I get great ideas that I want to follow, but they just end up leading me nowhere. It leads into mind numbing exposition and excessive description....
Hi! Do you have any suggestions/tips/don’ts that I should take note of if I want to write a detective story?
Hi guys, Normally, when I think of a new story, I think of a coherent plot or a character, but this time it's just been a vague idea, that I am...
How do you determine which ideas to chase and which ones to put on the back-burner (or let go all together)? What's your process when new story...
What do you love about your story? I don't mean specifics about characters or plot. I don't mean the war of words or problem solving, but tell us...
Played Xenoverse, then I played Need for Speed, and then I found myself asking what would happen if superpowered characters were streetracers,...
How do you tackle it in story writing? Do you detail it from experience or is it totally imaginary?
I finished a literary fiction short story around 5,000 words. It is in third person. It is about two insecure, validation seeking men slowly...
Hey everyone, my story is a milieu story. Before the events of the book, the world has changed drastically, and habitants are trying to survive...
I am planning on making a mystery novel soon focusing on a high-school aged detective ala Nancy Drew, except in the POV of his journal as he is...
I have thought about this a lot and so I turn to you what is the ideal end to a story? Teary eyes or happy ending?
Since the thought of my WIP being flawed is more terrifying than it should be (since it's a given that an idea is flawed and can be improved),...
The genre is literary fiction 5k words Let me know if you're interested in helping a brotha out!
So like write a scene or just the plot of your story something like this, I'll use mine as an example: "Local Man uses magic space tech to turn...
I have a grasp on where my characters need to go, and what they'll do when they get there, however writing the travel portion of the story itself...
Hi everyone! So this could either be a bit of fun or it could be incredibly dull and get washed away by something infinitely more interesting in...
Yesterday on my way home, I befriended a cat, was real friendly and playful. Sucker bit me. In a friendly cat aroused way. ... Of course I...
Doing camp Nano this year, one of the offers was a three-month free coupon code for this thing called Story Shop. As far as offers go, it`s not a...
I'm not from the south, but I have written a few short stories that take place there. One of them deals with the border so we're talking right on...
I already submitted this story after it was beta read before but I needed to make changes. Now I'm sending it off again. It is a literary fiction...
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