I was first introduced to this idea on Jeffrey Callison's Sacramento NPR radio interview show called Insight. He interviewed Jason Sinclair Long about his blog "Flash Fiction 365". You can hear the interview here.
The challenge is to write a micro-story each day. The length of the story is determined by throwing a pair of dice, preferably of different colors. One color represents the tens digit and the other the ones digit. So the story can be from 11 to 66 words. Of course some lengths are left out using this method. You could also use one die and throw it twice. Or use a die with 8 sides. Or you can do what I did and create a random number generator in Excel. This method doesn't miss any of the numbers. Mine will return a random number between 11 and 99. I am happy to share the formula if you email me.
The title is not part of the word count. Most word processors have a word count function that is very useful. You can start with a title or add it later or you can have someone suggest a title. Even though the original idea is to write a story, I plan to include poetry and perhaps essay.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Story: 9
Words: 48
With homage to Vidna Obmana & Steve Roach on the CD InnerZone
(Click "My Blips" under Sites on the left to hear it.)
Title: At the Edge of Everything
Liquid light filtering through endless space/time
Flipping on the switch of consciousness
Pulling at itself
Holding its essence in
Then releasing in waves of awareness
Finding particles
Assembling matter into living song
Singing now the life forces
Ever to evolve that consciousness
Never to cease
Always the Sheppard
Words: 48
With homage to Vidna Obmana & Steve Roach on the CD InnerZone
(Click "My Blips" under Sites on the left to hear it.)
Title: At the Edge of Everything
Liquid light filtering through endless space/time
Flipping on the switch of consciousness
Pulling at itself
Holding its essence in
Then releasing in waves of awareness
Finding particles
Assembling matter into living song
Singing now the life forces
Ever to evolve that consciousness
Never to cease
Always the Sheppard
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....filtering...
ReplyDeleteFlipping on...
pulling at itself...
holding its...
...releasing...
Finding...
Assembling...
Singing...
...evolve...
Al, this is really "hot" up to this point. Did you (perhaps would you?) consider reintroducing "light" into the last line or 2 in some way that might integrate the "ever," "never," "always" concepts with the "filtering," "flipping," etc. processes?