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I’ve been considering starting a masochistic little writing project. I will spend 52 weeks writing short stories. One story each week. I’d be lying, if I said this wasn’t inspired in part by Jonathon Coulton’s “Thing a Week” project to record 52 songs over the span of a year. Also, a cursory Google search shows that some people have beaten me to the idea. Despite the idea’s unoriginality, I’m really itching to do more writing than I do now, and this seems like a good excuse. I’ll write a story and post it by 12:00 AM Monday of each week.

Of course, I have tried something like this in the past. I’ve competed in NaNoWriMo three times., and failed three times running.^[1] Still, a short story a week, no set minimum length, might be a bit easier, volume-wise. I can just toss off a little bit of flash fiction in weeks where I’m running behind, but I’d like my stuff to have some substance. I figure I can reward myself with something if this works, but I need one really good carrot. I’m thinking treating myself to a steak dinner at a good restaurant would be a fine reward.

To this end, I’ve set up a subdomain on the site. When I start this project (should happen soon), I’ll post the link and a snazzy logo, like I did with 30 Minutes With the Lights Off. I’m gunning for having the site up by April 1st, and the first story by April 2nd, with any luck. If I have to, though, I’ll simply bump the start back by a week.

Wish me luck.

1. The most I ever managed to churn out was about 11,000 words out of the 50,000 needed. Not good. ↩