While enjoying my first cigarette of the morning today, looking out on my back yard with its frost-covered multi-colored ground cover of leaves, I had an idea. Fiction Fridays. I’ve always enjoyed flash fiction, both writing and reading it, and not only is it a great format to stir up the creative juices, it is also a perfect format for a blog!
Flash fiction is fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category. Some self-described markets for flash fiction impose caps as low as 300, while others consider stories as long as 1000 words to be flash fiction.
So, as a way to force myself back into the world of fiction, every Friday I will post a short (or not-so-short, if I so choose) piece of fiction. This may be in addition to my normal journaling philosophical blathering, or it may stand alone. I will probably use writing prompts at least to start out, and many of my beginning efforts will probably suck. But, as my favorite inspiring writer (Mur Lafferty) says, “It’s okay to suck.” As I continue this journey, I will suck less and less, and more importantly I’ll be writing more and more.
Now that I’ve figured out the link feature (not that it’s that difficult, but yay! I have links in my posts now!) I’m going to work on figuring out categories and tags. Categories won’t be difficult – but tags…holy crap I really don’t know how to tag my posts! How do you choose what words to tag with? How do you know when to stop? Why do *I* have to do the work to tag my posts???
