Forum: Writers


Subject: Meet the Neighbours

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.