Monday 1 September 2008

More useful sites for fiction writers

Short story site, OneSentence.org Automatic inspiration for writers
The blank page can be a scary. Get a head start with OneWord.com, a short story writing site that gives you an inspirational bon mot to begin with.

Got the story writing bug?
Another handy writer's resource is LanguageIsAVirus.com. As well as having useful things like writing prompts for the blocked or uninspired, it also allows you to post stories for feedback and/or posterity that are over 500 words.

There can be only one (sentence)
Also, for the truly succinct (or insufferably lazy) short story writer there's OneSentence.org. As the URL suggests, the challenge is to write a compelling short story in one sentence.

A teaser, part of the site's most popular story of all time (by 'ferdinandthebull'):

"When I was 5 or so my mom would tell me to lie down before she tied my tie..." ...Read the end of the sentence on onesentence.org

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