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dejadrewNEW STORY PUBLICATION DAY! Daily Science Fiction has just put up my latest, Seven Reasons Your Blind Date is Staring at the Mysterious Iron Ring on Your Hand.
I went through a period of experimenting with lists in my writing warm ups. I'd take a prompt, and pick a suitably satisfying number, and I'd run through multiple variations on the prompt. The idea was to keep me from getting attached to my first idea, learn to keep things flowing, all that good stuff.
For some reason when I sat down to write reasons why your blind date is staring at your mysterious iron ring, instead of it being seven separate variations on a theme, the entries in the list all started... talking to each other. There were recurring characters, and world building, and it built to something.
I wasn't entirely sure what that something WAS, mind you, and I'm still not. But I'm very proud of it, and I'm glad folks get to read it.
I went through a period of experimenting with lists in my writing warm ups. I'd take a prompt, and pick a suitably satisfying number, and I'd run through multiple variations on the prompt. The idea was to keep me from getting attached to my first idea, learn to keep things flowing, all that good stuff.
For some reason when I sat down to write reasons why your blind date is staring at your mysterious iron ring, instead of it being seven separate variations on a theme, the entries in the list all started... talking to each other. There were recurring characters, and world building, and it built to something.
I wasn't entirely sure what that something WAS, mind you, and I'm still not. But I'm very proud of it, and I'm glad folks get to read it.
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Date: 2021-10-16 10:04 am (UTC)