Thanks! I didn't go into it really expecting to hit 50K by the end of the month, so I was ecstatic when it happened. :D
You could make a point of posting a drabble or ficlet every 30th...
Something shortish, anyway. [nod] I don't do drabbles -- short-short fiction is incredibly difficult to do well and that's really not where my literary strengths lie. I think my shortest piece so far was "Soap," and that one mostly worked because of the funny. :) That was... [runs and counts] 263 words. "The Next Morning" was 404 and then I think it jumps up to "Heat" at 900. Everything else has been longer. I have to specifically get a story idea that's workable at <1000, you know? It's hard to squash a plot down into that tiny a box and still have the story be enjoyable. [laugh/flail] I've never been able to say, "Hey, I think I'll write something really incredibly short tonight." :P
But with a whole month I should be able to do a short story, right? Yeah, that should work. [ponder]
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Thanks! I didn't go into it really expecting to hit 50K by the end of the month, so I was ecstatic when it happened. :D
You could make a point of posting a drabble or ficlet every 30th...
Something shortish, anyway. [nod] I don't do drabbles -- short-short fiction is incredibly difficult to do well and that's really not where my literary strengths lie. I think my shortest piece so far was "Soap," and that one mostly worked because of the funny. :) That was... [runs and counts] 263 words. "The Next Morning" was 404 and then I think it jumps up to "Heat" at 900. Everything else has been longer. I have to specifically get a story idea that's workable at <1000, you know? It's hard to squash a plot down into that tiny a box and still have the story be enjoyable. [laugh/flail] I've never been able to say, "Hey, I think I'll write something really incredibly short tonight." :P
But with a whole month I should be able to do a short story, right? Yeah, that should work. [ponder]
Angie