EXER: Sowing Seeds
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writercises Original posting: March 9, 2019
(Man, short stories, flash fiction, what? Do that in a week? I need to do something else... well, here you go, try sowing seeds!)This is kind of half technique, half exercise. It's based on some ruminations by Misha Burnett (see https://mishaburnett.wordpress.com/2019/02/22/accidental-discoveries/ for more details)Basically the idea is to spend a while, say a week or a month, developing seeds. A snippet, a scene, a sketch, a bit of dialogue, a little description, an event... Just enough to capture an idea, a spark for later. One a day, although I suppose you can do more than one, if you want. Then set it aside to sprout and grow.Later, next month or so, you can come back and see what you planted. And go ahead and turn it into a full story. Add those characters, fill in the background, whatever it needs.So. Take a break from weekly stories or longer term novels. Spend a while gathering seeds. Then see what kind of a harvest you gather later.(So I could do 6 seeds instead? Sure, why not? Go for it! Just write!)Remember, tomorrow is the deadline for our first 6x6 submissions. Note that tomorrow may depend on just where you live, I’m probably ahead of the calendar for most of you...
(Man, short stories, flash fiction, what? Do that in a week? I need to do something else... well, here you go, try sowing seeds!)This is kind of half technique, half exercise. It's based on some ruminations by Misha Burnett (see https://mishaburnett.wordpress.com/2019/02/22/accidental-discoveries/ for more details)Basically the idea is to spend a while, say a week or a month, developing seeds. A snippet, a scene, a sketch, a bit of dialogue, a little description, an event... Just enough to capture an idea, a spark for later. One a day, although I suppose you can do more than one, if you want. Then set it aside to sprout and grow.Later, next month or so, you can come back and see what you planted. And go ahead and turn it into a full story. Add those characters, fill in the background, whatever it needs.So. Take a break from weekly stories or longer term novels. Spend a while gathering seeds. Then see what kind of a harvest you gather later.(So I could do 6 seeds instead? Sure, why not? Go for it! Just write!)Remember, tomorrow is the deadline for our first 6x6 submissions. Note that tomorrow may depend on just where you live, I’m probably ahead of the calendar for most of you...