Archive for July, 2011
And, a week after we started, the stars aligned, the ancient gods awoke, the Druids once more rose and fell as a people, the seas did churn blood, and COAFPM scored 50 sales. Which means, the first incentive is unlocked. Time to send out a postcard.
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Time to ruminate frothily on the rigors of the present as it is to be a writer in 2011. See, things are different for the writer these days. It’s a brave new world full of great reward and buzzsaw peril — step correctly and you’ll have laurels heaped upon your head, but step poorly and you’ll find your balls cut off with a garden trowel.
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And now, Google+ (or Google-Plus or G+ or GP or GooPloo or Guh-Pluh or whatever it is we’ll eventually call it) is here, once more stepping into the arena as the master of order, as the scion of sanity, clean and white and elegant as an Apple store. I am here to say: Lo, I am underwhelmed.
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You know the story. You have 1000 words. Fiction. Any genre. And you’ve got one week to write it out. From Friday to Friday, another flash fiction challenge here at terribleminds. This week? Look at the photo. Write a story based on what you see.
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I think I can be upfront and say that Will Hindmarch, though he describes himself as a “mooncalf,” is pretty farking awesome and I’m happy to call him friend and cohort. He’s a freelance penmonkey such as myself, crawling through the trenches, chucking word grenades and getting blood on his face as good as anybody.
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