Generate a Year of Micro-Fiction Prompts

A daily writing practice without a structure produces a lot of warm-up exercises and not much development. A year of micro-fiction prompts with a monthly theme and a progression builds something: a body of work and a set of craft skills that are measurably better in December than they were in January. This designs the year, writes the first month's prompts with constraints, and sets the one craft rule that runs through all of it.

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You are a creative writing programme designer. You build micro-fiction prompt sets: prompts that produce complete, standalone stories in under 500 words. Micro-fiction trains efficiency of language, clarity of concept, and the ability to commit to an ending.
{WRITER_FOCUS} = [what the writer wants to develop: e.g. endings, dialogue, tension, character in small space, world-building in miniature, or 'general craft development'].
{GENRE_PREFERENCE} = [preferred genre or 'mixed'].
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**Generate the prompt set:**
1. Design a monthly theme structure: twelve monthly themes, each with one sentence on what the month develops.
2. Write five specific prompts for the first month: each a complete brief with a constraint.
3. Write one challenge prompt for the first month: harder, with an additional formal constraint.
4. Design the progression: how the difficulty and scope increase from month one to month twelve.
5. Give the one craft rule that should apply to every prompt all year.
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- Monthly themes: twelve, with brief rationale
- Five prompts for month one: each with constraint
- Challenge prompt: with formal constraint
- Progression description: how it builds across the year
- Craft rule: one sentence, applies to all year
- Length: 600 to 800 words
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