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Oct 04, 2005 21:43

i am incapable of writing a short story. here is why. i write 1,000 beginnings and they never go anywhere. i can't finish anything. ever. i always start books and never finish them. see? this is a problem.

why do my characters always stop?!!!!!!!!!!!

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tourniquet737 October 5 2005, 02:00:44 UTC
Ha, you sound like me, but I have 1,000 endings with no middles and barely any beginnings.

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lazy_boring_man October 5 2005, 02:07:43 UTC
I'm pretty good at writing short stories, but my endings never end up being what I thought they would be when I wrote the beginnings.

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boomaholic October 5 2005, 02:12:42 UTC
People come and go...

Sometimes it's best to not know everything about someone.

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skatendrum October 5 2005, 02:44:15 UTC
i do that.

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astarfalling October 5 2005, 23:26:31 UTC
i've heard you are supposed to have an end in mind when you start a story, and then you begin writing already knowing how it's going to end. i think that's what jk rowling said.

however, i like to see where my characters go ... let them take on their own lives and minds ...

... but i always leave room for a salinger-esque twist at the end :)

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blindnikolai October 7 2005, 03:20:02 UTC
JK Rowling also barrages her readers with an overabundance of adjectives, something like 15 per noun.

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