I knew what I wanted it to be about but I was having trouble starting it.
It’s going to be 9 pieces of flash fiction about…you guessed it, ordinary secrets. Image description: a small folded booklet on a wooden table. The booklet has the words “some ordinary secrets a 24 hour flash fiction zine by Christine Hennebury” written on the cover and the blank spaces are filled with horizontal lines and there is a star in each corner.
Finally, after playing around with a few ideas in my head, I realized the problem.
My paper was too big!
I usually make mini-zines and I was trying to work with a regular sized paper just folded in half to make a booklet.
That’s A LOT of space to fill.
So, I cut the page in half and suddenly it seemed a lot easier to work with.
I mean, it makes sense – if you cut any task in half it will make it less daunting, right?