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Biscuits and Blood: the first story I ever wrote
After earning my associates degree at Guilford Technical Community College in 2019 I transferred to the University of North Carolina in Greensboro in 2020 where I majored in media studies. One of the first classes I took in my first semester was screenwriting. We only had one assignment for the whole semester and that was to write a 30 minute long screenplay. Every week we would work on part of our scripts and then go over what needed to modified to make the script a suitable end product.
By Joe Patterson10 months ago in Writers
Rescued by Friendship: A Tale of Rediscovering Hope
In the big city of Horizonville, there lived a man named Alex. He felt really sad and lost hope in life. Even though he looked up ways to deal with feeling alone on the internet, he still felt really lonely inside.
By aman dolui10 months ago in Writers
Want to Feel Special. Read This
Author's preface: A comment on a recent story published here (thanks Kendall DeFoe) triggered something in me which caused me to recall a story I had written many years ago, way back in 2016. That article was published on a different web publishing platform, which I will not name, but rhymes with tedium, from which I have since been twice suspended and (apparently) permanently banned. It was written as part of my 1000 page view up all night write-athon which was some stupid thing I thought to try and do after I finally hit 1000 page views. I had started publishing there in early 2015 so it took me a solid year to hit the 1000 mark with close to 200 stories published in that first year. I was quite prolific back in those days and, exactly like today, I was not very popular, as those dismal stats clearly indicate. That said I was very proud of the achievement, and decided I would try a stunt where I stayed up all night (5pm until 8am the next day) and try and write and publish as many articles as I could in that time span. I conceived of the idea the day I hit 1000, and initiated the challenge the following evening so I did not have time to think much about how difficult a thing that actually could be. Also, exactly like today, I did not tend to think very much in advance about stuff, and figured it would just work itself out in the end. This other unnamed platform did not have a ludicrous and absurd minimum word count requirement like Vocal, nor did it have a roving censor brigade, and one could get away with just about anything in those early days on the site. As per my typical MO, I tended to take a very laissez-faire attitude with respect to the "rules" which obviously ended up hurting me fairly badly many years later when I got my first suspension, and then again a year after that when I was suspended a second time. This was about two years ago and that suspension has yet to be rescinded, despite several petitions, so amounts to a permanent ban. In any event I can't actually recall how many stories I banged out, but think I got close to fifteen. Below is just one of them which surprisingly holds up even today both in terms of its truth value (I am still an almost never read writer) and its overall quality (fair to middlin at best). Crazy how the computer references seem so dated and ancient. It really was not that long ago. lol! Enjoy!
By Everyday Junglist10 months ago in Writers
Unlocking the Mind of AI: 10 Surprising Facts You Need to Know.
## Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an ever-growing field with vast possibilities. It has become an essential part of our daily lives, from Siri and Alexa to self-driving cars and unmanned drones. Here are ten fascinating facts about AI that might surprise you.
By Mohamed Eldakrory 10 months ago in Writers
Book Writing Advice
I've done it. I've completed my first round of edits for my debut novel, Bottle Trees and Broken Dreams. This round of edits consisted of checking for spelling and grammar, omitting issues I found in the full read, and adding things that would help build the world and clear things up. I took this draft from 55,000 words to 60,000 words, which is something I'm very happy about.
By Ashley Lima10 months ago in Writers
Writing Saved My Life
When I think back to the time that I wrote my first book, I can’t help but remember the events that led up to the penning of the first word, to the completion of the first sentence that led to the first paragraph, and the first page when I typed the period. It was a time of great upheaval for me and my family. It was a time for endings and a time for new beginnings.
By Dan R Fowler10 months ago in Writers