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.
Here is mine for the night crowd - "The Catch" - https://buckw.substack.com/p/the-catch?sd=pf
Title: "The End of the World"
For Adam, it all happened so quickly. A blinding flash of light, a shaking of the earth; and before he knew it, he was in the rubbles of his apartment.
After climbing out of the wreckage of his old home, he saw the ruins of his entire town. It was the end of the world.
For the next few days, he searched for survivors but couldn’t find any. All he found were corpses, if not outright skeletons.
Adam sighed, tears in his eyes. It may be the end of the world, but it was not the end of his world.