Or at least I think that's what it would be called. I'm not entirely sure if there's already a phrase for it, or if what I'm proposing is new.
Also, I'd like to apologize if this seems rushed or haphazardly put together. That's because it is. I'm currently at work, typing this out on a galaxy s3 that I've had since s3's were new. Hopefully I'll be able to fix it up later. I just wanted to get it up now while I worked myself up enough to ask for help.
For the past few months I've been doing this daily exercise were I take a writing prompt and use it to create a short story, usually ranging from 500-1,000 words, in 15-30 minutes. I call them tiny tales. Now, I'll be the first to admit none of them are anywhere near perfect when first finished, but I feel many have enough potential to be openly shown online after editing. Problem is there are a lot of them, and if I take my time to edit(which I'm terrible at and will get to in a minute) I'll never get be able to finish them all.
Ultimately, I would like to be able to write, and edit a single story, under 2000 words long on a daily basis. How this done is the problem. What I've been thinking is maybe some kind of section system might work.
It would be something like that.
Day 1: Do writing Prompt(1)
Day 2: Reread Writing Prompt (1)
Day 3: Take a break from working on (1) but make notes
Day 4: First, rough draft (1), incorporating notes
Day 5: Polish(Fix grammar)
This would work like a conveyor belt and a different part of a different story would be done each day.
I like this idea because I don't spend a whole lot of time working on a single story everyday, but it might not work because its never a good idea to keep splitting attention from one work to another.
As far as editing goes, I've got a lot of the basics down, I think. My only real problem is I never know when a story is ready. For every story I've ever thought I've finished with editing I find myself coming up with things to add or change weeks later.
Also, I'd like to apologize if this seems rushed or haphazardly put together. That's because it is. I'm currently at work, typing this out on a galaxy s3 that I've had since s3's were new. Hopefully I'll be able to fix it up later. I just wanted to get it up now while I worked myself up enough to ask for help.
For the past few months I've been doing this daily exercise were I take a writing prompt and use it to create a short story, usually ranging from 500-1,000 words, in 15-30 minutes. I call them tiny tales. Now, I'll be the first to admit none of them are anywhere near perfect when first finished, but I feel many have enough potential to be openly shown online after editing. Problem is there are a lot of them, and if I take my time to edit(which I'm terrible at and will get to in a minute) I'll never get be able to finish them all.
Ultimately, I would like to be able to write, and edit a single story, under 2000 words long on a daily basis. How this done is the problem. What I've been thinking is maybe some kind of section system might work.
It would be something like that.
Day 1: Do writing Prompt(1)
Day 2: Reread Writing Prompt (1)
Day 3: Take a break from working on (1) but make notes
Day 4: First, rough draft (1), incorporating notes
Day 5: Polish(Fix grammar)
This would work like a conveyor belt and a different part of a different story would be done each day.
I like this idea because I don't spend a whole lot of time working on a single story everyday, but it might not work because its never a good idea to keep splitting attention from one work to another.
As far as editing goes, I've got a lot of the basics down, I think. My only real problem is I never know when a story is ready. For every story I've ever thought I've finished with editing I find myself coming up with things to add or change weeks later.