Post your favourite first sentence, preferably from a novel, novella, or short story. Judgments should be made only on the sentence itself. Don't...
I've been editing my first written work for almost a couple months. I think I've pieced together some good parts that I can be somewhat proud of....
(Sorry in advance that I'm terrible at explaining myself, thus making this post ridiculously long.) I'm writing a collection of short stories...
Hey friends. My name is Anais and I write with my middle name as my surname. I'm really excited to join this site and make some friends; although...
Hi all~ So, I normally write novels and short stories, but this one story is just sort of complete as a novella. I've tried to expand it, to turn...
Which might have ruined my ability to search the forum for topics related. Actually forum mechanics I tend to suck at all the same. Concept being...
So I am new the writing scene, brand new in fact. But I am not actually new to the industry. I'm an illustrator who has recently started writing...
Afternoon, I have an Agents who have expressed interesting in ready my Crime Novel. I am doing some final polishing on it before I send it to...
Hi, I'm part way through the second novella in my Wizard at Law series, and looking for interesting ideas as to what my wizard Thomas Crow can...
Sounds like a bit of a silly question, but exactly how long, or short is a short story? I've think I've read one or two that were approximately...
Hello Writing Forum Folks, My stock bio is below. I am here because while I have been on many open publish sites like Goodreads, Readwave, and...
Hi Everyone. You should know, I hate the terms "politically correct" and "see no evil, hear no evil". I've been writing for quite awhile now, and...
Hello I've only fairly recently started getting serious about writing and thought it best to start with a series of short stories. With...
this is in reply to: the first thing you notice about a book? so I was thinking do we really need a title to a story? sometimes I pick up a book...
I'm currently remaking an old novella of mine and making it longer and more detailed, along with a few added and deleted plot points, but I've got...
I've been sitting on a novella for a while because I'm not really certain what to do with it. I know agents don't tend to touch them and most...
I'm writing a science fiction novella, would that go under "short stories" or "novels?"
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