My stories on Ficlets.com

Time for me to stump for readership (and, hopefully, writership) on ficlets.com, an interactive writing site of which I've gotten quite fond.

Ficlets is a round-robin-writing site where you write stories 1024 characters at a time. (If you consider a "word" to be five characters, plus an extra for a space, that works out to approximately 170 words, or 1.7 drabbles.)

( Log in with an AIM or OpenID account; Ficlets theory & practice )

So, I'm going to list a few of the stories I've written. I hope that, even if you're not interested in continuing them, you'll at least go and read and rate them. The more traffic they get, the more likely they are to pop up on the "Most Popular" or "Most Active" ficlets displays on the front page, which means more ficleters will see them.

One of my favorite interactive stories, which I steadfastly refuse to continue myself because I've had so much fun splitting it with other people, starts with this one:

• Trapped in the Desert

This was my first story in a transforming robots universe of my own creation, adding a dash of Captain Power and some other interesting elements. Currently it's stuck at a cliffhanger. Could someone please continue it for me? :)

( Here are my other stories in the same setting )


Other stories that have been written for a while, some of them actually started by other people and continued from there:


• The Firefox (features an OS-tan image that's a bit PG-13ish, may not be safe for work)


• The Birthday Race (an interesting tale that soon went in directions its original creator had never anticipated)


• Terrarium (involves unicorns, though funny thing is I'm not the one who introduced them)

And here's a couple I've had some collaboration with liralen on.


• A Temple for a Goddess (actually, the first entry was Not Quite Rapunzel, but I went ahead and wrote a prequel to it afterward)


• Girl Meets Car (another offshoot of the same challenge that spawned "Car Talk" above, this one started in the most innocent of ways: I was amused by the first post, so I made a sequel with a different angle on it. Then liralen replied, and I replied again, and I think has gone places neither of us expected so far. :)

One of the neat feature of Ficlets is that you can search on Flickr keywords and then write stories about photos you find. As a result, I (and one or two other people) have written some hilarious stories based on pictures of "Engrish" signs, posters, and merchandise.

Other stories I've written and didn't link here can be found from my Ficlets.com author page

Anyway, hope you'll find it interesting enough to check it out, and maybe kick in a K of writing here and there. I've had fun writing the stuff, so I hope you'll have fun reading it.