Still Alive (and Writing)

Gah... it's been a tough week for ideas. I usually try to post these "process posts" by Wednesday or Thursday, but this week, I was having a lot of trouble coming up with an idea. I went fishing for ideas, asking my parents and the people at my Ceramics table and friends in other classes... and I still couldn't find an idea I liked. Eventually, a suitable idea came to me as I was falling asleep. It wasn't very fleshed out but I knew I could make something of it. This was it - setting: bachelorette party. Event: the cops come.

It took me a while to figure out just what I was going to do with that idea. By now, I think I've got a fairly good plotline. I was going to write a kind of mystery story, but it's turning out to be more like romance. Ah, that's life, what can I say. ;)

So... for the usual details... genre romance/mystery, there's a bachelorette party involved, and the police. It should be a pretty light-hearted piece, but we'll see. :)

Also, a quick note on Wordle - thanks for the advice! I think I'll start doing it every fifth story or perhaps every month. (We're into my second month now!) So this week's story, you'll see the first Wordle!

Next Story

Hello! I'm here with my next story idea. I've decided that it's time for me to write some nonfiction - in this case, a memoir. I've decided to do a slightly comic scene from my life - this time when my family and I travelled to Scotland and it seemed like everything that could go wrong went wrong. Even at the time, we thought it was funny, so hopefully this Sunday's story will be a nice relief from the apocalypse of last week's story!

On a different topic, I'm thinking about using this cool site called Wordle to make "art" for my stories. Basically, I would copy and paste my story and it would have all the words I used the most frequently in an artistic arrangement. I might do that for every five stories I write or something, just to liven things up and have a cover art of sorts. Any thoughts?