FranOnTheEdge opened this issue on Aug 11, 2006 · 11 posts
dialyn posted Fri, 11 August 2006 at 12:11 PM
Good questions. :)
I've written one play (for a college class).
Hundreds of bad poems.
A novella (for a college class).
Dozens of short stories.
Two novels (desperately in need of editing).
Those are all completed things. I have endless scraps of words here, there and everywhere.
I like Shirley Jackson type stories...everything seems calm and normal on the surface, but something peculiar is going on behind the doors. I have read in the classics and science fiction (mostly when I was in college, but those are still my favorite. I think every story, no matter what genre, is improved by having some suspense. I prefer tightly written stories rather than ones that take ten pages to describe a sunrise. I love theater, but I am too verbose to write for the stage.