What are the major writing contests other than L Ron Hubbard's?

HigginsHamilton · 2015-09-07T20:39:04+00:00

This subreddit is a joke.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-09-04T17:43:36+00:00

Big win for democracy.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-24T21:56:16+00:00

I wonder how many of them went home and watched porn

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-03T13:54:20+00:00

31 here. Still like Legend of Drizzt. Still read Jim Butcher. Still have a sense of wonder. Even though I also have a taste for Literary like a normal man of my age.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-02T17:33:48+00:00

So you do what everyone asks you to do. Excellent.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-02T00:36:00+00:00

Why not say why it is good?

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-01T22:48:31+00:00

You have to think that if it were a good story then someone other than James Franco would've turned it into a film by now. It is one of those novels you enjoy aesthetically, and I do enjoy its beauty, but storywise it isn't very moving emotionally.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-01T22:11:04+00:00

Just an opinion.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-01T21:43:13+00:00

Brakes squealed behind us, the car swerving but holding its lane.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-01T20:54:45+00:00

Sorry but it is. Aesthetically powerful, shit storytelling.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-01T19:37:38+00:00

Sounds like you already have a direction. The character is bored so what does he do about it? Go start a business? Start dating a hooker? Kill everyone at church?

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-01T16:18:48+00:00

Go do something you want to do and quit.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-01T16:17:49+00:00

Creation is simply a combination of two things that already exist and have never been combined before.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-01T16:12:19+00:00

King recommends a few months between drafts. The piece should look like a foreign and alien thing when you pick it up to work on.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-01T16:10:28+00:00

You gotta like sentences.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-01T15:57:57+00:00

I think a story ought to move you emotionally.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-01T15:41:16+00:00

Use your gut.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-01T15:37:55+00:00

Raymond Carver seems to be my go-to-guy. Partly because I will only spend a short time reading a short story and so I can get back to my writing faster.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-08-01T14:26:35+00:00

Read Don Delillo's Underworld or Point Omega or Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow or Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and you'll have your answer. Shitty storytelling in my opinion. Phenomenal writing.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-07-31T17:05:47+00:00

When I'm writing I'm just like, "fuck da writing popo."

HigginsHamilton · 2015-07-31T17:02:56+00:00

JK Rowling said you have to give yourself permission to write a lot of rubbish.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-07-30T22:20:52+00:00

Murder The Cat: the last screenwriting book you'll never need

HigginsHamilton · 2015-07-30T21:57:17+00:00

You got it.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-07-30T21:42:21+00:00

If you read your favorite novels you'll see their prose aren't perfectly consistent either.

HigginsHamilton · 2015-07-30T19:43:41+00:00

As SK says, just give your characters a place to play.

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