A short story of mine; Criticism wanted
Yeah, I have that problem a lot too. I always underestimate the length of the stories I write, and this became a problem in my fiction writing classes. The minimum length for a short story was supposed to be around 10 double-spaced pages, and while there was no maximum, we didn't really want to read 50+ page stories very often. I inevitably wrote the longest stories in each class. My shortest story was a mere 25 pages. In every case, the stories were longer than I thought they'd be. If they were any shorter, they felt incomplete. When I did manage to butcher a story down to 10 pages, I was actually yelled at by the professor and it was not workshopped.
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"And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And beauty stayed his hand. And from that day on, he was as one dead."
I am rereading this to see what is Bridgeable, and noticed a couple things....
"Roberta went back and looked on the kitchen counter, the coffee table in the
living room, the shelf by the T.V., Will’s desk, her own bags . . . but the keys were
nowhere to be found. But the cat meowed."
I think the repitiion of "but" should be remedied.
"“What the f**k do you . . . oh,” Roberta said as she saw the open bag of cat
food next to the bowl in the kitchen, “looks like I forgot to feed you, kitty.”
I laughed out loud.
In public.
OK, so, I was quiet about it, but still...
""See? That’s God."
"What, the hamster?"
another exchange I found very funny.
That's all I have to say about that- well, here, anyway. ((I figured by posting this here instead of an email it would bhump this up a bit too. quite correctly may I add.))
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