RE: My First Entry For Fiftywords Challenge: "The Moment He Stops Crying"
Very nice, @gaming-stuff. There is no restriction on the subject matter (although I should probably mention in the posts that people should not write NSFW stories for this challenge, which is the only off-limits topic). You should write about what’s meaningful to you. And there are many emerging writers here. This challenge offers an opportunity to improve your writing by carefully editing and fine tuning your story to get the perfect 50 words. All that is to say: I hope you have fun with the challenge!
One added note. I honestly don’t know where screenshots fall, when it comes to copyrights, but I would suspect that a strict viewpoint would be these are not “ours.” The imagery belongs to the video game developer. So in the future it’s perhaps best not to use images taken directly from a copyrighted work.
Welcome and thank you for participating!
Thank you, @jayna!
And yes, by the time I posted this I realized that... about what I wrote about me being atrocious--this kind of challenge is perfect to practice my writing. As you said in your post, the limitation stretches one's creativity. Plus there's no rule here (except for the NSFW), so I could practice from my comfort zone first (gaming).
And yep, will do. I'll learn further about how copyrights works for screenshots of games I already own, but I think I'll follow your advice to not to use images from a copyrighted work, because I'm not entirely sure about that yet.
Once again thanks for this challenge! Writing this 50 words story is more fun than I thought it would be. It's great!
It sounds like this is a great fit for you. I think it’s a great way for people to try out both creative writing and editing. What intrigues me about it is that everyone comes up with something completely different from everyone else, given the same starting point: a single wird and a goal to tell something as complete as possible in only 50 words. I love that. Every week the stories arrive like little presents. 😊