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Stories

July 15th 2010 16:50

If you want to write competition-winning short stories, you have to read lots of them in the first place. Don't know where to start? I have a suggestions for you:

Stories, a new (short) story anthology edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio has been published on the 15th of June. It features stories from a variety of authors - Joyce Carol Oates, Chuck Palahniuk, Roddy Doyle, Jodi Picoult and Neil Gaiman, to name just a few - and genres, even though they are all broadly fantastical. The mix of established and newer authors and stories of different lengths makes Stories an absolute must-read for writers of short fiction.

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100 first lines of novels

December 11th 2009 22:26

This list claims to contain the 100 best opening lines of novels (or sentences in some cases), as chosen by the editors of American Book Review.

I don't agree with all of them and think there are some others missing, but that's not the point. The list is a collection of first lines of published novels, and as such it is rather useful to writers who want to see their own opening lines in print.

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Start Writing Fiction at Open University

February 16th 2008 10:34

I do a lot of online research at work, and sometimes that leads to discovering cool writing links. The one I found the other day is too good to keep it to myself.

Open University offers a variety of learning material for free now, and there is a unit called
start writing fiction. Now I am a little past the start writing fiction stage, but I will give this class a go anyway.

In my experience, you can learn a lot from other people's mistakes, especially if you make the same mistakes yourself. For some reason, I find it much easier to find bad writing in my own texts when I found something similar in another writer's text first.

Secondly, this seems to be a good place to find other writers who really want to improve their writing skills. For me, talking about writing with like-minded people works like a charm for my creative output.

So, who else will give start writing fiction a try?

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