The Daily Feed Challenge...
This is revisiting an idea I first had at the end of March. It's a challenge to get my creative juices flowing, and to force me to come up with new ideas.
I subscribe to a number of news feeds which I check periodically throughout the day (bear with me, there is a point to this...). In March I came up with the idea of selecting one item from the news feeds, and writing a short story based on, or inspired by, the story. For various reasons (laziness, procrastination, bright shiny objects distracting my attention...) I never actually got round to doing it.
And now back to the blog title... I am setting myself the challenge I came up with in March. Over the next 7 days, starting tomorrow, I will select an item from the news feeds and try to come up with a short story based on it.
I work best with structure, so here are some rules:
And the challenge starts tomorrow, Thursday 7 June.
I subscribe to a number of news feeds which I check periodically throughout the day (bear with me, there is a point to this...). In March I came up with the idea of selecting one item from the news feeds, and writing a short story based on, or inspired by, the story. For various reasons (laziness, procrastination, bright shiny objects distracting my attention...) I never actually got round to doing it.
And now back to the blog title... I am setting myself the challenge I came up with in March. Over the next 7 days, starting tomorrow, I will select an item from the news feeds and try to come up with a short story based on it.
I work best with structure, so here are some rules:
- Stories must be posted before midnight in order to count for that day.
- Word count is limited to 1000 words. Keeps them short, and encourages economy of language - make sure every word counts!
- All source stories to be credited, so you can tell what the inspiration was.
- If I miss a day, for any reason, then you can slap me...
And the challenge starts tomorrow, Thursday 7 June.
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