{"id":849,"date":"2014-06-01T21:27:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T02:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2014-06-01T21:27:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T02:27:42","slug":"story-a-day-may-postscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bojnberry.ca\/~berry\/blog\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"Story a Day May &#8211; Postscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned on my twitter feed (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bojnberry\">@bojnberry<\/a>.\u00a0If you aren&#8217;t following me there, well, what the heck are you waiting for?!) that I was taking in part in Story a Day May last month. The goal of SaDM is obvious: write and complete a short story every single freaking day of the month. It was hard. Counting-micro-potholes-on-a-cycling-path hard. (um, that&#8217;s a joke for Boj, the rest of you may ignore that last sentence (at your peril!)). Hard enough that I didn&#8217;t manage it ever night, but I persevered, wrote, collapsed in front of the keyboard a few nights, and wrote some more. I learned about this through <a href=\"http:\/\/michael-haynes.blogspot.ca\/\">Michael Haynes<\/a>, so a massive hat-tip to him.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote every day (because that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing right now if you didn&#8217;t know, 345 days and counting, suckas!), and managed to finish 18 stories, 3 times as many as I wrote in the 8 months leading up to the challenge. Pumped, I am. Of course I also have fragments of 13 other stories which I didn&#8217;t manage to finish thanks to time constraints, or to too much intake of bourbon or bbq or whatnot that day, or I was &#8220;just not feeling it&#8221;. Needless to say, that last excuse is by far the lamest.<\/p>\n<p>This was a great experience for me. It really helped me to focus on deadlines (and enjoy, 13 times, the wooshing sound they make as they fly by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quote\/723.html\">*<\/a>) and work under pressure. I will be the first to say that a lot of what plopped out of my head was on the side of dreck, but there are a few quite serviceable pieces (and one helluva character) that made their way onto\u00a0my digital page. I intend on prettying them up and sending them on the rounds in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>So. Thank you Julie Duffy for doing this, and thanks Michael for pointing me toward it. 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