Mater

Good luck with it. I'm sure you'll find the inspiration you need.

Mater, I'm sure your more than woman enough for this. What exactly do you have to do?

I'm sorry about your mum and grandmother, Marit. Good luck with the marathon.

It sounds like a worthy cause, Marit, and I'm sure the inspiration will be there.

It's harder than I thought, but I've got into it - I think. It's supposed to be a 12 hour (starting at 12 noon) marathon of writing short stories and/or poems, 50-500 words a piece. We have been given 100 prompts to choose from. So far, I've written three ca 500 word stories and one flash fiction story of just over 100. It's for a good cause - and personally it's good exercise if nothing else. Oh, and my husband is making the supper tonight! :-D

Sounds a great idea. A chance to do lots of writing while raising money for charity. And the bonus of having dinner made for you too (when I say bonus, I assume your husband can cook!?)
Can you persuade him to do the cleaning as well? LOL
I hope you'll share some of the work with us.

He made his 'special', Sarah - a little bit of this and a little bit of that (always starting with fried onions), liberally curried and chillied and served with rice. Somehow it always comes out quite palatable! But no cleaning!

The writing marathon was totally exhausting. I don't know how some of them can come up with so much. My mind didn't want to release anything inspirational at all, but I ended up with, if I remember right, 15 short stories and two poems. Personally I only rate the one poem, but there you go. It's good exercise and more to the point, the fundraising is going well for the whole project!
As for posting anything here, would that be allowed? From the point of view of the anthology itself, I mean. First rights and all that? If they should happen to want to include any of my pieces, of course.
I was consciously avoiding using the voice of the Would-be-Protagonist, as he hasn't finished with his entries yet. He's just taking a rest while I work like mad trying to finish the first draught of a manuscript that should have been written before last year's nano novel - before I start this year's, which hopefully will be a follow-on from last year's. Yeah - a trilogy. Perhaps. Confused? I am! But I'm most definitely writing. :-D

Hi Marit,
No, I think you're probably quite right not to post if there's a possibility of them appearing in the anthology.
You dismisss what you've written but I'm sure even the stuff you're not happy with now may form the basis for a new/different story.
hope you've recovered now

Now I have to read everybody else's stuff - and rate it, too - as that's how the shortlist for the anthology is decided. It's hard on the eyes, so I'm doing it in small chunks.
Ironically, the one poem of mine that I thought might be ok, hasn't made any shortlist at all (yet) - although three stories have a few times.
But as you say, Sarah, the rest can probably be used as a basis for something else, another time. Just now I have to get back to my manuscript. A dream last night alerted me to a mistake (seems I didn't do my research properly!) and I have a re-write to do.
As for recovering: I'm wearing a splint on my right wrist to aid recovery! :-D