Rainbeam
I prefer writing short stories, because I'm better at them. I like reading them as well. I once read this book called Twisted which was a collection of short stories with endings you didn't expect. I have no idea who the author was, so I can't tell you. It was, however, an excellent read. I hope to write a book that is a collection of poetry and short stories. Maybe some day I will work up to a novel, but those are really hard to write. They take multiple drafts and editing, plus, you usually run out of ideas by the first 1/4 of the book.
Hence why I do so loathe myself wen I try to write. I've been told by every teacher I've ever had, my psychologist and my consistently massive English grades that I am supposedly an author by nature, and some have gone so far as to say I'd make the next Tolkein.
What none of these people seem to realize is that I'm not nearly as creative as he was. I mean, my skill with the language can match his, I've already proven that to myself and pretty much anyone who cares to look, and I can come up with excellent thoughts for material, but it always falls into ruin a hundred or two pages in... it kills me, every time. I could easily make a living off of my writing, but I just can't ******** stretch my material long enough to qualify as a novel, nor can I cram the level of detail and thought that I'd like into a short story or poem. It's evil, it is. *sigh*
If I were to randomly post some of my stuff, snippets and such, would anyone be able to give me a bit of help on fleshing things out?
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