short stories
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Since I hopped on board for A Round of Words in 80 Days late for this round, I gave myself a pretty simple goal…and have roundly been doing a terrible job of keeping up with it. Last week, I said I wanted to at least be up to five pages by this point; I’ve just…
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I may actually have a new project on my hands, which is exciting, but the project came up very randomly while shooting the breeze with some of the girls at work, so who knows if it will actually come into fruition? If anything, I have a new short story idea and I’ll be attempting to…
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I may potentially have a new short story in the works, which is exciting, because I’ve been feeling in a terrible rut for ideas on short fiction. But it did get me thinking a little bit. See, it’s rooted very firmly in an actual experience that happened to me not too long ago, interposed with…
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What makes a story good? What is it that makes a collection of words thrown together to put together a picture or a story or an action appealing to a person who looks at it and think, ‘Ah, that was enjoyable’? What do people want to read? I find myself asking these questions today as…
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Every so often, I have a dream so vivid and inspired that it needs to be remembered for use in a story one day. It would be a shame, after all, to let those plots go to waste. I’m notoriously bad at forgetting what I dreamed about an hour or so after I wake up,…
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Sometimes, something as small as just sitting my butt down in front of my computer and working on a short story or even writing up one of these little blurbs takes a lot of dedication. I have adopted the terrible habit of not getting things done unless they’re of the utmost paramount importance. Granted, writing…
L.S. Engler 