Give short fiction a shot in April!
Clean out the cobwebs before you dive into your next big project, and write short(er) stories with us!
We get it. You’re busy. You’ve blocked off November as “your writing month.” You set the out of office message, trained your kids to make their own dinner, and you do lots of extensive preparations to make November a month you can write a novel in.
But what if you didn’t do any of that?
Short stories, flash fiction, and novellas are a great way to flex your writing muscles without all the pressure of a finished novel weighing down upon you.
That’s where the Spring Sprint comes in!
Choose your events!
We’re structuring this writing challenge a little bit differently, by giving y’all events to participate in! Choose a few (we recommend three) and get to writing!
Whether you want the hurdles of writing a short story and immediately revising it, or the 100 meter dash of writing some flash fiction, or even if you’re taking a shot(put) at a new genre, you’re stretching your writing muscles and becoming a better writer.
100 meter relay
Write four short stories
100 meter dash
Write a flash fiction story under 500 words
200 meter dash
Write a flash fiction under 1,000 words
800 meters
Write a short story under 1,500 words
1500 meters
Write a short story under 3,000 words
100 meter hurdles
Write a short story, revise it to under 1,500 words, then revise it further to 1,000 words
400 meter relay
Write three short stories that are connected
Javelin throw
Write a novella under 25,000 words
Shot put
Write a story in a genre totally different than you usually write (for example: romance to horror, sci-fi to literary)
Half-Marathon
Write for 25 hours
Marathon
Write for 50 hours
High Jump
Write for 30 consecutive days
Events
We’re hosting a ton of write-ins both in person and virtually!
In Person Write-Ins
- Sundays 1-4 p.m. @ Rochester Brewing & Roasting Company (Crossroads)
- Tuesdays 6-9 p.m. @ Front Range (Waldo/Brookside)
- Fridays 11 a.m. -1 p.m. @ Johnson County Central Resource Library
- Saturdays 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. @ MCPL Riverside
Virtual Write-Ins
- Wednesday 6-9 p.m. in our Discord
- Plus a 24/7 community of writers!
“You’ve got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner.“
F. Scott Fizgerald
In a letter to family friend Frances Turnbull
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