Alphabet Project

During my junior year of high school, my English teacher assigned a project that I had a lot of fun with: an alphabet book.  We had to write twenty-six short stories, one for each letter of the alphabet.  None could be more than a page long.  All had to be true.

I still have the collection of stories I wrote.  Some are wonderful, some are awful.  Some experiments worked, others didn't.  One of the stories turned into my college essay.  It's a great snap shot of who I was, and a nice book of memories.  It's like a scrapbook with words instead of pictures.

Ever since I finished college, I've been toying around with the idea of repeating this project, with the stories taken from my college career.  I've written a few over the years, but never got very far.  It's something I still want to do, though.  So I'm considering writing the stories and publishing them in this blog.

Names would be omitted, facts altered or rearranged slightly.  This would be a collection of my memories of college, the truth as I saw it.  In bite-size chunks.  It might be more challenging, having only four years of material to draw on instead of sixteen.  The challenge wouldn't be coming up with stories - there's a ton of those - but coming up with names for those stories, to fit the alphabet naming requirement.  Picking and choosing which ones to tell.

So I think I'm going to try this.  I like writing.  And this will be a nifty exercise that hopefully sharpens my skills while providing me with a nice collection of memories to cherish in the years to come.

Thoughts?