Mallory O'Bier

@kate-flournoy No smoke? That was anti-climatic 🙁 😀

@perfectfifths Yep. She’s pretty sweet. A lot of people around here read her regularly.

@PerfectFifths um… well… what they said. 😛 Thanks guys.
I’ll come back if I think of anything else. 😉

@daeus Oh, and the blogger is a Christian. Bonus! I always love finding Christian writers – it’s a wonderful mix, isn’t it? 😀

@perfectfifths. I know. It’s pretty sweet.

@daeus Wow, that article on Boba Fett was, wow 😀 I never realised before you can develop so much character with one line/thought/action/look. Thanks for that!

@dragon-snapper (Having just seen the BFG, your name sounds like something he would say 😉 ) Yes, I have gotten the advice of keeping minimum description, etc, that is something I will keep in mind as I write.

@kate-flournoy *waves away smoke* *cough cough* I look forward to it!

@daeus Ah, I hadn’t thought of that before, writing a scene rather…[Read more]

What @dragon-snapper said. Focus on vivid verbs for writing. Here’re some initial thoughts, @perfectfifths . . .

–The plot will be prime in a super short story.
–Characters have to make choices.
–A short story is like a one-act play or a short film. Every moment escalates the story until you reach the climax at the end.
–Keep dialogue sparse.…[Read more]

@perfectfifths What I would recommend is don’t think of this as if you need to plan a plot. Plot carries the connotation of something big. Just write one scene (i.e. a firefighter rescues a girl from a burning house.) It’s really not that hard to keep one scene short.

The thing then is making the scene meaningful. You can think of this scene as…[Read more]

I shall return. Never fear. *disappears in a poof of smoke*

@perfectfifths

Um…Well, I can honestly say that I don’t know too much about writing short stories, especially not 1,500 word short ones. Yeah, that definitely is crazy. Probably why there is a reward in the first place. 😛 I had to write a short story once that was only 1000 words, and I managed to keep it down to 900. I really just wrote down whatever came…[Read more]