Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Treasure Hunt
Fiction Friday
Friday 7th November 2014: Treasure Hunt.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: An envelope gets put through your door. There is no indication as to who it is from. The only thing inside is one small piece of paper. Written on it are the words, ‘You should go where you swing high to see the world from a different perspective.’
You are invited onto a mysterious treasure hunt. What happens next after you find this clue?
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Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Ghost Stories
Friday 31st October 2014: Ghost Stories.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s Prompt: It’s Halloween and it’s your chance to write a ghost story. It can be set in any era and anywhere. Is there a haunted house? Do you see a ghost? It can be anything you like.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Going Back
Friday 24th October 2014: Going Back.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Have you ever wished you could go back to a time and change it but going back knowing what you know now? After you fall over and bang your head, you find that you’ve gone back in time to an important point in your life – a crossroads for you and you have the chance to alter the outcome. Where do you go back to and what happens? It can be based on fact or you can completely make up the situation (if you are working on a character, where would they go back to?)
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Oh Crystal Ball
Friday 17th October 2014:
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt..
You have to go on a quest to find an ancient crystal ball that has the powers to save the world. This artefact has the power to show the future. Is there anything else it can do?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Mysterious Competition
Friday 10th October 2014: Mysterious competition.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: You’ve had a notification that you’ve won a competition. The prize is £10,000. The only thing you have to do to claim it is to be at the address listed at a certain time. When you arrive, there are five other people waiting; people you’ve never met before. What happens?
(Write up to 1,200 words.)
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Waiting Room
Friday 3rd October 2014: Waiting Room.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Your setting is a train station waiting room. Whether it’s part of a busy station or a quiet small town station is up to you. Your story should centre around three of the people waiting in the room. Why are they there? Have they met before or are they total strangers? Why are they all waiting for a train? Where are they going? The appearance of your characters is up to you as well as gender, age and occupation.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Building Suspense
Friday 26th September 2104: Suspense.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Carry on from this sentence (max word count, 1,000.) Build the suspense the further you get into the story.
‘I don’t know what will happen if you flick that switch. I have never tired to find out what it does.’
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: A Document
Friday 19th September 2014.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: You find a document about your life. As you begin to read about the current day, things from the page start to happen in real life. Continue on the story. What happens next?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Parents
Friday 12th September 2014:
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: ‘The last time I saw my mother was fifteen years ago.’ That is your first sentence. Who your character is and where you go is up to you.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Back to School
Friday 5th September 2014: Back to School.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Back to School. Most children are going back to school this week. The character you’re writing about is a man called Bob and he wakes up to find that instead of being 44, he’s back to being 14 years old (but aware of his life as an adult.) What happens? How does he react and does this change?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday – Late, Late, Late.
Friday 29th August 2014: Late, Late, Late.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Your character is running late for a meeting. Why are they late? What consequences are there for the character because they are late? What happens? Do they make the meeting? Have you ever been late for an important meeting? If so, use it as inspiration.
by Fiction Friday: Nursery Rhymes
Friday 22nd August 2014: Nursery rhymes.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Pick a nursery rhyme (it can be any one you want,) and write a story using it as inspiration for a story. The maximum word count is 1,000 words.) You can choose whether you tell it from first person or third person point of view and it’s your choice as to which character within the rhyme you use.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday – It’s Not All In Your Imagination.
Friday 14th August 2014 – It’s not all in your imagination.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Your character can be male or female and any age over 18. They have always had an active imagination. What if they woke up one morning to find that their imagination was coming to life? Whatever they thought of appeared in front of them. It’s great at first but if course, like with everything, there are consequences. What happens?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: Reunion
Friday 8th August 2014: Reunion.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: You haven’t seen your family for a while. You are all forced to reunite for some reason. Why haven’t you seen them for a while? What happened? Who is in your family and what is the dynamic?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday – Doing Things Differently
Friday 1st August 2014 – Doing Things Differently.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt – What would you do if you could go back and change something from the past? Would you do things differently? Take a character you’re currently working on or, if you’ve not got one, choose a character from a favourite novel. Re-write part of their story but this time, change a decision they made and get them to do something differently. What happens?
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday – Undercover
Fiction Friday
Friday 25th July 2014 – Undercover.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: You are a police officer. You’ve not been one for long and you’ve been partnered with someone new (who you don’t know well.) Your first assignment means that you both have to go undercover and be convincing in your role in order to catch a criminal. Where, why and you is up to you.
by Fiction Friday – 250 words
Friday 18th July 2014 – 250 words.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: 250 words. Using the prompt ‘They couldn’t figure out what to say to each other,’ write a story that is no more than 250 words. What are these two people going to do? What are they going to say to next?
by Fiction Friday – A Letter
Friday 11th July 2014 – A Letter.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt:
You find a letter. It could be from anyone – from an old friend, from a younger self. It could be a letter written to your grandmother years before. It’s up to you. Make your piece up to 500 words if you can. In it, there must be some kind of revelation or secret revealed.
by Fiction Friday – Lottery Fever
Fiction Friday
Friday 4th July 2014 – Lottery Fever.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Invent a character who has just won the jackpot on the lottery. What happens next? What does he/she do when he/she finds out? How does he/she handle the win? Who do they tell and how does it affect their life?
by Fiction Friday – Time Travel
Friday 27th July 2014
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt – Time Travel. Pick one of the three suggestions below then write a fictional story beginning with the line ‘as I walked toward the door.’
Is your character a person of that era? Has your character got there using time travel?
The day Elizabeth I found out she was going to be Queen.
1914 – the beginning of the First World War.
The day you were born.
by Fiction Friday – A Fly On The Wall
Friday 20th June 2014.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: A fly on the wall. Many of us have said that we wish we could have been a fly on the wall on a conversation we want to hear. Write about a time where you did get to overhear a conversation. What was said?
by Fiction Friday – Lucky?
Friday 13th June 2014.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Lucky. Friday 13th is unlucky for some. Write about a character who has always had bad luck except for Friday 13th when they seem to have a large reversal of luck. What happens? Is it all too much at once?
by Fiction Friday – Trapped
Friday 6th June 2014.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Trapped. There is a power cut and as a result, your character is stuck in a bank vestibule with a stranger. What happens? How long are you there?
by Fiction Friday – The Wedding
Fiction Friday
Friday 30th May 2014.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: The wedding. You are back in town for a wedding. You used to live in this place but not been back for a while. Why did you leave? Do you like the couple getting married? Are you seeing a group of friends that you’ve not seen for a while?
by Fiction Friday – When I Grow Up.
Fiction Friday
Friday 23rd May 2014 – When I Grow Up…
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: We have such big imaginations as children and anything is possible. What did you want to be when you grew up? An astronaut? A fireman? A princess? Write about what would happen if you suddenly got a chance to be what you wanted to be as a child.
by Fiction Friday – Carry On The Story…
Friday 16th May 2014 – Carry on the story.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: Carry on the story, using the following line as a starting point.
‘Miranda was sat next to Tim when she saw the article. She quickly snatched the magazine from him.’
by Fiction Friday – Observation.
Friday 9th May 2014 – Observation.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below. 0
Today’s prompt: Set your timer for a minute. In that minute, write down everything you notice whilst looking out your window – people you see, objects, colours. Do you have the window open? What can you smell? Write down everything that you notice within that minute. Once you’re done, start putting all of your notes into a story.
by Fiction Friday – Superhero School
Friday 2nd May 2014.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: You have just found out that you’ve got superhero powers and have been enrolled in superhero school. Write about your first day. What’s your power? Have you been enrolled by accident? Do you earn yourself an arch-enemy? Do you come from a family of superheroes and now have a lot to live up to?
by Fiction Friday – Transportation
Friday 25th April 2014.
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit, just post in the comments below.
Fiction Friday
Today’s prompt: You are transported into your favourite book or movie. Which character are you? What changes in the story now you are there? Do you alter something significant?
by Fiction Friday – Opposites
Fiction Friday
Friday 18th April 2014.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt where the internal editor is asked to step out. We post a prompt. Use it as inspiration to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you like. Once you’ve finished, post in the comments below. Don’t edit, just post.
Today’s prompt: Take a story you love. Maybe one you liked as a child or a snippet of a book you’ve read recently. Swap all the characters around. Make the hero the sidekick and the villain the hero? Maybe the adult who offers advice is the nervous and unknowing character? What if the hero’s best friend is actually the villain? Have a go at swapping everyone around.
by A Fairytale Story
Fiction Friday
Fiction Friday: 11th April 2014.
The idea of Fiction Friday is to write. We post a prompt every friday. Use it as inspiration to write for a minimum of five minutes. Then, keep going for as long as you can. Once you’re done, don’t edit, just post in the comments below.
Today’s prompt: Fairytales.
Write about a cowardly girl who must save a princess, evade an unwanted lover and defeat a tyrant before she can return home. Things become complicated because of a jealous rival. Assistance comes in the form of a magic ring.
by Strange Days
Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: 4th April 2014
Fiction Friday
The aim of Fiction Friday is to shut away your internal editor for a while. We post a prompt. You write for a minimum of five minutes and then, keep going for as long as you can. Once you’re done, don’t edit, just post in the comments box below.
Today’s prompt: In approx 250 – 350 words, describe the strangest day you can imagine. What’s the setting? What’s happening? Who is it happening to?
by The Heist
Fiction Friday: 28th March 2014
Every friday, we post a writing prompt. The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keeping going for as long as you can. Once you’re done, don’t edit your piece of writing, just post in the comments below.
Today’s prompt is that your characters are in the middle of some sort of heist. How many people involved and the scale of the robbery is up to you. The first line is, ‘Just get on with it. We need to get out of here, now.’
Remember, don’t edit, just post.
by Phone Call
Fiction Friday: Phone Call.
Fiction Friday
The aim is to use the prompt and write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’ve finished, don’t edit. Just post.
Today’s prompt: Your character gets a phone call at three am in the morning. It wakes you up. When you answer, do you recognise the voice and know who it is? Is it a stranger?
by Using Your Words
Fiction Friday: 14th March.
Fiction Friday
Using all your words.
Fiction Friday is our weekly prompt. The aim is to use the prompt, write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’re done, post in the comments box below. Don’t edit, just post.
Today’s prompt:
You have six people sat around a table, three men and three women. The reason as to why they are there is up to you. Your first sentence is from one of the women and it’s Continue reading
by Magical Objects
Fiction Friday: Magical Objects.
Fiction Friday
Every Friday is Fiction Friday. We post a prompt. You write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Once you’re done, you don’t edit. Just post in the comments box below.
Today’s Prompt: You come across a seemingly ordinary object. It can be anything – a scarf, shoes, a lamp, a remote for the TV. You almost discard it but then magical things start to happen. When you realise it’s this object making things happen, you decide to keep and use it. What happens next?
by The List
Fiction Friday
Which three things would your character like to try?
Fiction Friday: 28th february 2014.
List three activities that you could have your character doing. It could be anything from sky diving to a road trip from one end of the country to the other. Once you have your three things, pick one. If you are working on something at the moment, use your main character and write from the point of view of your character whilst they try this activity. If you’ve not got a character, open the book nearest to you and pick a name from there.
Write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going. Once you’re done, don’t edit. Just post.
by NK Fiction Friday: Money Money Money
Fiction Friday
Fiction Friday – 21st February 2014.
The prompt for today’s fiction friday: You find a money clip on the ground whilst walking down the high street. It contains £10,000. What do you do next? Which problems does it create? Solve?
Write for five minutes minimum and then keep going. Once you’re finished, post in the comments box below.
by Is it Love?
Fiction Friday
Fiction Friday: Friday 14th February 2014: Is it Love?
For today’s prompt, it’s all about love (as it’s Valentine’s Day.) Your two main characters are Lucy and Tom. Have they just met? Are they are at a turning point in their relationship? Is it about to end? That’s all your choice. What will you have happen to Lucy and Tom?
Write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can. Don’t edit, just post in the comments below.
by If You Go Down To The Woods Today…
Fiction Friday Prompt: 7th February 2014.
Fiction Friday
Today’s prompt: If you go down to the woods today…
What does the picture below inspire? Does it conjure up wonder? Fear? Curiosity? Write down everything that comes into your head when you look at it and then try to craft it into a story. Write for five minutes minimum and then keep going as long as you can.
Once you’re done, Continue reading
by Book Club
