Draft

The Novel That Bit Me. Honorable Mention in Not Quite There Yet Challenge.
Fir the Next Great (American) Novel challenge (which, despite the title, didnae actually huv tae be American), Ah hud two ideas an' two entries. Baith included Glasgow as almost a central character. One wis heavily inspired by Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh an' a real-life experience that happened many years afore Ah started writing.
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Critique
Rosamunde or "Write What You Know". Runner-Up in Not Quite There Yet Challenge.
Rosamunde was a boring girl. She was the kind of girl that people would look past when scanning through the crowd. The kind they would describe as a "nice girl" because they could find nothing specific to say.
By Sasha Desideri4 months ago in Critique
The Struggle of a Couple New to Recovery
Not Quite There challenge - The Prompt: Share a story that never fully came together, along with what’s holding it back. Not every piece reaches a finished form. This challenge makes space for work that is still unresolved. Share a story that never quite came together, along with what’s holding it back. The gap might come from structure, clarity, scope, or something harder to define. Be specific about where it falters. What feels incomplete, and why has it stayed that way. The focus is as much on the friction as the draft itself.
By Denise E Lindquist4 months ago in Critique
Secrets and Lies. Content Warning.
I finished becoming someone else before I finished writing about who I was. That's the problem. There is a project sitting unfinished on my hard drive called Secrets and Lies — a collection of diary-style entries following an unreliable narrator through years of self-destruction, unstable relationships, loneliness, and the particular kind of comfort that only leaves new bruises.
By Chel Writes4 months ago in Critique
A Distant Pride
The story never quite comes together because neither of them has reached the ending yet. Maybe that’s the problem. In my draft, their names are Elias and Rowan.
By The Kind Quill4 months ago in Critique
Detective Kali
I began the story after meeting a who stated that I look like a character that they thought they had made up. Eventually, I was approached with the idea for writing it, and I was so excited because I wanted to make sure that I approached my writing with a very diverse that reflected the world that I grew up in my personal experiences or things that I just simply witnessed.
By Cadma4 months ago in Critique
Unfinished
One story has been sitting in my drafts folder for almost six years. I kept opening and closing it, but nothing was really coming to me. It began with a character I couldn't shake or forget about: a man returning to his hometown after receiving a voicemail from his estranged sister, only to discover the sister disappeared the same day the message was sent. All his relationships are strained in someway or another.
By Adrianna M. Braun4 months ago in Critique
Field Notes from a Firefly
Foreword Fun Fiction based on years in the scene—no character is one real person, though some moments are. Abstract I am no common fly. My ancestors evolved into hives that learn, share, and pass on our collective memory. My life pulse is light—each flash, a call into the night. Each flicker risks alerting predators. But risk I must, for the dark is fading, and fewer respond with each season.
By Tôn Thất Hoàng Vinh4 months ago in Critique
Reena - the unborn story of the lesbian vampire warrior princess. Winner in Not Quite There Yet Challenge.
"Reena, the vampire warrior princess, was standing on the marble balcony bathing in the moonlight, silvery and shimmery. Her red hair flowing in the wind behind her. Warm blood dripping off her long fingers onto the ivory stones."
By Imola Tóth4 months ago in Critique
The Manuscript Beneath the Clock
For seventeen years I have kept a packet of pages within a narrow drawer beneath an ancient clock whose pendulum marks each passing hour with solemn authority. The packet bears no title. Its first page carries a date crossed out so many times that the numerals resemble wounds cut into paper, while its final page ends in the middle of a sentence.
By Tim Carmichael5 months ago in Critique
Unfinished
I started dreaming of stories from a very young age. For truth I can not tell you what the first story was that started to come together. I do know that i have story notebooks that look like some lost ancient Tomes now. And a memory of a detective that waits to be finished. A lot of the stories I go back to and rework even now. I find that these are the ones people seem to be drawn to. These are also the ones that have marinated and been worked on and reworked on. Out of all of them the one that has been done and redone and relooked at over and over is Heroes? A story where heroes start to appear in a modern world and what happens because of it.
By WrittenWritRalf5 months ago in Critique
The Story That Waited
I think, as writers, we all have unfinished and abandoned stories that we never saw through to completion for a variety of reasons.
By Paul Stewart5 months ago in Critique