Ready To Start

If you were hanging around here this past summer, you will recall that I did two 30-day Music Challenges, almost back to back - daily posts, inspired by a musical theme.

I had a partner for these two challenges, the best friend I've never met, Stranger.  And through the course of two months, we each managed to put our own creative spin on a musical prompt, day after day after day.

Oddly, when the last challenge ended, the both of us sort of went into hibernation or something.  We never talked about it, didn't plan it..but we both pretty much stopped blogging when it was done.  Why?  Heck, I barely know my reasons, never mind hers.  But I do know one thing: I miss it.

This past week saw a flurry of email communication, flying through the ether from one side of the continent to the other (Stranger and I, we're sort of North America's bookends).  The Reader's Digest condensed version appears below:

I miss blogging...

Me too.  Another challenge?

Well yes, we should.  But what?
  
How about this one?  Thirty days, thirty letters to the people in this list.

Okay, but I don't know about a daily prompt.  The last one took a toll.  How about once a week?

Oh yes!  That sounds much more manageable. How about Mondays?  And let's have a word limit.  Say 250?

I like where this is heading.  But letters...hmmm.  Might get a little stale.  What about a 250-word vignette featuring the character, rather than writing them a letter?  Fiction or non, whatever works for the week...

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how our new weekly feature, "Mostly Fiction Mondays" was born.  See you next Monday for our first installment - 250 maybe made up words featuring a Best Friend.