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Short Stories Short Stories, usually between 500 and 2000 words.

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Old 07-10-2007, 03:28 PM   #16
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He's a doctorate. And he still needs help.
No worries, Lucas.
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Old 07-10-2007, 03:30 PM   #17
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Old 07-10-2007, 04:31 PM   #18
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I agree with voodoo - read. Everything you read will make you write better.
But seriously, don't give up. Do you think any of the great authors out there are flaunting the first thing they ever wrote? Of course not. The only way you can get better is to keep writing.
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Old 07-10-2007, 07:11 PM   #19
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Voodoo is right about reading, read stuff you enjoy and then wonder what it was about it that made it good for you. You can phrase things well sometimes, some of your posts are well phrased, when you are being specific mostly. My advice would be to write about what is around you, most of your readers are thousands of miles away, try and see it for them, carry a note book and a pencil (pens leak) and jot a note when you see something, it needn't be much, just enough to take you back there, then you can work out the exact form later. It may not seem as exciting stuff as you are writing here but there is nothing to stop you putting down plot ideas as well, read the plot lines they give under the tv listings and see if you can get your plot down to that few lines, you will find you can draw on your other writing to flesh it out in a believable way, just because you use something once don't mean you can't do it again in a different place, it's yours and you can do what you like with it, how liberating and empowering is that?
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Old 07-11-2007, 11:20 AM   #20
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Another thing- your conversations are rich wrich with ideass. I've gotten tons of poems and plotlines from my convos, mostly because everyone I know is out of their mind. I even wrote a story about some of my real life happenings as an exercise, and it was quite fun to read if the prose is clear.
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