While working on household activities and immediate money making tasks I'm finding the head space to undertake longer form writing difficult, and even daily posts which have sufficient meaning for me.
To help with the daily posting routine, which I really want to maintain, I'm going to serialise my These United States short stories in @hive-199275.
These are an as yet incomplete sequence of stories where each one is set, or at least rooted, in a state.
At one point I did have a volume of the completed stories available on Kindle, but it was an early attempt at publishing that way and I became dissatisfied with the layout and formatting, as well as a decision to move away from using a nom-de-plume. Shortly after I took it down to address those issues things began to go a bit crazy with the old house and here we are with the book still not back up.
It's on the list of things to do.
What will there be to read?
First up is Delaware. It was the first state to ratify the constitution, so it felt a good place to start. Though the story begins a good spell before there's any inkling of a United States forming. It's definitely a story with fantastical elements.
While SF & Fantasy are my favourite genres, and these stories definitely dip in and out of there, they are not all of that flavour. There's some tragedy, family history, and even some social commentary.
Included is the first story I ever had accepted for publication.
Maybe setting these out will help shake loose the notion to start writing them again.
Some of the stories are nice and short and will be a single post. Others are longer and will be cut up over several days. This includes the first one.
The title of Delaware's story is 'Staying Forever' and is a little over 8,000 words. Depending on how I feel the story breaks that will be probably 5 or 6 days worth of posting.
The beauty of this is freeing me up to write without pressure or focus for those days. So if I write 1,300 words of a story and then realise it's only now at the point where it needs to start, I don't need to worry (this just happened with something I'm writing).
As with my other various extant writing projects, I'll do a curated collection page so that anyone interested can find them all listed together, and for each individual story I'll ensure any parts link to each other.
I hope folks enjoy reading these as much as I enjoyed writing them, and look forward to your feedback.
PS if you're thinking these reset posts come around quite often, yes, they do. It's a chaotic life being me. I need to keep finding ways to reset the now so the future is a focus and not a grey morass of unknowingness.
text by stuartcturnbull. picture created in Canva by stuartcturnbull using a picture commisioned and licensed from Alexis A Hunter
Very nice work plan po! More systematic @stuartcturnbull . Thank you for sharing! God bless you!😁 I come to your post from @dreemport .