Sometimes its hard to write.
Even when you want to.
Even when you’ve started a story.
Maybe your story wanders off the point and you get lost in the mushy middle. Or maybe your story immediately wants to become a novel. Perhaps you get interrupted and lose your mojo.
I’d love to hear from you. What happened last time you started a story and didn’t finish? What stalled you last time you sat down to write and couldn’t.
Leave a comment here and let’s get a discussion going about what goes wrong and what we can do about that.
I’m more interested in a Story a Day.
Obviously show don’t tell. Show is less boring.
Polishing one story is not of interest to me. Quantity rather than quality is where my interest is currently.
The last time I sat down to write without having words to put down was during poem a day when I tried to write a second poem after 10:30 pm. Since all my other poems were cranked out at about 4:30 am I was unsurprised at total blanking later in the day.
That one month for poems was the first I’ve ever written poems. Words in non-poem writings generally fall all over themselves getting through the keyboard.
I was looking for a challenge similar to the poem a day. Crank ’em out.
Luckily for you, I packaged all the prompts from this May’s Challenge (The 15th Anniversary challenge) and put them together for you here.
You can go through this version of the challenge starting any day you like. You can do the prompts in the order I suggest or jump around. Have fun!