New Fiction Writing Exercise: The Alphabet Soup Challenge

Good luck. As for me I don't feel too hot so i'm gonna grab the book for our book discussion and go back to bed.

i'm curious to see what happens when people get to the x's and z's

As I posted to April:
Wow. I didn't expect one coherent complete story from A to Z but that's
awesome.
I was thinking more a series of anecdotes but I like your approach better.

I'll make that the minimum everyone - including me if you want my
participation - must do.

I'll try to do mine later today and (gasp! horror!) will try to do it without use of google.

The more participants the better.

Ok, I'm going to start a new topic for the next round.
If you haven't finished this round, that's ok - I'm not setting any time
requirements this time.

I'm going to take a day off from writing and seeding so....

If you want to read some interesting pieces I'd love to get some feedback
on a few things I wrote this week:

Why Listening matters, especially for writers

about being a punker for a nite
about how Hipaa affects journalists
and how NOT to talk to re-eanctors

Some thoughts on Lady Diana and the movie the Queen
And what am I doing in Hagerstown, MD?

My bad advice on flirting

A self-profile

And a new fiction writing exercise

Ok, the next Writing Down the Bones exercise is up here

and the next round of this Alphabet exercise is here.

It can be a personal narrative, it can be a work of fiction.

Well, I wrote something but I forgot it was supposed to be fiction and, well,
that it shouldn't suck.

But I'll share if you don't mock me too much.
Alright, I'lll try this too. It's only fair since I asked others to do it.

Besides, I'm a bit bored.

Crap. I can't think of anything creative or interesting.

Dang, still nothing. No ideas.

Ever hear the one about the fiction writer who asked others to tell stories?

Funny thing is… well, there's nothing funny about this.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr, says Scott. Think, Scott, think.

Heck, I'll just make something up.

I suppose I could use this format to tell about my brother.

Jay, my brother, was a lifeguard.

Kinda crazy, my brother was.Well, still is.

Little bitty loony.

Mad? Maybe. But he was my older brother so I idolized him.

Nite surfing? Yeah I'll never forget the time he told me the best time to go body surfing is at night when it's dark.

Ouch! Those waves did hurt as they splashed onto us.

Pity poor Scott who had fallen for another of his brother's pranks.

Quite sore I was the next day. Years later in an action I'm still not totally clear about I punched my brother in the face and knocked out a tooth. Other than the time I beat up a guy nicknamed Tuna for making fun of my last name it was the only act of violence I ever committed.

Really.

Sorry!

This is quite

Ugly.

Very poor example of a story.

Writing? This? I think not?

X marks the spot where this story went downhill. Actually I'd say it went downhill at A.

You know, I'm tempted to delete this piece of crap but I'll leave it as an example of just how bad writing can be and therefore all will look at this and say: "What was the value of this piece of writing?

"Zilch!" That's the value. If I wasn't in charge of this here exercise I'd ask that this Scoop be barred from further writing but since I am he (and a folk singer is singing I am The Walrus as I type this) there's not much I can do.

Ok, here's my real attempt.

The second round is up

The next alphabet challenge is now up

Want another challenge of this type?

revived this excercise over here.