It's only 550 words · 8:18pm Oct 7th, 2012
I've written barely anything fanfiction related in about five weeks now. My Youtubing really has ben pulling me away, but it's not like I;ve been doing no writing at all. I've been attempting to improve my writing a bit by working on the "Show Don't Tell" rule, which I seem to be bad at, at times. However, it's not like you have to strictly follow that rule. There is a time and place for telling. The trick is to find a balance between showing and telling. You can't just have all showing becuase then you would have nothing but long drawn out descriptions, and you can't just tell because it would be really short. I'm looking to go back and improve one of my previous fics and also improve the new Spiral fic before I update it again. Hopefully I will do this soon, though I can't promise anything unfortunatly. Work is picking up a lot lately too and I have a class at school that is literally just about working on a freakishly huge project (And I was defaulted as the leader of my group which sucks becuase I'm a C type personality.)
Anyway, I thought posting some of the stories from the monthly Writer's Group prompts would be a nice way to at least put up something until I can actually finish writing something new. I practically have chapter two of Spiral written, I just have to sit down and finish it. By the way, regarding those monthly prompts, anyone in the Writer's Group is free to write for them. The rule is 550 words or less, which is both easy and challenging and strangly fun when you get into it. I only mention this because only about 1% of our members participate in it (and we currently have 767 members). That number is so small I have to think it's more because people just don't know about it. How could there really be only 12 out of 767 people that feel like writing 550 words that you have around half a month to write? It dosn't have to be pure gold or anything, just write it as a challenge to yourself, even just to keep yourself writing. Someone somewhere once said that the best stories are told in as few words as possible. Did you ever hear that six word story that I think was written by Hemingway?
"Baby shoes for sell. Never worn."
I have to amdmit this approach to this group you talk about is how I tackle my writing sometimes.