The Premise Of This Blog
The Premise
I like to write. But most of my writing is technical writing, instructional writing, competition math problem writing, or sermon writing.
I would like to do some "just for fun" fictional writing, but I never seem to find time for it. So I decided that the "Fifteen Minutes" blog would be the perfect place to find time and make time to write "just for fun".
The title of the blog is "Fifteen Minutes", because I won't take more than fifteen minutes to write any given entry. Which means I probably won't spend much time doing proofreading.
I remember reading once that John and Terry Talbot, for a period of a year or two, wrote a song per day. Mostly they just sat down, scribbled out words and music, and nine times out of ten just chucked it in the trash when they were done. But the point was, they were getting lots of practice.
So, even though I'm not committing to once per day (or even once per week!) I think the premise is good. Sharpen the wits, explore the imagination, get ideas down, recognizing that they may not be great ideas or well written, but at least they are sharpening skills!
The Rules
I like to write. But most of my writing is technical writing, instructional writing, competition math problem writing, or sermon writing.
I would like to do some "just for fun" fictional writing, but I never seem to find time for it. So I decided that the "Fifteen Minutes" blog would be the perfect place to find time and make time to write "just for fun".
The title of the blog is "Fifteen Minutes", because I won't take more than fifteen minutes to write any given entry. Which means I probably won't spend much time doing proofreading.
I remember reading once that John and Terry Talbot, for a period of a year or two, wrote a song per day. Mostly they just sat down, scribbled out words and music, and nine times out of ten just chucked it in the trash when they were done. But the point was, they were getting lots of practice.
So, even though I'm not committing to once per day (or even once per week!) I think the premise is good. Sharpen the wits, explore the imagination, get ideas down, recognizing that they may not be great ideas or well written, but at least they are sharpening skills!
The Rules
- Every entry (discounting this one) will be fictional in nature.
- No item will take more than 15 minutes to write. At the end of fifteen minutes, the item gets published (on the writer's honor!).
- In order to promote creativity, "serial" items (sequential items which tell a single story) are not allowed. If I find myself quite interested in a particular story/setting/character I've created, no more than one out of each three posts will relate to that story/setting/character.
- I will vary my writing between descriptive and dialogue, and between a variety of genres, including both poetry and prose, and including science fiction, fantasy, historical...but you probably won't find me writing much romance here!
- I am NOT specifying a frequency with which I will write here.
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