The NYCMidnight.com Flash Fiction Challenge continues this weekend. After a month of waiting, the results of the first challenge are out and a new challenge is about to be issued. Several of the writers I’ve gotten to know were very pleased with the way the first challenge went and are excited to get to writing again.
Currently a topic of discussion is the prompt. What genre, setting, and object will we each be writing about this time? What genre is each of the writers hoping to draw?
Personally, I could get excited about several genres. At least I have ideas rattling around in my brain for several.
Science Fiction would be the top of my list, I think. I’d like to explore some of the nuances of what it would be like to live with cybernetic limb replacements.
I think I could roll with a Political Satire, too. I’m a bit of a pot-stirer, and I certainly have a firm grip on American political history. Would be interesting to see what would happen when I put some unlikely people in a room together.
And then I got to thinking less about the genre and more about the object. If I drew a Drama, I could certainly use the object as a “McGuffin” in the story. Some of my favorite books and films use the “object of desire” device to great effect, like The Maltese Falcon or any of the Indiana Jones movies.
A horror or ghost story would probably push me furthest out of my comfort zone, but I appreciate a challenge. Could Ms. Hearts & Flowers pull off something scary? Mmmmmmm…. could be….
Whatever the next writing challenge brings, you can be certain I’ll keep you posted. For now I will try and be a good girl and wait for the prompt at midnight.
Michelle Stinson Ross 