Note: No-Draft Theater is an exercise in improvisational fiction. I intend to write short pieces of fiction only one-to-three posts long, no outlining or other preparation, with each post around a thousand words. These pieces of fiction will only go through the most cursory editing.
“Well, then, what do you really do, Dad?”
He smiled wanly. “I am a Liar, Susana.”
Note: No-Draft Theater is an exercise in improvisational fiction. I intend to write short pieces of fiction only one-to-three posts long, no outlining or other preparation, with each post around a thousand words. These pieces of fiction will only go through the most cursory editing.
Here is your one-stop creative writing site. I get a lot of advice on how to craft my prose from here.
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When you’re on fire, writing is an exciting whirlwind made in equal parts of unicorns, spaceships, kittens, fireworks, and awesome.
But like anything else, that doesn’t last. And once the flash-blind heady rush flows away, you’re left with a fantastic first draft that really needs work.
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Arg! Right in the word counts!
I’ve had to delay some of my editing/writing since for the next two months I’ll be in the middle of a move that takes me halfway across the country to points unknown. Well, they’re actually very well established, but why let an ugly fact ruin a turn of phrase?
The BIGGEST minutiae 