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:

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.