The last December Daily: ego re-reads

wolfshark, "what is your favorite story to reread of your own stuff? what was your favorite story to write?"

I think still, after all these years, I'd have to say my favorite to write was Broadway Hotel, a Due South story from omg 2001. It was a level-up for me, more subtle than anything I had ever taken on up to that point, with more emotion that required more careful handling. I remember the writing of it as a thing of joy, though I'm sure at the time I had periods when I would have said, "This is a nightmare! Why do I do this shit for fun?"

At the moment, my favorite one to reread is Higher Education (the Breakfast Club one), maybe because the fandom is so small that there's no baggage, no difficult memories associated with it. Or maybe just because Bender's voice is so much fun.

Writer's Sketchbook Challenge

mific has done an amazing thing and loaded a bunch of prompts into an Excel spreadsheet with a randomizer button!

Here it is.

This is a loose and shaggy challenge.

There are 28 prompts and 28 "in the style of" options. You can download it and hit the randomizer button (if you have a PC with Excel on it), or download it and just read the prompts and choose one (if you have any other kind of computer), or use a random number generator, or whatever you want. Once you see the kind of thing we're working with here, you can also come up with your own prompts, if you'd rather.

Write one sentence! Write three paragraphs! Write a whole story! Write something in your current fandom! Write something that has no fandom!

And if you do write something, I'd love it if you linked back to it in a comment.