…is not a real thing, but it sort of is?
#WoShoStoReMo was a parody of NaNoWriMo I created back in the heady days of G+. Inspired by a quote from Jorge Luis Borges…
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
…and by a deep personality defect that makes me constitutionally incapable of participating in challenges like NaNoWriMo or game jams or what-have-yous, I sought to correct an imbalance in the world.
Here's the deal: for all of November I try to read as many short stories as I can and I'll post them here under the tag WoShoStoReMo. Ideally, I'd read one short story a day. In reality, I usually end up reading somewhere around half as many.
If you're looking for an excuse to get your fiction on, I invite you to do the same. It's very low pressure. Just a reminder that short stories exist and they're kind of perfect.
Sometimes I'll pick a theme and try to follow that, but not this year. I've got a couple anthologies I want to get through, so I'm basically going to tackle those.
