The hours drag through the week. The days fly by at the weekend. In order to combat time’s somewhat erratic flow I shall be launching the weekend fiftywords on Friday mornings. We shall steal an extra day of celebration. The weekend starts here!
Thank you to everyone who gave their feedback on the proposed fiftywords timescales. It’s always helpful to get some feedback and I appreciate it. Twice-a-week seems to be the preferred choice, so twice-a-week we shall have. I will aim to send out a new weekend fiftywords theme on Friday mornings (original GMT time) and a weekday theme on Mondays to carry through the week ahead! Let’s run with that for now and see where we end up.
Also a big thank you to everyone who joined-in with the dreams and nightmares theme. We had some soft and dreamy stories and some frankly terrifying stories and some thoughtful pieces too. I particularly liked this work from @hannihealth.
https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@hannihealth/fiftywords-story
Lovely prose and structure and fifty words on the nose! Congratulations also to @felt.buzz for topping the fiftywords trending list this week with their dream dance story. Another great work!
Our numbers have swelled again this week. Please welcome these authors to our ranks:
@vaitelavicius, @felt.buzz, @greycrasan, @birchmark, @hannihealth, @lonestarpoet and @spalatino.
And of course a congratulatory round of applause and pat on the back for all of you who have joined in so far. At the end of week two we’ve now had sixty-two original stories from thirty amazing authors - here’s the list of all contributors if you want to visit your fellow fiftyworders!
@authorofthings, @bentheredonethat, @birchmark, @byn, @calluna, @crookshanks, @deirdyweirdy, @elijahniel12, @felt.buzz, @greycrasan, @hannihealth, @hazem91, @improv, @jrhughes, @kyrian, @lonestarpoet, @mctiller, @metzli, @miniature-tiger, @navaneeth, @niallon11, @not-a-bird, @saoirseronan, @saryn, @someoneusual, @spalatino, @thechosenwhan, @vaitelavicius, @yadah04, and @yomibolo.
I've generated this list automatically - although I do believe I've read every story!
If I've missed you off, sorry! It's no slight, you're just sneaking through the cracks in my query - I didn’t get any complaints last week so hopefully it’s working Just let me know if it isn’t; it would be helpful to me too.
The new fiftywords theme for the weekend is "time". Challenge yourself to produce a fiftywords story with some element of time, whether it’s a lack of time, a good time, closing time, or time travel! Plenty of directions to choose from.
I'll round up again on Monday with the weekday theme. I will be happily resteeming one of the stories I like best and no doubt I will be offering some of my small upvotes as encouragement.
Thanks for reading everyone and good luck with your stories! Oh and have a great weekend!
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If you would like to join in, particularly if you're new to the platform, or recently returned, and looking for somewhere to start, please do! Just post your story with the "fiftywords" tag. You can follow the theme or simply take your inspiration where you find it. The only unbreakable(!) rule is to keep it to fifty words - ideally fifty on the nose - and also try and produce a complete and contained scene, moment, or story. In a future post I'll try and put some thoughts together as to what I think makes a good fiftywords story. But everyone will have their own ideas and all are welcome!
I'm ashamed to say that although I've been up voting your posts, I haven't made time to join in.
However, I have extended the challenge to my super-imaginative fiance, @gonzo, who will be posting his fifty word delight any second!
Congratulations to both of you on the fiancing! Wonderful news!
I'll admit that I haven't found the time to write my own fifty word story either this weekend, so there's no shame there! Even though I have it half done in my head. But I'm very glad @gonzo has joined in. I'm a sucker for science fiction and time-travelling stories!
Thank you so much!
I hope you like the story :)
This is a fun challenge!
Here is a link to my entry:
https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@gonzo/the-heist-flash-fiction-entry-for-miniature-tiger-s-fiftywords-stories
I participated again!
https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@metzli/aetnas-and-her-brother-travelors-of-time
Visiting other stories now ❤️❤️
I participated. Here's my link:
https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@busdriver/night-sun
This is fun, a story caught in fifty words.
I love this challenge!
https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@ellievallie/timing
I wrote another one... https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@felt.buzz/puddle-an-original-fictional-story-in-fiftywords
Here is mine: https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@felt.buzz/not-worth-fixing-an-original-work-of-fiction-in-just-fiftywords
Proud to be a part of this initiative!
Woot! Great to have you aboard!
I like this. I'm new, and I'm in. I will be posting my fifty words too.
Welcome @chidiarua! To steem and to #fiftywords. I look forward to reading your stories.
very good story @miniature-tiger
Thank you! Feel free to join in with #fiftywords!
5 letters : BOING !! (the market bounced back (-:
Ah, it's a rollercoaster of a ride!
Great story and will be trying to post the #fiftywords stories as soon as... Thanks For Sharing
Great! I look forward to see what you come up with!
OK I Try part of fiftywords
Please do. The more the merrier!
very good idea. but I am weak writing in english. whereas I would like to contribute to the #fiftywords of this story. I am from Indonesia, precisely from Aceh.
Hey @doktormuslem.
Have you thought about setting up your own version of #fiftywords for people writing in Indonesian? There's a big community there and it's also something that could work well on the eSteem app that a lot of people use.
Nice post
I am new here, please upvote me.
interesting story so as to make me impressed and become a motivation for me...
follow back and upvote my picture @miniature-tiger. Thanks.
Verry good post
Here's my first addition to the #fiftywords posts: https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@jayna/time-to-say-goodbye. I'm so glad to have found this, @miniature-tiger. I absolutely love the challenge of writing a complete scene in only 50 words.
Congrats on reaching 1000 followers. Here's my #fiftyword challenge.
https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@yomibolo/fifty-words-story-theme-time
Thank-you @miniature-tiger :)
I hope I'm not too late, here's my first #fiftywords: https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@elementm/fifty-words-story-time-s-up
Oh! I missed this until today, but I notice the new prompt isn't out so I'm going to give this one a try. Sorry to have been away so long, the Isle is hopping and I'm swamped!
But I do love these so much so I'm dedicated to making time for them!