RANDOM!
Yes. Six Minute Story now has random prompts (clicking will get you a random prompt, right this second).
And I fixed whatever was preventing Flickr prompts from loading properly.
Now, stop tumbling and get back to writing. Write on!
Dream dreams,
then write them.
Aye, but live them first.
— Samuel Eliot Morison (via 90years)
So this is fun
At the end of August, Six Minute Story broke through 25,000 visits from all you happy people. And those 25,000 visitors saw about 4 pages each: we’ve now had over 100,000 pageviews!
So that’s nice, considering I started this as a hobby site to help writers cure writer’s block!
Your stories are getting read. And that’s just increasing as time goes on, as you promote your stories and I add features to draw more people to your fiction.
So, cheers: here’s to all of us!
New Prompts For Ever
I pulled myself away from work for a few hours this weekend – just long enough to update the code behind Six Minute Story to ensure there will always be fresh prompts.
In the event I haven’t set a prompt for a particular day, the site will pull one of the most interesting photos from Flickr for your writing pleasure.
Hopefully if the photos are interesting on Flickr, they’ll be interesting to write stories about.
Now, back to work, and then on to your other feature requests (a way to see what prompts you’ve suggested, private stories) and some ideas of my own.
Oh! how I want to make this a video prompt.
Into a burning puddle of fire
Update: By speaking very softly and tempting them with Oreos, I was able to coax the servers back to their desks. They’re now humming along to a delightful mix of Bill Henderson and Count Basie.
In the midst of making some very minor upgrades to Six Minute Story tonight, the servers got confused and thought it was New Years. They consequently took off work and got serverly [sic] drunk.
We’ve put a support request in to our host’s wranglers, to sober up the servers.
We’ll make sure you’re the first to know when everything’s working again (within the next few hours).
