new writing challenge – bookends
Kids!
ooh, so many cool bookends in the world, maybe we'll have different ones each week?
With the winding up of Midweek Missed Connections and the hiatus of some other weekly writing challenges, here is a new one for you. If people like it, we’ll carry on for a while. It’s called Bookends. Here’s the idea.
Each Monday we will get a starting and an ending sentence or phrase for a story which should be 500-750 words long. Story due linked here or on Twitter @caseydamnmorgan by 9am eastern time Friday (leaving plenty of time for Flash Fiction Friday!). After all the brief fiction, I thought it would be fun to see what comes out in a longer setting. So, not quite “flash” fiction, but a longer story held between the bookends of Monday and Friday, and a beginning and ending sentence. Game?
Bookends #1:
The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind.
He slept like a rock or a man that’s dead.
With thanks to Wallace Stevens and Langston Hughes. As for which is the opening and which is the closing, you will have to decide. Spread the word and have fun!
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:50 am
Late as usual I am. My try at a horror story. now I cant sleep.
This was an interesting exercise. It was very difficult for me to do my usual thing. The phrases themselves drove the story, but in a different way that I usually write.
But, as Ang said once, they aren’t all supposed to be easy. Thanks for the challenge.
Tom