Story-a-Day May packs its storytelling wares and leaves us. Now, here we are. June at the door with all its shiny things. When Story-a-Day ends (or NaNoWriMo), I feel exhausted and a little at a loss. Perhaps you know the feeling, after a big event and everything is over and falls quiet and you look …
The Story-a-Day wheels go round and round…
For various reasons (most of them having to do with being my own worst enemy), I've avoided sending out more query letters and stories. I'll be trying to make a change in that regard this summer. Thanks for everyone who supports my efforts. Writing and making art solitary endeavors in some ways, but such things …
Going in Different Directions Isn’t Just for Story-a-Day May
Today's Story-a-Day May prompt was to write about characters wanting to go in different directions. I considered various scenarios--the couple traveling and wanting different destinations, the arguing between friends deciding to stay home or go out, the debate whether the fellowship should go through Moria or over the mountains. Lots of stories have this basic …
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Story-a-Day isn’t over yet…
The Story-a-Day prompt for today was to write about an assembly. Well, I wrote about a gathering of people, but the beginning section, which is the only part I'm sharing, focuses on two characters. The rest of the story, which I'm still working on, has more to say about the crowd. The manager, a long-time …
StoryaDay Madness in 3 Pieces
I am writing every day even if I'm not posting. Most of what I'm writing is unfinished anyway, and I doubt most of it will ever be submitted for publication. But whatever. It's fun writing regardless and sharing things here and there. Here are a few unfinished snippets of things so far. First is a …
Mad May
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 …
Story-a-Day May goes on…
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 …
Story Monster
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 …
The Sixth Day and a Moon
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 …
Day Three Is Here
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 …
Marta Pelrine-Bacon 