Fictional Skies

Saturday May 5th saw my story contribution to 3 Hundred and 65 . Some people may compose and send their story tweet from work, while juggling the kids, or put a few casual hours in beforehand. Or like me - the days leading up to it are ripe with inspiration, creativity and practice tweets - some major indulgence. Although, the final story tweet and overall story development almost went a different way. As I thought about bringing in a new storyline at the time and ambitiously, to push for a multi-narrative story. In fact, it almost went all wrong, and was heading for this: Hunched over, his fingers clasped to a jar: frozen tears imprisoned by glass. The Orphan glared at the Stranger by the mast.  Thankfully, I voiced my intentions on the 3 Hundred and 65 Widows unofficial Facebook fan page , and soon realised new characters and narratives wasn't what the story needed. Therefore, my Orphan character, Stranger by the mast, and the frozen tears imprisoned by glass - bit th...

Love to be creative? Love to support a cause? Have a twitter account? Then you can be one of the three hundred and sixty five authors contributing to this  amazing project and campaign to raise money and awareness for The Teenage Cancer Trust . The 3 hundred and 65  project is a public authored graphic novel where twitter users reserve a story tweet date and subsequently tweet a continuation of the story in 140 characters which artist  Dave Kirkwood then turns into an illustration. All story tweets and accompanying illustrations are published on the website ,  facebook page  and newly released app  through iTunes for all to experience and enjoy. The story project will run all year round, although, currently there are only a few months worth of unclaimed story tweet dates left. One of which could be yours. Hurry as they are going fast! Even Stephen Fry knows this that's why he's picked Wednesday 23rd May as his sto...