Tomorrow is my birthday, and I've decided to mark the
occasion by starting a new writing project. For the next year I will be writing
and posting a new piece of flash fiction every day. I'll be calling it 365
stories, because I'm not good at naming things. I'll also be tagging them
#365stories.
I'll be posting the stories over on my tumblr page,
brendanhykes.tumblr.com, and I'll be archiving them here on my blog, I haven't
decided how often. Weekly? Monthly? We'll see. Probably weekly.
The point of the project is simply to get me writing
something new every day. There's no set length or anything like that, they
could be as short as a few paragraphs or as long as a few pages. People who are
better than me at writing every day will think "A few paragraphs a day?
That's nothing!" and people who are very bad at writing every day might be
having sympathetic panic attacks.
I don't know if anything further will come from any of
these. I'm sure I'll like some of the stories enough to expand on them, turn
them into longer stories, or comics, or other things. I don't intend to stick
to any specific genre or style. The point is just to get the writing done,
whatever it happens to be. I'll still be doing the normal writing every day as
well, depending on what I'm working on.
The problem that I'm having is that if I have a specific
script that I'm working on, I'll work on that steadily, every day, until it's
done. If I don't have a specific project, I find it much harder to get any
writing done. I'm hoping this will alleviate that problem.
Full disclosure, I'm expecting some major life events to
occur over the next 365 days, so I have made some preparations to make this
process a bit easier. For one I have a list of about 400 prompts that I've been
compiling over the past few weeks, just in case I have a hard time getting
moving on a story. For two, I do have about five stories sitting in a folder,
just as back-up in case something happens and it's absolutely impossible for me
to get a story down. By that I mean things like a serious injury or something
like that. And if I happen to write two stories in a day, I won't have a
problem adding the second to the back-up folder. So yeah, I'm cheating. A
little.
Still, 365 stories. Every day.
In other news, I'll be at Nittanycon in State College on Mar
30. You can follow them on twitter @nittanycon for any info. I'm also tentatively
attending Cleveland Pop Culture Expo, May 16-18. There are a few others I'm
thinking about, but haven't made any plans yet, I'll post here when I do.
Also, Anonymous Nancy is still available on comiXology! Go
check it out if you haven't, it's only a dollar!
As always, I can be found on twitter @brendanhykes, and
tumblr at brendanhykes.tumblr.com
That is all. See you tomorrow, bright and early, for the
first edition of #365stories!
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