Australian & Oceanian writing prompt
Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Set your story in Australia during the early 20th century, focusing on the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Follow a character who is an engineer from England brought over to oversee the project, detailing the technological challenges, the interactions with the local workforce, and personal conflicts arising from cultural differences.
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.
- 1End with a choice that history would never record.
- 2Let your character believe something about their world that turned out to be wrong.
- 3Give the hero a rule of the era they have to break.
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