Its all just numbers, really.
March 25th, 2009Welcome 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.