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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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Story: 287
Words: 76
Title: The Wave
He knew what a parade was and loved to go to them. This time he was more determined than ever. He could see the floats go buy and began to plot a path through the forest of legs in front of him. There it was, the perfect route. He saw the right float coming and made tracks through the forest and in an instant was at the curb waving to the clown. And he waved back!
Words: 76
Title: The Wave
He knew what a parade was and loved to go to them. This time he was more determined than ever. He could see the floats go buy and began to plot a path through the forest of legs in front of him. There it was, the perfect route. He saw the right float coming and made tracks through the forest and in an instant was at the curb waving to the clown. And he waved back!
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