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Today's Story-a-Day prompt was for a one-sided conversation. I actually happened to write one earlier, so I went back to a prompt I skipped--a story in a sonnet. Sonnets are beyond my skillset, but I gave it a try. My iambi pentameter game is weak, y'all, and since trying to have it published anywhere would …
I've been writing every day. Here's a story rough draft that is a one side of a conversation in what could be alternate reality. No one has died. Why would you suggest such a thing? If they’d died, there’d be paperwork. Announcements. Isn’t it nice how many of us go away on vacation? It’s so …
Sometimes stories feel like monsters. They take on a life of their own and that life is very big. Some of my Story-a-Day efforts feel more like apparitions, insubstantial, slipping away when I try to get hold of them. Months from now when I look at these stories again, some will still be thrashing about …
I have written every day this month so far. We are only six days in so I'll not get too excited. I can't post anything I wrote today because it would be a spoiler for another manuscript in progress. And I don't want to post all of what I wrote yesterday because I might do …
Story-a-Day May continues. I'm still writing backstory scenes. There is a connection between my published novel and the story I'm writing now. It isn't a clear sequel, but actions taken in by characters in the novel do help bring about the situation in the work-in-progress. I'm reading a book about the artist Joseph Cornell. It …
It's the first of May, Beltane, May Day, the beginning of Story-a-Day. In the past I have posted most of my story efforts. I know the pros and cons of posting them. Honestly, the cons outweigh the pros, except that I like to post them. This time I doing another round of backstory. Well, I …
Will it rain? Next weekend, the Violet Crown Festival pitches its many tents, and the forecast doesn't bode well. Yesterday, the forecast predicted 40% chance of thunder storms. Today, the forecast is at 50%. Even a light drizzle would ruin my art. Paper dislikes humidity last I checked. Of course, I won't be the only …
