Dystopian writing prompt
The Drone's Secret Footage
The world is divided into zones based on socioeconomic status, heavily surveilled and controlled by drones. One day, your character, a drone technician, finds a lost drone with footage showing a secret meeting between zone leaders plotting an increase in zone restrictions. Faced with moral conflict, decide how your character uses this information.
Suggested length: A short story: 1,500 to 5,000 words, or flash fiction under 1,000
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Three ways to take this prompt somewhere nobody else will.
- 1Raise the stakes from personal to public halfway through.
- 2Open with the threat already in motion, not the setup.
- 3Make the person helping your hero the one to worry about.
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