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Should I write my life as---(only poll if you really want to answer, don't just do it for gold!)
  Short stories (Post them as soon as possible, I want to read them!)
  A novel---wait until you've given all the details to show us!
  Short stories and then a novel when you've come up with a good collection!
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Jessie-the-Foodie

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:46 am
Hi everyone. I'll try to explain better later, but I've quit writing fiction and plan to hunt down and take down the fiction that I've written and posted. In its place I'm writing true stories. I hope they still count for the guild, because I plan to share my true stories instead. I hope people will be interested in reading them. I'm now living a life far more exciting than anything I could have possibly written, so please don't think it will be boring just because it's true. It won't! Quite the contrary, it will be wonderful!

In fact, some of you who have read what I posted of my Hail Fledman series might even see some similarities, because something similar happened to me that happened to Sunny (shocking, isn't it?).

I do already have some stories up too. I'll try to post them later.

I will be posting the occasional dream as well, because as far as I'm concerned dreams themselves are not actually counted as fiction if you really write down what you dreamed and not something that's based on the dream. However, I will only be posting dreams if they seem to be particularly interesting and can make sense, or if they seem to have a meaning. And I will maybe even be giving opportunities to try your hand at interpreting them. Would anyone be interested?

Now, for the interactive part (poll):

I'm planning on writing a lot about my own exciting life. Do you think it would be better for me to write them as short stories (as I used to do with fiction), so long as each story has some sort of conclusion or end, just in case I never finish writing the whole thing, so that people will still get to enjoy the stories, or do you think I should attempt to write them out as an entire novel, or do you think it would be safe to have a balance and write them as short stories/chapters for now and then piece them together as a novel? Please comment and tell me why you responded the way you did to the poll. Thank you!

Please keep in mind also that a novel length book would have a lot of gaps, because my memory isn't perfect.

Thank you.  
PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:13 am
You could do an anthology instead of a novel maybe? This should be quite interesting, I think it would take courage to write about yourself or your own life.  

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 1:16 pm
Hm...maybe I don't mean novel novel...just novel length.

But could you better describe what you mean by anthology?  
PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:28 pm
You could write a bunch of short stories and put them all together in one book.

Oh wait, that's probably what you meant in the first place. sweatdrop  

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 12:59 pm
Yes, that was the third option, except the difference would be that if I put them in a book right away, then people would have to wait for them, but instead I may put them up individually and then in a book. Thank you for your input though. I really appreciate it :3.  
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