A few people here have already said that they like to work off of writing prompts. So if it's at all helpful, here's a whole month's worth, courtesy of some folks on Fediverse.

Love the idea of maybe having a writing prompt or a picture each week or month for everyone to write a short story on?

I also like this idea. Not sure about weekly but maybe a monthly writing prompt to inspire those that want to try something different would be good.

I love stuff like this but they never seem to be all that popular, sadly. Maybe now there's a somewhat centralised palce for it, it will be better? I thought it would be more like a prompt for a single short story though, which is obviously not what the graphic is about at all. I am also a sucker for this kind of thing since the early internet days so I'll probably fill it out later anyway. Reminds me of "which FF7 character are you" type stuff.


This is what I think of when I think of prompts. I did try to make myself do one every month for https://zxstories.wordpress.com/ but, erm, well... there's SOME there :p

Fully read that as which FF7 character would you gunge

It's a nice idea, and I like the idea of this place where people can go with it, posting prompts or requests for prompts with no judgement or expectation of engagement.

"Hey, I've thought of a few prompts, would love to see where anyone takes these ideas..."

"Hey, I've got some free time, feel free to post a prompt for me, would love it if anyone else engaged..."

Well, go on...

I like the idea of prompts, weekly or monthly or whatever, but as the others have said, I'd prefer story prompts. It's always interesting to see the different approaches a group of writers take to the same prompt.

Okay - so it sounds like we're establishing a consensus. For the most part, people want a monthly prompt that's more of a specific, concrete idea for a story - either a word/phrase, a visual, a moment, or something like that. And then, in between the monthly prompts, people are of course welcome to add or request extra prompts or ideas as they desire.

Given that we're at the end of June, does it make sense to start the monthly thing on July 1? If so, does anyone want to call dibs on coming up with a prompt for July?

Well it's Tifa isn't it?

That's what I kind of assumed but you never know, could've been Vincent or something.