Novel excerpts?

[zeldas_lullaby]

You could add, in the creative writing section, an area for people to display excerpts of their novel writing. For those of us who don't write poetry or short stories, but want to share. Creative original works: Novel excerpts.

People could share a scene they just wrote that they haven't perfected yet, or a scene from a previously-published book, or their first pages of an attempt at novel-length writing, etc. Or, like, "What do you think of this idea for a book? Here's a clip or a summary," That sort of thing.

[DATo]

Great idea !!!

I don't write novels but I would certainly love to read excerpts from the works of other board members.

I second the motion!

[zeldas_lullaby]

Hey, thanks, DATo!!

[Ryan]

Great idea! This site is becoming as much of a creative community as a reading one and it's really a pleasure to witness. However, I wonder whether it might be useful simply changing the "short stories" to "prose fiction", which would encompass both this and the short stories. Just a thought

[gali]

Great idea! This site is becoming as much of a creative community as a reading one and it's really a pleasure to witness. However, I wonder whether it might be useful simply changing the "short stories" to "prose fiction", which would encompass both this and the short stories. Just a thought

[bookowlie]

Great idea! This site is becoming as much of a creative community as a reading one and it's really a pleasure to witness. However, I wonder whether it might be useful simply changing the "short stories" to "prose fiction", which would encompass both this and the short stories. Just a thought

I am not a writer, but I agree that this site seems to be a great community for writers, in addition to readers. Ryanj1, I like your idea to combine the short story and novel excerpts into one topic.

[WilliamsQ]

I love reading people's stories! Lol I would probably read and compliment and critique all day.

[zeldas_lullaby]

We would love that, WilliamsQ!

Thanks for commenting everyone. Your idea to combine it with the short stories isn't too shabby! That could work, I suppose!

[DATo]

Great idea! This site is becoming as much of a creative community as a reading one and it's really a pleasure to witness. However, I wonder whether it might be useful simply changing the "short stories" to "prose fiction", which would encompass both this and the short stories. Just a thought

Great idea ryanj1. I saw this done at another website. The posters would simply put the title of the work in the subject box and then in parentheses mention what type of prose it is.

Title of Story (short story)

Title of Story (Novella)

Title of Story (2 chapters of novel)

ect.

We already have the slot for 'Creative Original Works: Short Stories' and since excerpts are relatively short anyway I think the parentheses idea would solve the entire problem. If Scott just changed the title of the forum to 'Creative Original Works: Prose', as you suggest, that would open the door to a greater variety of prose contributions.