In one sitting.
Beginning, middle and end.
I didn’t know what genre. I didn’t know who would be in it. I just wrote one sentence after the other and I made sure that if I were reading it, I’d want to read on, and that I didn’t include anything unnecessary to the story.
I spent 90 minutes on it and it’s about 2300 words. It’s called “What if? The Unstraightforward Making of Francesca” and it involves a delivery man, and a shoeshop owner … ergh, it sounds a bit like a p0rn storyline. Except it isn’t.
What should I do with it?
Why is this reportable? I’m a writer after all. Yes, a nonfiction writer. And a long-ago fiction writer. Is this a portent?
In any case, I think I might try to bash out a short story every so often (maybe more consistently than ‘so often’, perhaps?) and then edit them into a Chapbook later on. The concept I’m going with is that in each story, another story is referred to, so I will write that story the next time I sit down.
It’s a bit like Hemingway’s trick to stop writing when you know where the story/you’re going next so your subconscious can spend the downtime meditating on it.
Hope you’re writing and creating and doing and being well this wintry wet Cantabrian Monday.