It's the weekend!
I have some writing stuff to do, so I'm glad I'm not away or otherwise occupied this weekend. I signed up for a writing challenge where you have to write a short story of up to 2500 words for each song on an album. As someone who has been quite obsessive about music since I was young, this was a challenge I couldn't pass up! It closes at the end of June, so I have just over 2 months to write my stories - 14, because the record I chose has 14 songs - which is both a very short time and quite a long one when you consider that I usually write a 1000 word story every day.
I have a theme for my stories, and after listening to the record again yesterday, I think I have some ideas for the stories in this loosely connected collection. I'm setting it n a psychiatric hospital and while I initially thought I might write some horror or supernatural stories in that space, the ideas that have come to me are all characters, so I think we're probably looking at a collection of stories about different people in that space.
But, it's early days yet, so that may change as I write.
It means the new novel I was planning to start is kind of on the back burner, but I don't think that's a bad thing because it hasn't really started coming together in my head very well yet. Maybe by the time I finish this other project I will have a better idea.
What are you celebrating this week?
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