On June 28th, 2007 I began publishing original short stories to this website. I plan on publishing a new short story every fourteen days for an entire year, ending in June of 2008. To return to this page click on the “New Here?” button at the bottom of the green bar that runs along the top of the site.
To see a list of all the short stories, along with brief synopses, in the order that they’ve appeared on this site click here. This is probably a good place to start for complete newbies. This is the same as clicking “Stories” button at the bottom of the green bar.
To see the first few paragraphs of every story at once, with the most recent stories at the top, click here. This method is a little clunky, but I’m sure you’ll get the hang of it. The clunkiness comes from most of the stories having various things at their heads from copyright information to pictures so you have to scroll down a bit to get to the actual start of the stories. This is the same as clicking on the “Stories” category in the category list over on the side of the site.
To read the blog click here. In an attempt to show what a writer goes through while writing I’ve also decided to blog while writing these stories, sometimes about the writing process, sometimes about whatever. This is the same as clicking on the “Blog” button at the bottom of the big green bar.
To read all the blog entries that were written while writing a particular story as well as the story itself and any follow up entries or recaps, click on the story you’re interested in under the “Categories” list on the side of the site.
To read more about this project…well just keep reading:
The basic concept here is simple. On June 28th, 2007 I started writing short stories. The goal in mind is to publish one story every two-weeks for a year while blogging the entire time and letting you in on the process. This is a bold new concept breathtaking in its originality which I basically stole completely from a musician named Jonathan Coulton. Obviously I work in a different medium than Jonathan. He sings, I write. But apart from a few tweaks (time between finished products being a big one), I couldn’t get his idea out of my head. There was a wonderful element of pressure added to his project. Granted, I’ve written a couple of books and a number of short stories, and you always need some internal pressure to do that, a mental deadline to keep you after it. But I never publicly declared those deadlines. This is something very different. And, when you add to that the rather sped up timetable of a story every two weeks (I’m not sure I’ve ever written one in that period of time), well I dismissed the idea as insane at first but, like I said, I couldn’t get it out of my head. And on top of everything else I’ll be posting continuously to let you see behind the scenes. Even as I write this I’m wondering what on earth I’m getting myself into. But here we are.
Really I think that one year ago, or even six months ago, I would have rejected this project outright. It wouldn’t have been the right time for me. Recently I guess maybe I’ve become a little bored with taking my time while I write. I’m curious to see what comes out of me when I’m not allowed to take my time, when I’m forced to scramble. In the end I think that any hits in quality that my stories take will be offset by looking at this entire project as a whole. You know? Yeah, maybe I’ll be churning out stories about mutant crocodiles at some point just to meet the deadline, but the blog adds a different element and the community of readers I hope to cultivate adds another until, yes, looking only at the short stories might make things seem a trifle off, but when you step back and look at the entire landscape being wrought here…well I think it’ll be pretty neat. Mutant crocodiles and all.
jd
Popularity: unranked [?]
Recent Comments