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Daily Shorty Snapshot
It’s going to take me a while to process this experience and catch up on all the pages I owe—a ravenous, demanding beast, this site. For now, some preliminary Daily Shorty stats. 1: Number of times my...
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Celebrating Stephanie!
Stephanie Friedman Last fall my friend Stephanie Friedman joined me for a Daily Shorty week. Finally I’m able to catch up here at Daily Shorty, and I’ve just put up a page celebrating her...
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How is writing a story like a cat?
Or like buying a house? Like moving? How is writing a story like shoveling snow? Tillie and Willa I would like to say that I have been pondering these questions in the last months of 2013, while my...
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A Week of Story for 2014
I couldn’t resist. I’m doing a Daily Shorty week these first 7 days of January. I’ve taken a really long break and it’s time to jump back into my writing world. What better way to do it than to write 7...
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A Day To Bundle Up and Write!
Serious sub-zero weather, today. I had to come back in from shoveling snow after only 45 minutes of fun because I realized that my toes had moved from ordinary uncomfortably cold to really hurting....
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More Brutal Cold, More Disconnect
I think for writers all personal experience inevitably lends itself in some way to our stories but I wonder about things that feel so abstract as landscape and weather. It’s been TOO COLD here in Maine...
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Already a tough one!
I didn’t expect to have to push hard for a story when doing only one week of shorties, but I’m crossing a lot of other things off my list, too, this first week of January, so my energy level is not so...
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Art + Story?
In keeping with my practice during my year of story, I haven’t always blogged a shorty this week on the same day I wrote it, but once I write the post that goes with the shorty, I date it to match the...
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Hint Fiction!
I have heard of “hint fiction” but have never dared to hope that I could write a successful story in fewer than 100 words. I can’t say this little bitty shorty works—it doesn’t. The material is flat....
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First Week of January 2014: Done!
Celebrate my final story of the week with me by feasting on this gorgeous fish sandwich and onion rings. Mmm. Today I learned from my mistake the last two days and prioritized writing, and because I...
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