Christmas Time is Here!

And that means excessive amounts of food, sugary desserts, cold weather, frosted cars and of course, a familial gathering in the home of my forefathers....which translates to Mom n Dad's house.

So I'll be leaving you all, my little bloggy minions, for several days. Not that you are terribly concerned, I'm sure, because I have this awful habit of not writing on a consistent basis. Well, nuts to me for failing to be consistent. Unless, I'm merely being consistently inconsistent! Ha! Take THAT!!

But in all seriousness, if you are reading this now, I am wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Jolly Boxing Day, if that's what you're in to. Hopefully I will have a Christmas gift for all of you followers when I return, but we shall have to see what I can whip up in a timely fashion. Or a fashioably late time, whichever comes first.

May your days be Merry and Bright, and may all you Christmases be...All Right!

(Snow me no likey...)

-S.

Micro Stories: Finished

A bit late in the game, I suppose, but whatever.

I don't know if the whole micro story idea was a success or not. I'm leaning on not, since I only wrote less than a handful of them on the backs of blank receipts from work. It's amazing what you can do when there are no customers around to interrupt your train of thought.

However, I did realize one thing: I like writing out on those stupid little slips of paper. I don't know why. Somehow, I feel like I can accomplish a lot more on them than with just typing it out on my computer.

So for the past two weeks now or so I've been using said reciepts to work on some other story ideas I've had kicking around in the back of my skull since...God, I don't even know since when...School, maybe? New Hampshire? I don't know. Anyway, there you go. I've successfully worked out a basic pantheon for a fantasy world involved in one story, successfully killed off the hero in another story (this is a good thing; trust me) and also fleshed out a character in a short-ish story I messed about with for a bit.

Who knows? Maybe one or two of these idle themes will yield a novel. And then that novel might sell. And then I might be rich!

But, for now, I've rediscovered writing by hand.

-S.