Discussion → March Challenge
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This month's challenge is a story in two parts.
Part 1
Write a story in 500 words or less set entirely in the dining room of a fast-food restaurant.Part 2
Now write (essentially) the same story in 500 words or less again, but this time set it outside in the middle of the Montana wilderness in the dead of winter. (The "same" story should be taken rather broadly--it should be a similar plot and theme, a story mirroring the first in some way.)Use three of the following prompt phrases in each part (you can repeat or not repeat the prompt phrases as desired--for example, you could use phrases 1, 2, and 3 in part 1, and phrases 1, 3, and 5 in part 2):
Weight limit
Low or soft shoulder
One way
Stop
Yield
Do not enter
Dead end
Share the road
Wrong way
Pedestrian crossing
No right turn
Pass with care
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Sweet! Awesome prompt, Jon.
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Aye, the riddler hath flit it . . . . now to fit it into two ways of being.
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Each month a new challenge will be posted to the discussion with rules for the month. This is a public group and all stories written for the challenge will be posted to the Fn main page and then added to the group.
At the end of the month, the story with the most faves wins the challenge.
The winner of the challenge gets to post the rules for the next month's challenge.
In the event of a tie, all tying winners get to post a challenge for the next month, with challenges run simultaneously. The challenger with the most faves, of all the simultaneous challenges for that month, gets to post the rules for the next month's challenge.
And always remember: fiction is not a competitive sport.
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