Let’s Play the Story Game!
My mornings are committed to articles and web pages for my web businesses. I have prepared an agenda for revamping some of them and making them profitable. This takes a lot of self-discipline, but I’m making small increments of progress. Yesterday I re-did the Story Game section of my Sharing Library on this site. Do you recall my story game?
See Short Story index for the stories I put up in the past.
It must be at least four to five years ago that I set up a section with a way to trigger ideas for short stories using my Deal-a-Plot cards which I got many years ago when I signed up for a correspondence course in writing. This last week a man contacted me who had been looking for such cards but had never seen them. When I did a search online I found that no one else has them, although some had heard of them. Ah-ha! So I have something unique here!
I’ve decided to revive the game and if you would like to write a short story, I invite you to try. It’s not hard - and it might even make us prolific. I know I need to get more into practice with writing fiction. All my writings seem to be non-fiction these last number of years.
If you go to Story Game you will find the basic rules. 1. You need to subscribe first (if you haven’t already) to this blog/ezine, the RoseBouquet. (I need more subscribers).
2. Using the options from one card out of my deck, you choose one from each category and then write a short story of 150 - 500 words with those ingredients.
Yes, I know, you may have to think for a while! That’s the point!
3. Go back to that page and paste your story into the form, remembering to use your subscription email there as well.
Now, if there is a lot of keen interest and submissions I won’t have time to respond and chat with each writer about their story, so I’m not going to promise that. But when I do find a story I really like and admire I will be in touch to ask for permission to publish it there in my short story collection.
To set a good example, I’m going to try to write a story each month using the ingredients offered, and then I’ll change the ingredients to the things shown on another card.
As hinted on that page, if you can manage a short story with all the right elements and that is a great read with just 150 words I will give you some extra fanfare and rave about you
You will maintain copyright to your story and can publish it anywhere else. I can’t afford to pay at this point, but if I post it on the site, you can tell other editors that it has been published on Ruthes-SecretRoses.com It will look good on your Writing Credits sheet.
Besides all this, let’s have fun!
I’m off to try it right now, and hope I come up with something good enough to place in my Ruthes Roses below. By the way, the really excellent submissions could end up there too! That could be handy when I have an extra busy week. 