Working it Out

So I had a couple of methods to my madness last week. The first of which is that I wanted to play with microfiction a bit (stories with a 500 or less word count) and I wanted to see if I could make the reader feel what the character was feeling within the constriction of that word count. I wanted to see if I could take a totally benign road trip and turn into the terrifying snapshot it became when she realized that it was she and her daughter against the mountain. I don’t know if I succeeded or not, but it was sort of fun to do.

I think I’m finding myself slowly picking apart different pieces of writing fiction in an effort to figure them out. As I told a friend the other day, I need to figure out how I work before I get to work. So I’ve been playing. With words and different formats and structures within storytelling. Playing with a different range of characters and telling their stories from different points of view. I’m trying very hard to not look at the results as a success or failure, but rather what fits with me and my voice and what doesn’t. What gets across the point my characters are trying to make and what doesn’t. Basically, I’m just trying to figure out how I work and what my voice sounds like. So thanks for hanging in with me as I flail about in the process of figuring all of this out.

And thank you for the recent influx of comments! I cannot tell you how much it means to me to get comments on here.

So I’ll see you again tomorrow with a new story.