I wasn’t at all sure if it would work out. The Friday Fictioneer hub posts on Wednesday and requires that you fit your fiction to their photo. But they have a huge following and the response was better than I had reason to expect. So it looks like there won’t be a major melt down here at AliceAudrey.com. For the foreseeable future you’ll be seeing fiction snippets of about 100 words from me on Fridays along with a picture that was provided to me by the hub.
Last Friday I did a snippet about a character from Suzie’s House. Of course in my mind it has the weight of all the history about the character that has been posted in my blog over the two or three years since he came into existence. But to my new readers, there is nothing much to him.
This was brought home to me vividly by the comments left on the post. Everyone is rooting for him to get over his stage fright. But at the end of the 100 words Bruce doesn’t have stage fright so much as an omen.
He is a rough, crude, arrogant character who will not be deterred long by something like a demon-shaped stage light. In the snippet he is twelve. It comes at the very beginning of his music career, before he started beating people up for fun and got kicked out of the band. It’s long before he hooked up with the kids in Suzie’s house to form a new band. He is not yet cynical enough to ignore the stage light completely, but he’s not about to cave.
I should have pushed past the 100 word guideline and brought his hands down on the keyboard to begin the song. If they’d read the episodes in Suzie’s House with him in them, this ending would be more powerful. But that is not a reasonable expectation.
As to the person who thought I myself might have problems with writer’s block on a hundred word story…lol. Um… yeah. Well, who knows. It might happen someday.
So, all in all, even though I am still sad about FF55, I guess it’ll work out. As always, thanks for putting up with me.
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