I love writing these very short stories. The discipline and the challenge is exciting (and they make a nice change from the WIP...)
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
One-page short stories
I love writing these very short stories. The discipline and the challenge is exciting (and they make a nice change from the WIP...)
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Hi Frances
Thanks for posting this. It's part of my new resolution/2010-writing-regime to write at least one short story a month, so this interests me. I've already sent off January's effort to a writing competition, and February's short is almost done so it's good to know there is still an outlet for short fiction...
...And as we're talking about the short stuff, I've recently tweeted about the desire for a Macmillan New Writers anthology, something I've been thinking about for over a year now. Macmillan weren't too keen on pursuing this due to financial considerations, but as an e-book published by this community, I don't see how we could go wrong. It would be a great way of publicising the writers past and present on this imprint, and a good opportunity to flex those short writing skills. I'll talk about it more on Monday and then post something here to stir up interest, but I reckon if most of the Mac New Writers here brought at least one story to the table we would have the makings of a good anthology that we could publish via Stanza which would cover such e-readers as the iphone, ipad and if memory serves, even the Kindle.
A really great idea, Matt! We could do poems too. Why not?
Thanks for posting that, Frances.
Frances, thank you for posting. Matt, I like the idea of an anthology and think we should give it a try.
Will someone please take pictures of Monday's gathering? I sure do wish I could be there.
We will, Ann, we will! But it'll have to be someone other than me otherwise all the heads will be cut off. Any offers?
I'll be bringing a digital camera with me for the afternoon. Should get a few mug-shots of us all for the blog (if the camera works that is!)
Thanks. I'm looking forward to the mugshots.
Frances, you've pulled off the nearly impossble: rounding up authors from all over the country and herding them to one spot on the same day at the same time. Hats off.
Surely Neil's Kindle will take pictures?
Just realised that I didn't mention the anthology thing yesterday at the London meeting. I'll write a blog post this week instead...
http://www. Stories.pk i have visited to this site and found to get the latest short story.
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