Even the tiniest of stories count!

I have been published!

No, not my book, though I am still banging away at it.

A lovely press called Vine Leaves Press has a section they email daily called 50 Give or Take.

Your job as a writer is to come up with a story that is 50 words, give or take. And that's exactly what I did a year ago.

Yes. A year ago.

Sometimes it takes just that long or longer to get anything published.

The story will not shoot me into stardom but what it will do is begin the building of my publishing career. It all counts, even the tiny ones.

I hope this may encourage you, my fellow writers.

Keep it up! It feels great to see my words out in the world, even if there are only 50 of them.

Love you all!

M-

Wednesdays Words 5/1

Playing with 100 word stories/poetry and the like.

Crumbs

If you give a mom a cookie,

She will ask if it’s gluten free.

Regardless she’ll need her coffee which she misplaced.

Tracing her steps, she’ll see the blinking microwave. Her coffee is there, cold.

Warming it again, she decides to run the dishwasher but, is out of soap.

Grabbing her phone, she gets texted, Reminding her of a tv show recommendation,

So she heads to the living room when a noise makes her turn around to see

the blinking microwave, again,

the cat sitting on the counter top

looking down at the cookie

now broken on the floor.

Xx Melissa

Here, There and Everywhere

Writing anything can be a great undertaking. Like most writers I started with a "grand" idea for a book and then went to town hacking it out. As I was closing in on the finish line, the goal posts moved, not uncommonly and not in a mean way. It was all very typical, organic. As it turns out I started my book in the wrong place. Rookie mistake.

As I've realigned and rewritten my manuscript I've also been listening to those who yell the loudest - other authors, agents and writing teachers, which has me branching out by writing essays and flash pieces, even a 100 word story - or twelve. But all of these projects, while they are not my book, hold just as much importance to my budding career as a writer.

Establishing myself, getting something, anything published is, as I'm told, the ticket to the big show; a traditional publishing contract for my memoir.

So, my little blog world has been a bit neglected while I nurture other parts of my writers sphere which I'm hoping will bring some exciting news soon,

Xx Melissa