Is Yahoo answers the best way to pay at writing short stories?

Question

I was just wondering what you think.....and if you like, write a very short, short story about anything for the fun of it...I just made this up is what I'm saying short:
Name it, "Living off the thing your good at"
Lilly was smart, I mean she was so smart she fail every class and seem to live in a dream world. Just stare out into no mans land and at times even running my hand across her face would not help. But she stay awake in English and love long words. She could talk in them and you had no idea what she said. Well now years later she's a famous writer you might have heard of her, "The long letter writer."

Answer 1

It is not. There worse places although I can't bring any of them to mind at the moment.

Answer 2

Perhaps you really meant, 'to PLAY at writing short stories.



If that's what you meant, and taking the 'what your good at' into account, I suggest you 'play' elsewhere until your English has improved.

Answer 3

It's a way to post short pieces of writing, and perhaps a way to practice writing in general, but there's no way to make money from it (as far as I know).  We're creating the content for Yahoo to hang their advertising on.  Other than that I don't see how any money is being made.  I've been doing this a long time and I've never made any money from it.  Come to think of it, I'm not quite sure why I do keep coming back.

Answer 4

No. It's for questions and answers.

And the likelihood of anyone making money from writing short stories is remote.



If that's an example of your writing, you really need to work on your English.



For example - "I just made this up is what I'm saying short" That makes no sense at all.



"Name it, "Living off the thing your good at"" The word here is spelled * you're * but again, that doesn't make sense.



"Lilly was smart, I mean she was so smart she fail every class and seem to live in a dream world."

That should be * she failed* and *seemed*.



There are so many mistakes I couldn't go through them all.

Answer 5

Yahoo! naswers is not very good platform to publish your short stories, but it will certainly give you some feedback and possibly trolls.



your story has premise that can be worked with, so it is at least good foundation but it dose not seem to progress property, you either spent too much time establishing Lilly or you skimmed over her mastering the arts of woodcraft - the best kinds of stories have some progression included, be it overcoming something (maybe Lily was not good at socializing and through her writing she managed to reach loving audience?, maybe she has self image issues but books are her way of showing off the inner beauty).



Or pose a question to engage your audience give your readers something to drive them to your world. Captivating, creepy, honest, thoughtful - you are master of this realm and you have to show its biggest attractions.



hope it helps.

i am no writer myself but i do have decent English vocabulary and occasionally do engage in wordsmiting. so i hope you can somewhat improve your writing and maybe earn some publishing somewhere they'll pay you.