Accidental Plan B

[suityou01]

Not a huge Plan B, more an idea for a minor plan B.

Although I write documentation, I've always thought I had a block when writing essays in a creative way (it came from school and has never really left me).

But I've discovered that not only can I write, I enjoy it, and it seems that others enjoy reading it too.

Now I just have to think about how I do more of it...

I think we need a taster before the panel can decide. 1000 words or so. I need to be riveted, and wanting more by the end.

Off yer toddle

[cojak]

I think we need a taster before the panel can decide. 1000 words or so. I need to be riveted, and wanting more by the end.

Off yer toddle

There ya go!

(Not quite what you were expecting, I know - but it's a start! )

[SueEllen]

There ya go!

(Not quite what you were expecting, I know - but it's a start! )

I read that.

Want a more exciting example.

(Though to be honest that was more exciting than the usual drivel the site provides as news.)

[ctdctd]

There ya go!

(Not quite what you were expecting, I know - but it's a start! )

Nooooooo - that's boring Monday to Friday stuff.

We want a story
We want a story
We want a story

[SueEllen]

Nooooooo - that's boring Monday to Friday stuff.

We want a story
We want a story
We want a story

[stek]

I once wrote something that was read out by David Baddiel on telly on Unplanned, was a funny-at-the-time piece about West Bromwich Albion signing Saddam Hussein as their new striker, blatantly stolen by a WBA fanzine cos that's not who I wrote it for....

DB read it out, mentioning the no-football policy on Unplanned, made exception to take the piss out of Frank Skinner.

Now I admit I could possibly have dreamt this, but I'm sure it happened! I've torrented as many eps as I can find but can't find this ep.

Freaking sure it happened now tho!

[Drewster]

Erotic fiction?

....... I need to be riveted, and wanting more by the end.......

Oi Suity - Its meant to be Cojak doing the erotic stuff!

[xoggoth]

Been doing it for some time myself. Technical writing is a good start in my view, teaches you to hone things to what is strictly necessary though some like a lot of description and intricate subplots and poetic language of course.

Join a writers' club, having to to write something every month or whatever forces a bit of discipline on you. Most recent one is a bit Woman's Owny but then the club is mostly full of old ladies.

http://www.xoggoth.org/pages/xoggoth10.html#candle