Welcome to Brie Flies, home of flying chee-
Oops, let me start over.
Welcome to Brief Lies (that’s better), home of flying chee-
Oops again! Okay, bugger the welcome, then.
You’re here, great. Let’s move on, shall we?
This is a blog started by me as a space to be creative, to encourage creativity, and hopefully to collaborate with others in some creative works. When I say “creative”, for now I mean writing, but who knows what may happen in the future. Mostly, I’m interested in using this blog as something of a microfiction forum. Years ago, I started a microfiction email group. It was a small but fun group, and good practice. Every week, people would write a piece of microfiction (500 words or less), centered around a specific theme or topic. At the end of the week, I would send all the stories out, along with the topic for the next week. The stories were always a lot of fun to write (and low-stress, under 500 words!) and even more fun to read. Unfortunately, people get busy and writing falls by the wayside; our small group dwindled and story submissions were low. Eventually, I called the micro-group quits and moved on to other things, though not without some remorse.
Lately, I’ve been blogging quite a bit, because writing daily just feels good, and today I remembered vividly how much fun the microfiction group was. So I’ve decided to start something similar, here on this blog. It may take awhile to get the ball rolling, but until then I’ll be posting some of my own creative work (as well as whatever I can finagle out of friends and family), links of creative interest, news and other noteworthy reads.
If you’re interested in submitting anything, joining the microfiction group, posting on this blog (and/or helping me to run it) or just in contacting me, please feel free to drop me an email at brieflies(at)gmail(dot)com.