I'm putting the finishing touches on the final story of my 14-day story challenge, and will have it posted to my writing forum some time before the day is over. I can't believe I managed to write a short story every day for 14 days straight! And I averaged over 1800 words written per day, which for me is a stellar number. Of course, the obvious question then becomes, "If you've done all this writing, why are there no stories posted here for week two?" And the answer to that is that a funny thing happened in week two -- the ideas I had for my stories were really, really good (at least, I think so).
In contrast, I have to fully admit that the stories I wrote for week one, while some of them aren't bad (I was especially happy with Day 1's story), at the end of the day they're basically throwaway stories. They were nice little creative exercises that forced me to push my creativity (and my daily word count), but beyond that I have no desire to do anything further with them. They are what they are, and we move on.
When I finished Day 8's story, however, I realized that I loved the concept of the story, and the possible bigger world of that story. The rest of week 2's stories all tied into this same narrative, and as I wrote them, all kinds of ideas for expanding them further came to me (including possibly writing a novella/novel based on this story world).
Because of this, I decided I'm going to sit on these stories until I've had time to really develop them and rework them into something really worth reading -- possibly even publishable (which you certainly can't do when you've only got a 1-day turnaround to get them written, edited, and posted). So stay tuned to this space for further updates as that story develops! And I'll likely post other short stories as I come up with them, or other updates of one sort or another.
If anyone out there's actually reading this silly little blog, if you have any ideas for things you'd like to see here, feel free to drop me a comment!
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