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The two opposing themes for this week’s Flash Face Off are: DEEDS vs WORDS
Use the prompts below and/or the theme to write – in any way that inspires you. And remember – flash doesn’t have to be dark and traumatic to be effective.
Pick a side. (Or write about both!)
Pick an image and/or a quote, or more than one, or a mix of both.
It is tooootally up to you, so long as your writing has some kind of connection to this week’s themes and is no longer than 500 words. We only ask that you stick to a maximum of two stories. When you post a story it will go into a queue to be checked for all relevant content warnings before it goes live.
You have until midday on Thursday 30th June to think, write, and post up your story to our Flash Face Off forums.
PLEASE make good use of these workshopping forums to offer feedback to others, receive feedback on your own story, and tweak/edit as much as you like. This really is the absolute best way to develop your writing (and it’s a really nice way to be part of your writing community).
We’ll be picking a handful of stories to be read on our live Flash Face Off online event at 8pm on Friday so will get in touch with authors on Friday afternoon to sort out logistics.
And that’s it! Enough preamble. Roll out the prompts!
DEEDS vs WORDS
Be militant in your own way! Those of you who can break windows, break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property…do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion. Take me if you dare!
— Emmeline Pankhurst
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
A Deed knocks first at Thought
And then — it knocks at Will —
That is the manufacturing spot
And Will at Home and well
— Emily Dickinson, Deed
That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
