Twisted August Random Drabble 225

Challenge for Monday, August 12th

Your story must include the twist and the random word.

NEWS BULLETIN: I am awaiting clarification from Writer Support in response to the following email I sent and will post a new notice when I hear back.

Good morning, Support Staff,

As a publisher, I’d like to ask for clarification after the recent round of Paid Program expulsions and reinstatements. (I believe all of my publications’ writers have been reinstated.)

1. I’ve been requiring writers for Fiction Shorts, to add a link to another Fiction Shorts writer’s story that they particularly liked. I ask them to say why they liked it as well. Is this allowed?

2. Because subscriber email gets lost among the many notifications, many of the writers in my three publications have asked their favorite writers to tag them when they publish. My list of people is about 25-ish long. Is that an issue? Should I recommend that writers eliminate this practice?

3. Because everything we publish in Fiction Shorts is a 100-word story based on a random word and twist of the day, most writers have a statement similar to that below. It’s really all about getting credit for the work involved in crafting a story within those parameters. The statements are similar to:

“If you stay on this page for 30 seconds, clap at least once, highlight a passage, and comment, I get paid.

A Drabble is a work of fiction that is exactly 100 words. No more. No less.”

Since I don’t want my writers to trigger their revocation, can you advise on whether this is allowed?

I would be thrilled if you would provide me with clear guidelines on those three things.

Fiction Shorts has close to 400 writers and 5.9k followers, and every writer wants to be on the right side of Medium.

Respectfully,
Nancy Oglesby
@NancyWrites

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