Tuesday morning. Six-word science fiction November 7, 2006
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Slate Magazine invited science fiction, fantasy and horror writers to submit a 6-word story. You can read them here. They’re pretty good. (The first one on the list is by William Shatner. My favorite is by Margaret Atwood.)
I found the link on Ursula Le Guin’s website There’s some good stuff there about the writing process.
And speaking of the writing process, I’m over 6,000 words. Not caught up but making headway. Am having to fight the temptation to throw out everything I’ve written so far and start anew. This is partly because I think what I’ve done so far is kind of dull, and also because I (everyone?) always have my best ideas while I’m working on something else. I think my solution will be to add a second, parallel narrative to augment the original story. The setting is a small town in the mountains, and the secondary story will be written from the point of view of the woods watching the story unfold.
Actually, I like that idea. Maybe I can have thinking animals.
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Wow, good for you! You’ve caught up a lot.
I’m not a “real” writer and just have fun with my site, so I’m not comfortable saying much about the process but I’ll try.
I do a lot of daydreaming in my bathtub and occasionally an idea comes to me then. For the most part though I just wing it with Merryville. I rarely know what I am going to write until I start. I sit down and write it off the top of my head and it takes on a life of it’s own. “Course in away I suppose that is sort of the same thing. The ideas come just from the “doing” of it. With crafting it’s very much about one idea inspiring another idea and then another, almost in a manic way. That doesn’t happen for me with writing. I only think one post at a time. Maybe over time ideas would develop for Mrs. Goodman or Lucinda Battle if I wrote more Your post reminds me of English classes where I was taught to start with an outline of what you want to accomplish and then “flesh” it out from there. Ha…now if I could only remember what I was taught about punctuation and grammar!
I’m so proud of you Liisa. You’ve accomplished a lot already!
I’m checking up on you.
How many words are you up to now?