100 Words Fiction Exercise: Story of a Word

This is Tony’s Prompt:
Look up the etymology of any word you like.  Write the story of that word.  100 words.

Fiction on the Map

The 21 Steps is told by following the story as it unfolds across a map of the world. Follow the trail by clicking on the link at the bottom of each bubble.

Fiction Exercise #1: 200-Word Sudden Fiction

Write a sudden fiction in exactly 200 words following these rules:
1.  A one-scene story that takes place on a dock.
2.  Characters:  a pilot and a runner, strangers to one another
3.  A second-person narrator
4.  Circumstance:  They’ve both lost something

For Fiction Writers

I have created a new menu item on the lefthand sidebar: “For Fiction Writers” with links to some helpful sites. Please add via comments! What are your favorite online fiction sites?
Also, I have listed all of your presentation dates up on the presentation tab.

Updates–Fiction Syllabus Online

You can now find UNIT THREE  in the menu above, including examples from your tutors terrific. Please make sure you read through the page and let me know if you have any questions.
Also, I have steadily been adding to our Places Readers Go list on the upper left sidebar. Please add more sites [...]

Syllabus Update

I’ve added the reading for Thursday, Tuesday and next Wednesday to the unit overview. Make sure you consult the unit plan itself for details.
Also, I will be giving you a fun assignment over break having to do with stranger studies spun into 200-word flash fictions, and some reading. I’ll post the fiction syllabus [...]