“Brevity is the soul of wit,” said Shakespeare.
Or as Marcus T. Cicero (106-43 BC) put it - much requoted by
other writers. “If I had more time, I
would have written a shorter letter.”
I like writing one shots and smaller fics. I often panic
that my word count is too low. I know! *rolls eyes at self*. I will reread
something and be astonished that it is less than two thousand words and yet,
feels so intense. I will receive a chapter update from another writer and it
will be 15k words long and nothing really happens. That’s a massive number of
words for me. I have come to realise that my brevity might be a good thing. The
problem is, of course, that there is a small market for short stories. Most of
my current Smashwords e-books would be considered short stories.
But I do love writing them. And I especially love photo
prompts. They get my muse going. So I was very excited by the truly anonymous twilight
one shot contest. I also liked the anonymity of it. http://ficcontest.info/ They were very clear
that all writers, reviewers and promotions had to be anonymous. I didn’t even
tell anyone I had entered, just to be on the safe side.
I chatted with my beta ruadh sidhe about the prompts and
when she saw the photo prompts she laughed that they had given me too much time
to send in an entry. ‘You will write forty five stories for all the prompts’, she suggested. Yeah, right. I
only wrote thirteen. What would she know…? lol. And oddly, they weren’t the
sexier prompts that people might have expected me to use.
I loaded them all on JBNP and got accused of spamming the
site by one friend, in jest. I have put them here with the caveat that the
images belong to whoever they belong to; I am not claiming them as mine. But
the stories? Those are mine.
The problem is, now everyone wants me to extend them all. Lmao
Reverence
A grieving boy learns the truth of his mother’s death.
Wakeup and smell the coffee Paul Lahote wakes up after another bad night with
the wrong woman in his bed.
Cleanse my Soul
Sam Uley/Bella. They have circled each other for months, since he found her in
the forest. Now something makes Sam go to her.
Wishful thinking
Kim/Jared. What did Kim think when Jared
imprinted on her?
Bought andPaid for Leah/Alcide (from Sookie Stackhouse/true blood world) Leah takes a
job as an escort. An out-of-towner books her for a wedding weekend.
Shattered
Bella is transformed after the birth into a vampire; a real, feral newborn. Jake’s
pov.
Hope springseternal Bella chooses herself and a new, human life after Edward leaves her
in the forest.
Jake’sPiece Bella Cullen on her way to her
Sth American honeymoon, has a plane delay. She wonders what happens to the
piece of her heart that she felt break off; Jake’s piece.
Fightingthe black dog Bella/Jake. He says he
can’t be her friend anymore. She fights her depression black dog; he fights with his own
black dog, Sam.
The C word Embry/Leah - married and happy.
Then have at thee, boy! Seth/Mike
Newton. Seth drops in to visit Bella at work one night.
Guilty ascharged Jake asks Bella to get a
message to Paul in Forks Police station; he’s being held for murder.
Leaving ona jet plane. Jessica Simpson met Seth at Bella’s wedding. She has to leave
to go to College. Her bags are packed.
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