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Love. Lust.
I have recently been contemplating the ideas of Love and Lust: their similarities, their differences, and how they can at times be interchangeable. They can coincide with each other, or they can be vehement enemies. The possibilities have had my mind reeling for days. The Challenge...
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Pre-NaFicWriMo-Challenge
30,720 That, lieutenants and generals, is the number you get when you multiply 1024 characters by the 30 days in June. Did I just hear someone say, "Gadzooks! That's roughly 5,000 words!" ? Now, now, settle down. NaFicWriMo merely requires 1 completely original, stand alone Ficl...
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48 Laws of Power: 5th Law
One of the interesting things about these laws of power is trying to see how they play out in major political events. The 5th law deals with reputation and I can't think of a more interesting exemplar than the US race for the Republican nomination. The candidates have been busily sava...
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Secrets
When writing, the greatest woe is a lack of content. Dreaming up opinions on issues that don't concern you is often very difficult. Looking inwards, on the other hand, seems difficult as well because our darkest secrets reflect the ugliest sides about ourselves. We try to avoid these ...
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Put a Price on My Soul
What is a soul worth? Sometimes it seems as if everything has a price tag nowadays... What is the price of a soul? Be Creative. Have Fun. Think out of the box! Multiple entries are encouraged.
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Ficly Sandbox
The idea is easy, joining in is hard. Come play with us. Bring your bucket, scoop, some sunscreen and one of your oldest drafts. No cheating, dump your unedited drafts out as a Ficly, and let's build an amazing castle from your 60 grains (or more) of diamond dust. Don't ch...
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The Elder Scrolls
I've just finished reading Greg Keyes' "The Infernal City" and "Lord of Souls". The books were great, especially if you like the Elder Scrolls! For this challenge, create the story of an original character using a Cyrodilic mindset. Sure, you may have to do some research if you kno...
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Where Rain and Fire Meet
Long ago, in the place where rain and fire shook hands beneath a weeping tree, a young bird, or at least most thought it was a bird, poked the curved sharp edge of it's beak through the widening cracks of a brittle egg shell.
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My Inspiration!
Here's the deal, there are a lot of stories on this site…you probably noticed though. You also may have noticed a little link at the bottom of your screen called "Random Story" nestled between the Ficlets Memorial and the Privacy Policy. Your challenge, dear friends, is to clic...
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NaFicWriMo
Who here has heard of National novel writing month? Raise your hand. Those who haven't go to www.nanowrimo.org It is a great challenge, writing 50,000 words in a month. But as you all know, not everyone particularly cares for writing novels. For this challenge "National Ficly/...
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Wasteland, Day to Day
Our lives are littered with day to day drama, highs and lows related to living life. These events can serve as interesting story fodder, though a huge part of what draws people to fiction is the idea of breaking out of the normal everyday drudgery and escaping into a world outside of ...
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It's a boy!
Greetings, fellow ficleters! So, those who know me, most likely know of my Noble Six character. And yes, she did die at one point. But, magically, she poofed back into existence. And is now having a kid. Here is the issue: WHAT DO I MAKE HIM ACT LIKE!? I have no ...
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The End Times!
Create the end times. What exactly is going to happen on December 21, 2012? Do not write anything you have heard before. Create new ideas and circumstances in which everyone around you is affected. The only limit is that it must be completely original!
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Characters! =)
I love my characters. I dream about them, draw them, even write their birthdays in my diary. Creepy as it may seem, making a character real in your mind gives he/she a dimension in a piece of writing that can rarely be otherwise achieved. Therefore your challenge is this: create...
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What Does It Take To Break?
Everyone has one; a breaking point. That moment when everything culminates into one big sonic boom on your life. But what does it take to reach that point? I believe the answer is different for everyone, as we are all impacted differently by the things that happen in our lives. I c...
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Precrime
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A Blow, A Kiss
As a group write your own digital story: You must reinvent or reinterpret the original short story we are studying 'A Blow, A Kiss' by Tim Winton. You are required to write your own unique version of the story in one of the following ways: 1. Re-write the story changing the main char...
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If Not One, Then The Other
So I was talking to someone today who was telling me about what they want to be when they grew up and I told them if I didn't ever have to worry about financial security I would be an author (if I ever finished my book). I told him what I write about and whether he was interested is ...
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Remixing... A Doll's House
This will be the last of my _Remixing_ series of challenges for a while. In this challenge, you are to use in a single story at least 4 of the following 10 lines, which I have selected more or less at random and on whim, from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. 1. When did my squirre...
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48 Laws of Power: 4th Law
There’s a guy at the office I work at that hates silence during conversations. Occasionally, when he and I converse about something trivial, I’ll find a point in the conversation to stop talking. He’ll keep the conversation going of his own accord simply because he isn’t getting verba...
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Resurrect a Ficlet
I followed someone's link to their stories in the Ficlet memorial, and that reminded me that there must be a tremendous reserve of ficlets there that we could draw upon to create new stories. So in this challenge, post a story that could have been a sequel or a prequel to a ficlet....
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What is Life Without Thee?
My mum died suddenly in 2003. I knew of the contralto Kathleen Ferrier only because my mum had often spoke of her. I do _NOT_ enjoy this kind of classical singing! Sometime later, I played an album by her which had been my mum's and was stunned to be moved to tears by the song of the ...
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Missing Chair?
A character arrives at work to find her chair missing. What happened to it?
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Make Literature
Anything easily pegged in any one genre (horror/ romance/ mystery/etc.) need not apply. Surprise endings, gratuitousness, cliches of phrase or idea are all banned. Be straight forward and original. Defy labels. Write for emotional effect without tailoring to popular trends. Set a ...
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Ordinary
“My students were middle-class kids who were ashamed of their background. They felt like unless they grew up in poverty, they had nothing to write about … I felt sorry for these kids, that they thought their whole past was absolutely worthless because it was less than remarkable.” —...
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First Times
First times. We've all had them. Write about a first time, be it a sexual or non sexual.
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Logo Creator Software
Quicklogodesigner has the best seller software in logo designing and Quick Logo Designer is as well a best-seller in its particular category. Our firm's headquarter is based in Rochester USA and there are six offices which are spread across three continents. The development staff in U...
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Why Didn't You Love Her?
My lecturer was one asked by one of his old friends as to why he didn't love one of his previous partners. When he thought about it, he didn't know why he didn't but he just knew that he didn't. The question has been floating around in my mind, so here's the challenge. Make a story...
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The End Justifies
There are a lot of bad things in this world. Bad people, bad places and worse circumstances. Don't you want to change it, sometimes? Have you ever read the news and gotten _so angry_ that you thought you could kill if it meant changing a nation for the better? Have you ever loo...
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48 Laws of Power: 3rd Law
Sometimes, in order to get something that you want, it's best to avoid letting what you're after become public knowledge. Some number of years ago, a co-worker of mine, unbeknownst to me, convinced the president of the company that I work for to promote him into a vice-presidency for ...
