Grab a cuppa and a comfy seat, and let’s chat a while.
It’s Monday again – time for Coffee and Conversation.
When I was six, my family was driving on a highway late at night. Streaks of headlights and taillights painted the dark. For the first time, I realized that each car held people living lives as important to them as mine was to me.
I wanted to know what those lives were, and to share my own...
After you achieve a long-term goal, do you take time to celebrate your accomplishment? Do you reflect upon its meaning? Do you find that it’s changed you in some way?
Hooray! Confetti Time! =D
It’s been over two weeks now since I completed the Story a Day May Challenge, and I’ve been rereading, pondering, and growing as a result of having undertaken this project.
Participating in this challenge stretched me, in several ways:
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I wrote in different voices and points of view than I typically do. I wrote to musical prompts, word lists, and images.
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I got to play with two beloved characters, and their story netted me almost 70,000 new words.
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I discovered several amazing writers.
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I have a new passion for reading others’ Enterprise fan fiction, and this is feeding my imagination, adding to the stories I created.
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I got to indulge myself and my imagination.
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I found that I was not only capable of following the prompts and my own framework, but that the results were often unexpected and better than I’d thought they could be.
So, in celebration, I offer, a little belatedly, the StoryFest. I missed the “official” window, because I was away, but I can still share these stories, for your enjoyment.
And, hey, why I’m sharing, here’s, “The Logic of Emotion” one of my own favorites from my Story A Day WIP, The IDIC Romance.
Do you participate in organized creative challenges? How do you benefit from the experience? Pull up a chair, enjoy your cuppa, and let’s converse!
