What happens when the villain wins?

Sick of dashing debonairs? Fed up of being blinded by shining armor?

Sometimes, all a girl wants is a villain for a hero. The Rebel Diaries is looking for stories starring characters with a dubious shade of morals. We want characters who aren’t afraid of getting what they want, causing a bit of chaos, dabbling in mischief, and mayhem and slathering on the sarcasm.

We want stories that slip into the grey areas, and are bulging with villains, deviants and rebels. We’re after sassy tales littered with questionable morals and happy endings—for the villains anyway.  

We are not looking for horror or gratuitous violence but dark stories that are fun, light hearted explorations of the characters usually hidden in obscurity. 

We actively encourage submissions from own voices, characters or authors with disabilities or from underrepresented backgrounds, LGBTQ+ etc.

Submission deadline: June 30th, 2021

Word count: 2,500–7,500 words.

Payment: royalty split 

For all the submission criteria, information and to submit your story, please visit sachablack.co.uk/rebelsubmissions  

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Of course, the challenges wouldn’t have worked if it wasn’t for the dedication of you guys. I wanted to thank you so much to everyone for participating. Especially those who either joined in every single challenge, or who joined in the majority, there are plenty of you and I can’t name everyone but a few thank yous to:

Ritu, Judy, Willow, Reena, Pens, You Can Always Start Now, LadyLeeManila, Neel, and Jane.

I love reading your entries and I wish that I could continue to run this challenge. But as you know, some weeks ago, I had to stop the weekly round ups. As a full time worker bee, I only get a couple of hours an evening to write, so I took the sad decision to stop the round ups as sometimes they would take 3 or 4 hours to do. I think this was the right decision because it’s meant I’ve ended this year having published three books and with a fourth nearing completion of it’s first draft.

After nearly five years of prompts, I’ve decided not to continue the writespiration series on a weekly basis. I started them because I wanted to join in, and because I wanted to read others work and be a part of the community. While that much remains true, I would like to read more of your novels so I can support you by leaving reviews. About half the books I’ve read this year were written by Indies, and I intend to continue that trend into 2018.

I’ve also decided to publish a writing prompts/writers ‘unblocking’ book. While I can’t continue the weekly prompts, I can turn my knowledge of writing, prompts, inspiration, how to keep those words pumping out ‘know how’ as well as tips on how ‘not’ to get blocked into a novel. So I will. But more on that another time.

So this is it. It’s not good bye, but it is ta-ta for now.

Thank you all, so much for such a wonderful year of prompts, flash and 52 words.

As always your, final challenge is to write your story in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

Submit your entries in the comments (which are open) or on a blog post and use a ping back.

This week share the last 52 words you wrote on your current WIP.

So long, and thanks for all the words :p

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Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

Submit your entries in the comments or on a blog post and I post them the following week with the new prompt. You have until Sunday to enter.

Write about the night you spent in a cemetery 

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Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

Submit your entries in the comments or on a blog post and I post them the following week with the new prompt. You have until Sunday to enter.

Write about how Santa ended up on the naughty list.

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Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

Submit your entries in the comments or on a blog post and I post them the following week with the new prompt. You have until Sunday to enter.

This week I want you to write about what lays behind a waterfall.

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Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

Submit your entries in the comments or on a blog post and I post them the following week with the new prompt. You have until Sunday to enter.

This week I want you to write a story including these words:

jugs, bamboo, nostril and frozen.

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Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

Submit your entries in the comments or on a blog post and I post them the following week with the new prompt. You have until Sunday to enter.

This week your story needs to include the following phrase:

“I don’t believe you.”

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Hilarious – that awkward moment you realize you left the content totally blank in a writing prompt. FAIL.

Let’s put it down to launch week chaos, thanks to Ritu for noticing! and with that in mind… let’s use the prompt

THE LAUNCH

Remember only use 52 words! And although the comments aren’t open at the moment, you should be able to use a pingback.

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Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

Submit your entries in the comments or on a blog post and I post them the following week with the new prompt. You have until Sunday to enter.

Write a day in the life of a pair of shoes – your protagonist IS the shoes.

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Your challenge is to write your story using the weekly theme/prompt and write it in just 52 words…. EXACTLY, no more, no less.

Submit your entries in the comments or on a blog post and I post them the following week with the new prompt. You have until Sunday to enter.

This week I want you to write about the day you accidentally squeezed someone’s boob!

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