I know you’re probably sick to death of me going on and on about how much I dig Wil Wheaton (and I don’t mean that in a stalkery fangirl kind of way either. I reserve that behaviour for James Marsters, Kiefer Sutherland and David Boreanaz \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n
No I just count myself lucky that I found his blog<\/a> oh so long ago because he’s never steered me wrong when it comes to finding the coolest stuff on the Net. As a writer who’s had some success with his nonfiction books and as a blogger – two things near and dear to my heart – I really enjoy following his journey from getting an idea to getting it ‘out there.’<\/p>\n Anyway, enough being gushy, I really wanted to to post about the site I found through his blog called Ficlets<\/a>. I read about it yesterday and as of five minutes ago I’ve published five ficlets<\/a> and am so eager to write some more.<\/p>\n The purpose of Ficlets is to write a story in 1,024 characters or less. That works out to about 4-5 short paragraphs or so. The beauty of the idea is then other authors on the site can write a prequel or sequel to your ficlet and pretty soon a whole story is born. It’s really fun to see the twists and turns a story idea of yours can take when other people take control. I know the idea of round robins in storytelling is nothing new, but it’s still fun.<\/p>\n For instance, a ficlet I posted is actually the beginning to a finished story I wrote while ago. So I know where my story goes, and how it ends etc. The main character is a male. When I posted just the beginning of it, a commenter assumed the lead char was a female. Another writer just posted a sequel to one of my ficlets (my first sequel!) and went in a completely different direction than my actual story did. It’s just so interesting<\/b>, you know?<\/p>\n Anyway, I’m totally hooked and would not be surprised if I stay up far too late tonight reading and writing ficlets because this site is getting me so jazzed about writing. I haven’t felt like this about it in forever. It’s teh awesome.<\/p>\n Thanks Wil.<\/p>\n (oh and off-topic, but my Vampcakes were a big hit at the office. Woot!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know you’re probably sick to death of me going on and on about how much I dig Wil Wheaton (and I don’t mean that in a stalkery fangirl kind…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}