This story came from a practice exercise I made for myself. I wanted to actually plan a story. I wrote scenes on index cards and kept moving them until the information was put in a workable order. I'm new at organizing. It's so much easier to just start writing and watch what comes out. But it limits the complexity of my plot. It was also a practice at brevity. I am usually verbose, verging on spamy. I've read that short stories longer then 5 or 6 thousand words are hard to get into magazines. Fedora is just under 6.

I had some horrible problems while taking the file from Word and bringing it into text to transfer to this site. Anyone have any suggestions for making it simple?

The original idea was the final scene. It reminds me so much of a Law and Order episode that I started hearing the Dun! Dun! between scenes while I was proofing it just now. Like Law and Order there are straight-to-the-point scenes about a hunt for an answer. Which, in my opinion, is not a horrible thing. Fedora was a focus not on writing style and ego (though I do love Tom Robin, hehe) it was about a concise story. I worry though, that it was too simple, too curt, bereft of depth. by BT, bramblejunk@hotmail.com


The story -> http://www.writewords.org.uk/archive/2249.asp

Brendle, Can't you just highlight your work in Word (Ctrl+A), then go to 'Edit' on the toolbar, click on 'Copy', come to WW and 'Paste' it into the box? ( click cursor in box, then click on 'Edit', then 'Paste'.) I don't think you need to 'Text' it in between. If you know all that and the problem is a quite different one, just ignore me.

Will look forward to reading your piece later.