{"id":4664,"date":"2011-03-31T21:16:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T03:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2011-03-31T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T03:18:11","slug":"nashostomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/nashostomo\/","title":{"rendered":"NaShoStoMo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/fearfulsymmetry.net\">Dan Wells<\/a> is taking a page from <a href=\"http:\/\/nanowrimo.org\">NaNoWriMo<\/a> and starting his own writing thing for April, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fearfulsymmetry.net\/?p=965\">NaShoStoMo<\/a>, aka National Short Story Month. \u00a0The rules are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must write 30 all new short stories between April 1st and April 30th.<\/li>\n<li>Each story must have a distinct beginning, middle, and end.<\/li>\n<li>Each story must be at least 200 words.<\/li>\n<li>You may write more than one story per day to make up for lost days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems like an awesome idea, and I&#8217;m going to try it. \u00a0I&#8217;m not much of a short story writer, but I wish I were, because there are some really awesome short stories out there that I admire&#8211;like <a href=\"http:\/\/escapepod.org\/2011\/02\/18\/endosymbiont\/\">Endosymbiont<\/a>, quite possibly the best singularity story that I have ever read (and available for free from <a href=\"http:\/\/escapepod.org\">Escape Pod<\/a>). \u00a0Novels and short stories are different arts, but they&#8217;re both forms of storytelling, so I figure that no matter what happens I&#8217;ll learn something from it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how many of these stories will take place in universes that I&#8217;ve already built, but probably a good number of them will. \u00a0I have a few characters from <em>Bringing Stella Home<\/em> that I would like to do little sketches on, possibly for a later novel, and some things I&#8217;d like to do in the worlds I&#8217;ve already created.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, though, I&#8217;ve got some crazy ideas for standalone stuff that I&#8217;d like to play with, like a crazy awesome dream I had last night that made me \u00a0lie awake just thinking about it for almost an hour.\u00a0 It was <em>insane.<\/em>..but I guess you had to be there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/08751770000_20100414080335308.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4673\" title=\"08751770000_20100414080335308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/08751770000_20100414080335308-83x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/08751770000_20100414080335308-83x300.jpg 83w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/08751770000_20100414080335308.jpeg 164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px\" \/><\/a>In unrelated news, my writer friend <a href=\"http:\/\/myselfaswritten.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie <\/a>got me a thing of sparkling grape juice, for me to open when I celebrate my first major publishing deal (though I suspect another motivation was to make me look like a wino while walking around on BYU campus).<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I was quite surprised&#8211;thanks!\u00a0 I&#8217;ll use it to christen my first yacht that I buy from my multimillion dollar first deal, hehe.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in other totally unrelated news, my other writer friend Laura <a href=\"http:\/\/lachristensen.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">started a blog<\/a>.\u00a0 So go check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Dan Wells is taking a page from NaNoWriMo and starting his own writing thing for April, NaShoStoMo, aka National Short Story Month. \u00a0The rules are as follows: You must write 30 all new short stories between April 1st and April 30th. Each story must have a distinct beginning, middle, and end. Each story must&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/nashostomo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NaShoStoMo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[170,1],"tags":[122,545,487],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","category-uncategorized","tag-friends","tag-nanoshomo-2011","tag-technological-singularity","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1de","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}