Flash Fan Fiction Friday 11/21/14

Flash Fan Fiction Friday (close enough ) (4F)

*cough* Let's pretend it's Friday, shall we? Because if it were Saturday, I'd be late posting this and that would never do. Ahem, anyway...

Last week, we exerted ourselves with our "Control" theme. Please take a moment to read over our entries!

:thumb494990515: The Last GiftFandom: Doctor Who
Character(s): Tenth Doctor
I'm dying. You're coming for me, Death, and there's nothing I can do to stop you. But I can hold you off, just a little longer.
I've failed, this time around. I've been shown my soul and I can see what I've done. I've taken in good, brilliant people, and turned them into fighters, killers. The Children of Time, they're called: my companions, my protégés. The Defender of the Earth, with her stony stare and her gun as large as she is. The immortal Captain with his platoon, hiding under the ground, waiting with their arms and technology for the next attack from above. The Woman Who Walked the Earth and her husband, the "Idiot", tracking alien menaces and destroying them before they can harm their world. The Most Important Woman in the Universe, the one who tried to guide me, to stop me, to keep me from falling into the darkness. The one who never touched a weapon. Ha! Now there

As I sit here, pondering over a new prompt, all that comes to mind is one thing. I'm hungry. This week, let's explore "Basic Need(s)". You can choose any basic need (food, water, air, something specific to your fandom). You can have one or multiple needs. Whatever you'd like, but it must be a need, not a want (despite my many arguments to the contrary, chocolate is not, technically, a need). An argument can be made that social interaction can be considered a need, as apposed to pure isolation and not, say, being grounded for the weekend. I look forward to your stories! Enjoy yourselves!

(Seriously, that is how I chose a lot of my prompts. "Hmm, what popping into my head? Food? That's a bit boring. Let's expand that!")

Contests

None currently. Feel free to let us know if there's a contest you'd like us to include in our journal.

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Guidelines

300 or 500 word count limit. If you really want to challenge yourself, try a 100 word 4F.

You have until next Friday to submit your 4F.

Include the theme in your 4F.

Post a link to your 4F in the current Flash Fan Fiction Friday journal. When the next one is announced, I'll feature them. As of right now, there is no limit to how many you can submit (but I will only feature one per person).

Submit your 4Fs to the gallery folder named "Flash Fan Fiction Friday," located at the bottom of the folder list. These submissions won't be as highly monitored as regular submissions, since you only have a week to work on them. However, grammar and spelling do still count.

Did You Know?

Why do you write? More specifically, who do you write for? Do you write just for your own enjoyment, without the intention of sharing it? Or do you plan to publish it (even if it's "only" online, as in DeviantArt of Fanfiction.net)?

When we write for others, that can be stressful and take the enjoyment out of it. If you ever lose the joy of writing, or find it becoming a chore to get that next chapter out, perhaps you should try writing for yourself. Open up a notebook (or a word-processing document) and write out a story just for you. Let the Mary Sues abound, if you want. Want overly dramatic characters? Throw them in there! Purple prose up the wazoo? Go for it! Do all the things you'd never do for your audience. This piece is just for you. It's your guilty pleasures writing.

Just write to make yourself happy. Who cares if no one sees it? It's your gift to you.