Sarahribu

So its always important to get back onto the camel when you fall off! Sometimes I think this domain is cursed, I’ve never managed to do anything particularly useful with it. I was doing fine for a while though, and then I replaced the battery in my iPod and suddenly realised I was getting all my ideas when I was walking to and from work. It’s actually very difficult to both walk and sing along to banging tunes whilst writing a thousand words in your head. I can do two, but not three, and music is always the easier. I feel cheated by my gender; surely I should be able to multitask like a rock star, but perhaps not before the coffee kicks in.

Anyway, I have a few things to post that I have written that fall a little under the limit, including some meta-meta pornography that I wrote half asleep, and I need to write the outline for the first story in my proposed ‘York Myths Series’, which mostly seem to be anthropomorphised love stories to my city. Now I’m going to saddle up that metaphorical quadruped and get back to it.

Welcome to Sarahribu, a ridiculously ambitious writing project where I aim to write one million words in the form of 1000 short stories in 5 years.

I’m Sarah, and the ‘ribu’ comes from the Indonesian word for thousand (also ’seribu’ is 1000, so you can see where I’m going with this). I currently live in York, UK. I’ve been writing short stories since I was five, when I wrote the classic story ‘The Christmas Tree’ about a Christmas tree that comes to life for some orphans. All I remember is the final lines, which were “Will you be our Daddy” and he said “yes” and they lived happily ever after. I tried to get my clichés out of the way at an early age.

Some of my favourite things to write about are weird alternate universes, non-tragic homosexual relationships, the end of the world and what happens after, the aching feeling of want, lust and longing that hangs in your heart when you want something pretty, flowers, camels, macroeconomics and good old fashioned English eccentricity.

I don’t have a support network, nor a beta reader or editor and I’m really just doing this because I lack discipline in my writing. Basically its me, my ideas moleskine, a thesaurus and the need to have a project in this post-university wonderland.