I used to want to be a writer. Real life got in the way and I found I enjoyed cable and air conditioning.

I kept my hand in by typing away on whatever word processing program I had at the time; on the Commodore 64 it was Omniwriter.  I used the cheap office program that came with the first Windows PCs.

Now I have Word 2003 and 2007 along with OpenOffice on my Linux side.

I don’t have a lot of major ideas but I like to see how far I can go on a seed idea.  It used to be song titles.  I once wrote a story about a knight with a big bag of marbles that could see after hearing a song called ‘The Night Has a Thousand Eyes’.

I found this website that lists an idea a day.  When writing came up on my random task picker the idea for that day was a day in the life of a wedding dress.

My wife used to create flash fiction so I thought I’d give it a try because I’m lazy.