Writing Exercise Intro

So every week, we'll have a writing exercise. This is like writing a short story, based on a plot/story line we give you. Submit your work through the comments, and we will critique your writing. It doesn't have to be a whole, entire story, just a snippet of a scene with the characters.

We have only two guidelines: it has to follow our original planned plot. That means no emo poems if we asked for a girly short story scene. Also, the word count has to be 500 words, max. 500 words is one single-spaced page (and a snippet of another second page) on Microsoft Word. It is also exactly two double-spaced pages on Word.

Tips:

1. Spell-check! Enough said.
2. Check for grammar and punctuation marks.
3. The descriptions of the characters, and what each is wearing, should be a paragraph in all, maximum. That means no parts about how Jamie's "classy-but-bold, 2-karat diamond Gucci platinum horsebit cocktail ring glittered in the sunlight like the glassy surface of the cerulean, kidney-shaped pool." And if your readers are anything like me, they will forget the first part of the sentence before they finish the last part. So K.I.S.S.- Keep It Simple, Stupid. Because people like me are getting older by the minute. And we have better things to do than to read a long, boring story on a blog...though in my case, I don't.

If you feel uncomfortable submitting your work through the Comments section, fearing that some people might Copy + Paste your precious, then never fear! Just click on our profile, and email the story to us. We'll embed it with a anti- copy and paste code- (don't you love computer geeks?). Happy submitting!

PostScript- What is the whole point of writing exercises? Maybe because a lot of people here would like to get published as a writer. And others enjoy reading stories. It's a win-win sitch here. And writers need critiques to improve.

- Abby