Write a story.

[Kitosdad]

We often see films where a writer sits for days trying to flesh out a story. He throws hundreds of pages into the waste-paper basket. I've often wondered about this, and if it truly happens with our well-known authors.

They have paid researchers to give them routes from one city to another when writing about a frantic car drive or the search for a loved one

They have others who are experts in all manner of subjects to assist them in weaving the plot. So just how difficult can it be to write three or four hundred pages of text?

Probably only fifty pages are the kernel of the whole book.

On the other hand, writing a short story is probably a greater challenge in holding the attention of a reader, especially when it is your livelihood, and you hope to assemble a hard-core of regular readers who clamour for your latest story.

I'm fairly sure that everyone here can write an interesting short story.

The challenge would be when someone else gives you the theme of the story to write.
This is when one's imagination is really put to the test.

With this in mind I'd like Gray or Phoebe to give me a theme and see if I am up to the task of writing about someone else's theme.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Kitos.
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[Gray]

That is so true --
Writing on your own is much easier than starting from someone else's theme.
And more fragile the theme is, more difficult it is to write.

Here is a theme --
They met at their workplace, befriended each other but remained strangers
for the whole life.
She was so practical and he was so idealistic.

And the difficult part is --
To search for an end knowing that it is there itself...in the beginning :)
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[Kitosdad]

Hello Gray. It is 7.30 p.m. here in Germany and I have just returned from a big car-boot sale.

I will have a sandwich and a cup of tea, and I'll give it a try.
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[Gray]

[Kitosdad]

Gray, you have already given a graphic description, although it is not quite true.

Most sellers have two or three long tables from which they sell their unwanted items.

Prices are negotiable, and many bargains can be had for reasonable prices. Everything from children's toys and clothing to antiques and jewellery.

Here in my area there is at least one sale every day. I love 'em.
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[Gray]

And those sellers carry those items in the trunk of their car, moving from places to places selling the goods, right?
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[Kitosdad]

Right!
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