Short Story Idea Bank 3

I decided to write a story for London's StorySlamLIVE the day before the slam. The theme was Sheet-Lightning. Here is the idea bank for that story, which I titled Happening, though will retitle as Mount Analogue from now on. 


My Notes: 

Sheet lightning can look quite contained, almost like a snow globe, the lightning caught within. We catch glimpses of a greater drama that occasionally breaks out of the cloud.

This makes me think of a tent lit from within. 

 On a more general level sheet lightning is lightning that doesn’t touch the ground, it travels from one cloud to another in a horizontal fashion, creating a sheet of light in the air.

Or that feeling, almost sublime, you get when you witness something like that. It’s kind of primitive and fresh and scary all at once. Exhilarating.

It doesn’t go to ground. Like passing a baton, handing over a spark, energy, not allowing it to dissipate. 


I saw an art happening in Bournemouth, forty or so students crammed into a tiny space, cacophonous sound art and flashing lights, and so much buzzing energy: it was like sheet-lightning, ideas sparked from the artists to the audience without dissipating, without neutralising, charging the people who shared their space. 

http://jump-into-the-void.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/london-trip-1-mt-analogue.html

Web Serial Story

I’ve started a new online story that’s available for all to read. The format is in a blog style, about a girl just starting Uni (art school). Eventually I’d like to have it as an interactive story, with guest writers, illustrators, photographers etc. But for now it’s just me on my lonesome.

The idea behind the project is that it’s in real time, so the story is unfolding in parallel to real life timings. All the writing is raw and unedited. It’s a project to encourage me to write something very regularly and get it out there without hanging onto it for years rewriting it and getting bogged down in perfecting it.

I’m 4 blog posts into the story. Here is post (chapter) 1: http://uni-diaries.blogspot.com/2011/09/freshers-week.html

2: http://uni-diaries.blogspot.com/2011/09/kitchen-stories.html

3: http://uni-diaries.blogspot.com/2011/09/clubs-and-societies.html

4: http://uni-diaries.blogspot.com/2011/10/climb-club.html

Intersection

A new short story of mine has been published by the most excellent Pygmy Giant. You can read it by going here: http://thepygmygiant.com/2011/09/12/intersection/
It's less of a story and more of an intersection between two narratives that haven't been written, with some philosophy thrown in. I hope you like it!


You can read another story I wrote a few years ago that I also got published at the Pygmy Giant: http://thepygmygiant.com/2008/12/05/elder/