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Fiona Callow's blog about getting inspired and staying inspired. Yes, this is the home of "Try It On Tuesday" -- that’s when I take a dress, try it on, have a photo taken, then write something inspired by the dress that gets posted on Tuesday. (If the mood strikes I sometimes post more often, too.) It's a writing exercise for me, something I designed to keep writing fun for me. (I write these stories fast, usually in the gaps in my day. I am also writing a novel.) What's the point of all this, you ask? For me: mental stimulation, staying creative, trying out new ideas ... For you: frivolity, procrastination, a reprieve from the chaos of your life. You get to read some fiction. I get to write some. It's a win-win situation.

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Tuesday, Jan 12th, 2010

Inspiration: 12 January 2010

Today’s story is entirely inspired by the dress: black, short, topped with sequins. It made me think of cupcakes. I’ve been toying with the idea of having one of the characters in the novel I am working on own some kind of food business, so I wrote a cupcake shop. This short piece was sort of to see if I could pull it off convincingly. Let me know if it works for you.

There is no resolution at all to this piece. I’ll return to the characters at some point. Or I might take them for the novel, or parts of them. I haven’t decided.