Twelve Days of Short Stories

For some reason at the start of November I decided “Wouldn’t it be cool if I tried writing a short story”.

Well I have one in progress.

However, I read somewhere recently that when getting into writing you have to embrace the suck; the idea that you are not good at something when you start. So, what better way to try something out than to challenge yourself to do it multiple times in a short space of time; like an accelerated driving course.

Therefore, I am going to try the ‘Twelve Days of Short Stories’. Not strictly related to the 12 days of Christmas, but kinda.

I will target creating a story every two days, the first on the 1^st, second on the 3^rd, and so on up until the 23^rd of December.

Two days is not long, so I am hoping it will solve my chronic OverThinkingAboutEverythingIWrite-itus. I will not beat myself up if I miss one, but obviously the goal is to do all of them.

For each day I have generated two words using a random generator; the ‘backup’ word hopefully giving me an out if my mind is blank on the first. I also had the crazy idea to target 1^st, 2^nd, or 3^rd person for each story.

This leaves me with the following prompts:

Day	Primary Word	Backup Word	Point of View
1	abundant	benefit	3rd
3	point	ideal	1st
5	piano	snow	3rd
7	north	sound	1st
9	dare	style	3rd
11	link	representative	1st
13	devote	virus	1st
15	grave	brink	1st
17	jam	rib	1st
19	injury	ghost	2nd
21	flat	radical	1st
23	glimpse	reasonable	3rd

Let’s see how I do!

Click on each of the days above to see the story for that day, or Click here to see all of my writing.