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Last month I was complaining to an artist friend of mine about how I was having difficulty coming up with content for my blog. I told him that if I was an artist, I'd do what he's doing and make a list of characters and sketch a post every day.

My friend then verbally slapped me around for a bit and suggested that I write a story, in short installments, and post an installment a day.

And so that's what I'm doing.

I'm writing my version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

But here's the thing. I have no idea where I am going with this story. I write up an installment each day and try to build on what I've written previously, but I really have no idea where this thing is going.

My only goals are to post an installment each weekday, and that each installment has to be a minimum of 100 words. I'm not doing so great on the every weekday thing, but the minimum word count hasn't been an issue . . . yet.

I'm now fourteen parts and 3,600 or so words in.

And hey, I'd like to invite you all to take a look at it if you got the time.

You can find the first part here:

http://steevensplace.blogspot.com/2011/ ... t-one.html

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I'll take a look, Steeven. For the record, that's how I write too. I just jump in and write a certain number of words every day and at the end of awhile I've got a story. Nothing to it!

A

I am now 20 posts and 6,963 words in, and I'm having a lot of fun.

Here are the newest installments:

Part Sixteen - Bob sees a man disappear
Part Seventeen - Colin faints
Part Eighteen - Goldilocks hatches a plan
Part Nineteen - Goldilocks cries FIRE!
Part Fifteen - The three bowls

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I am now 30 posts and 15,800 words in. The Bears confront Goldilocks. Things explode, people faint, and people die. A bunch of people die.

Here are the newest installments:

Part Twenty-One - Goldilocks, The Beast, and the three chairs
Part Twenty-Two - The Beast dreams
Part Twenty-Three - Jack tells the Bears about the bisque
Part Twenty-Four - The Beast dreams of yellow
Part Twenty-Five - The Big
Part Twenty-Six - Officer Friendly is on the case
Part Twenty-Seven - Bob is mean
Part Twenty-Eight - Billy makes Goldilocks cry
Part Twenty-Nine - The Beast, the bears, and the blonde
Part Thirty - The Big Bad is really bad

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I am now 35 posts and 21,500 words in. Goldilocks runs. The Beast faints, again. And the Big Bad is revealed .

Here are the newest installments:

Part Thirty-One - Officer Friendly fights back
Part Thirty-Two - Goldilocks on the run
Part Thirty-Three - Just who is the Big Bad?
Part Thirty-Four - The Beast talks to himself
Part Thirty-Five - Officer Friendly makes a friend

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I am now 40 posts and 27,000 words in. We are getting near the end. Doc is in the house. Good things happen, bad things happen, and Billy gets hungry

Here are the newest installments:

Part Thirty-Six - The Beast meets the Bears
Part Thirty-Seven - Officer Friendly steps up
Part Thirty-Eight - Sleep numbers and lots of kissing
Part Thirty-Nine - Billy wants a sandwich
Part Forty - Doc strikes

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I am now 45 posts, 33,000 words in, and I'm so close to the end I can smell it!

Here are the newest installments:

Part Forty-One
Part Forty-Two
Part Forty-Three
Part Forty-Four
Part Forty-Five

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I have finished the first draft of my Goldilocks and the Three Bears reboot.

If you have been reading, or are going in to read for the first time, this is merely a first draft. An experiment to try and create content on the blog by writing at least 100 words a day as part of a story and post them each day.

36,000 words later and I am done.

I'll be posting my thoughts, what I learned, what I did right, what I did wrong, in the next day or so over at my blog.

I can't believe I'm done!

Here are the last two parts:

Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Part Forty-Six

Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Part Forty-Seven

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Steeven Orr Else - The most important blog in all of human history.

Variety Smack! - The most important web comic in all of human history.

Congratulations, Steeven. That's an impressive feat. Next time, try doubling it.

A

Thanks, Alex.

My next step is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). I'm going to give that a try for the first time this year.

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