Tyrion Lannister is a Big Dumb Poopy Butt Whose Butt Smells Like Poop and is Full of Poop

What's with the title you ask? I'm just checking to make sure our dear Tyrion is reading since he hasn't POSTED ANYTHING!!!!! (Btw, if the fact that he's using his gmail account means that he can't for some reason I don't understand about Blogger, I take that title back in its entirety.)

Now, what was the reason I came on POW again? It wasn't just to talk about Tyrion's poopy butt. Oh yes, that's it.

I propose a writing challenge!

As you know, one of our biggest challenges in writing as a group is, uh, not writing anything. Or posting anything specifically to this blog. The other day my mom was telling me about this flash fiction contest on NPR (which is over now) and I got this idea. Since we all know November is NaNoWriMo, why not utilize October in a similar way?

Ladies and gentlemen(man?), it's time for the October flash fiction writing contest!

Flash Fiction October (FlaFiOcto?)

The rules: Write one piece of flash fiction (let's say between 150-1,000 words, we'll apply a pretty liberal use of the term "flash fiction") per day. It doesn't have to be good, it doesn't have to be spelled correctly, it just has to be often. (The rules can be modified for Cylon who has no time to do anything ever-maybe write flash fiction if you ever feel like you're head is about to explode. Or maybe, write flash fiction once this month. Sorry Cylon, the timing of this contest is not kind. I know.)

The goal: Come out of this month with a few little snippets of great writing. Not to mention the fact that this will push us to write more. I once met a poet from the Writers' Workshop who said she wrote a sonnet every day for a year to tune her ear to rhythm. This can only be a good thing in developing writerly discipline!

The winner: Anyone who writes ANYTHING. Seriously. I mean, this doesn't have to be a real competition unless it looks like a few of us are writing enough to actually compete. I figure it's like NaNoWriMo in that you win if you try. If we want to put a random number on it let's say try to write 15-20 pieces of flash fiction over the course of the month.

The timeframe: Since it's already October and not all of us read POW every day I figure we can make the starting date Friday-Monday and the end date the last day of October.

Stipulations: You can write more than one piece of flash fiction a day, but no more than three. This is about writing regularly, not writing a lot in sudden spurts. We all know that we can do that.

So how about it guys? Any takers? Even if there's not, I think I will undertake my own challenge just because I've felt such a lack of direction in my writing lately. If you have other writer friends (hahaha, none of us have friends, jkjkjk) feel free to encourage them to take the challenge as well. If you want to tweak the rules, I'm open to that as well. Let me know.

And let the flash fiction begin!