Curate, connect, and discover
so with this week's entry, i have participated in flash fiction friday for a whole year now, keeping up a streak of 52 :D and because i'm lowkey proud of that and also just love FFF a lot, i will yap a litte.
FFF is a fun little event where the very cool people over at @flashfictionfridayofficial post a new prompt every friday at noon cet, then you have 24h to fill that prompt, and over the next week they will rb it to that official account and it gets put into a showcase post.
for so many reasons!
first of all, the whole community (as in, the people usually participating, as well as "the bosses") is extremely nice and sweet and welcoming, and full of amazing writers. and it is alway such a varied mix of works! there's fanfics of various fandoms, ranging from more "popular" things to very niche, there's original works, both with people having their own ocverses/bigger works as well as just great little disconnected short stories, there's poetry, there's everything.
for me personally, the whole process is just very good and has so many perks: - one prompt a week, so there's a habit going on. even if i don't get my ass up for writing much all week, i can do a short friday bit, which means there's the accomplishmentTM as well as just keeping the writing muscle moving, so to speak - only a day time, so you can't overthink it too much, just hammer something out without fiddling with it forever (good for people with perfectionism-brainworms) - it feels kinda low stakes, but in a good way - that gives me the freedom to just try shit out. experimenting with style or pov, writing stuff i normally probably wouldn't (i did a random Saints Row fic because i was playing that at the time and the prompt fit so well - would have never written for that otherwise), or just producing random bits and backstory lore for my ocs (like, for example, fiona went from "has a name, died sometime in the past" to #fiona tag)
and of course, the rb comments on the official account are always SO NICE and SO ENCOURAGING and just... knowing that at least one person will read your stuff and comment positively on it - yea, that helps, lame as it sounds.
anyway, that's why y'all should join me and write :D
now on to the second year... :D no but seriously, i plan to keep the streak up. BUT ALSO over the next few day i will reblog some of this year's bits, with added author's commentary, just because i can. they're gonna be tagged #fff recap.
as mentioned above, there's so many cool and talented people in that whole community, special mention of some of them - go read their things! (and i'm probably forgetting half)
@ineedaplacetostay @ruvastuon @aalinaaaaaa @zorilleerrant @ark-inkweaving @drowning-in-cacophony @hd-literature @starlightfireflies
(incoming) special fff recap commentary is marked with "#!"
#252 spill the tea: what's a chicken? (fnv)
#253 pushing up daisies: pushing up daisies (fnv)
#254 horizon line: just one more step (fnv) #!
#255 in the heart: doing the right thing (fnv)
#256 muted colors: un-muting the colors (fnv)
#257 count the days: 4261 days (ocverse: daria) #!
#258 milky way dreams: mojave night sky (fnv)
#259 house of cards: wildcards (fnv)
#260 fear is a sickness: how to live your life without breathing (ocverse: july)
#261 maybe one more: nuka cola quantum (fnv)
#262 run far and fast: he runs and he runs and he runs (ocverse: gabriel)
#263 in the meadows: accidental baby acquisition (fnv) #!
#264 counting clocks: six damn clocks (ocverse: mika) #!
#265 galaxies away: this is my human costume (ocverse: el & quinn)
#266 great expectations: no one sleeps when i'm awake (ocverse: mika & aaron)
#267 gifted violets: viola sororia (ocverse: july & daria)
#268 fractured forms: picking up the pieces (ocverse: gabriel & kat)
#269 living weapon: can't win them all (fnv)
#270 lights and sirens: can you feel my bass (ocverse: valerie, annabelle & eli)
#271 tantrum entrance: pastry bribery (ocverse: mika & gabriel)
#272 change in tone: and let me sing forevermore (ocverse: aaron & mika)
#273 invisible guest: and there are days like this, too (ocverse: daria & fiona) #!
#274 empty house: the hills have eyebots (fnv: courier mags) #!
#275 full moon frenzy: low ebb tide and high full moon (ocverse: fiona)
#276 dark and stormy night: drift, drift away, into now (ocverse: fiona)
#277 silver sparks: jury rigging (fnv)
#278 singing in the candlelight: ever-drifting smoke (ocverse: fiona)
#279 warm hands: that familiar smell (ocverse: mika & gabriel)
#280 seek for insight: well, just you wait (ocverse: el & quinn)
#281 ripple effect: ripples (ocverse: july & daria)
#282 out of love: the el-question (ocverse: el & quinn)
#283 calling, calling home: mommy issues (ocverse: fia) #!
#284 noticing small things: all those little details (ocverse: mika & gabriel) #!
#285 how it begins: loud lights (ocverse: helena)
#286 anything could happen: any way the wind blows (ocverse: july, mika & aaron)
#287 i can’t stand it: good taste and where to buy it (ocverse: mika & quinn)
#288 loud lie, quiet truth: hard-hitting confessions (ocverse: mika & aaron)
#289 blinding gaze: first impressions (ocverse: fia & helena)
#290 midnight distractions: midnight creature feature (ocverse: mika & gabriel)
#291 stuff of legends: celestial love triangle (ocverse: fia & helena)
#292 paper promises: dear daria (ocverse: daria & fiona)
#293 unbridled rage: burn it down, baby, burn it down (saints row) #!
#294 cursed trio: what's in the cards (ocverse: daria & fiona)
#295 help not wanted: lonesome road (fnv)
#296 before the party's over: men of few words (fnv)
#297 like a weed: the legend of the courier (fnv)
#298 hidden chemistry: mmm... mentats. (fnv) #!
#299 stranger than fiction: something's missing (misc) #!
#300 let me go: shadow-maker (ocverse: daria & fiona)
#301 what happened here: the trouble with eyebots (fnv: courier mags)
#302 talk to me: foreboding silence (ocverse: mika & gabriel)
#303 out of the box: chess pieces (ocverse: fia & helena)
ocverse: 33 fallout: 17 other: 2