Eh...

Life is strange, isn't it? It's either bloody boring or ridiculously stressful. I figure a month or two of stress ought to buy me at least twice that many months of boring, right?

I'm okay, really I am. I know that everything will be fine. I just need to hang in there. Not too hard, right?

For some odd reason I decided today that I'd like to pursue a little short story writing. Online I came across a few short story competitions, both with a nice grand prize. So I thought to myself ,"Why not?". Surely if I've already written seventeen chapters of a full-length novel I can write a 1,500 word short story, right?

It's funny, at first my thought was to just condense one of my many book ideas into a short story. But most of my ideas are bit too broad for a measly 1,500 words. I decided just to stew for a few days, let something come to me. For about an hour I walked around the house thinking "Plot line for short story, plot line for short story." And guess what? It came to me. Just popped into my head out of nowhere. I sat down, grabbed a notebook and pen and wrote for about twenty minutes and that was that. Weird huh?

I'm not convinced it's a winner or anything, it's kind of strange and unlike anything I've ever written before. But I think it could be good. I'm typing it up on my laptop now, figuring out if it needs to be longer or shorter to fit within the required length.

Anyway, just thought I'd share. When it's done I'll definitely be need some readers to give me their opinion on whether or not it's worth submitting.