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This Is Why You Should Never Assume You Can’t Do Something
When you try new things, you learn what you’re capable of.
I recently started writing short stories for a weekly short story contest hosted by Reedsy. The contest begins and ends every Friday.
I hadn’t written a short story for this past week. I’d tried almost every day, but I never got any idea that stuck. Reedsy gives you five prompts, but none of them seemed to be working for me.
Yesterday, at around one-thirty, I got an idea for a short story. The problem was I would have to complete it by nine at night.
I scrubbed everything off my to-do list and started writing.
Unfortunately, I ended up writing a couple of hundred words that were just me discovering what the hell the story was about. I groaned, realizing I still had to write the story.
“It’s fine,” I thought. “Just write it.”
So, I started writing the story, but some paragraphs in, I found the endless flaws in it, which I should’ve expected. I started figuring out the answers to my questions and got clear on exactly what had happened and what needed to happen.
It was around four that I was finally one-hundred percent clear on what my short story would be about.
