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12908574 No.12908574 [Reply] [Original]

Post your short story ideas. It's not like they're going anywhere.

>> No.12908592

>>12908574
is this pig stealing our ideas

>> No.12909308

>trying to write short stories
>turns out it's harder than expected
Just tried writing one about a mother pushing her own wishes and preferences on her daughter, even though the daughter doesn't have the same interests as her. Like the daughter hates gardening but the mother loves it, so she sends the daughter gardening tools when she's living at a college dorm and doesn't even have a yard, even when the daughter both told her she hates gardening and asked to not be given anything for christmas. But it just comes off as angsty teenage whining.

>> No.12909327

>>12909308
Also this is based off my own experience with my parents. So if they ever read it they're going to scream at me on the phone and go into hysterics. If I ever get published I will never, ever tell them my pen name.

>> No.12909560

“hey pige,” said the boy, “you stealing my ideas huh? well I’ll show you something.” the boy whipped out a good ol’ ham sub, topped with nothing but america’s finest cheese singles, which had been crafted slice by slice the night before by a large, handsome lady who, every so often, would bellow out commands to the boy like, “the gelatin! gelatin! time is money! gelatinous, squeaky cheese: squeak! squeaky nigger, you! ay get me that thing! the thing! you know what I’m saying about porchy! don’t look me in the eye not saying your prayers! prayers to Him! squeak for me!” at the thought of all this, the pige became aroused, growing good and long, outsizing his willy warmer at such great speed that it shot off in a sad little arch. “with a willy warmer, you can survive 23 winters in the croatian cold without any other article of clothing,” the boy said to himself, out loud, “and Oats!” just as the boy went to gather the cock sock, the pige, with a cute smile, patiently leaped at the good ol’ ham sub hanging pathetically in the boy’s limp left hand, and penetrated the meaty canal with one epic thrust. “dang it,” the boy whimpered, “my idea…”

>> No.12910732

A guy starts thinking he's the main character of a novel and the people around start worrying.

>> No.12912424

>>12908592
pige

>> No.12912438

>trying to write short story
>surpasses novella length
>lose interest in finishing it
How do I actually keep things short?

>> No.12912450

>>12912438
Make your ideas as succint as possible like witty sayings. Mark Twain is good at this..

>> No.12912487

>>12909560
not bad tbqh

>> No.12912492

>>12908574

What a horrible looking dog

>> No.12912640

>>12912438
I've written a few short stories and most come out around 1500 words. You're probably trying to put too much material into it. Focus on just one idea. Think of it as a self-contained scene that has the full idea fulfilled in it.

>> No.12912652

Pige

>> No.12913531

>>12909308
>>12909327
ditzy/10
you must be cute

>> No.12913543

>>12912492
he is a handsome dog, a VVGB (very, very good boy) take that back

>> No.12913620

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7424bTucyg

>> No.12913939

There once was a dwarf.