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WRITE THE STORY! April 2024 PROMPT

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Welcome to Write the Story!

We have left March’s bamboo woods behind and now a time for a bit of mischief. Thanks to all who submitted stories in March and to all of you who read their work!

Now for April 2024!

Don’t Forget: The word limit is now 5000 words. Also, we will no longer do minor editing on these stories.

WU! created this project with two goals: providing a writing exercise and promoting our author sites to increase reader traffic. Please include a link to the Writers Unite! blog when you post your story elsewhere. By doing so, you are also helping promote your fellow members and Writers Unite! We encourage all of you to share each other’s stories to help us grow. Thanks!

The April 2024 Prompt!

Images are free use and require no attribution. Image by firoian – schmetz from Unsplash.

If you are unfamiliar with shoe tossing, check out this information from Wikipedia about the phenominun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_tossing

Here’s the plan:

  • You write a story of 5000 words or less (minimum 500 words) or a poem (Minimum 50 words) based on and referring to the image provided and post it on the author site you wish to promote. Don’t forget to give your story a title. (Note: You do not have to have a website/blog/FB author page to participate. Your FB profile or WordPress link is acceptable.)
  • Please edit these stories. WU! will no longer conduct minor editing on your story, so please send in edited work. WU! reserves the right to reject publishing the story if poorly written.
  • The story must have a title and author name and must include the link to the site you wish to promote.
  • Send the story and link to the site via Facebook Messenger to Deborah Ratliff or email to writersunite16@gmail.com. Put “Write the Story” in the first line of the message.
  • Please submit your story by the 25th day of the month.

WU! will post your story on our blog and share it across our platforms— FB, Twitter, Instagram, etc. The story will also be available in the archives on the WU! blog, along with the other WTS entries.