I’m taking part in Story a Day May!
I’m normally not a short story writer. In fact, I don’t even like reading them much, unless they’re by an author I love. Even then it’s sort of tough. Basically, by the time I warm up to the characters the story has ended. (I think this may have something to do with relationship styles; I can’t get close to characters immediately anymore than people. Anyhow . . . ) I do think short stories are an important part of a writer’s repertoire, however. So in the interest of developing my technique, I’m going to write a story a day for the entire month of May (“Stop this rhyming now, I mean it!”)
To participate, you don’t have to write every single day—but you need to have some kind of schedule. For instance, I don’t write on Sundays, and I’ll stick to that schedule through the month. The stories can be any length, but need to have a beginning, middle and end. So flash fiction and the like is okay.
I’m brainstorming story ideas today, and I’ll try to work out fully-developed idea sentences for each, but no more. I do better if I have some sort of plan.
