Writing Exercise: Short Story: "Edie"

[Jeff Burton]

Howdy!

Here is a story story composed along the lines of the only writing exercise given in Stephen's book On Writing. It's called Edie

The exercise is to describe a situation without thinking about plot.

It worked! And was quite an eye opener for me. I've been stuggling with a historical novel I'm calling The Amarna Letter and the idea of plot has given me lots of headaches.

Now I'll just look at each event as a situation (basically what I had been doing all along).

If you enjoy it please drop me a line at

Spoiler: email address

jeff@successlanguages.com

Jeff
Short Story: Edie

 

[FlakeNoir]

Howdy!

Here is a story story composed along the lines of the only writing exercise given in Stephen's book On Writing. It's called Edie

The exercise is to describe a situation without thinking about plot.

It worked! And was quite an eye opener for me. I've been stuggling with a historical novel I'm calling The Amarna Letter and the idea of plot has given me lots of headaches.

Now I'll just look at each event as a situation (basically what I had been doing all along).

If you enjoy it please drop me a line at

Spoiler: email address

jeff@successlanguages.com

Jeff
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Sorry Jeff, but the link isn't working it is just taking us to a log-in page. Is it possible for you to log in, then open your story in another window and then copy the URL address of that window and post it here? (I'm not sure if this will make a difference or not.)

Edit: I am just going to change the title of your thread also to better reflect the thread content.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Jeff, I have edited your original post to include the correct URL, it should all be working fine now.

 

[Jeff Burton]

Thanks Flake, just the right thing! I'm totally new to this.

Deeply appreciated

 

[FlakeNoir]

Thanks Flake, just the right thing! I'm totally new to this.

Deeply appreciated

No worries at all, my pleasure.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...aw Geez. now she's gonna get a swelled melon.....

 

[Jeff Burton]

...aw Geez. now she's gonna get a swelled melon.....

That she is, but his even more..

 

[Jeff Burton]

I dare ANYONE to read just the first chapter and stop, don't think you can do it....

 

[FlakeNoir]

I dare ANYONE to read just the first chapter and stop, don't think you can do it....

I did read through chapter one and part of chapter two a couple of nights ago. (was interrupted by the phone)
I think the writing is very good and I did want to read on to see where the story was going. (am hoping for a twist)

 

[Jeff Burton]

Thanks

I tried not to deviate (I like that word) too much from SK's writing assignment, stuck pretty tight to it. Are you familar with the assignment?
That was when I thought HE would possibly read it.
Twists are coming but it pretty much conforms to that assignment, not very original I know. I hope you felt interested enough to finish it, pretty sure you won't be disappointed