The Trendsetter

So I completed my short story and had fermented it for a while and am now editing it to death! However, in these past few weeks, I’ve found myself also writing the sequel to the story. The MMC and FMC (Male Main Character and Female Main Character) bugged me to write more about them. Hmmm…maybe this was crazy, but if you were the author, you’d know what I mean. Writers are like that. They dwell on their writing for a long time and hope something would come up making it even better than their previous writing.
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Year 2008 is here and to all writers out there, I wish you all a wonderful and prosperous new year!

Keep the writing going.

My last entry in my blog was about rewriting your first draft. I had to totally rewrite the last five chapters of my novel. And now I put the novel out of sight and will re-read it later.

Since the writing bug has bitten me, I wrote a short story while waiting for my novel to ‘ferment’. I completed the first draft and found it too long for a short story. My mind is still in the novel writing stage and I have difficulties in condensing it. But it is a short story - it needs trimming – real bad.

So if you have written short stories, you know the elements are similar to a novel – you just need to have one big and important plot. There is no space for a subplot to expand. The writing must be very tight and yet have enough flesh to make the story move forward.

Back to my writing – I was so excited to complete my very first short story – in the English language. I can’t contain my excitement as I broke the first rule in editing your fiction – I showed it to my husband.

Here is the conversation between me and DH (Dear Husband):

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