In another thread some of us expressed an interest in attempting to write a short story a week. If there are others who are interested in making the attempt, we could get a group going and give one another support, encouragement and feedback.
For the purposes of the group, a short story is defined as a self-contained story told in under 10,000 words. I won't put a lower limit on it because I think a story can be told in as few as 6 words (like "For sale: baby shoes, never worn", attributed to Hemmingway).
I also think it would be a good idea to have a weekly theme which writers can use to inspire their writing but don't have to, suggested by any member of the group or anyone else.
I think once we've got some members we can use this thread for discussion and use something like Pastebin or Google docs to share our writing, perhaps with some sort of password protection shared only with group members if there are concerns over who can read it (for example, if you plan on selling the story, you don't want it to be freely available to anyone on the internet because that could make trouble regarding first publication rights and exclusivity rights).
Who is interested?
And for anyone wanting to make an immediate start, I'd like to suggest a theme for this week:
Cold
(because the boiler at work has broken down and everyone in the office is sitting in coats and scarves and drinking vast quantities of tea.)
For the purposes of the group, a short story is defined as a self-contained story told in under 10,000 words. I won't put a lower limit on it because I think a story can be told in as few as 6 words (like "For sale: baby shoes, never worn", attributed to Hemmingway).
I also think it would be a good idea to have a weekly theme which writers can use to inspire their writing but don't have to, suggested by any member of the group or anyone else.
I think once we've got some members we can use this thread for discussion and use something like Pastebin or Google docs to share our writing, perhaps with some sort of password protection shared only with group members if there are concerns over who can read it (for example, if you plan on selling the story, you don't want it to be freely available to anyone on the internet because that could make trouble regarding first publication rights and exclusivity rights).
Who is interested?
And for anyone wanting to make an immediate start, I'd like to suggest a theme for this week:
Cold
(because the boiler at work has broken down and everyone in the office is sitting in coats and scarves and drinking vast quantities of tea.)
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