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Phone

September 1st 2008 01:03

Prompt: Write a story Under 50 word. Mine;

Phone

Kai answers his phone from bed.
“Hello?”
The caller is frantic, he can barely understand her garbled mantra, ‘he’s dead, he’s dead’.
“What? Who?”
“Liam!”
“I don’t know a Liam.”
A pause.
“Max?”
“This is Kai.”
She hangs up. Wrong number. Kai returns to bed, unable to sleep.

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Favourite Book and Why in Under 10 Words

August 9th 2008 11:54

Favourite Book and Why in Under 10 Words.

Give your favourite book, and say why in ten words or less.

Favourite book: A Clockwork orange.

Reason: Incredible mastery of English coupled with complex themes and morals.

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Question of the Day

August 7th 2008 06:44

Is Writing a honorable profession?
If so, why? If Not, Why?

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Question of the day…

August 6th 2008 11:50

If we read a book of fiction that we read because of the author’s other fame (such as Nicole Richie or Steve Martin’s books), than isn’t our desire for truth really only wrapped up and protected beneath the thin veneer of fiction?

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Why Do You Write?

August 1st 2008 11:21

I know why I write… but more on that later… what about YOU?

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I Love Us All

July 25th 2008 13:47

I love how we are all twisted in our own delusion we are the greatest, no matter how much we pretend otherwise

I love how people say humans are inherintly evil yet struggle to explain why babies smile

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My Question for Writers

July 2nd 2008 13:10

Where does your morality stand?

Do you intentionally or accidentally create moral worlds in your stories in which good is rewarded and evil punished

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10 Heroes That Need to be Written.

June 2nd 2008 10:28

1. Like Bond but Gay. We never see gay heroes. Wouldn't that be just fantastic though?

2. A disabled hero would be great. Perhaps in a wheelchair or something? Maybe a mental disability. Can you imagine the potential for a Manic Depressive Hero struggling to get the girl and save the day? Or Schizophrenic, or MPD. Autism and OCD Heroes tend to be fantastically complex, but are quickly becoming a stereotype. What kind of struggles could your hero face in this way

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Stories with a Carrot #1

April 11th 2008 13:48

I dreamed of carrots on my third day of the diet. Like, clouds, big ugly orange clouds, in the air. And not made of carrot juice, like at first seemed (in the world of this dream anyway) to be the real logical possibility, but made of actual tiny carrots, like nanobots in that ‘grey goo’ scenario

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High Metabolism

March 7th 2008 11:03

She looked alright, not the sort of girl who would transform into an evil monster and devour my head. Back then I was happy that she was a normal human being. She suggested we go to this fancy sounding restaraunt. I had never done the whole 'dinner at a fancy restaraunt' thing and I wasn't too keen on it but that was what she wanted.

Upon arriving and being seated we were given fancy menus which was a kind of first for me as the only menus I've ever seen tend to be hanging up on walls. The food also had strange names, I'm more accustomed to 'chicken shnitzel' than 'Torrone Artigianle' what's worse is that the meal came in courses meaning I had to find three different things to eat on the one night out of this god awful meal. The waiter asks what drink I'd like, I wasn't listening carefully but I think he phrased it in a really lame way. Any other day I'd have a witty response but not tonight, I was in a building full of people with no sense of humour

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Microfiction – My Son, Thomas.

March 3rd 2008 12:59

I arrive at the airport. The place is white. Light. Sterile. There is the hustling flow of people, kitchness, tiredness, shuffling and snatches of conversation.

Jesus. I need a ciggie, real bad. Or something. Check watch – fuck sake. Plane wasn’t even delayed

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10 Simple Rules in Writing

February 27th 2008 11:32

1. Shorter sentences are often better.
2. Don’t vary words for ‘said’ too much. ‘Said’ is often better than ‘yelled’, ‘stated’, ‘exclaimed’ etc.
3. Two adjectives max. per noun

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Should I kill him?

February 25th 2008 12:18

One of the great questions that authors face is the question of killing off characters. When should I, etc. This list should help out.

YES IF

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Writing Competition - $40 Prize Money.

February 21st 2008 12:11

Downwrite.net are very please to be holding a writing competition. Submit your original work – short stories, poems, articles, rants – and leave at least one Email address for contact, and you could win $40 Prize Money. Deadline is March 10th, so get moving.

You can Submit your work HERE.
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