We’re all about
stories. Even our games are based on stories and they’re not even role-playing
games. Imagine that right? We’re the sort of people who believe that PacMan has
a back story.
Our imagination lets
us believe that PacMan is a horrible alien who came onto Ghost Land to steal
their crops. That explains it, right? PacMan goes around eating seeds the
ghosts had planted. Naturally, the ghosts will chase PacMan to capture it. But
when PacMan eats a fruit, its power doubles and it can even eat the ghosts.
Poor ghosts have no choice but to go even faster to catch the horrible PacMan.
How about that for a story? It totally makes sense.
As fiction has it,
stories don’t really have to make any sense (although some stories tend to be
true). Moral value is good to have but the element of fantasy and mystery is
essential in storytelling. A Story A Day Project is about
writing and reading fiction for children of course.
You’d think that
we’d have a story uploaded daily but you’d be wrong. This is a project we’re
starting to encourage writers to contribute to children’s fiction and we’ll
publish them (illustrated and all) in MORRIELAND’s Book Club. As a new
writer, you’d appreciate the exposure. But if you’re an established writer then
you’re doing it for a great cause. What might that be? It’s for children to
make reading a daily habit. It will be like a stepping stone towards them
becoming book worms but mostly, consumers of your other books. Win-win!
The stories need not
be long. Two-hundred words or less and we’ll edit it if you go overboard. We’re
writing some ourselves too. The target is 366 stories (leap year included) and
we’ll keep you updated on our site. We’re hoping to achieve this by the end of
2012. We have to start somewhere. So consider being a part of this project for
a good cause. It’s more like a noble objective for the book industry,
traditional or digital.
Let’s get writing!
