wordwhacker

Written for prompt 213 over at tamingthemuse.

I'd written some of a different, more involved story for this week, but even though I've been picking at it all week, when it came right down to it I couldn't make it happen. It needs SO much fiddling (and even more outlining / backstory planning). So I abandoned it and wrote this one off the cuff in about 45 minutes as a brain exercise. I'm marking it as "flash" and leaving it open because I don't intend to come back to it (and even if I do, it'll be unrecognizeable by the time I'm done.)


( Thin Vineer - flash, 1,103 words )

Written for word 139 over at 15_minute_fic.

Been a while since I've done one of these.


( All I Can Give You - flash, 459 words )

A few other pieces of flash fiction, written for prompts 171, 172 and 173 respectively over at tamingthemuse last year. I must have been SUPER busy when I wrote them, because I have almost no recollection of them at all. Anyway, here they are, preserved digitally for the ages.


( The Point - flash fiction, 550 words )


( Impasse - flash fiction, 631 words )


( Unseeing Eyes - flash fiction, 549 words )

Written for Prompt 198 - Year of the Pig over at tamingthemuse.

Trying to get back into the habit of writing every week. It's... taking some effort. I originally thought that I'd put some serious planning into this week's story, and then suddenly it was 3AM on Saturday and I had four hours left and dwindling patience. So I switched gears and gave myself about half an hour to just WRITE and see what happened.

And this is what happened.


( Horoscope - flash, 947 words )


I have four writing-related goals for next week:


1) Brainstorm, outline, and write the weekly story IN ADVANCE so I can really sink my teeth into it.

2) Write a 15 minute story to flex my "off the cuff" skills.

3) Finish draft 2 of one of the stories I wrote last year.

4) Get a (very rough) draft of the review I'm writing finished.


And then party. Or, y'know, party in and around these things.

Written for Prompt 168: Every Tom, Dick and (insert name here) over at tamingthemuse.

Phew - this has been a busy week. I'm still plugging away at the script, and it's going to be another few days at least, but it's coming. (I'm a slower script writer than I thought. Go figure.) Since there haven't been any prompts lately at 15_minute_fic, I'm kind of glad to devote my weekly tamingthemuse story to something a little less structured. Focusing on description and imagery here, trying to build a story that way.


( A Eulogy in Parked Cars - flash, 537 words )

Written for word 123 over at 15_minute_fic.

I wanted to write something that was heavy on description this week, as a change of pace. So... I did. Yep.


( Wood and Mud - flash, 385 words )

Written for Word #121 over at 15_minute_fic.


( At Least - flash, 469 words )

Written for Word #119 over at 15_minute_fic

( Had Me Going - flash, 343 words )

Written for Word #115 over at 15_minute_fic


( Voyeur - flash, 353 words )

At least once a week, I'm writing a 15 minute piece of fiction in response to a prompt of some kind, usually something from 15_minute_fic. These won't be friends locked. Going to catch up on a few of these now, as well as a couple of longer stories that I've been working on.

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Written for Word #117 over at 15_minute_fic


( Quiet Like the Dead - flash, 349 words )