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fkficfest is currently in the writing phase.We've elected 5 prompts as a common pool. Each story must use at least 1 of:
- found among the second-hand books
- I'm going to tell you something that you don't want to hear.
- keeping secrets
- The antique hairbrush still held tangles of fine golden hair.
- a lucky break, a chance meeting, and a friend in need
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How is everyone doing?
I picked a prompt and have a vague idea of where it might be going.
Unfortunately, I find myself in the dilemma of too much going on at the moment. A mix of family birthdays, soccer games and culture events keeps me busy on weekends, which leaves only weeknights for writing. Since all this is happening in my home town and not in the town where I live, I'm currently heading back and fourth each week. However, I've discovered that taking the train instead of the car is a wonderful way to create a time window for writing. Thanks to the reliability of Deutsche Bahn, one can be certain that the trip takes longer than originally scheduled. Like last Monday, we stopped in the middle of nowhere for one hour because there were people on the tracks ahead. Great opportunity to start my story. I managed to write almost 500 words.
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Back when I traveled more for work, I liked taking the train, but definitely got stuck a few times lol. Once, there was a couch on the tracks, which took about 30 mins to clear. Once, the train made it about a quarter mile from the station before breaking down and we were stranded on a draw bridge for a few hours. (After they fixed it, the train thankfully returned to the station to let off passengers--mostly business travelers--who didn't want to proceed with the journey, including me.)
I don't make that trip anymore so no train writing for me. I try to write for at least 30 mins most weeknights after dinner. I'm on a Discord server that runs nightly, timed writing sprints so that helps give me a place to "show up" and people to check in with so I can be consistent. (None of my fellow sprinters watch FK, but they're nonetheless very encouraging.)
I'm going for two fest stories. We'll see if I get there. With one of them, if I finish it, you'll see that one of your proposed prompts, in addition to one of the selected prompts, influenced it đ.
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Reserving a 30 min time window for writing each week night sounds quite effective. I'll try that when I'm back home.
I'm glad when I finish one story in the time frame, although the other prompts are certainly also inspiring.
To be stuck on a draw bridge for hours sounds frightening. I'm glad it ended well.
Good luck with your writing.
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Long, long ago, when we still played exchange style... apparently, it was 2012 ...I commuted to work via a corporate bus, and I drafted my entire story that year during the long afternoon bus rides (in the mornings, I read a newspaper on my Kindle). The bumps and jolts of the bus did no favors to my handwriting! Transcribing my notebook into my computer was rewriting as much as typing. But in the end, the result was "Chante Ă Nouveau," of which I'm actually still very fond. So. I wish you as excellent a return on your train writing now as I had then on my bus writing!
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I remember your Chante Ă Nouveau fondly. But I'll reread it again.
I hand-wrote a couple of scenes a few years ago when the writing period coincided with a week of vacation and I didn't take my laptop with me.
I wish you good luck in the search for inspiration. I find something usually comes up when I try not to think too hard about it.
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Sänk juh for träwweling wis Deutsche Bahn! Always a pleasure, but yeah, you almost always get a lot more traveling time than what you paid for. ;) I hope the next trips will go a lot smoother.
So far, I have an idea and one scene of a potential fic, about 750 words. I hope that inspiration will come back, otherwise it will end up as a snippet and I really would like to expand it. We'll see.
Good luck, and may the muse be with you! :)
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Sänk juh for träwweling wis Deutsche Bahn!
Indeed LOL.
Yesterday's ride went well, yet it was long enough to get another 500 words written.
I hope your inspiration recovers and I'm looking forward to reading the result.
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I do believe I've struck upon something and I believe I'm finally on the way. Yeah!
I wrote most of my stories out in longhand back in the day. My kids were little and I'd drag a legal pad along wherever we went, jotting paragraphs down whenever I had an idea. Then I'd transcribe what I'd written when everyone was asleep. Not quite sure when I slept! I still find writing things out in longhand to be a useful strategy to get ideas cooking.
So glad to hear that people are working on their stories. I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with. The variation in treatment of the same prompts never fails to amaze.
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Good luck with yours. I hope you'll find the necessary distraction from the real world in the world you create.