Write a story about someone who has just finished writing their first story/book.

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“My Story” by Turquoise Turtle

Submitted to Contest #46

The light from the computer screen reflected off my face in the dark room. The brightness stung my eyes but I didn’t notice. My attention was focused on the screen, where I had just submitted a story for reedsyprompts. Contest #45: A Time For Action, was the first writing contest I had ever competed in, along with the first story I had ever genuinely written. “Write a story about change” was the prompt I had chosen to challenge. And challenge it I did. I spent hours upon hours developing the story and making sure there were no grammar mistak...

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“Complete” by B R E N Z

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Complete I felt empty , all the pages were full but I felt as if I wasn’t done . I kept pacing back and forth with my work of 7 years in my hand . It felt so light , seven years of work over just like that . My brain was empty I didn’t know what to do I felt unsatisfied . I began to let my thoughts of doubt consume my mind and started to tear it apart with opinions I didn’t have before . After hours and hours of taking in word for word nothing seemed wrong to me with my book . I figured it was just my mind playing games with me...

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“Harlequin Reality ” by Amy Dear

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"Surprise!" Tilly exclaimed once her face came into view through the open front door. She raised an eyebrow and gave a gentle shake to the wine bottle in her hand. "To celebrate your success, we're getting sloshed tonight!"Sam pursed her lips and glanced nervously at the couch behind her. Tilly followed her gaze and gasped slightly. "Oh! I-I didn't know you had- ahem- a guy over…" she trailed off while looking him up and down in approval."I… I don't. Not really." Sam pinched the bridge of her nose and stepped aside to allow her friend inside...

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“6:59 p.m.” by Beth Rodner

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Thursday. 7:00 p.m. Yes! Today's the day. It's here. It's finally here. I'll finish this and I'll publish this and and and. Yes. I'll publish this. But first, I'll finish this. Robin nods, taking a hold of his extended hand and No! No no no. Robin nods and takes a hold of his hand Yes! Perfect. They draw each other in. Good. Good. I’m gonna have to find an editor. I’ll find one. Someone’s gonna love this. This is good. I just have to finish it. I’ll finish it and everyone will read it and everyone will know me...

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“Hours of Oddity” by Eli Yan

Submitted to Contest #46

She had finally done it. The last of the words had been typed, and it was all finished. The very thing that had been consuming her thoughts for the past two months. At 3 o'clock in the morning, Victoria Wicks had completed her story in a writing fit that had started at eleven the Friday evening before. While it would have been nice to say she was feeling proud, or happy to be finished, Victoria was in a state of unparalleled apathy. There was a possibility that staying up horribly late every day in the past week may have been a bad idea. Bu...

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“The End” by Pamela Saunders

Submitted to Contest #46

Gerald beeped as he drove away down the curved gravel road. In his mirror he could see his sister waving, holding her baby. Arriving hours later at their mother's house in West Yorkshire, he hoped that his family would be coping with their grief. He wasn't sure that he was ready for this, but somebody had to do it, and somebody had to hold the fort at home, so this is how it had turned out. He wished that he could have had his wife with him, but it was school term and they didn't want their two children to miss out, and it was his mother...

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“Voice of a Thousand” by Madisson James

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The sun was still up but I could barely keep my eyes open. It was a Saturday. I couldn’t go on like this forever. I needed to sleep. I slipped away from the TV room. Surely no one would be aware. Surely ‘he’ wouldn’t notice. Brandy, my older sister, was captivated in front of the old tube. Little brother Rudy was outside making a muck of things in the backyard, as always. Mom was visiting with a friend and Dad was at work. It was summer holiday; that just meant more sleepless nights for me. I didn’t know where ‘he’ was; could I really steal ...

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“Masterpiece” by Justine Mae D

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My obra maestra will surely be different from everything else. In a world where choices are unlimited and every possible story plot was already provided, it is my ultimate duty as a writer to create something original, something nobody has ever been seen before. Even as a child, I vowed to be diverse, different, and traverse the road not taken. So when I finally grasped the finished manuscript in my tired and trembling hands, I knew this is the moment I've been waiting for all my life. The name of the protagonist in the novel is Daphne. It...

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“The End to a Beginning” by Blue Wilde

Submitted to Contest #46

Juno's fingers hovered over the keyboards of her laptop, an old model-like companion that's been with her ever since she moved away from home a handful of years ago. With her bottom lip snug and tucked underneath her teeth, Juno flexed her fingers, a very sad attempt to move, to keep typing, to put an end to the sentence that would inevitably end the novel.There were only so many more words she needed to complete the chapter, even less when it came to entirety of her novel. It all came down to 100-something-thousand words, and she was only a...

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“Mighty Quill, Mighty Sword” by Emilie Conroy

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Two instruments. For all of mankind's might wailing and raging, for all its self-extollations and its ballyhooed ephemeral successes, two of its inventions have been more responsible for the construction and destruction of all that man has conquered and made in its history. There exists no truth in this world, but the truth that all truth is but perception. No one, however objective he or she may claim to be, can view the world with more than his own eyes.&nbsp...

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“Madison” by Richard Hartmann

Submitted to Contest #46

Madison slipped the last letter into place, each word selected for precision and economy, sentences cobbled together with a touch of poetic license depending on what was left on the table. “Only missing three vowels,” she said as she tapped the wooden block with the ink-stained mallet and stood back. Nothing left to do. Besides to do it. She stood silently. The iPAL on the table vibrated and a smiling mermaid HOLO shimmered to life and with a flick of her tail, sent pixelated drops of seawat...

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“Just like magic: The story of Harlee Bingham” by It's Monsoon

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As Ria realized that she has gained nothing from abandoning all of those she cared about, her surprise turned to anger, and those wide eyes that Simon looked into so deeply the first time that they had met narrowed sharply at him. Ria gave off a gutteral yell as she punched Simon square in the jaw causing his vision to flash as his head snapped to the side. Before Ria could even follow through with the hit she shrieked and Simon felt her punch stop abruptly. Simon looked back, and Ria was gone. With the power he gained from the rit...

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“Unpublished Violence” by B James Hancock

Submitted to Contest #46

As John sat in the study of his New England townhouse in the middle of a cold November, he was blissfully unaware that the killer was already in his home. John's fingers tapped furiously away and the emerald keys as he glanced down at the final pages on his note pad that he had handwritten the day before during lunch. A smile slowly crept its way across his face as the clacking sound of the heavy grey Smith-Corona typewriter filled the small halls of the empty house, stopping only ever so briefly when he pulled the return lever on th...

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“From Start To Finish” by George Davis

Submitted to Contest #46

From Start To Finish—George Davis It has taken me six months, and I’m still working on it, to compose the story you are about to read. It started in June of this year prompted by a friend of mine who wagered $100 if I could write a novel in ten-months. Well, here I am up to chapter 6 and feeling as if I’d been run over by an eighteen-wheeler with a full load on his truck. Writing doesn’t come easy to me. I flunked Freshman English and had to take it over again my Sophomore year. I coul...

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“The joys and anguish of finishing my first chapter book” by Jane Ruth

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The joys and anguish of finishing my first chapter book By Jane E. Ruth My initial idea of a children’s chapter book involving the Ngabe children on the comarca in Panama, Central America, was exhilarating! I was so excited to write a fiction story that had real elements of life on the comarca for the children. The story was fiction, but the poverty was real. My husband and I have a ministry that helps the Ngabe indigenous in Panama, and we often are on the comarca visiting or helping with their needs. I loved trying to decide which Ngab...

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Write a story about someone who has just finished writing their first story/book.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 133 stories

“My Story” by Turquoise Turtle

“Complete” by B R E N Z

“Harlequin Reality ” by Amy Dear

“6:59 p.m.” by Beth Rodner

“Hours of Oddity” by Eli Yan

“The End” by Pamela Saunders

“Voice of a Thousand” by Madisson James

“Masterpiece” by Justine Mae D

“The End to a Beginning” by Blue Wilde

“Mighty Quill, Mighty Sword” by Emilie Conroy

“Madison” by Richard Hartmann

“Just like magic: The story of Harlee Bingham” by It's Monsoon

“Unpublished Violence” by B James Hancock

“From Start To Finish” by George Davis

“The joys and anguish of finishing my first chapter book” by Jane Ruth

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Write a story about someone experiencing a lightbulb moment of writing inspiration.

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