my plan for story-a-day
March is so close that I hope I won’t even have pre-May anxiety attack because, well, there’s not much of pre-May available.
My plan is not to write 31 actual stories but rather to develop 31 stories-in-my-mind by outlining them in handwriting, in my notebook. I don’t know how detailed these outlines will be but I hope for something that I can salvage a workable quote from so that I can put that quote online.
My plan includes also extensive use of I Ching and Tarot cards for setting and inspiration. The more I plan it the less attractive it feels, but I think that if I don’t have a plan it would be better. Probably figuring out the essence of divination an evening before and writing a story after sleeping on it.
I need this a lot. An easy-going attitude to stories, churning them out speedily and then rewriting them up to snuff. Otherwise, my inner editor takes over and says, if there’s not a novel in it, I don’t see the novelty of it.
Screw you, inner editor. You have a say on everything except my stories during May.
