Story a Day on Robot Foot
July 1, 2008
Several days ago, I ran into Jonathan Murphy, who writes about “hyper-connectivity” and creativity on the blog Robot Foot. I wish we’d gotten to talk more, because the implications of that combination are fascinating, although maddeningly over my head—sure, once upon a time I took some classes about “postmodern culture,” but let’s be honest: the material was limited, I barely passed, and it took a lot of teachers’ office hours to get even that far. So, as someone who’s tried and come up short, I greatly admire Jonathan’s ambitious endeavor to parse our new, more connected world… one artist (or Domino’s Pizza anecdote) at a time.
Turns out Jonathan’s interested in what I’m doing, too. He even made a post about Story a Day, saying that it’s all about “[g]etting the work out there, and making creativity more of an iterative process.” He also says that Story a Day is “…a model for finding your voice online.”
Shucks. That’s exactly the idea, and I couldn’t have said it better myself. At least, not yet.
image: Stephenyears via Robot Foot
I’m on 6S Today
June 12, 2008
Six Sentences is a web (and print) publishing project that provides exposure to new writers who play with the short prose form. Every piece in the 6S scope is six sentences long. I’ve been a reader for several weeks, and the range of styles and material that shows up on the 6S blog is inspiring.
Today, the 6S editors posted six sentences of mine: a fictional thing called “At a Supermarket in Japan,” which I’ve never published to Story a Day. Go read it!
I’ll still get a new story up here later today.
image: Darwin Bell on flickr
Updating automatically the next few days
June 5, 2008
I’m going to be away from computers and telephones from Thursday PM until Monday AM. The next few days’ stories should show up automatically while I’m gone. Over the weekend you should read new stories, link to me in your LiveJournal, spam the bejeezus out of me, and cuss me out about how I don’t know what a bathtub electrocution looks like. Now is the time. I won’t know what hit me! In fact, I dare you.
While I’m away, I’ll be thinking up some new, better stories to post next week.
I’m gonna shut up now, lest Story a Day become a blog. This is a place for short stories. Important, grownup short stories about buttholes and sugar rollercoasters and unicorns.
Thanks for readin’.
Brooke
image: publicinsomniac on flickr
Test post: postdating
June 3, 2008
Hello.
I’m testing the WordPress postdate feature. This was written at 3:24 PM on Monday and should post at 4:00 PM on Tuesday.
image: misterbisson on flickr
EDIT: all right, duly noted, I’m actually not too retarded to postdate my posts. Now, even if I go to the moon, I’ll be able to set the site to update automatically in my absence.
