[COMPLETE] How To Write Short Stories (with samples), by Ring Lardner - thw

orbitalowl · Post by **orbitalowl** » May 27th, 2020, 10:24 pm

I see "My Roomy" (11 & 12) is Open in the MW, but has a note that it was claimed. If it is indeed open, I'd be happy to take a go at it.

msfry · Post by **msfry** » May 28th, 2020, 6:41 am

orbitalowl wrote: ↑May 27th, 2020, 10:24 pm I see "My Roomy" (11 & 12) is Open in the MW, but has a note that it was claimed. If it is indeed open, I'd be happy to take a go at it.

Thanks. The other claimant hasn't shown up, so I'm happy to give this story to you. Enjoy!

orbitalowl · Post by **orbitalowl** » May 28th, 2020, 11:25 am

Thank you.

Question: Where should we put the little preface for the chapter? After section/chapter/part intro? Or between the Librivox tag and the section/chapter/part intro?

Here's the text that I'm talking about for this story (p. 179):

My Roomy
A house party in a fashionable Third Avenue laundry and the predicament of a hero who has posed as a famous elevator starter form the background of this delightful tale of life in the Kiwanis Club.

Apologies if this was answered in another post.

OO

msfry · Post by **msfry** » May 28th, 2020, 2:45 pm

Good question, OO. I like to get the disclaimer out of the way.
How about after "recorded by.....say
Chapter 6, Part 1, My Roomy, read the blurb, My Roomy, Section One, read the story saying Section 2,3,4, etc.
End of My Roomy, Part 1 of 2
Chapter 6, Part 2, My Roomy, Section Five, read the story with Section 6, 7 etc.
End of My Roomy

It is confounding when parts have parts!!!!!

orbitalowl · Post by **orbitalowl** » May 28th, 2020, 3:10 pm

Sounds good! I'll work on it over the weekend. It looks like a fun story.

OO

kwpapke · Post by **kwpapke** » May 31st, 2020, 12:33 pm

Well, that was a lot of baseball....but Horseshoes is ready for PL (I think). Ran into a weird Audacity error during editing, hope all the pieces made it OK.

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/howtowriteshortstories_19_lardner_128kb.mp3 28:54
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/howtowriteshortstories_20_lardner_128kb.mp3 27:47

--Kurt

msfry · Post by **msfry** » May 31st, 2020, 1:40 pm

Thanks, Kurt. I look forward to listening.

specj5 · Post by **specj5** » June 5th, 2020, 7:26 am

msfry wrote: ↑May 18th, 2020, 9:12 am I think "Hokey" comes in all accents. Run with the one you are most comfortable with to get the point across. No one will be offended around here.

And not every reader does different voices for each character, and the stories still sound good. Some readers just like to do characters.

And one more thing . . . . Lardner's spelling is atrocious on purpose, so don't try to correct it. Therein lies some of his humor.

Hey Michele! I'm so sorry but I'll have to withdraw from doing these sections. I've had less time and energy on my hands than I thought I would

msfry · Post by **msfry** » June 5th, 2020, 7:48 am

specj5 wrote: ↑June 5th, 2020, 7:26 am Hey Michele! I'm so sorry but I'll have to withdraw from doing these sections. I've had less time and energy on my hands than I thought I would

That's OK. I've opened up the section. Thanks for letting me know, and hope to see you around the LV playground as time permits.

msfry · Post by **msfry** » June 6th, 2020, 8:01 am

Sections 19 and 20 are PL OK! You "took a healthy" on this one, Kurt, and "caught it on the handle"! I just about croaked!

kwpapke · Post by **kwpapke** » June 7th, 2020, 8:56 am

msfry wrote: ↑June 6th, 2020, 8:01 am Sections 19 and 20 are PL OK! You "took a healthy" on this one, Kurt, and "caught it on the handle"! I just about croaked!

Ooooh, you're good!! --Kurt

kwpapke · Post by **kwpapke** » June 9th, 2020, 1:33 pm

Let's get this work in the can. I'll take the last two sections:

15 8.1 A Frame-Up 4541 words, Intro thru IV, cl 5/17
16 8.2 A Frame-Up 3839 words, Parts V to end, cl 5/17

--kurt

msfry · Post by **msfry** » June 9th, 2020, 1:39 pm

15 and 16 are assigned to you, Kurt! I look forward to listening.

P.S. What took you so long?

kwpapke · Post by **kwpapke** » June 11th, 2020, 10:39 am

msfry wrote: ↑June 9th, 2020, 1:39 pm 15 and 16 are assigned to you, Kurt! I look forward to listening.

P.S. What took you so long?

I'm just lazy... FWIW, the claim date in the MW doesn't seem quite right.

--Kurt

kwpapke · Post by **kwpapke** » June 12th, 2020, 11:25 am

kwpapke wrote: ↑June 9th, 2020, 1:33 pm Let's get this work in the can. I'll take the last two sections:

15 8.1 A Frame-Up 4541 words, Intro thru IV, cl 5/17
16 8.2 A Frame-Up 3839 words, Parts V to end, cl 5/17

--kurt

These bad boys are ready for PL:

https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/howtowriteshortstories_15_lardner_128kb.mp3 26:07
https://librivox.org/uploads/toddhw/howtowriteshortstories_16_lardner_128kb.mp3 22:20

--Kurt