Hooks Are Small
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Ongoing10m
Last published Mon, Oct 29, 2018
A pile of short-short stories. These are designed to hook you in the minimal amount of words possible. Please study them to use the concept in your own writing. If aspiring writers would like to use them as inspiration for a short story then please do, but label them as fan fiction to save confusion between readers. I would like to use fan-fiction to guage how readers read my work and then improve my own style to make it more enjoyable.
This will also help me get back in the habit of writing, as I lost almost all of my work a few years ago and got depressed over it, thus stopping my writing.
Please do enjoy and give me plenty of negative feedback. Thanks :)
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