The Battle Was Over Before It Started

I'm going to have to abort my Super Short Story Challenge project. It was dependent on a few other things in my life working out to free up slightly more free time. Those things did not work as expected. It's nothing serious, but I will have significantly less free time over the next several months than I anticipated. Alas. I may try to revisit this in 3 months. Oh well. I'm still doing plenty of other writing.

Super Short Story Challenge Matters

I've decided that due to Six Sentence Sunday, Monday will be my official Super Short Story Challenge day. I've yet to receive any genre suggestions for next week! Come on, give me an idea, otherwise I guess I'll just make a big genre chart or something, I suppose. :)

I already wrote the cyberpunk entry in my head for Monday. It will be interesting to see how long it takes.

Super Short Story Challenge Genre #1: Cyberpunk and a fantasy review

Thanks to Random.org, cyberpunk has been selected as the genre for my first Super Short Story Challenge Story. My story, in a lightly edited form, will be up Sunday evening.

So, in the meantime, I'm taking suggestions for next week's story.

After you've left a genre/story suggestion, why don't you stop by Good Book Alert and check out my review of the fantasy Ard Magister.

Short Story Super Challenge

Partially inspired by Dean Wesley Smith and partially inspired by my own desire to challenge myself and do some weekly writing that isn't connected to any of my novel WIPs, I've decided to start my own weekly writing challenge. Basically, I'm going to solicit suggestions on a genre/type of story to write and produce one short story per week based on that general prompt (or just pick my own if no one wants to suggest one).

I don't plan to post them to any place yet other than my blog, but maybe after I've written a collection and edited them, I can slap together an anthology and upload it to Smashwords or something.

So, I'll take votes or suggestions for my first story (target date: August 28th). I'm willing to write anything except erotica. If there's no clear winner, I'll just pick one at random. Once we get going, I'll figure out some more formal rule about having to wait a certain number of weeks before repeating a certain genre/type of story. I suppose I should start requesting genre/story suggestions in the middle of the week in general. Maybe Wednesdays.

So, what do people want to see?