New Options!

Just added a new friend to my feed (we found each other via Twitter - Hi ann_mcn!) and noticed that LJ has a bunch of neat new options. Like "contact me thru X if "this LJ User" does Y" and I was all o_0 because that's AMAZING.

Because of this, and my laziness in not wanting to learn all the ins and outs over on WordPress, I'm going to go grab the stuff I wrote there and put it over here. Basically about 7-8 posts of me writing Flash Fiction based off of a slew of Word of the Day sites. My own personal Micro Story Challenge. Loved all of it. It exhausted me and made me sad because I was eventually overwhelmed by workplace work and bits of drama, and I REALLY ENJOYED the writing.

That same feeling is what pulled back the reins on my enthusiasm to continue submitting my poetry out there, regardless of all the positive feedback I was getting in my "we need to reject you for now, because your stuff doesn't fit the theme we're going for this time around, even though I really liked your stuff" rejection emails.

I think I'm in a mild doldrums state this hour because I was up at 4:30 this morning and in by 6:30 to work nine hours today, in order to finish up the rest of a bunch of quarter-end reports that I worked 11 hours on yesterday. Plus, I must mention the fact that - due to some pesky uterine fibroids - I was suffering from extremely painful cramps yesterday and moderately painful cramps today. What fun!

Deep breaths scallywags, today's tale has been told. And to think, I almost used "reigns." *horrified look*

Flash Fiction - In Aggregate

Below is the series of posts that I made - after going through the trouble of figuring out how to move my entire journal over - when I was in a really good writing groove. As I mentioned in the post just prior to this one, I've decided to stick with LJ. The devil I know, eh? I'll likely do regular back-up transfers over to the other blog, just in case, but do the original postings here.

As you can see from some of the timestamps I include in the Post Date titles, I was working a long day, then coming home and (after beginning each story in the evening) I would find myself unable to go to rest and sleep until I had purged my mind of the story that had been bubbling in my subconscious all day. Further, I would gather my "offerings" in the morning, upon first arriving at work, because the tabs in my browser would open to my Word of the Day (WOTD) websites.

I welcome any constructive criticism on my writing, both that contained in this post, and anything else you have access in my blog. Though I admit most of my posts prior to 2009 are of the more usual journal fare. Of course, my memory might be faulty. You'll only know if you go wandering through and do some background reading. Don't mind the large section that's been time-locked until I've come to terms with the experiences the posts describe.

You might want to keep this post handy and read each of the below micro stories on their own, over a number of days. Or when you're going to be doing a variety of chores about the home, where every time you take a break you read a story nibble. What I'm trying to get at is - there's A LOT of writing below the cut. The beginning of each post is delineated with a blue title, followed by anything that appeared in the post - the only changes I've made are to some of the visual editor elements in order to make the text more easily read by giving it a consistent style.

Okay then. Enough with the preamble. It was starting to feel like an Evil Scientist Monologue.
( Grab your popcorn mateys, it's showtime! )

All caught up now. Woooooooooo!