Lauren2010

Short Jam #1 Struggling to get started on your first short? Join us for a short jam, featuring 4 photo prompts to help you get moving! Jam will start at: ...

May 2 Your main character is on a mission or journey of some sort but get interrupted by every possible thing. No matter how hard they try to make it ...

May 1st Your main character talks to a ghost about anything you like. Return to Prompt Log

Show Us Your Shorts! Join us for the first annual Short Story Month on YWS! Throughout the month of May, we'll be celebrating the art of writing short stories, with ...

Show Us Your Shorts! Achievement Log This is a thread for linking your short stories during Show Us Your Shorts month. You have to post links to your stories (published ...

Need some inspiration to help get you through the month? Check this thread for a new writing prompt every day during May! Daily Prompt Log: May 1 May 2 May ...

Hi! So a few questions that might help get the ball rolling: Whose perspective is the story told from? The nurse or the survivor? What does the main character want? ...

@Holysocks I love what you're saying about tailoring a review to the writer. This is really important! And a great way to build relationships that lead to even better reviews ...

@Rosendorn I think you mistunderstand what I mean! "your sentences make everything sound distant because you use x structure, use y structure to improve" is different advice from "this sentence ...

In preparation for a future project, I'm interested in reading something with a deaf protagonist. Preferably a book that incorporates sign language into the dialogue. Recommendations?

@Tenyo oh god I would hate to look back at some of my earliest reviews. I'm sure I've left plenty of pretentious reviews myself xD It's all part of the ...

I'm posting this in Fiction Discussion because even though this guide is applicable to anything, I hope to let it lead into other guides about how to review specific aspects ...

I think I've only ever written one story in present tense and it was a very short story. I feel like present tense requires more stylistic frill which is hard ...

While *personally* I find the passage above too graphic for my own tastes, what matters is what you're trying to do as an artist. So long as you're using the ...

A mass killing would probably be more disorienting for your readers than anything. I suggest spacing it out a bit if you're really committed to killing 19 characters. What I ...