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Daily Creativity #6 | Flash Contest: Write a Story in Dialogue

Write a story told completely through dialogue.

How do you communicate the differences between characters? How can you make sure that the reader knows what is going on? Can you make action part of natural-sounding speech?

This Daily Creativity prompt is also our first Weekly Flash Contest! We’d love to read your responses to this prompt, so if you are happy with what you write, submit it here by midnight on Friday April 3, 2020, for a chance to get published on our Blog and in our Saturday Newsletter.


If you want some more background on using dialogue to tell a story, take a look at this activity from our Activities pages, and read some of the stories in the archives.