Currently writing?

[farad]

Hi all -

I have not managed, I regret, to write every day, but I did finish a story and get it posted, so I count that as a win.  I think my average on my days that I write is keeping me at the 100 words a day, as I tend to knock out about a page when I have the time.

I have managed to keep up with the writing on another story that I hope to finish pretty soon (maybe?). 

But I'm really trying to come up with some SHORT pieces.  Any suggestions?

How are y'all doing??  Any thing inspirational going on?

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[solosundance]

I haven't written every day either, but rather in my usual fits-and-starts style which so far is just about keeping me on track pledge-wise.

Still have a number of um.. balls in the air.

And I hear you on short pieces! The only way I seem to produce them is from prompts that catch my attention. There really are a lot of good, unfilled ones on the mag7daybook delicious page. Or maybe some kind of mag7 writing exercise - like 'write the first conversation (between any of them) that took place at the end of x episode', something that would force you to be specific? And heh, would then maybe become a short piece... yeah, clutching at straws here.

[farad]

Chuck Wendig in his terribleminds.com blog posted a challenge yesterday to write the first sentence of a story.

I wrote - well, way more than I needed to.

And they were all Mag 7. I need to couple one of those with a prompt and knock out a something short. SHORT.

SSSSSHHHHOOOORRRRTTTT.

I swear, I have no idea how I manage to get to these monoliths . . .

Which is all to say - YES! YES YES YES! Writing EXERCISES!!!

[randi2204]

Continuing to slog away at things. I haven't managed to write every day, but I force myself (okay, not force, but expect) to make up for the days I don't write, so at least I can stay even with the pledge I made, and not fall (too far) behind. Right now, I'm actually a little ahead! :D

I have started... uh, 4 new things, even though I haven't finished anything else. Story. of. my. life. But at least two of the new pieces promise to be short-ish and will hopefully be finished soon - one of them from a prompt at mag7daybook, so there's that. :)

Prompts from daybook and fic_promptly generally are short for me. There's also comment_fic; I don't go there often, but when fic_promptly was on hiatus a while ago, I started poking around. But I'm not good at knowing if something's going to be short or not just by the prompt. ^^;;;

[farad]

Yea for new stories! And especially - yea for prompt responses! I look forward to them.

I do need to look at the prompts and see. I think I need to target some short fic to clear some of the building 'clutter' of concept and writing idea in my head. I've been doing some professional research which has overlapped with fandom stuff (and OC writing) so I have a lot of bats and birds circling each other in my head. . . .