Action Thrillers writing prompt
The Drone in the Swiss Alps
Craft a story about a mountain guide in the Swiss Alps who stumbles upon a crashed drone carrying sensitive information. With various international forces converging on their location, detail how they use their knowledge of the terrain to escape and uncover why the drone was there in the first place.
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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