In Today’s Journal
* The Bradbury Challenge Report
* One Update on Chapter 5
* Of Interest
The Bradbury Challenge Report
Participating in any challenge is a great way to have fun and grow as a writer.
The requirement is to write at least one short story per week, then let me know the title, word count, and genre per the format below. During the past week, the following writers wrote these new stories:
- Erin Donoho “A Country Respite” 800 historical sketch
- Balázs Jámbor “Without” 3842 Thriller
- Vanessa V. Kilmer “Still. Life.” 3157 fantasy
- Christopher Ridge “The Memory Photo” 1827 fantasy
- Christopher Ridge “The killing Room” 1825 Transgressive horror
- Christopher Ridge 1100 “Henry” horror
- Christopher Ridge 852 “The Cardinal” horror
- Christopher Ridge 581 “Waiting” literary
- Christopher Ridge 2340 “Coming home” horror
- Christopher Ridge 1502 “Household Chores” Transgressive horror
- KC Riggs “Maya Meyer” 1179 general fiction
- Dave Taylor (flu)
As you can see, Chris Ridge is still kickin’ his May Story-a-Day challenge. If you want to join him, email me. (I invited Chris to send info on every story he writes, so we’re keeping up with both the Bradbury Challenge and Chris’ Story-a-Day-in-May Challenge.)
Congratulations to all of these writers, and we hope Dave is recovered soon.
One Update on Chapter 5
Welp, I no sooner said there would probably be no updates to the Author Intrusion book than a writer and friend emailed this delightful little gem applicable to “These Are Not Tag Line Verbs” in Chapter 5, Part 3:
“And there’s Ring Lardner’s famous ‘Shut up,’ he explained.
“I checked and it’s from The Young Immigrunts, Chapter 10. The line’s meant to be funny with poor punctuation and spelling.
“In context it reads: ‘Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly.
Shut up he explained.”
Hmm. This is also an example of a great writer committing errors intentionally to cause a direct (comedic) effect on the reader. More on that in the final chapter of the book, which I expect to post on Sunday.
Thanks, GV.
Back tomorrow with Chapter 6, Part 1.
Of Interest
An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction Fascinating, and maybe revealing.