Writer's Fallout Shelter

For me, writing a plot structure works best. For three years, I have never finished a short story (only their first opening lines) because I wrote them as they flashed in my mind. I agree with you that ideas are momentary flashbulbs which would disappear if you won't do something about them. But putting it on bullets, I think, would do better. When I started listing the major events in my story, I began to feel at ease with the flow and plot -- it became less bumpy and less "suspiciuous." In other words, the story itself was already planned before it was actually written on paper. Hope this works for you.

Here is a story written w/out planning... pretty bumpy... and a little rushed in the ending. I wrote it five years ago.

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The drawback for these stories, is that they spend too much time on our computers, unfinished, and we just wait for the time when the next event would pop out of our minds... In this case, it was left hanging for a few months, and a dozen revisions and additions finally concluded it to a halt.

And here is another one that's been written in bullets... with a definite plot structure (I learned it in English Class, wherein we were required to make them from short stories our teacher discussed). But because it's supposed to be a writer's cramp entry, a limited writing time, and a limited word count forced it with an imperfect story flow (according to most reviewers)... but I'm pretty satisfied with it myself... and surprisingly, it's in the works of being published in an e-zine, The New Review.

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But in everything, there is always an exception. Here is a story I wrote for the Writing Decathlon, and I wrote it (surprisingly), and I pulled it off quite good (I'm VERY satisfied with the outcome) even with the limited alotted writing time span.

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I guess there are some stories which really need to be planned, and there are those which just come out raw from our minds. Good luck in your writing.

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