Questions

I want to write a story but I think of an idea. Ideas usually just come to me. I want to write a good fiction story about werewolves or time travelers, or something else interesting but i’m stuck. please help.
- peanut

I’m just looking for some ideas on what to write my creative non-fiction story about.
- Halley

 Last week we started talking about writing groups and how the support within can help you on your road to writing success.  Every month I can talk to the group and express my fears, writing blocks and other issues and gain encouragement and even ideas to help me move on to the next step.

     Writing exercises and games are something we do in writing group to liven things up and get the creative juices flowing.  Some of my and others best short stories have come from writing exercises.  To me, these exercises cause me to go to my creativity and flow.  By flow I mean just start writing without trying to think everything through.  Like an artist, I go to the creative side of my brain instead of the logical side and before I know it the story is on paper.  Logic is okay in editing but gets in the way during the initial write.

    Connections made during writing groups can be fruitful.  Many groups have guest speakers such as editors, published authors and even publishers that can give you valuable insight into their world, what they think and what they want in a story.  Groups can also open doors to conferences, workshops and online groups that can again broaden your perspective on things and possibly allow you to meet someone who can help your career.

    One of our meetings was about getting your work professionally edited and an editor/writing coach from another state came in and talked about what she did.  I had brought along a small non-fiction work I had written in case the opportunity came to show her.  She glanced at it and asked me to send the first 10 pages by email for her to check out later. 

     She liked the non-fiction thoughts I had but asked me if I had ever considered taking these thoughts and turning them into a fiction story that might be more interesting for the readers.  Turning the principles I believed into fiction had not really crossed my mind but I decided to take the thoughts in one chapter and write a story.

     It quickly grew into fifty pages and we began talking by phone and email.  Her insights were invaluable and I hired her to edit my work.  My first novel is finished and edited with the second in the series two thirds of the way completed.  I have ideas enough for at least a seven book series and all of it grew from a writing group meeting where I made a life-changing connection. 

    So do not despise the day of small beginnings…classes, groups and just plain hard work.  You never know where these can lead…next week we will look at getting started writing through journaling…


- Jennifer Hallmark

can any1 tell me a short fiction story… Please im not really good at english but i need to make a short fiction story to take my english course for SUMMER SCHOOL!

I kno its wrong but… im not a kind of person who can make stories up and stuff.. please help..

Or can u please giv me a idea of a short story tell me the beggining, middle and the ending please!
- lucky ?

it has to be 4-10 pages long and the overall theme has to be biology. some people are writing CSI type stories but i dont really want to do that. does anyone have ideas for a story about ecology or viruses/bacteria? or anything relating to biology. thanks in advance!!
- Kelly

Okay…

Theres this girl named Brittney who goes to Willow-Oak boarding school who is kinda popular, she has a upbeat, bubbly personality and shes just plain fun to be around. She has blonde gold hair, with vivid green eyes. She isn’t like by this one girl (list evil names, but no victoria or courtney, too simply evil, somthing nice i guess) and she always fights with her. She got her angry one day by ticking her off all day, in every class,

(1- she got a better quiz grade 2- she chose the project miss evil wanted and only one person could do each project in that class i guess 3- the last pizza for lunch was taken by brittney and miss evil had to eat liver and lima beans 4- miss evil answers a question wrong and then her stomach growls LOUDLY cuz shes hungry from lunch and brittney answers it right. WOW! bad day for miss evil!)

so miss evil says to her that she’ll get back at her someday and brittney just guesses that nothing she does can hurt her in anyway.
…But you see, miss evil never said she’ll hurt BRITTNEY. she just said she’ll get BACK at her.

See what i mean?

So then brittney is too busy to notice that miss evil hasn’t done anything yet. Meanwhile during occassional visits from White Oak Academy For All Boys gets Brittney friendly (seriously, friendly, nothing more) with a boy named Alex. These people that are superiors in boarding schools have to come to check out the school status and the way the girls behave. On a weekend, though, Brittney hears yelling from the basement, and goes to check it out, when a superior stops her. She tells her that she hears yelling. They check it out, and Alex is in the basement holding a long metal pole. a superior is on the ground, with his head bleeding, and from the scene, the other superior thinks that alex should be expelled immediately.

Thats all for book one, but what should miss evil be called, and title of series???
thanks JRH im naming it

“Issues of a Commonly Secretive Girl”

or

Secrets of The Boarding School

if not that, please try to include secrets or commonly or common in the title please!!!
- ArchAngel

i had to write a short fiction story for my english II class
so now, after spending the better part of this week, and scrapping 7 stories before this one, i have finally completed a first draft
i still have lots of editing to do, but what do you think:

[it wont all fit, so you can find it on my livejournal]
http://xkillerpiratex.livejournal.com/
- plastic_trees

I have to write a short american historical fiction story based on freedom, but i want it to be interesting, like coming from two people’s points of view or something. I don’t have a plot line or anything yet, so any ideas are welcome!

Thanks <33
- Danielle

Aight i got this cool short story that i think is really good if u want to check it out go to this site http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/topic25266.html
tell me wat u think and if its good enough, where could i submit it?
this is not the final draft, i was unable to send it to that site again. I have the final done. Everything like the grammer was fixed.
- Eric

I have to make 2 questions using a short story that’s non-fiction and they have to be about the authors choice of a particular structure how would I do that?
- ??Rawr??