As a writing exercise I decided to start a short story with a random word. I found a random word generator online and all the only rule is I need to start the story with that word.
My first 3 attempts at this are under the heading "First Words". I will likely continue this exercise incrementally like my poetic series Cryptic by simply adding roman numerals to each iteration.
The lack of work on my novel won't keep me from writing. I won't let it.
In other news, since it is now December I should comment on how NaNoWriMo went...I didn't write anything.
After giving a short explanation to a few fellow authors one day at the library, whom all told me that NaNoWriMo was a waste of time, I decided not to go through with working on "The Elevator" which was my tentative novel idea. I started and completed a project in NaNoWriMo in 2015, (I say completed but I simply hit the 50k requirement) and passed it up in 2016 since I was in England then. This year I had hoped and planned to do it again but after the responses from the others I decided not to pursue it again.
Since August, I haven't worked much on my novel Dreams of Machines. I'm hoping my new reader will give me feedback soon because my progress in hinging on their input. Over the past month I've been reading Dostoevsky again and have writing shorts here and there, mostly on here, to keep my motivated.
My motivation and creative are lacking now that the seasons are changing but hopefully the changes will full some sort of inspiration.
That's why I'm doing the writing exercises. I'm not putting to strict of constraints on myself yet just testing the waters. So no word limits or subject restrictions. I might do that in the future (doubtful).
Anyway, keep an eye out for "First Words" in a few days.
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