Comments on: Starting over (again)

By: Diane De Lucia

Diane De Lucia — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:00:30 +0000

Write a story, Jeff… a Haiku story even. I enjoy your Tweets.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:29:17 +0000

What happened is I got sidetracked by other things. I have added nearly 2000 words to my Mars novel, though. Still working on finishing that as my top writing priority. I have a bit of computer work to do tonight when I get home, but then my netbook will be set up to write again.

By: me

me — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:40:16 +0000

So you’re two days overdue and no first short.
What happened?

Just post something.
Or write a story in the form of a dialog using Twitter tweets.

Just Do it.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:01:32 +0000

My initial reaction was to say I’m not a short story writer. But then it occurred to me that if I’m going to go back to the beginning, I may as well go all the way back. And I got my start as a storyteller with short stories, but not the way most people do.

When I was a kid of 7 or 8, I used to get pulled out of class and taken to fifth and sixth grade classrooms where I would stand in front of older kids I didn’t know and ad lib fairy tales, complete with morals. Somewhere within me that kid, that creativity, is still there.

Of course, I’m taking a safer, less bold path right now of revising and hopefully finishing my Mars novel, my NaNoWriMo 2006 project which has stayed sans an act 3 at 59,000 words for 3 years now. I’d like to finish the draft at least before NaNo this year, which I will be doing and which will be a completely new idea.

But this short story challenge intrigues me. I might try doing this as well, at least as an exercise.

By: me

me — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:18:02 +0000

Duh.
Here’s a challenge for you.
Write a short story a week for a month.
Post them all here at your blog when completed.
At the end of the month, decide(or let your readers/Twitter followers decide) if there is a charracter you can either add to link all for stories together, or if theres a strong character in one story, can they be worked in to the other 3, possibly in a supporting role.
Your deadline for the first story is next Tuesday at 10am Mtn Time.
Good Luck.

By: Nemo

Nemo — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:51:49 +0000

Here’s another idea. Try wasting less time on Twitter.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:58:19 +0000

It’s about damn time you got out of this funk.