Jumping for Joy
I started a new project!I've been doing writing practice for almost a week now - choosing a prompt out of a bag every day and then writing a page or more on each random topic. I got the prompts from the Writer's Digest website, printed them, cut them and put them in a paper bag. It is my new ritual to take a prompt out every night before sleeping and read it, then place it neatly inside my notebook to be written about the next day. This way I hope during the night it will sink in and a seed of an idea will begin to germinate somewhere in my subconscious, before I tackle the writing project the next day.
Anyhow, that's a great project but not the one I want to tell you about today... the one I'm so excited about.
While doing morning pages, I had an inspiration to get established as a children's writer by creating stories for magazines before submitting my longer manuscripts. I've had one children's story published in a magazine - but that was years ago. I want a current list of published stories. So my new project is to write a story every week for a year. I made a chart to record 52 stories, the dates started, revised, and submitted.
I started on my first story today. Well, it isn't really my first-ever story - I've written many before - but it is the first of these 52. I started by researching on the internet for information on things that concern kids. Almost right away I found some good ideas... placed them in a compelling situation, and my story unfolded in my mind and outline. I'm excited about it because I think this is a story that works... and it is half written. I just love it when I make progress.
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