New experiment...

Hello, all you readers of the blogosphere!!

I've been thinking lately about the next great writing endeavor that I shall challenge myself to complete, and I was having a tough time of it until a good friend unknowingly supplied the answer. I call it the Lunchtime Ramble, and here's the challenge: fiction writing on a time-budget. 60 minutes a day, 5 days a week, for the next 4 weeks, I write a short-short fiction tale. It can be about anything, taking inspiration from anywhere. These may develop into longer stories and tales, they may not, but once again, the idea here is an exercise in writing on a limited time-budget. It's a skill, and I kinda need to practice it. So that's the challenge.

Now for the audience participation part!! What? - you knew this would be coming along! I need topics. Now, I can supply my own, from things I see and hear to things I might experience first-hand, but why stop there? What if YOU were to supply me with a place to start? Yeah...a writing prompt is what I'm looking for!! So here we go - this is going to kick off on Monday, July 11th, so you have the weekend - if you have a writing prompt, send it to me, post it on here - whatever. If you have an image you want me to use, send it along and I'll see if I can come up with something. No guarantees on that one - and assuming I'll get more than one photo, I GET FINAL SAY ON WHAT PHOTO I USE. So while you're out and about and see anything that makes you wonder how it happened, or what's going to happen next, snap a photo, send it to me, and we'll see what happens!!!

By the way, this will be a LOT more entertaining if you all actually participate (I'm looking at you, biking friends)!!! So send me your photos of beat up cars, of dogs tied to fire hydrants, messy children, and riders with busted knees!! Let's do this thing!!!

Thanks for reading,

The Fat Kid