I may beat my head against the wall before this is all said and written. And you may wonder why anyone would try and write a story a day. What is the point? And you may have a point. Sure. But at the very least, this exercise teaches me something about my writing... and maybe …
Category: Story-a-Day-May
Maybe Behave
A character may behave in any number of ways. Although as the writer I should have final say. Right? Some writers believe characters take control of the story. Other writers are quite sure they've got the characters under their thumb. Or keyboard as the case may be. And sometimes it seems that each type of …
Maybe late than never.
This may be late. Maybe this was not the day I expected. Never expect a particular kind of day. Causes trouble. I've written story number four. You know where it is posted should you be interested in that sort of thing. This story is about romance--or the misuse thereof. Thanks to those of you who …
Maybe No Passion Whatsoever
The world may benefit from my stories...but that's a bit hard to believe, isn't it? Somewhere in my subconscious must be the belief that sharing what comes out of my head is a good and interesting thing. What evidence is there for this grandiose thinking? The rejection letter received today reads: "Thank you so much …
Maybe There Are Ghosts
You may believe in ghosts. I've never seen one. My mother thought she might have seen one--although not on the night she spent in the cemetery. Maybe this is why I'm interested in graveyards. My mother spent the night in one, and how many people can say that about their mother? Now my mother dead, …
Maybe for 31 Days
May begins. Maybe I can't do what I set out to do. Well, what I set out to do is be a published & read author. There are too many factors beyond my control for that. More immediately, I've set out to blog every day and write a short story too. During the month I'll …
Every Damn Day
May is about to fall over and crush me flat. It's good to see the future! Anyway, I will participate in Story-a-Day May, and to add a dash of extra madness (because really, whenever you do anything, a dash of extra madness is good) I'll be trying National Blog Posting Month too! The topic (for …
The Reading World
La-di-da-la-di-di. In a teeny-tiny way I'm publishing something. No agent! Just wordpress. Ah wordpress, letting the rabble speak. Anyway, I've fussed with my fiction blog--The Imaginary Lake--and added a few fairy tales from last year's Story-a-Day challenge. Read something if you've a mind to. And that is all for now, lovely reading world.
Shred everything!
Sometimes I have destructive impulses. You? Often when I share my writing with others, I want to yank the work from their hands screaming a loud melodramatic No! I take it back. This is silly, but knowing it is silly doesn't make my stomach settle. And still, I offer to share. Here's the idea. Come …
Like I was saying…
I'm going to do Story-a-Day-May. Last year, I wrote a series of stories under the title The Fairy Tale Asylum. The working title this year--Graveyard Girls and The Enchanted Dead: Their Stories. We shall see where it goes. Why even do such a thing? I've done NaNoWriMo too, and these challenges beg the question-why? Why …
Marta Bacon 