Refill (SHORT STORY)

[phenomshel]

LOL ok Moe, can't wait to see what happens when P.J. Lyons gets hold of it. For the record, I loved your Jo Moriss interpretation, and I know from talking to other authors that once a character gets started, that's it for your control.

I'm not a writer. I read incessantly, and I can come up with ideas for books, stories, etc. but actually writing them I can't do. No idea why. I can write blog posts, I can write emails telling people what I've been doing, and I can write prefaces for things. But every time I sit down to write a story, I freeze.

EDIT: By the way, that cover is GORGEOUS!!

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by phenomshel

LOL ok Moe, can't wait to see what happens when P.J. Lyons gets hold of it. For the record, I loved your Jo Moriss interpretation, and I know from talking to other authors that once a character gets started, that's it for your control.

I'm not a writer. I read incessantly, and I can come up with ideas for books, stories, etc. but actually writing them I can't do. No idea why. I can write blog posts, I can write emails telling people what I've been doing, and I can write prefaces for things. But every time I sit down to write a story, I freeze.

EDIT: By the way, that cover is GORGEOUS!!

You should write. If the ideas are there then all you're missing is the structure.

May I reccomend these three books that will un-freeze you when you sit down to write.

Dorothea Brande - Becoming a Writer (I'm in the process of working out a way to make this freely available as an ebook)

Zen in the Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury (only availalbe as pbook as far as I know)

Techniques of the Selling Writer - Dwight V Swain (only pbook)


One of these gives you the joy of writing, another gives you the courage, the third gives you the structure you'll need. After that you 'just add words'

[DixieGal]

Got it, read it, liked it. Not too spooky. Zelda, it is more the kind of scary like when you are driving alone at night and keep peeking in the rear view mirror to see if the monster is back there. Not so much gore and guts, although there is some of that.

[Kirari]

Haha this was great, I really got into it (apart from the work phone ringing and interrupting me towards the end grrr)

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Got it, read it, liked it. Not too spooky. Zelda, it is more the kind of scary like when you are driving alone at night and keep peeking in the rear view mirror to see if the monster is back there. Not so much gore and guts, although there is some of that.

see, that is precisely the stuff i need to avoid for the sake of my own mental health. did i ever tell you the story of the time i accidentally read a ghost story by myself late at night ? and my imagination started embroidering, and then the cat started acting weird, and i had to leave the light on all night... (true story.)

[Moe The Cat]

Aaah, I wondered why Paul John Lyon was posting stories by Jo Moriss on Feedbooks. Now I know. When is Sergio Twirlie Moustache going to publish something?

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by Moe The Cat

Aaah, I wondered by Paul John Lyon was posting stories by Jo Moriss on Feedbooks. Now I know. When is Sergio Twirlie Moustache going to publish something?

Sergio Twirly Mustache is working on his biography at the moment - Tying Damsels to the Tracks (My life in the villain business). Only he's not got too far what with the price of mustache wax going up and there being a recession on damsels at the moment.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Sergio Twirly Mustache is working on his biography at the moment - Tying Damsels to the Tracks (My life in the villain business). Only he's not got too far what with the price of mustache wax going up and there being a recession on damsels at the moment.

i can't wait to read that story. tell him i'll buy him some moustache wax if he gets to work.

[Moe The Cat]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

... tell him i'll buy him some moustache wax if he gets to work.

Just don't volunteer to be the damsel or we'll never get old Sergio to sit at his trusty typewriter ...

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moe The Cat

Just don't volunteer to be the damsel or we'll never get old Sergio to sit at his trusty typewriter ...

no worries ! i'm not a fan of being tied to railroad tracks !!!