Comments on: Using the Snowflake Method on Short Stories http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/09/27/using-the-snowflake-method-on-short-stories/ America's Mad Professor of Fiction Writing Mon, 21 May 2012 03:51:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Bruce H. Johnson http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/09/27/using-the-snowflake-method-on-short-stories/#comment-13025 Bruce H. Johnson Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:07:46 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/09/27/using-the-snowflake-method-on-short-stories/#comment-13025 In these days of self-publishing, you could write a short story about a somewhat-minor character in your novel and give it away as a Kindle freebee. Of course, it will have a link where the reader could purchase the novel. In these days of self-publishing, you could write a short story about a somewhat-minor character in your novel and give it away as a Kindle freebee.

Of course, it will have a link where the reader could purchase the novel.

]]> By: Kim Miller http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/09/27/using-the-snowflake-method-on-short-stories/#comment-13035 Kim Miller Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:24:18 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/09/27/using-the-snowflake-method-on-short-stories/#comment-13035 Thanks Randy. A couple of good points in here for me as well. Oh yeah, and this ... "I don’t write many short stories, and I usually just think about them for a bit and then write them using that pesky seat-of-the-pants method." You have just given me the idea of writing an online guide to the 'seat of the pants' method. I'd sell it of course, but there won't be much in it. Something like, 'Sit in front of the computer, start the story, let it take you where it wants to, think up a good ending.' Yep. I reckon that will do it. Kindle, here I come. :) Thanks Randy. A couple of good points in here for me as well.

Oh yeah, and this …
“I don’t write many short stories, and I usually just think about them for a bit and then write them using that pesky seat-of-the-pants method.”

You have just given me the idea of writing an online guide to the ’seat of the pants’ method. I’d sell it of course, but there won’t be much in it. Something like, ‘Sit in front of the computer, start the story, let it take you where it wants to, think up a good ending.’

Yep. I reckon that will do it. Kindle, here I come. :)

]]> By: Camille http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/09/27/using-the-snowflake-method-on-short-stories/#comment-13038 Camille Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:19:43 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/09/27/using-the-snowflake-method-on-short-stories/#comment-13038 Bruce - that's a great idea! I'd love to mess with my minor characters for no reason. What fun to give them a side story and make it a great teaser for the book. The danger might be in making it more interesting that the main story and causing novel let-down. I've got a blind, mischievous old Scottish woman as a minor character who has a rep for taking an axe to real estate agents' cars. I'd love to actually write out some of her shennanigans and post it. That would just be some fun, seat-o-the-pants writing. Sounds like goofing off instead of work. :-) Bruce - that’s a great idea! I’d love to mess with my minor characters for no reason. What fun to give them a side story and make it a great teaser for the book. The danger might be in making it more interesting that the main story and causing novel let-down.

I’ve got a blind, mischievous old Scottish woman as a minor character who has a rep for taking an axe to real estate agents’ cars. I’d love to actually write out some of her shennanigans and post it. That would just be some fun, seat-o-the-pants writing. Sounds like goofing off instead of work. :-)

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