‘Once Upon a Bloggy Night’: A Writers’ Meme
Posted on 19 May 2008
We all loved fairy tales at one time, and many of us still do. (*raising my hand, waving it madly*) I can’t imagine life without a good story tucked away for safekeeping in my heart. Does the story have sidhe, unicorns, witches, or dragons? Plucky heroines or heroes overcoming evil? Magic wands, magic carpets, magic in any form? I’m hooked already — come on, story time.
So I was inspired when I found another blogger’s site, where she regularly writes small, charming “once upon a time” stories for her Tuesday Link Love feature using her favorite blog names or domain names as elements of the story. Click here to see what I mean. Inspiring, isn’t it? I wanted to clap when I first read this clever way of spreading the word about other blogs we enjoy.
So I’m starting a meme for writers:
The rules are dead easy:
- Make a list of blogs you read. You can use either the name of the blog, the domain name (which is sometimes different), or a mix of both.
- Arrange the words into a simple story. Pad as needed to create a real tale. (The story doesn’t need to have anything to do with the topics or theme of the blogs you’re linking to, fyi.)
- Use one of my “Once Upon a Bloggy Night” logos — the large one here or the small one here — whenever you post the story on your blog. (Please host the logo on your own server or your Photobucket/Flickr account — thanks! Email me using my contact form if you need help figuring out the details. I’m glad to help.)
- Include a link back to this post, if you don’t mind.
- Visit the site that inspired me, the Ettarose-edgeofsanity blog and let that author know you enjoyed this idea. Leave a comment on a Tuesday link love story there!
- Then please leave a comment on this post so we’ll have a central place where a list of all of your wonderful stories can be found.
- Help spread the word by emailing each of the bloggers whose sites you mention in your story, inviting them to join the fun.
It’s an interesting discipline for writers because you’ll have a limited set of words to use and a familiar universe — the fairy tale world — as your setting. Enjoy! I’ll publish my own fairy tale in my very next post. 
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[tags]meme for writers, Once Upon a Bloggy Night, memes[/tags]
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[...] attempt in recent history at creative writing, thanks to an imaginative blog meme called “Once Upon a Bloggy Night“. What are the rules? Basically: write a short story, and incorporate into it the names of [...]
Thanks for the fun, Carolyn. I didn’t quite manage a fairy tale, but it’s a first effort for someone who hasn’t written fiction in years. (Note that I didn’t say a “good” first effort.
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This is one of the more interesting memes I’ve seen. I’ll have to think about trying it!
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