For the last stream’s exercise, we turned the tables. Instead of me editing a viewer’s work, I showed off the edits made to a story that I’d written.
A few weeks ago, we wrote a story to submit to Storyzine. I recently got back my edits for the story, and I figured going over them would be a good learning experience.
I wanted to show that every writer, regardless or experience level, gets back tons of edits on their work. My story was no exception — it was covered in them!
I don’t want to post our story just yet, since hopefully it will appear in the magazine, but I will say this: the story’s title is “Dead Ringer.” Whatever could that possibly mean?
After that we did a writing prompt and chat voted for this one submitted by Bradifi3d: Romeo and Juliet have successfully escaped Verona and have started their life together, but it’s only just then they realize just how much they hate being around each other.
Here’s what we came up with:
Watch a quick video of us writing/read it here,
or check out the link to the story below.
I really enjoyed writing this one, since I’ve never really seen Romeo and Juliet as a love story. To me, it’s always been about the dangers of prejudice, with Romeo and Juliet’s parents being punished for their hatred for each other.
I have a feeling that if Romeo and Juliet were simply allowed to be together and get their teenage “love” out of their system, they would’ve broken up after a few weeks. And it was fun playing with that idea in the story.
If you want to join us and help write a story by trolling in chat, or share your own writing for feedback, then we’d love to have you. We stream on Twitch every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 7:30pm-10:30pm (U.S. Eastern Standard Time).
And you missed the stream, you can still watch Rubbish to Published, the writing exercises, or the writing prompts on YouTube, or watch the full stream reruns until Twitch deletes them.
Hope to see you next time, friend!
Scott Wilson is the author of the novel Metl: The ANGEL Weapon,
forthcoming November 2018.
Featured image: Pakutaso