Well, it’s not my first and I certainly hope it’s not my last. It’s actually my entry for last week’s NovelDoctor contest. His challenges are so much fun. We were given three first sentences & three last sentences to choose among. Here’s what I chose. First sentence: Somewhere between roof and the pavement, Sam remembered [...]
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My First & Last Story
Posted in My Short Stories, My Writing, tagged contest, Novel Doctor, short story, writing on August 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Word I Never Knew (A Short Story)
Posted in My Short Stories, My Writing, tagged contest, short story, Three-Minute Fiction, writing on August 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Well, here’s the story I promised to post that I wrote for NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction contest. I’m couldn’t come up with a good title, so I finally decided just to call it “Choices”. I’m still not satisfied with that though. I’d like to hear what others think of it. I’ll have another short to put [...]
My Very Short Story Edited
Posted in My Short Stories, My Writing, tagged editing, Novel Doctor, short story, writing on July 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today, my entry was featured by the NovelDoctor on his blog. He showed my original, plus two rewrites as he would change it. He also gave some comments about why he made those changes. Read it here. I liked what he did and have no major objections. You can read my comments to his post [...]
A Very Short Story
Posted in My Short Stories, My Writing, tagged contest, creativity, inspiration, Novel Doctor, short story, writing on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Part of the “reading about writing” I’ve been doing lately is on the NovelDoctor blog. It’s a fairly new blog written by an editor, Stephen Parolini. While informative, it is also very entertaining. He recently had a contest challenging his readers to write a scene, 200 words, including a wristwatch. I decided to enter it, [...]
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