Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: The Last Conversation
Welcome to Fiction Friday, our weekly flash fiction challenge.
Here’s how it works:
Set a timer for five minutes and start writing
Keep going for as long as you can once the timer goes off
No editing allowed—raw writing only
When you’re finished, feel free to share in the comments (but there’s no pressure)
This Week’s Prompt: The Last Conversation.
You discover an old voicemail on your phone from someone you haven’t heard from in years. The timestamp doesn’t match any phone records you can find. When you listen to it, they’re apologizing for something—something only you would understand—but they sound like they’re speaking from somewhere very far away, or very long ago.
You have 48 hours before the message automatically deletes forever.
What do you do? And more importantly… who was really on the other end?
Remember: There are no rules except one—don’t stop to edit. Let the words flow. Your goal is momentum, not perfection.
Happy writing. See you in the comments.
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Novel Kicks Writing Room: Plot Challenge – Story Conception
Welcome back to the Novel Kicks Writing Room and the Plot Challenge.
Over the next few weeks, we will be focusing on plotting a piece of fiction, one task at a time.
These will potentially help you master plot structure by writing all major plot points, then analysing how each element builds toward a cohesive story.
Before you begin, ask yourself whether you want to write a short story ot a longer piece – maybe a novella or novel?
The Challenge
You will write a complete story by isolating and deliberately crafting five distinct plot sections. Each section has a specific job to do in your story.
Your Five Plot Roles:
1. Inciting Incident — Your disruption
2. Rising Action — Your complications
3. Midpoint — Your stakes amplification
4. Climax — Your confrontation
5. Resolution — Your consequences
Task One: Story Conception.
Don’t rush these. Take as long as you need with this.
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: The Last Library
It’s Friday which means it’s time to start writing some fiction.
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing flash fiction prompt.
The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can.
Don’t edit, just write. Once you’re done, you’re welcome to share in the comments but there’s no obligation.
Today’s prompt: The Last Library
You discover a library that exists in the space between closing time and opening time—it only appears during those specific hours. The books here are different: they contain stories that were never written, conversations that were never had, and lives that were never lived.
Tonight, you find a book with your name on the spine.
Write what comes to mind.
Consider exploring:
What story does the book contain?
Why does this library exist, and who maintains it?
What choice must you make before dawn arrives and the library disappears?
by Novel Kicks Writing Room: The Moment Before
Today, we are going to be working on an exercise called ‘the moment before.’
We want to aim to develop tension, anticipation, and character depth by exploring the critical moment immediately before a life-changing event.
Write a scene set in the moment immediately before something significant happens to your character. This could be before an interview, a confrontation, a departure, a confession, a performance, a decision, or any pivotal moment. The reader should feel the weight of what’s about to unfold without the event itself occurring.
To make this a little more challenging –
Your scene must be between 500-800 words
Include at least one moment of sensory detail (sight, sound, smell, touch, or taste)
Reveal your character’s emotional state through both internal thought and external action (body language, fidgeting, dialogue)
Do not show the actual event happening—end just before the moment arrives
The final line should heighten tension or suggest the magnitude of what’s about to occur
by Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: The Sound Only You Can Hear
It’s Friday which means it’s time to start writing some fiction.
Fiction Friday is our weekly writing flash fiction prompt.
The aim is to write for a minimum of five minutes and then keep going for as long as you can.
Don’t edit, just write. Once you’re done, you’re welcome to share in the comments but there’s no obligation.
Today’s prompt – The Sound Only You Can Hear.
For the past week, you’ve been hearing a faint humming sound that no one else can perceive—not your friends, family, or doctor. It’s constant but varies in pitch depending on where you are.
Today, you traced it to its source: it’s coming from inside your own body.
When you finally figure out what it is, you realize you have to make an impossible decision about whether to tell anyone or keep it secret.
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