I wrote a story the other day that isn’t for the contest but will be in the anthology. (I get to decide stuff like that, what with me being in charge and all.)
I’ll run it tomorrow on the blog, and then Monday I’ll run it with the suggestions from a few of my favorite CPs, telling me what to change.
You can make your suggestions, too, and help decide what stays and what goes!
This is all just a way to get everybody interested in writing their own stories for the contest!
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6 thoughts on “VOODOO: Got A Story yet???”
Still editing … but you’ll “Ghosts of Tupelo” and “Last Stop: Storyville” well before the deadline. I’m excited!
I am not as yet at a point where I can dash off 4 200 words in a day, Dan. It took me the whole day to write 1 000 words for my story but there is a fair bit of research involved which is time consuming.
Hey, 1000 words is great! If every writer would do that, then do 1000 words every day, that’s 365,000 words a year or about 6 books. Most writers would be happy with half that many titles, so no one should feel bad about only writing 3 days a week – if they get 1000 words in when they do, or if they have to build up to 1000 in a day. Either way, we BUILD up to those numbers by working out our writerly muscles.
We’re having this cool writing contest…
Still editing … but you’ll “Ghosts of Tupelo” and “Last Stop: Storyville” well before the deadline. I’m excited!
Apparently I was so excited that I left out the word “have.” How embarrassing.
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Awesome.
I am not as yet at a point where I can dash off 4 200 words in a day, Dan. It took me the whole day to write 1 000 words for my story but there is a fair bit of research involved which is time consuming.
Hey, 1000 words is great! If every writer would do that, then do 1000 words every day, that’s 365,000 words a year or about 6 books. Most writers would be happy with half that many titles, so no one should feel bad about only writing 3 days a week – if they get 1000 words in when they do, or if they have to build up to 1000 in a day. Either way, we BUILD up to those numbers by working out our writerly muscles.