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So pulling a page (not three thousand) from Proust and another from Kerouac, I've decided to write a bit of stuff that, at least initially, will be close to real life. You know what they say, if you have to lie, keep it close to the truth. (By the way, who said that? It's a good quote) Yes...

Here's one I finished recently, a short story. Actually, it could be part of a series of stories/novel/whatever. To make it a stand-alone story, ignore the last paragraph. Basically what happened here is I took a real life event (someone told me a similar thing that they did) and I modified it a...

The sun was shining. At the face of the canyon he stood. Dog by the side, Regulus, dog, Reggie. See him run. Glowing grasses and shrubs and trees passed them; they ran still, turning a curving left and still going. Green plants and time to get up, James. Voice from above or below, it was all...

Well? How is it done? I can come up with crazy ideas, setting, character, but it takes me ages to actually formulate a storyline. That's kinda why I'm stuck on 1500-word stories. My longest "story" is actually three related stories, 1200 words on average. e.g. I've got an idea for having a...

What are some good dystopian books? Dystopia is a nightmarish society, a utopia gone wrong. We all know the classics: 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World. I am reading Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago", and I find it terrifying. It's about the Soviet "justice" system. It is...

Am I the only one who notices how huge a waste of paper that recently-published books are? I am not commenting here on the quality of the actual stories, but on the printing itself. As an example, I am reading "The Tyrant's Novel" by Thomas Keneally for school. Each page has very heavy paper...

I like books, that's why I'm here. I hail from Canada. I'm starting to write some short stories of my own, and I am looking for inspiration.