FAQ:

Does #Sunthing have a theme?

Yes and no.

#Sunthing was loosely inspired by my study of Oulipo-writing. Unlike most twitter prompts, which provide a particular word to include in your writing, #Sunthing is intended to provide interesting and unusual writing restrictions. This could be anything from avoiding a certain letter to writing without dialogue, from mimicking a favourite author’s style to including a pun or wordplay. Then again, one week it might simply be an ordinary prompt word, just to keep you on your toes.

Really, the only rule is that each prompt will strive to be in some way unusual, unorthodox and unpredictable.

So what is this “Oulipo” thing?

Oulipo is short for Ouvroir De Littérature Potentielle, roughly translated as the “workshop of potential literature”.
Founded in 1960, it is a group of mainly French-speaking writers and mathematicians who create works using constrained writing techniques.

Constraints are used as a means of triggering ideas and inspiration. Some of the most famous examples include Perec's “story-making machine”, which he used in the construction of Life A User's Manual, and lipograms, used in Perec's novel A Void.

When can I write #Sunthing pieces?

Prompts will be posted every Sunday, but you are more than welcome to use that prompt all week, or even use a different week’s prompt if you’d like.

You’re 250Fiction, right? Does that mean all #Sunthing posts have to be below 250 characters?
Not at all! #Sunthing is an entirely separate project. It’s only restrictions are the ones posted each Sunday as part of the prompt.

@250Fiction will still only post and retweet material of 250 characters or less, but @SunthingPrompts is free to retweet anything.

So I can write prose or poetry for this?
Absolutely! Or any other kind of creative writing you’d enjoy. Unless, of course, the week’s prompt happens to restrict the form.

What if I still have more questions?
You can send me a private message on @SunthingPrompts, or on @250Fiction, or ask the question in the Flashfiction and Micropoetry Discord Server “The Write Place”: https://discord.gg/VrcgF9z