Free Writing Fridays
#011 Your 100 Word Story
Fridays shouldn’t be stressful but the kick-off to a great weekend! Because structure is important, writing your own 100 Word Story is back on Free Writing Fridays!
Whether it’s the start of an adventure with a cliffhanger or a poem needing to be told, you can still just write whatever you desire.
GUIDE
Most Important: Word length is exactly 100 words. I recommend using Google Docs as a scratch pad and go to Tools → Word Count and check the “Display word count while typing”
Genre? Totally up to you. Share a mystery. Give us thrills, chills, and suspense. Or make us shed a tear.
Fiction or non-fiction applies here. This is your blank canvas.
Copy/paste your story in the comments section for others to read. If you post it in your own Substack (highly recommended and encouraged) just share the link in the comments.
A Note on Notes | If you use Substack Notes, click the 🔄 “Restack with a Note” and copy/paste your story as a Note.
New subscriber here--but wanted to stop in and say how fun this is. I love micro fiction, and I admire Kathy Fish and others who are so talented at it. Thank you for this forum to explore our own skills and get writing!
Title: My Idiot Dad
Everything all set up. I signed on the dotted lines. I had become a soldier.
Well, not quite thanks to my idiot dad.
Since I was still in high school, I needed my parents to sign off my recruitment papers. But he refused to do so. Naturally, I was pissed. You’d think 9/11 would have enraged him as much as it did me. He insisted that Iraq had nothing to do with New York.
He didn’t budge, no matter how heated I got. Soon, I dropped the subject.
I didn’t know it at the time, but he saved my life.