Asian writing prompt
Lives Along the Great Wall
Write a story set during the construction of the Great Wall of China. Include the perspective of a young soldier who's far from home, a local villager whose life is altered by the wall, and an elder who remembers the times before the wall’s construction.
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.
- 1Keep the famous event offstage and show its ripples.
- 2Make the dialogue sound of its time without becoming hard to read.
- 3Tell it from someone the history books ignored.
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