All you had to do was say that you wanted participate in the "comment section" and then provide a link back to your story after it was done and posted on your blog. To say that this had changed my writing was an understatement. This "Friday Flash Fiction" thing taught me writing discipline and it changed how I approached writing.
As with the majority of bloggers, JJ gave up blogging and I know that I've almost done the same more times than I can count. Still, I'd like to continue on the Friday Flash Fiction tradition, to give everyone else the same opportunity I had to find their writing voices and the venue for those voices to be heard.
So Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Friday Flash Fiction. Find your inner Bukowski, your hidden Joyce Carol Oates, and the Hammett inside of you that is waiting to bubble to the surface. Make you and everyone else proud, or at least have great time doing it.
P.S. I obviously don't remember the rules exactly as they were, so here they are-
The rules:
You will send in your suggestion for starter sentences anytime during the week up to 12:00 AM PST on Friday.*
If your sentence is not chosen and you feel it is too wonderful not to be chosen, you will send it in again the next week.
You will write an anecdote, short story, or
You may join in at any time prior to the deadline.You will display your story as a post on your own blog.You will be done by Tuesday 9:00 AM PST.*
*Now, I've changed the date and times to accomodate, as well as the length requirements of the poem, yet everything else remains the same.