It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, so I though that I might use this arena as a place to discuss this year’s ‘thing-a-day’ project.\u00a0 Today is the sixth of the way there mark; sixty-one days of writing between 100 and 1024 characters every single day.\u00a0 Already I am finding it to be both more and less challenging than the daily portrait project, but despite that I am loveing every moment of it.\u00a0 Not only is there the creation \/ creative aspect of it, but there is the ability to use fiction to bare my soul a little; sometimes very obviously, and sometimes in much more subtle ways, and then there is the discourse that is wonderful and more often than not prompted by stories that I least expect!<\/p>\n
I have been working to a pattern over the last sixty-one days, and although I am going to work out the week in this vein, I am then going to free myself to be more flexible and more creative with what I do.\u00a0 Up until now the Saturday of each week (day one of each week if you will) has been a first person narration that sounds believeably my voice, and then the other six days have all been third person episodes, each beginning with a name.\u00a0 As I have revealed already to people who have asked, this was entirely calculated.\u00a0 Although I am still very much learning my craft here, I am comfortable with the first person narration that my Saturday pieces have used.\u00a0 It is relatively easy for me to imagine a scenario that has either happened or might happen in my life and drop into the character of a narrator who is seventy percent ‘me’ and and just go from there.\u00a0 In fact the novel I have been working on for far too long now is written very much in that vein, and so when embarking on this new project I wanted to ‘keep my hand in’ with that ‘voice’, but not simply fall back on it as a way to easily hit my daily quota.\u00a0 Instead I wanted to force myself to do something that I am not comfortable with, and that was and still is to write in the third person about other characters, a fairly traditional floating, omniscient voice that knows the hearts and minds of the people that populate the stories that it tells.\u00a0 I have really enjoyed writing this way, far more than I expected to, and although I think that I am still better at first person narration I have found a pleasure in writing in this other way that I never expected to be able to harness.<\/p>\n
The problem is that I can sense that this is going to become dull if I drag it out for too long; dull for me and perhaps more importantly dull for my readers.\u00a0 So I have decided to remove the restrictions that I had placed on my daily writing as of this coming Sunday, and introduce two new ideas to the project and return to another old one, as a way of keeping things fresh.<\/p>\n
First of all I would like to ask you, my readers, to challenge me each week by suggesting:<\/p>\n
in time for me to write a Ficlet<\/a> on each Thursday that will incorporate all three.\u00a0 I will put the call out on Monday at some point, and will then put up a poll on Wednesday so that you can choose the ‘package’ that will be the bones of Thursday’s Ficlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n Secondly, I am going to write Monday’s Ficlet<\/a> by choosing something to write about from either the Wikipedia ‘on this day in history’ page, or the daily page on the same site.<\/p>\n Thirdly I am going to go back to writing a story based on, or inspired by a photograph from Flickr<\/a> that is on there under the same license as Ficlets<\/a> are published under.\u00a0 If you find a cool picture on Flickr<\/a> that you think I would like, or that you’d like to see what I will do with it, then please feel free to email me a link (address is on my LJ profile page, or you can use the email link on this blog, on the About Page<\/a>), or leave me a comment on one of my blogs, or send me a Twitter<\/a> Tweet or an SMS or whatever, and I will start a list of photos that I am going to work through.<\/p>\n So, thanks to everyone who has commented on LJ<\/a>, Ficlets<\/a>, or to my face for your feedback and support, and having got to milestone number one I am feeling more confident that I can see this project through as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, so I though that I might use this arena as a place to discuss this year’s ‘thing-a-day’ project.\u00a0 Today is the sixth of the way there mark; sixty-one days of writing between 100 and 1024 characters every single day.\u00a0 Already I am finding it to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ficlets","category-fiction","tag-365ficlets","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wrUK-g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techno-mage.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}