WRITING|PURE FICTION
7 Days Left Of February’s Fiction Challenge/Contest — Gift Card Prize For Top 3 Winners
Tell us in creative ways why your favorite fiction that you wrote came to be
JA Vassili and I would like to take ANOTHER moment to say, “Thank you for being on this journey with us”!
— to the many new writers who have joined Pure Fiction recently, as well as to those who have been with us from the beginning (more than 2 months ago).
Crystal A. Walker F. Leonora Solomon Misty Rae Alan Asnen Rhiannon Hopkins MN Nova Grace Krista Marson RN Mindshifts Amanda Gravely Andy Mackk J B Ferguson Caitlin Samminga Dani Banani Gianni Bawn Ellie Brooke Erica J Glenn Whitlock J. Salvatore Domino Jeofrey Ogire Kitty Whitemore Lawson Wallace Logan Silkwood Gerald Washington RGomez Shrayan Bandyopadhyay Warren Patterson Tess Obenauf Auden Wright
Running Pure Fiction and hosting this month’s writing challenge/contest has been much more interesting and fun than either of us imagined!
You still have 7 days (including today) left to enter — the deadline is February 28, 2022, 11:59pm PST.
Details to enter are in the story that I have shared in the link above.
One thing I’d like to mention, again, is that even though the winners won’t be heavily judged on grammar or spelling, it will weigh in favor of the writer if there are few to no mistakes in either story (the official submission or the fiction to which she/he is referring).
The past couple of weeks I have published a recap of stories, with excerpts, that have been entered into the contest so far.
I am doing the same this week.
Amanda Gravely- I am a fiction writer who loves to write fantasy and romance. Check out my western romance book, Tangled Up In Love, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YRFH37N
I didn’t have to think hard about what story from the past year was my favorite. It’s a story I am rather proud of because it’s a story that made me branch out of my comfort zone and write in a genre I’ve never written in before…
My eyes left the note and glanced at the words scrolled on the paper taped fast to the top of my laptop. “Don’t think, just write.” It’s something my mother used to tell me when I would doubt myself. Even though she is no longer here, I can still hear her voice whispering those words of encouragement every time I think I’m not good enough to write a story.
I closed my eyes, allowing the story to play out in my mind. Then I placed my fingers on the keypad and started typing. The words flowed so easily, the story coming to life before my very eyes.
Erica J- Hi! I’m an essayist, colorista, and poet. I write to purge my thoughts. Please visit my podcast: https://itsericajean.podbean.com/
It was the year 1990-something, and my bunny had just passed away. My sweet bunny Minilop(that’s what I called him). Weeks later, I fall asleep midday. I think whatever I ate caused serious ‘itis’ because all I remember doing is flopping on my bed and trying to sleep between my Tasmanian devil plush toy and this huge chocolate colored teddy bear.
I don’t recall drifting off to sleep, but as my eyes began to close, the tips of my feet itched. It felt as if some whiskers were sliding across them. So lethargic, I only blinked while reaching my toes to scratch- a flash of gray and a pair of coal eyes materialize at the foot of my bed, for not even a whole second.
Shanice Lawton- I’m a Virginian who lives in Alaska. I love writing because I love creating the worlds in my mind. I want to provide a way for people to escape.
The idea came from a prompt. It was one word. I love prompts and how I can see a word and then start to create the story in my head. So this word bounced around in my head for a few days.
I figured out exactly what I wanted to write almost a week later. I knew that I wanted to take the person’s prompt and make it unique. As crazy as it sounds, I want my stories to stand out and give readers a sense of nostalgia.
I’m proud of this story because readers seemed to like it, and it surprised me how much people liked it. I honestly surprised myself and learned the story fit a genre I had never written. I’ve read in this genre without realizing it was a genre of its own until people commented about it.
Here are links to the previous weeks’ submissions:
If you’d like to become a writer for Pure Fiction, respond to this story, or the following story detailing the basic requirements, with your Medium handle. (For example, “@…….”)
We’d love to have you join our movement to make fiction more fun, while sharing the joy of writing and reading fiction, growing individually and together, as writers, readers, and human beings.
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