Improbable Press Blog — writing challenge

We're back! Back. Back. And do you want to know why? Why we're going to start posting prompts again? Because I missed you. I missed your stories. Your wonderful, amazing, ridiculous, funny, sad stories. Every single one of you told tales I couldn't wait to read and I'm going to ask you to do it again. Shall we begin? More… Royalties and Who’s Out to Get You White Knights (Writing Prompts) Escape the Maze (Writing Prompts)

Hey, is there anything about these prompts that'd make 'em more interesting to you? Bigger? Plainer? A single photo? No words? Ten words? Dancing boys? Sometimes we get a flurry of prompt fills, sometimes we don't, and I wonder where the flurry is from and can it be repeated? Probably it's that thing which makes a restaurant super busy one day, dead the next but the week after those days reverse and who the heck knows, you know? Still and all, I thought I'd ask. Write On, Challenge Ahoy! I liked last week's responses to the Room No. 4 writing...

What's with room number 4? Is room #4 the answer to something or a question? Do we have to care what's behind the door? Does it matter? I've no idea, same as I've no idea why this week's writing prompt wanted to be shades of gray or somewhat silvery, depending on your viewpoint. Last week's prompt led two writers to veer toward the same topic very independently of one another and I'm wondering what this week's prompt will do. I think we'll be surprised. (Surprise me?) So are you ready to take the challenge this week and write? I hope...

A dozen pardons for the missed week. A turned-in dissertation means it ought not to happen again. However… If an extra week again means more new voices popping in to write for these challenges, these picture prompts, well… But no, we'll keep uploading them weekly and as every week before, I thank you for letting these prompts challenge you. If you've nothing you want to write this week, how about telling me how you are? A line, a paragraph…say hi. Let me know you're here. Riffing on Kindness And direclty on to what people wrote for broken by kindness: ‘I’m...

My words cramp your style, don't they? You feel like you have to use them, don't you?Feck it, that's what I say. And so that's what I did.As of this week I've thrown out one whole word on the writing prompt and added an image, so that more of the words are yours, inventive and weird and whatever you want them to be. So now, what will you write? What do you see? Seeing Capes, Writing Sex, Accepting Challenges As usual, here are some sweet snippets from last week's stories, written by writers who each saw different things in the...