writing life – Page 14

When you’re not feeling it

I wasn’t feeling the whole writing vibe this morning. But I pressed on.

Sometimes, it’s just hard to write.

This morning was one of those mornings. It began with my standard morning journaling routine, notebook open and pen in hand. I wrote a single-sentence paragraph describing a mundane task ahead of me for the days, and thought, This is it. This is all I’ve got today.

Published!

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been playing around with flash fiction and its subgenre micro fiction as a way of trying to crystallize my writing. One tangible result is this story, “Lunch break.”

Wouldn’t you know it: two days after telling you that I seldom use the exclamation point, it makes an appearance in the title of a post for the second time in a row.

Its presence is deserved, I think, to help convey the joy of getting published less than a month into this new leg of my writing journey.

“Lunch Break,” a bit of micro fiction I submitted to the website Paragraph Planet, is today’s featured story on the site. Huzzah!