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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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Story: 53
Words: 93
Title: Android
GA23 had been in training for about two years. It was time for his first job as household companion to a human male of eccentric character who had more money than the craters on Ganymede. At seventy-five, the human was completely without friends of any sort and so had reached out to an android.
After a month they had found a relationship that had gelled. You see, GA23 had been created as gay as the day was long. The human’s jilted lover, and GA23’s creator, could be heard laughing at the oddest times.
Comment: I know that the verb "to be" is used in this story but I had this idea for a story about a gay android and just had to suspend the use of the dreaded verb for now.
Words: 93
Title: Android
GA23 had been in training for about two years. It was time for his first job as household companion to a human male of eccentric character who had more money than the craters on Ganymede. At seventy-five, the human was completely without friends of any sort and so had reached out to an android.
After a month they had found a relationship that had gelled. You see, GA23 had been created as gay as the day was long. The human’s jilted lover, and GA23’s creator, could be heard laughing at the oddest times.
Comment: I know that the verb "to be" is used in this story but I had this idea for a story about a gay android and just had to suspend the use of the dreaded verb for now.
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