Quote from: Shauna Marie on November 06, 2005, 09:57:24 PM
I guess that if you have shared words, and they are out for the public to read (or hear), than I say you are published!
Chaunte
Well if getting paid for it isn't a requirement then yes, I'm published.
I used to write an opinion column for a local monthly.
when I was in college the first half of this decade I placed several short stories among the prize winners of the campus writing contest. In my senior year I entered a Formal Essay (which was a reworking of the Thesis paper I did for Special Problems in History and won first place which meant it was submitted to the Southern Literary Arts Festival where it placed second in the category (competing with universities and colleges from all over the south including heavyweight SEC schools)
Both the SLAC and the College competition published a Journal if the winners.
I was inspired at the time and I had over 10 chapters of a novel written that I lost to a hard drive crash.
Since then I haven't written much because it's so VERY difficult to publish fiction that I feel like I'm wasting time (so I waste time online instead)
OH! And I also have a baseball blog too under my male "persona" and I'm thinking about starting a general blog from Laura's point of view.
I really REALLY should get the creative juices flowing towards fiction again but it's almost like I don't really have any stories to tell. If i may say so, I am an excellent writer of dialog and characterizations and "scene setting...a narrative account of a "scene from a life" as in some short stories I can do, but that's an even tougher sell.
where I am terribly week is dramatic tension, climax and plot construction. Most books build toward a resolution, a point in the telling of the story. My story ideas almost never do.
That said, I've read "The Road" and seen "No Country for Old Men" and Cormac McCarthy seems to get away with telling stories that just....stop, with no neat resolution. I don't know if a new writer could ever break in doing it that way though.
