So a whole bunch of the folks on my LiveJournal friends list are doing this "NaNoWriMo" thing... National Novel Writing Month, where they dedicate themselves to writing a whole novel during the month of November. Interesting idea, but I know I don't have a novel in me.
But I was thinking, why not try a variation on it? A thirty-word story, made up one word at a time. So this will be my National Short Story Writing Month, or "NaShoStoWriMo" for unweildily short. I will try, each day, to write one new word in this short story. I have a general idea of the first three words, but I'm open to new ideas as the days go by, so I have no idea where this story will end up. Perhaps there will be drama and humor; perhaps there will be sadness and joy; perhaps I will come up with something which makes no sense at all. But I'm going to try.
"Suddenly"
See, right there I've set some expectations: You know that this is a moment of change.
davidh
one reply:
I loved your idea for National Short Story Writing Month and I had to laugh out loud when I read that you were not writing short stories - plural this month - nor were you using the whole month to writes, edit and fine tune a short story. The one word a day idea. FANTASTIC. Really we are all to busy for much more - so why not admit it and move on. I am doing NaBloPoMo and I forgot, was too lazy to post on day 2. So I skipped that day.
Michelle () (link) - November 05 '07, 18:47