@Ashes: The Dead is an old classic, but I've always thought Joyce was a little too puzzling for casual reading. His stories beg for critical analysis and don't offer much up on first, second, or even third readings..
The Dead is the only story in all of Dubliners that really spoke to a profound world, the rest spoke to the profane.
Word count, ~3000.
>_<
Trust Joyce to have profoundness resonate amidst the mundane.
Far too many of us walk through our lives without looking to stretch ourselves; dead and buried in the routine. Looking for control, when we ought to really, perhaps, be mindful of the ever-vanishing present.
Oh wow, I had to cut around 700 last challenge I did and it was toughhh. But uh... good luck!
Save the extra words for DLC.I got a little over-excited I guess. This is the first thing I've written in a setting I've been thinking about for a while now. Which... is probably also why it reads more like the first chapter of a novel than like a short story.
Oh well, I'll chop the shit out of it and see if I can make it reasonable.
Oh well, I'll chop the shit out of it and see if I can make it reasonable.
nevah
I started writing something for this, but I haven't written anything fiction in years and it's pretty shit. I'm at like 700 words atm. Not sure if I should finish just to get feedback or wait for the next one. It did feel good to be writing something that wasn't a research paper or lit review
Finish! My experience has been that the important thing isn't whether it's good, but whether it's done.
After all, it can always become good later!
Is there like a common password everyone uses?
And is it okay that I used Google Docs? I see everyone else is using Dropbox
BTW, am I allowed to vote if I don't write a story?
(Pretty sure I was thinking of you when I wrote that. )
What would happen if they wrote those stories down?
Tone and tempo and body language in physical storytelling cover a lot of the same territory prose does in writing. And in the sorts of cases you're describing, with the difficulty of getting the story parsed out easily ascribable to something physical, it's probably easier to sit through than bad prose that just rounds off to "this person can't write."
I dunno, man. I can't think of any examples off the top of my head of something where actively bad prose writing was overcome by good storytelling.
I don't think that's necessarily true. One can simply have a lot of free time, and enjoy reading, but not writing. Browsing through the stories here, it really isn't that many pages to read all together.I'm always impressed that people can read all the stories in a weekend even if they haven't submitted anything. Sign of a very avid reader and therefore a strong writer
I don't think that's necessarily true. One can simply have a lot of free time, and enjoy reading, but not writing. Browsing through the stories here, it really isn't that many pages to read all together.
This cave is not a natural formation.
How much time do I have left?
How much time do I have left?
Ummmmmm.