December Short Story Submission

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Welcome to December’s Interactive Short Story submission post.

I’ve been a little busy and will hopefully publish November’s short story by the end of this week, I hope you are looking forward to it.
But time waits for no writer, and it is time for a new story and I need your short story ideas!

What I Need From You

  • Character(s) – Protagonist, Antagonist, love interest, etc. Anyone you feel is important. (names optional)
  • Setting – Where does the story take place?
  • What happens – eg. Orange moves into the Fruit Bowl.
  • Inciting incident – what changes? eg. Orange is a bit old and starts to go mouldy, the rest of the fruit in the Fruit Bowl try to work out a plan to get Orange out.
  • A small detail – something you want me to work in to the story. (optional)

You don’t have to include all of those details, though the more detail the better. If there’s something you want to add that you feel is important please do. Try and think of something that would, how shall we say, make it tricky for me. I dare you.

Try and put your idea into a short sentence or two, remembering that these submissions will go to vote, keep it snappy.

Submissions will go to reader vote on December 14th 2013 and will be open until midday on December 21st 2013.

I will write your idea as a short story for publishing on this blog.

Thank you for submitting an idea. Without you this blog won’t work.
I look forward to reading your ideas.

– Andrew

Rules

  • Please do not use existing works in your submission.
  • Only submissions made in the comment section of this post will be counted, submissions made anywhere else will not be included.
  • I have final say on which 5 story ideas go to the vote, apologies if yours is not chosen.
  • Submissions made after 10.00pm GTM on Friday 13th December will not be eligible for voting.
  • By submitting a short story suggestion you waive all rights to that story. The copyright to the completed short story will be mine exclusively. By submitting a suggestion you are agreeing to this.

3 thoughts on “December Short Story Submission”

  1. Character(s) – a newt. A female one. Called Bettina.
    Setting – Where does the story take place? Rural England.
    What happens – some kind of newt vs human (are they all bad?) sort of dilemma
    Inciting incident – what changes? Newt encounters several different people from various walks of life.
    A small detail – It is impossible to tell a male newt from a female newt until they are young adults. Interesting, no?

    Basically I just want a story about a newt. Anything goes, really. As long as the newt doesn’t die because that would make me sad.

    Reply ↓

      • Characters – a man what eats newts, and some newts.
        Location – rural England
        What happens – a man what eats newts goes on a newt eating rampage. It’s quite a harrowing and gory rampage.
        Inciting incident – some newts once killed the man’s wife and wrongly framed him for murder. He’s only just out of jail and now he’s out for revenge.
        Small detail – one of the newts is called Newton. He has tiny dork glasses and eats apples. He’s the brains of the outfit.

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