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Fic Talk => General Discussion => Topic started by: honey on April 18, 2008, 08:46:49 PM
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Ok, since there hasn't been too much writing chatter around these boards lately, I've thought of a topic I'd love to hear some thoughts on.
Writing short stories. It seems impossibly hard. Lets say you have to write a short story and you have a 2000 word limit, how do you go about coming up with an idea? How do you tell an entire story in 2000 words? Is there a trick to it? Are there ideas that work better than others? And if you just write about like a specific moment, ie your first day at school, or your first kiss, or the day your dog died... are those considered complete stories?
I only ask because I was thinking about writing an essay for the annual writers digest competition because I have a cute idea. But then it got me thinking that it might be fun to write a short story too, and I realized that I have no idea how I would do that.
Anyway, I do it for the challenges all the time, but I'm basing it all around a picture then or I'm using the BSB which are characters that we all already know. How do you write an original short story, that introduces new characters, has a plot, and is a complete story all in 2000 words? Ideas? Suggestions?
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I think short stories are hard too. I went through a phase where I liked to write them, but now it seems too hard to tell a good story in only a few pages.
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I LOVE writing short stories. Maybe it's because I have such a short attention span lol but I love the challenge of creating a full idea out of a scene. I try to leave my shorts open ended so if I want to I can always go back and add more.
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I don't like writing short stories because my brain works on epic proportions. lol
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I don't like writing short stories because my brain works on epic proportions. lol
For me too. I like writing them, but I don't have many. Every time I set out to write a short story, it turns into like 300 pages.
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I had to write a short story for class yesterday. Its okay when you do it to just mess around. But if you have to do it when you don't want to, its hard as hell.
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For me too. I like writing them, but I don't have many. Every time I set out to write a short story, it turns into like 300 pages.
Three hundred pages isn't bad.... That's still pretty short...
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Three hundred pages isn't bad.... That's still pretty short...
True. LOL But I have some that are really long. :D