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Borrussia:
I'm good too. Please help me plead with ishilove, I know she's the one behind the reason I'm not able to create a thread.

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Borrussia:
I'm good too. Please help me plead with ishilove, I know she's the one behind the reason I'm not able to create a thread.

check your profile to know the reason before wrongly accusing her

A course on writing starts tomorrow...
We can all be there

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/start-writing-fiction

Making sense

Are you writing this for fun or for sale?

njuwo:
Thanks!

you are welcome

Who resurrected this thread na

Dialogues should be placed in quotation marks; more so, they should be in new paragraphs: Start with that

Still going fine...
I just read to be entertained, I will scrutinize later. Yet, you did not capitalise all the 'I'.
Also brighten the story with dialogue

Please do correct spacing for the dialogues as in....
' How far?'
' I dey ooo'
And for better paragraphing, press the 'enter' twice

Which memory..
I dey here

I used to wonder why many stories are not making FP now I'm enlightened.And why only Standd's story get to Fp. Why some other articles- great ones- would not make Fp? That, I did not know.
The first solution is that Seun should a mod that is nearer to the people; one that is always available, just like Ishilove, none can dispute that.
Secondly, let us do what everyone has been suggesting.
Erm... Poems also should make FP
And Do you know some stories are almost flawless but are not making FP...
Competitions should be encouraged with the winner making Fp

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blaizze:
Please don't abandon this thread. I've learnt a lot already and I know there more is to be learnt.

I didn't stop...I had been busy

Fiction is all about what your character wants. I like to think about characters who are motivated by big dreams, especially if those dreams seem just a little bit impossible. I also like to think of things that catch characters by surprise, things they never knew they wanted but became fascinated with because of some unusual thing that happened to them. WHAT DOES JEREMY WANT? More than anything else, Jeremy wants to be the youngest world chess champion in history. He’s been thinking about this ever since his Uncle Edward came to visit his family after a trip to Russia. Uncle Edward brought Jeremy a beautiful chess set as a present. Jeremy was only 8 at the time, but he was fascinated by the beautiful wooden board and the ornately carved chess pieces. He begged his uncle to teach him how to play and he found that he loved the game almost instantly. His uncle brought him some Russian chess magazines and books, too. And even though Jeremy couldn’t read the language, he studied the chess games carefully, playing them out move by move on his board pretending that he was first one player and then the other. Jeremy has never told anyone about his dream. He doesn’t tell anyone because he’s afraid they’ll laugh at him and think he’s weird. He lives in a small town and nobody he knows there is famous, and hardly anyone plays chess. He’s very anxious about his dream. For one thing, he’s 11 now and that means he only has another 11 or 12 years left to break the record. He has followed the careers of other famous chess players and he knows he’s way behind their pace. That’s why he’s always down in his basement room studying chess on his computer. He practices all the time and keeps thinking that when he becomes famous, everyone in the town will be in awe of him

https://stayedeyes./2015/04/17/what-do-the-character-want/

kizzykeziah:
There's this essay competition going on online on Royal Commonwealth Society. It is centered on the young commonwealth and how they see the world around them. Here's the link and it has got a deadline and age limit too,18yrs maximum application age.
https://thercs.org/

Chai

jobsat34:
this is what i have been looking for all this while.. nice write up there..
following with keen attention..

Welcome...

kizzykeziah:
Did I arrive a little too late? I still have plenty to learn o.

Ah
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Ali4king:
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Welcome baba

prettydiva89:
still following,thanks... Really getting something

I'm happy to hear that

BreezyRita:
Following!

Thanks... Welcome

Character Guidelines, Cont. Make your character a type of person you would know a lot about. Creating a great character requires an incredible amount of detail. You have to know everything about this person in order to render their life successfully in words. This means you’ll be much better off if you create a character who is similar to you or similar to other people you know well. For example, I could write a great story about a character who lives in Seattle, WA, who is around 40 years old, and who has a job helping teachers and kids learn about reading and writing. But I’d have a hard time writing about an 85-year old circus performer who lives in Tokyo, Japan. (If I did want to write about a type of person I don’t know much about, I would have to do a lot of research before I got started.) So, I strongly recommend that you make your character a type of person you know a lot about. Make your character a person who does not exist in the real world. Why not just take a good friend and make a character out of him or her? This person is a human being who has never been the subject of a book, movie, or TV show. This is someone you are interested in and know a lot about. It seems like a friend would make a perfect character. Using people you know for characters in a fiction story is very tempting. But it’s not the safest thing to do because people often don’t like to have their identities used in that way. Even if you ask a friend’s permission and it is granted, this is still not a good idea. You should feel free to create a character who is similar to other people you know, or perhaps is a composite character formed by taking things from the lives of several different people, but don’t create a character who is a copy of a single real person you know. I strongly recommend that you make your character a person who does not exist in the real world. Make your character realistic. This can be a tough one. On the one hand, I’ve told you that your character shouldn’t be a real person, and now I’m telling you to make your character realistic. What’s that all about? Your character has to make sense to your audience. If you write about a five-year old boy who is seven feet tall and who plays professional basketball, that’s going to be a hard thing for people to swallow. Even though your character is made up, he or she still has to be believable. So, I strongly recommend that you make your character realistic. Make just one main character. Even though there are many stories that have more than one main character, your story will probably turn out better if you stick to the minimum. There’s a lot of work to do in developing a character and you’ll probably be better off putting all your energy into one rather than trying to do a good job with two or more. So, I strongly recommend that you make your character realistic


We will be stopping our discussion on character for now
https://stayedeyes./2015/04/15/character-3-2/

ThR0NeKiD:
Benjamin, ofcourse!

Change of name ooo

Wininiel:
divepen1,you've been really of help to this thread,thanks a bunch....

Welcome

ThR0NeKiD:
See this Grandpa o.

Helpppppp.... Who is grandpa?

rapmike:
I don't buy into the excuses that have been given here. Repogirl is certainly right about the money aspect ( and yes, I think about it too. Am sure almost everyone that wrote here have thought about it one way or the other). But the fact is that the correcting and editing part, helping new and existing writers with your comments should not die down. All writers in this section have fans but its very hard for one to spot a good constructive critic here and it hurts ( personally for me it hurts). I begin to wonder if they could just come around and encourage and constructively critique other writers work, the quality around here will improve.

That's my submission.

Thanks for that
We will correct this behavior

blaizze:
This is a great opportunity to learn and I've learnt a lot already. I like writing stories but have never been able to go beyond the second chapter for reasons I can't explain.

Thanks

ThR0NeKiD:
Sir Divepen1, Nairaland's mentions're just like the post office. They like coming late.

Nice initiative, sire. We must learn how to write, either devil hate or like.

Sir D9ty7, I use my chinkini eyes see U.

Thanks baba

Justinakusu:
Good one sir.

Thanks