Have you written a short storty, novella etc?

[Bad Bear]

I've attempted a couple of novels, but way back in the crusty days of ye olde ball point pen. More recently, however, I had to write a fictional piece as part of my English degree (about 5,000 words), and it came out okay - it was a bit of a modern-day Poe parody. I don't think thare is ny danger of it getting published, so I would be happy to share on the forum (though I doubt it would fit!).

Anyone else got a story in the works?

[Moderator]

We can't post your story on the site but you're welcome to discuss writing in general terms. There is also a Social Group you can join.

[JRLauer]

I wrote a couple of stories in my college days. One of them I entered into a fiction contest. The rules stated that anything sent in became the property of those running the contest. A warning to other writers, don't do that. Three years later, I saw my story on the silver screen and I got nothing out of it.

[DarkWriter]

Do not sell yourself or work short. We are often most critical of our own work.

If you are not under the gun to have it published let it rest for a period of time. This means putting it away and forgetting about it. After a month or two, maybe three--take it out and read it as if someone else had written it. Mind you, as you are reading you will probably make a change here, edit a little there and make a few corrections...Nevertheless, when you have read the last word, on the last page, ask yourself if you saw it in a magazine would you take the time to read it--or better yet would you buy it.

If you have not read Stephen King On Writing, I think you will find it interesting as a fan and a writer.

As for your question, I always have something in the works. One day they will find me dead and buried under a mountain of pencil shavings.




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[Timur Takeshi]

I tried to write but I am afraid you don`t speak Russian...

[Anni M]

Have written little stories and illustrated them all my life, more for my family's amusement. Stories with morals and friendly pictures (but with a dark side--that will get the little buggers attention!!! ) for my younger brother and sisters, later on, my child enjoyed them...I wrote some for him, of course...one, a neat little story about the seasons changing and what happens as they do.
Then just after joining the SKMD, something smacked me in the haid and I popped out 2 large novella's back to back-- novel size, maybe? Both books were around 60,000 words. I can't believe those came out of me. They aren't bad, but I don't care if they never see the light of day.
Anyway. I wrote a little longer, tested out the erotica genre and wrote a few shorties before taking on videos.

[Bryan James]

Four books, two on hold...the other two I bounce back and forth as the mood takes me, but they're progressing. Sneak in a (very) short story here and there. I am a horribly unregimented writer.

BJS

[Kim L.]

As a kid, I made up stories about a family of puppies to tell my younger brothers & sisters on long car rides and I wrote poems. Wrote some short stories, starting in high school. No publications except for one of the "Dark and Stormy Night" Bulwer-Lytton series (a contest to write the worst opening sentence of a novel). I think mine was in "Bride of Dark And Stormy."

[Solar-Pavlova]

So Anni M, have you any tips for writing for the erotic genre as i have wrote a few lines to test 'em out on myself and a friend.

I would love to finish my book but I have started a screenplay also for an idea I had before I started my book.

But I'm kinda stuck as to where to take the direction, and as for poetry it's none stop, constant writing.

[Anni M]

As a kid, I made up stories about a family of puppies to tell my younger brothers & sisters on long car rides and I wrote poems. Wrote some short stories, starting in high school. No publications except for one of the "Dark and Stormy Night" Bulwer-Lytton series (a contest to write the worst opening sentence of a novel). I think mine was in "Bride of Dark And Stormy."