Today is the start of February's FLASH WEEK.

• We start with a blank sheet of paper.
• For seven days, we pledge our 10 minutes a day to Flash Week.
• We end with a complete flash fiction story of ~900-1200 words.

This month, we are using Dan Harmon's story circles framework to shape our outlines. If you're not familiar, it's a simplified eight-point structure involving a protagonist who descends and returns, changed.

This is still (always) a no-homework podcast! Every episode, we build in ten minutes of time for ourselves to do the assignment, and the assignment is always to write write write. But for this special flash fiction week, rather than using standalone exercises for our kickoff prompts, we will carry our work from Day 1 over to Day 2, etc, all the way through Day 7 and THE END.

Today is Day 1 and today we brainstorm story seeds. As usual your anonymish host is writing along. She's leaning toward writing a piece for one of the markets she highlights in the ep.

You can write to our daily writing prompt, but you could also:

• journal
• brainstorm
• write for your work in progress

All that matters is that you do write and you don't cheat and you don't stop writing until the music comes in.