DragonOfTheAerie
Vala
So i need to scrape up some extra scholarship money to be able to go to college.
Most of the writing scholarships out there include short stories. Almost all of them in fact. I am absolute garbage at short stories. I cannot plot them at all. I don't know how to handle characters or scenes on a small scale. All my attempts have turned out unfinished, mangled parts, plotless meanders, or weird, patched-together things with liberal overuse of flashbacks and time skips.
But with deadlines looming, I have to figure out how to write one. I am in despair. I have to write a short story that is good enough to win a scholarship, and at present i haven't been able to write one that really qualifies as a story.
Most of the writing scholarships out there include short stories. Almost all of them in fact. I am absolute garbage at short stories. I cannot plot them at all. I don't know how to handle characters or scenes on a small scale. All my attempts have turned out unfinished, mangled parts, plotless meanders, or weird, patched-together things with liberal overuse of flashbacks and time skips.
But with deadlines looming, I have to figure out how to write one. I am in despair. I have to write a short story that is good enough to win a scholarship, and at present i haven't been able to write one that really qualifies as a story.