Steemhouse Writing Prompt #2

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What do you see when you look at the cover image of this post? What comes to mind? Pirates? Metal detectors? Archaeologists? Whatever it is, we’re betting it would make a good story.

Last week we posted an advance call for stories based on the picture above. We wanted to give everyone a chance to think about it, draft something up, and get some feedback from friends and other writers before our official prompt. Well...it’s time! We sure hope you have those stories queued up.

Deadline for being featured in the compilation post (like this one) is two weeks from today, which will be (UPDATED!) February 14.

There is no requirement to resteem or upvote this post. Nonetheless, feel free to tell others about it, on and off the Steem platform. We’d love to start a wave of response to these prompts in writing communities everywhere. For those posting to Steem, however, we encourage you to use the tag #shprompt so that we can find your stories about the image we've shared here and read them.

This isn’t a contest, so there are no rules. Write what you want. Do know, however, that if you would like editorial help before you post to Steem or unbiased feedback after you do, feel free to drop into our Discord Community and chat with our writers. Staff members and editors from Steemhouse Publishing frequent that server and will be happy to talk with you about your work. If someone is not immediately on hand to greet you, leave us a note in Welcome Center and we’ll give you a ping when someone is available.

Steemhouse places great emphasis on writing for publication. That is our focus. We exist to find, nurture, and endorse talent that is commercially viable. However, writing can be fun for everyone, not just those interested in making a career out of it. Writing prompts can be a great way to find inspiration when the muses have been silent for a while. Eventually we intend to host contests with more ambitious goals in mind. But right now, let’s see how many different stories we can spin from a single image, and how many directions we can take them.

If fiction is your thing and you are serious about producing work capable of competing in the mainstream publishing industry, we hope you participate in this prompt as well. It’s a great way to get the creative juices flowing and catch the eye of our acquisition editors. We strongly encourage you to have a look at the Writing ProTips page of our new literary journal. We’ve collected a few articles about the craft of writing and provided links to them there. They are must-read material for anyone hoping to write and submit fiction at the professional level.

cover image courtesy of @elainemoore