One goal in my life is to have something I write published. Like a book or short story. Recently in class we were studying direct and indirect characterization and we were supposed to outline a character any way we saw fit. I wrote in the first person and really it more or less turned out to be the beginning of a story.
I will post what I have written thus far as soon as I get home today. Its really just about a soldier reminiscing (sp?) about home. I have thought a lot about the tense I wish to write in and I believe I will stick with past tense as if the speaker is writing a journal. I'm not however going to use dates and such because i believe this hurts the flow of the story. I will also avoid specific names of places because I wish to avoid 2 things.. 1) I don't want to have to create an entire fictional setting for this story, i would rather spend my time writing it. and 2) I don't wnat to have to do too much research about a place to make the story accurate.

Thats about it until i get to post the actual written part. It isn't very long yet but I plan for it to be a decent length short story.