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[Jackrabbit]

Exactly. A very sad story, that one.

[ILikePie]

Hemingway wrote a story that is, by some, considered a whole novel.
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
I really don't get it...

Don't get that people consider it a novel or don't get what it actually means? If the latter it's because

Don't get why people consider it a novel, yes it is very deep, and yes it can be expanded on in many different ways, but you can't make a novel out of those six words.

[Jackrabbit]

It must fit the definition of a novel, then. I'm not sure what that is, but the written word is quite adaptable.

[Leafsnail]

I'm having a go at writing a 50 word story, but everything I get seems to be more retarded poetry than a coherent story.  Never mind.

[spoiler=Example]There was nothing special about that day; he could do just as he had done for all those days before.  His aspirations could wait.  His life could wait.

Then, suddenly, he felt the knot.  He realised that, no matter how long his plans might wait for him, time would not.[/quote]
Yeah.  Perhaps practising this will help me be more concise .

[Imp]

The ramifications of meddling with magma fueled apparatus are not well known. You'd think this would be because people aren't willing to try. But no. Stupidity seems a trait innate to our kind and any attempts to expunge it are met with failure. See this lever? Watch as I -

49 words.

I'm not sure why I wrote that.

I likes it.  Fits the forum sweet and clean

[Huesoo]

I wrote somemore in the my community fort thread, if you want to check out more of my writing and join my fort follow the link below.

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=51198.0

(OH GOD! I just wrote a five page script for a school movie in 2 hours, my hands hurt.)

[Mister Thou]

My humble contribution:

For about two hundred seventy years, he had worked in this office, preparing the reports Frank inevitably demanded. In all that time, he'd not once looked out his window. Today was no exception, or he would have seen the group of hotdog vendors who burned the office and murdered everyone.

[Jackrabbit]

Five pages in two hours? Was the size set to 3 or can you not speed type?

I'd assume it's the second one, which is understandable. Learn to speed type, seriously, it is an awesome skill.

[Vector]

Five pages in two hours? Was the size set to 3 or can you not speed type?

I'd assume it's the second one, which is understandable. Learn to speed type, seriously, it is an awesome skill.

... Or he might have written it by hand, doodabuddy.  Or perhaps he's exacting in his work.  It takes me roundabouts 10 hours to type 3-4 pages.

[ToonyMan]

I've written two pages in less than a hour before.  It was for a big English test and we had one period.

[Jackrabbit]

Five pages in two hours? Was the size set to 3 or can you not speed type?

I'd assume it's the second one, which is understandable. Learn to speed type, seriously, it is an awesome skill.

... Or he might have written it by hand, doodabuddy.  Or perhaps he's exacting in his work.  It takes me roundabouts 10 hours to type 3-4 pages.

Fair point. I'm not one to talk, really, I churn something like one typo every second word.

EDIT: And and and, I have a habit of writing pages and saying nothing, something I really need to stop doing. So really, I wasn't thinking, considering it does take a lot of time when I actually want whatever I've written to be worthwhile. So sorry, Heusoo.

[Vector]

I've written two pages in less than a hour before.  It was for a big English test and we had one period.

I've handwritten 10 in an hour.  AP US history test.  Good god, my hands hurt like hell afterwards.

[ToonyMan]

Ten?!
Going by an average of 300 words a page making 3000 words.
Then putting a time of 60 minutes makes 50 freakin words a minute.
Or about 5 sentences a minute.
Or 1 sentence EVERY 12 SECONDS.
Or 1 word every 1.2 seconds.

My god, I don't even think I could copy something word to word that fast.

Well maybe with the fastness, but definitely not that much material.

[Vector]

Ten?!
Going by an average of 300 words a page making 3000 words.
Then putting a time of 60 minutes makes 50 freakin words a minute.
Or about 5 sentences a minute.
Or 1 sentence EVERY 12 SECONDS.
Or 1 word every 1.2 seconds.

My god, I don't even think I could copy something word to word that fast.

Yeah.  I have no idea what I wrote about, but there sure was a lot of it 

[Acanthus117]

Hemingway wrote a story that is, by some, considered a whole novel.
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
I really don't get it...

Those words break my heart.