Saturday Morning Stories
Six months ago, I started posting a weekly short story to my Patreon account instead of throwing works in progress up there in a haphazard matter. Dubbed the Saturday Morning Story—a little something for folks to read over their morning coffee on the weekend—I figured it would have a shelf-life of a couple of weeks before I faltered and ran out of drafts. Twenty-six weeks later, I’m still going. The story for week twenty-seven is on my list of things to redraft over the next few days, and at this point, I’m determined to make a full year. Mostly, these stories go up as advanced drafts—they’re ultimately the stories that find their way into the Eclectic Projects magazine six months later, and there’s often a redraft and copyedit that takes place as part of that. Sometimes, those rewrites can be extensive—one of my early proto-posts, before I went weekly, went from an 800 vignette to a 4,000 word short story