Just when you make a conscious decision to utilise more of
your time to write, the universe says “I DON’T THINK SO” and slaps overtime in
your face. Sure the money’s great but I’m tired, stressed, missing my wife and
son, and just want to write.
So, no writing lunch breaks this week and several late
finishes mean I haven’t done anywhere near to what I’d hoped. And NaNoWriMo is
just over three weeks away.
Still, the weekend was good and, despite forgetting to put up
two reviews (incoming this weekend) at least I did well Flash Fiction wise.
First I received a Special Mention for one of my two Friday
entries, the dialogue-only NEEDLE IN A
HAYSTACK.
The tale of a bickering married couple, this one was born
from something my wife said with regards to the prompt. I won’t spoil it in
case you fancy reading the stories, but
I will say that I’m glad she pointed me in a direction far outside the box.
I also received a lot of great comments for this piece as
well as my much darker tale WITH THE
FISHES. This took the Politician theme and mixed a little Mafia in with it.
There was a lot of really good competition this week and I’m chuffed to have got my
name up there. Thank you to everyone who left comments. Glad you enjoyed.
Straight off the back of one flash fiction contest I dived straight
into Flash Frenzy and produced the comedic APOCALYPSE.
This had
started out as a tough one due to a photo prompt that challenged more than any
other I had tackled to date. But, as with many of my flash fiction ideas, I was
about to concede when the idea hit me.
I may not have won but I did learn something valuable while
working on this piece; don’t get up at 5am, write something in less than one
hour and then post it online before you’ve had the chance to let another, more
responsible and awake human being view it.
With panics attacks over spelling errors (the title among
them) it was stressful and I ended up having a conversation with myself in the
stories comments section long before any other writers were even awake to read
it. Fortunately, one fellow author seemed to enjoy my published brain fart as
much as the story itself. Hey, if anything I write puts a smile on a person’s
face then that’s good enough for me.
But as I said 348 words ago, I just haven’t had time to do
much else. Even this post is bare bones and merely an update.
Still, there’s plenty to come over the next week and damn the
universe if it thinks it can stand in my way much longer.
So look forward to two more Flash! Friday entries in just two
days’ time. Coming off the back of recent twitter conversations I seem to have
made a name for myself with double entries in four of the last five weeks and I
don’t see it stopping anytime soon.
Then, over the weekend I’ll be posting my reviews for Dean
Koontz’s ‘Deeply
Odd’ and Adam Christopher’s ‘Brisk Money’.
One I loved and one I didn’t but you’ll have to tune in to find out which was
which.
I’ll also be diving back into Flash Frenzy with another 360
word piece that I think I’ll take a little more time over and get someone to
check first. Yes, that sounds like a much better plan.
But before all of that I will be entering another, brand new
flash writing contest tomorrow. Over at David Borrowdale’s Microbookends.com he is starting
a new contest where authors are provided with a first and last word and must
use a photo prompt to fill in the ninety eight between the two. Looking forward
to this.
And that’s about all.
Fingers crossed that normal service will resume next week.
See you in seven.
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