Weekly Writing Challenge
Last week's winners: Well, there was only one entrant, and I think greywulf deserves a big heap of cool points for the extreme thoroughness of his entry. That said, I'd argue that horribly graphic violence does belong on the set of Big Brother.
This week's challenge: Since I'm doing NaNo (and many of you are, too) I thought this might be a good way to alleviate some tensions. Write a short passage about a frustrated writer. Bonus points if it's based on a true story.
This week's challenge: Since I'm doing NaNo (and many of you are, too) I thought this might be a good way to alleviate some tensions. Write a short passage about a frustrated writer. Bonus points if it's based on a true story.
3 Comments:
Heh. You're right, violence does belong on Big Brother. Any TV executive who thinks another Big Brother clone is a good idea should have their entrails removed by a blind man on a pogo stick using a chainsaw.
You know how it is though; sometimes an idea strikes and it just won't let go until you write it down. Consider my cool points duely docked :)
I'm abstaining from this week's challenge - firstly, I'm in the middle of NaNo. Secondly, and somewhat eerily, I'm already writing about a writer in a three-part short story on my blog. Part one is here.
Next time.........promise :)
She turned the eggs over as she thought of a new story line for the children's novel she was writing.
"Hmm, how about an anxious bird who is being told how to live his life?"
She quickly moved towards the computer, and wrote down the first few words of her story.
"You can easily illustrate this one." she said as Karen got out her crayons, eagerly grabbing the mellow yellow.
A few minutes later, the story was finished and illustrated. The eggs were over easy and she sat down to read the entertainment section of the newspaper.
"Arghhh!" she cried as she ripped the page in half, arguing to herself that her bird was a canary.
I have a great opening line. It's really worthy of continued reading, and I've got a general outline after my grand opening. Unfortunately, it's the middle part of this story that's not written that's getting to me.
My friend, the writer, wants me to write a story about him. He thinks I can reveal to him the secrets of his life. He emailed me a brief three page curriculum vitae and life adventure synopsis for ideas. But I didn't ask him for it. I didn't ask for the project.
And now he's totally got me stressed out about even starting the story. There's a lot of presure here.
So I'm stuck on the first line.
It's a heck-of-a first line, too.
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