew out onto the page. 🙂
Something tells me this going to be fun. I’m a little late commenting, but here’s my offering. I went a little wild with this one. https://theencouragingscribe.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/story-a-day-day-1/
For StoryADay Day #1, we had a choice of two prompts: to write for just 30 minutes or to start our story with a specific line. I decided to somewhat combine the two: https://storiesbystolle.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/day-1-let-me-mend-your-wings. This isn’t a well-defined story, but it will get me moving in the right direction. Oh, and I’m not going to protect any stories with passwords this month, but I can’t promise that any given day’s story will remain up for the whole month. That means, if you want to read my stories, read ’em quick!
I loved this prompt, so I used it as the first sentence of my story. I posted the snippet here; I plan to publish the story (with a revised first sentence) sometime in the future in full. https://adanramie.com/story-a-day-may-2016-challenge/
I loved the first prompt! My very first story! How exciting this is going to be.
https://vickgoodwin.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/tabitha-being-tabby/
Here is my attempt at this prompt: https://angietrafford.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/story-a-day-day-one/ not sure if I have done very well with it, but I have written a story all the same!
Awesome open prompt.
https://atomicindigo.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/where-a-phone-travels/
I sort of used the prompt, I guess: https://only100words.xyz/2016/05/01/cloud-confusion/.
A very loose interpretation of the prompt … It Was Only A Dream
https://annieswritingchallenge.wordpress.com/may-2016-story-a-day-challenge/day-1/
I love the possibilities this prompt brings up.
I’ve been reading stories by Richard Matheson recently (who wrote a lot of Twilight Zone episodes, and who, if I’m not mistaken, was real-world mentor to Mr Maberry). This definitely opens up some Twilight-Zoney doors in MY head.
Coming bak to this one on a future day, for sure!
1st story via both prompts: https://promptlywritten.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/an-amateurish-mistake-flash-fiction/
Oh, the different directions this could go 🙂