Current Events > 1.5 hours to write 4 pages of a short story

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this will not be a very good short story...

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I do all my best writing within 2 hours of the deadline.

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ITT We write Doe's short story one sentence at a time

It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen

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Write a story about a stately manor house that's been in an extremely rich family for generations. The family is very posh and high-class with certain standards its always upheld. Eventually, the only surviving member is a drunken drug addict who treats the manor like a crackhouse. It turns out the manor is sentient and disapproves of the way it's being treated.

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When his parents built a very strange machine

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pegusus123456 posted...

Write a story about a stately manor house that's been in an extremely rich family for generations. The family is very posh and high-class with certain standards its always upheld. Eventually, the only surviving member is a drunken drug addict who treats the manor like a crackhouse. It turns out the manor is sentient and disapproves of the way it's being treated.

Sounds like the kinda thing you would see on r/writing prompts

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I submitted it on the minute it was due lol. It wasn't that bad honestly, I already know it will be better than the other we'll workshop on the same day because that one's some guy's overly elaborate fantasy about magical furries with historical Japan setting and mythology.

Dude he fucking used the word CUNICULAR. "Of or pertaining to the characteristics of a rabbit." This dude's high on thesaurus fumes. The first line is "I felt my tabi covered feet hit the road", apparently a tabi is a traditional Japanese sock, like we get it dude you're a weeb. I have nothing against weebery in your personal life, I'm a massive weeb myself, but when I need to look up a word in each of your sentences and you're a pasty white dude it's too much. He also invokes "odachi." That word LITERALLY MEANS SWORD DUDE. The rabbit has a fucking sword. Give it an adjective if you want but don't make a class full of normies Google Image search every line of your story.

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Well, what was yours about?

pikachupwnage posted...

Sounds like the kinda thing you would see on r/writing prompts

I hate r/writingprompts lol, it makes me mad how many objectively poorly constructed prompts get massive amounts of upvotes. Hard to say something like that without sounding like an elitist armchair pre-MFA but it frustrates me, and whenever I check the highly upvoted responses they, well, suck.

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NeoShadowhen posted...

Well, what was yours about?

A guy's roommate has a psychotic break and starts barring up their house because he hates their town (a midwestern truck stop kind of town where all the commerce is through traffic). Protagonist can't take it anymore, he has his operator license so he's going to live on the road for a while. He can't get the erratic sound of his roommate hammering nails out of his head. He sees trucking as an escape but meets a trucker who's a reflection of his roommate and has literally barred the driver's door of his cabin shut in a manner reminiscent of the roommate's neuroticism.

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Your protagonist is up against a rabbit with a sword. You're boned dude.

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3PiesAndAFork posted...

Your protagonist is up against a rabbit with a sword. You're boned dude.

My protagonist smokes so college students will find him more relatable, checkmate. I also have a basic grasp of grammar and syntax unlike the weeb guy lol. Rule number 1 of low-mid level CW classes: if your grammar is professional and you have really good comma placement, especially after people just workshopped an incomprehensible piece, everyone will just suck your dick for being readable


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Good luck. My attention span has gotten so bad that I can't even write a short story in a day. I have dozens of ideas at any given moment, even fairly fleshed out from beginning to end, and I still can't get them done. Forget about the 40 entry novella series I was working on <_<

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awesome999 posted...

ITT We write Doe's short story one sentence at a time

It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen

A guy made a sad post on a neckbeard forum and was sadly ignored.

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