ThatGirl2050

@InvisibleDramaGirl I'm sorry I never responded when you said happy birthday to me. I feel terrible. I haven't been looking at my profile for a while!! So thank you so much for that!! I hope you are doing well! 

ThatGirl2050

not that it matters, but i think i'm going to be taking a break from writing for a little while. i need to rediscover my passion for writing teen fiction instead of fan fiction. i have a story that i've been writing for a while and i want to give that the time i think it deserves. 

ThatGirl2050

it's the last day of school!!! yay!! i can finally get back to writing again! it's been a long break, and i've had some time to think! i'm going to put up the prologue to my story "Just a Summer Love!" i hope everyone will get a chance to look at it! that would be so nice if you did! i'd love to have some feedback! okay well have a lovely day! :)

ThatGirl2050

@felicitous that really helps me to figure out how I want to do it! Thanks. :) I just have to think of a background for it since I was just writing in my diary lol. And the story really consists of my thoughts about a situation that happened at an event. And then I talk about the progression through the relationship and how we got to this point. And then it raps up in the end with my final thoughts. So I have to figure out how to make that into the one shot 

felicitous

I can try the best I can to help!
          
          It always helps if you have strong characterization. I find it easy if you openly say how a person is in one shots, since you don't have the time/length to show it through actions.
          
          As for format, I find the hardest part the beginning and end, which is why I often mirror songs. But the format should be very simplistic and you want to really pull the reader in since you don't have a prologue/first chapter to do so. It needs to be relatively fast paced with lots of thoughts to help narrate.
          
          Scenery is always important since typically, the one shot only is in one place. But  neglected that in Payphone, but her thoughts were the main priority.
          
          I always start off the thought process as very long and exaggerated in the first few paragraphs, and if you noticed in Payphone, the later it progressed in the song, the shorter the paragraphs became. I find it easy because it's always easier to conclude on a smaller basis.
          
          Um... I'll try to think of more stuff, but is there any other specific things you need help with?