Microfic or Project 365?
I have a friend who wants me to write a book. A book! This person keeps insisting I have a book inside me, that everything I love — every story, every song — wouldn't exist had somebody not put nose to grindstone and written it down.
I dot my life with narratives in my head — is that neurotic? — but I don't think in book-length; I think in microfic. (My Flashshot will be here through 7/16. The author bio is obviously outdated; I was accepted for publication in April and it's just now rolling through.) Truth be told, I'm an editor through and through. I get my kicks away from the spotlight (and I'm double happy if MS Excel is involved). I won't go so far as to say I'll never try my hand at a book, but I just don't think I'm cut out for it right now.
That said, I'm still not working full-time, so there's no reason why I shouldn't be writing something. I have it down to two options:
Microfiction: Extremely short stories (50, 100 or 150 words, depending on definition)I guess I'll sit on the idea a couple of days and see what strikes my fancy first. Suggestions welcome.
(or)
Project 365: A photo and accompanying narrative each day for a year
posted by Kate at 6:33 PM
Copyright 2001-2009, L.K.C.S. It's MINE, all MINE. If you wanna use it, gimme credit and a link, okies? And don't run with scissors, because you're just going to poke somebody's eye out with that thing. No, really. 
2 Comments:
Project 365 sounds interesting, but painstaking toi me. Of course, me being the nerd who has always had this long story in my head that I STILL haven't completed a final edit on, maybe I'm the wrong person to ask.
Microfic sounds difficult to me too, but again, I seem t be rather long winded when I do write, unless it is on my role play character.
When you "have a book in you," I think you'll know. I think you have an amazing writing ability, and you've got some life events you could pull into the creative stuff longer stories are made of. After all, a book could be fiction, non fiction, anything. I think if you put yourself to it you could. Maybe it's just something to think about?
And I'll stop rambling now!
I second the Project 365 motion. I love your creative slant with pictures!
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