I’m still collecting stories for my magazine. I’ve created 11 prompts of different kinds of stories I’m looking for. Anything you’d like to contribute would be greatly appreciated.

I’ve decided that I’m going to make a book-a-zine.

But first, let me fill in some backstory.

I’m trying to marry two semi-contrasting concepts together. We have concept number one: the book. Conventionally, books are text based stories. You read them front to back, beginning to end. They have a narrative arch that you are supposed to follow in order to understand the story. It’s generally difficult to jump into the middle of a book and immediately understand what’s going on. 

Magazines (concept number two) allow the reader to jump into the middle without consequence.  Even though a magazine has a general flow from section to section, the content is usually divided by topic and appears in the same place for every issue of the magazine

I’d like to create a magazine that reads more like a book, but doesn’t eliminate the reader’s ability to jump back and forth between pieces of content.

I’m not entirely sure how to accomplish this yet. But this blog will act as an way to track my progress, post things that inspire me along the way, and become a reminder of my original intent for the project.