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 09, 2010
Story: 365
Words: 46
Title: Synthia Begins a New Era
Synthia rose early, that is she turned her attention outward, and went to the server farm in the Marsport cloud center. Her masquerade worked and garnered her access to citytrans01 that controlled all transport. She rebooted it with her own program that initiated rescue plan one.
Comment: I thought it fitting to end with a story about Synthia, the synthetic female since I will be writing about her in 2011. It’s a teaser about the trouble that Synthia and Slug Johnson get into and what comes of it.
It has been both a challenge and a pleasure to take on this project and it has given me a renewed interest in writing. So, thanks for reading and watch for developing short stories about Synthia and another about the Spewt, both stories about consciousness. Here’s the link to the blog “Stories of Consciousness”:
http://storiesofconsciousness.blogspot.com/
Words: 46
Title: Synthia Begins a New Era
Synthia rose early, that is she turned her attention outward, and went to the server farm in the Marsport cloud center. Her masquerade worked and garnered her access to citytrans01 that controlled all transport. She rebooted it with her own program that initiated rescue plan one.
Comment: I thought it fitting to end with a story about Synthia, the synthetic female since I will be writing about her in 2011. It’s a teaser about the trouble that Synthia and Slug Johnson get into and what comes of it.
It has been both a challenge and a pleasure to take on this project and it has given me a renewed interest in writing. So, thanks for reading and watch for developing short stories about Synthia and another about the Spewt, both stories about consciousness. Here’s the link to the blog “Stories of Consciousness”:
http://storiesofconsciousness.blogspot.com/
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