#Tenfor2018 An introduction, and a prompt.

It’s been a long while since I last wrote any short stories, and I was pretty sure I would never write any again. I felt defeated, deflated, scraped out. All my imagination was rust flakes and bird droppings.

But I’m feeling better, and I’ve decided to set myself a little challenge of one short piece a month. If you’d like to join in, don’t feel shy, and don’t feel obligated to do every prompt. Write whatever suits, be it poetry or prose, fanfic, flash pieces, longer works, serious or comedic, whatever. This isn’t school. This is just a bunch of people gently writing again.

My prompt for March is this image of British artist Su Blackwell’s, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Cottage. I chose it for three reasons. Blackwell sculpts with paper, and I loved the connection between my medium and hers, and for the image of the light, warning of danger, but also warmly comforting in the dark. And finally, for the cottage. The safe place, small and encircled, the island in the waves.

I hope you see something in it that fills your word well.

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Cottage – Su Blackwell

If you decide to join in, you can share your progress, ideas, triumphs etc on twitter. I’m using the hashtag #10for2018 to keep track of the project.