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i am a writer and i have written some god stories but i cant seem to get my stories past a page in a half. i managed to get one to 7 pages but i belive i lost touch with what i was writing. is there any way to help me keep in touch with what i am writing and to be able to get my stories longer?

How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method.

This is a good way to approach creative writing.

The idea is to start small and simple, then progressively build complexity and detail in a logical way.

It helps you understand where you're going, as well as where you've come from with your writing.

It helps me anyway.

well i also wanted to use this site to know what people think about my stories. i was wondering if i could post 1. i have been writing for a few years and not many people have read my work before.

If I were you I'd post them at deviantART first - that way you've got some degree of copyright protection.

And I wouldn't post them directly here - I'd create a thread for 'Fiction and Fan Fiction' - and link to your deviantART pages (other people could also link their fiction/fan fiction in this thread).

That way it's not just your own work that's under scrutiny - and you're not forcing your work down people's thoats - people here haven't reacted well to that in the past.

Be warned you may get some people being assholes and saying your work is crap just for the fun of it.

I personally don't have an interest in reading a lot of fan fiction - I prefer artwork - but if you think about the best way to present it here you won't ruffle too many feathers.

Even better, the Burroughs method of writing a best selling novel:

1. Write some shitty pornographic shit about aliens, heroin, gay sex, etc.
2. Cut it up, scramble it, rearrange all the words.
3. Become the most important writer of the 1950s.

4: ????
5: PROFIT!!!

5b: Make your books into movies.
6: What those movies as the porn they are!
6b: PLEASURE!!!

Such culture.

6b. Then the movie will be a blockbuster, even though it sucks.

But more to the point, The Anti Guide Wiki is a good (and funny) guide to help avoid the common pitfalls of writers. Another thing, just for damage control: The Anti Guide is supposed to be ultra-sarcastic.