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[Fubb]

In the past year i've had two of my friends have there own short stories published by various thingies. The stories are nothing special, but they do make for a neat little read. And it got me thinking today, "Hey, I wanna make a short story!"

So I've started working on one. So far i only have a little bit because i was working on it in school, and i need to revise it a little (im goona remove a date, which right now is 1884, when the CPR was being constructed. I wanna remove the date just so i dont need to worry about it being superbly historically accurate) and then decide how long i wanna make it. Then find some sort of story thing to send it too. Cause i don't actually know who to send it too.

Basically it's about a guy working with the CPR as they lay the railroad out across south western alberta, just before it gets into the rocky mountains, and thats all I have, a few paragraphs describing the scenery. I need to actually work on story later.

But while we're on the topic, and other short-story writers here? Story writers in general?

In the last 2 years my writing style has actually changed significantly, in grade 10 all I wrote about was basically people getting in situations leading to death, where as now i focus more on some sort of believable, more realistic things, and i think if i tried i could actually get a story published.

[wackypanda]

I like to think that I can write. Of course, the last thing that I wrote that passed the standards of someone who wasn't personally known to me was stuff I wrote for Neopets - 8 years ago.

Right now I have some friends who were absorbed in a story project involving a futuristic, post-WWIII setting, people with superpowers, and invaders from other dimensions. Since they've dropped it, I've begun tweaking it. Mostly I'm solidifying their character concepts, so I haven't got down to any actual writing.

Not going to publish anything in any form without their consent (don't know anything about publishers, so I couldn't even if I wanted to), but I want to see how they'll react.