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Weekend Adventures
Friday started out South Austin style. After work, I met up with Jon at Barton Springs for some swimming, sunning, and writing flash fiction. Then we went for a late lunch at Taco Xpress. Delicious tacos, queso, and agua fresca. I love working across the street from this place. After chilling out at home for…
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Story a Day Report for May 6th
Title: None Word Count: Not sure, as I wrote by hand today, but probably around 400 words Genre: Flash fiction Total Time: 30 minutes Comments: Another uninspired day, but at least I got words down. Looking forward to having unlimited time on the weekend to write.
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Story a Day Report for May 5th
Title: Untitled Genre: Flash fiction Word Count: 156 words Total Time: 10 minutes Comments: I wrote this piece for another one of Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction challenges, but I’m not sure it’s going to get posted. The muse has really not been around this week. I keep writing because I committed to writing, but so far…
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Story a Day Report for May 4th
Title: My Best Friend Word Count: Not sure. I typed this by hand. I’m going to guess around 500. Total Time: 40 minutes Genre: Mainstream Comments: Still struggling to get words out this week. My friend’s death has me in a bit of a funk. Still, I’m pushing through and working. I love the idea in the story, I just…
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Story a Day Report for May 3rd
Title: None Word Count: 1,001 Total Time: 1.5 hours Genre: Horror Comments: I don’t hate this one. It’s a pretty complete piece. I need to flesh out a bit of narrative in the middle, but it doesn’t have the huge gaps that are in my stories from the first two days. It’s not great, but I’m also a beginning horror…
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Story-A-Day Report: Day 2
Title: None Word Count: 1,122 Total Time: Didn’t keep track. It was a busy day with bad news (see below), so I just took it 100 words at a time in between phone calls, errands, and other things. I’m going to say 3 hours, but it was 3 hours laced with distractions. Obviously. Because I can…
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Story a Day Report for May 1st
Story Title: None Word Count: 5,300 Total Time: 6 hours, 15 minutes (though I imagine it might have been a little less, as that whole presidential announcement proved to be quite a distraction). Genre: Personal alternate history Comments: It has a beginning, middle, and end, but it’s not complete. There are brackets where sections need…
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Find me at the Story-a-Day Website
Participating in Story-a-Day? Feel free to check out my profile at the site and add me as a friend. Of course, I’ll be blogging about my progress here, but I’ll be doing brief updates and such as the site as well. Looking forward to seeing your stories this coming month!
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Another flash fiction challenge
Chuck Wendig is hosting another flash fiction challenge at his blog. This time, we’re limited to three sentences. Untitled “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The student chucked the textbook across the room and went to the…
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One Week Until Story-A-Day!
I’m looking forward to doing Story-A-Day again this year (and hopefully, not getting so far behind 3/4 of the way through that I almost give up). I already have more than enough prompts to get me through the month, too. I currently have 43 ideas, titles, or other inspirational notes to keep me going. So…