(Monthly) Short Story Writing Prompts

Thanks about the info
I was about to create a clone for the sole purpose of finding out wether it left an alert or not XD

 

Well, now you know! \(^^)/

 

Sorrryyyyyyyy work called~!!!

Im presuming the runner up was You?

Im gonna resuggest You and villain grunt, cause i can~

you don't have to have it as meta tho? I think?
You can write the fiction in fiction, or u can have the chara ship other charas together?

 

There were 2 runner ups actually, both "It's all about you" and "villain grunt" were tied with 3 votes.

It seems like someone voted after the poll should've closed.

 

What. No. That's too convoluted.

 

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*still haven't started mine*

I'll do it! I swear I will! I loved this theme!!! >.<

*gets curious about the link*

... I'll get to it later... orz

 

Eh, salty as fuck about the theme as well. But what can we do?

And fuck me if I ever manage to write actual stories. All I've managed to do is pure dialogue.

 

Oh well, at least I enjoyed writing it, it's good enough for me.

Well, I don't think pure dialogue is bad, I made one or two pure dialogue stories as well.

The important thing is to have fun writing the prompts IMO! \(^^)/

 

That too I guess.
But pure dialogue is bad if it's the only thing you can write.

 

Well, that's just your style I guess, it's not bad IMO.

It's just not what people consider "quality literature", which is a bullshit concept IMO.

Like, if I write:


"Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy!", said person A.

"So, what about it?", said person B.

"It's craaaaaaaazy!!!!", said person A enthusiastically.


I'm doing quality writing, but if I write.


"Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy!" (Person A)

"So, what about it?" (Person B)

"It's craaaaaaaazy!!!!" (Person A)


I'm doing a bad job and showing that I'm not a good writer... And if I write:


"Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy!"

"So, what about it?"

"It's craaaaaaaazy!!!!"


Then I'm a trash writer.


I just don't care about this stuff overall, I think you shouldn't care either, just write what you feel like it, it's not like you own anything to whoever reads your work anyway.

 

I mean, I want to write narrative, but I've never been good at it.
For example, I'd never write anything like your first example, as I find it to just be too simple and generic, so I'd probably go with the second choice. You can already tell how enthusiastic the character is from their speech patterns, so why go add in some text that just ends up being redundant?
Also, without that little piece of text, you can also come to the conclusion that he's drunk or high, which seem to be pretty likely considering what the characters is doing, so it adds a bit more character to the person if you actually remove text.

 

Dunno, I think you get better with practice?

I can cringe really hard if I read my first reports at AG, but I got better! You just need to keep trying!

I feel the same, I feel the text is quite unnecessary, the punctuation, the context and the words themselves already show more than enough.

 

Keep trying.

:x

I feel like I give up too fast.

 

Well, if you have fun with it, I think it's good to keep trying.

If you have fun writing the way you do, I think it's good to stay at it as well.

You said you want to write proper narratives... I feel like it would be nice to try it then... At the same time, if you get annoyed by doing it, I feel like you shouldn't do it either.

Like, I tried planning what I was going to write before I actually wrote it... I ended up hating my story, so... I started writing everything whimsically like I always did at AG, I prefer to do things like this, even if things are supposedly better if you plan ahead.

I won't change the way I write just because of that... I think it's more or less the same situation?

 

I just get annoyed by my inability to create something that flows well.

 

Hmmmm... I don't know how to handle that.

I mean, I always thought I wrote well... Back when I started AG, I thought I wrote well... When I look back at it, I know I didn't, but I thought I did back then.

I don't know how to handle looking at your work and not feeling it goes well... Maybe try changing the style drastically? Perhaps something will come out of it.

 

Hmm, let's go for something different then. I'll tag you when I finish so you can compare it to my other stuff.

 

Alright! I'll do my best in trying to give a review!

... I don't think I'm usually good at it, but I'll try!

 

Oh, didn't know NUF has a monthly contest, whats the theme, maybe I still have a story lying around that fits the criteria