Introducing
Action on a Bypass
A short story by William Overington
Action on a Bypass was written in the first half of 1997. Three versions were written, each an improvement on the previous version. This published version is a fourth version produced in March 1998 and only differing in minor points from the third version.
I would very much like there to be a free to the end user distance education course in Creative Writing available on the internet, funded by advertising revenue. This advertising revenue could be perhaps from a publisher seeking new talent or from some supplier of, say, breakfast cereal, seeking to sponsor a course that would keep the advertisers name in front of consumers. The course could consist of about a dozen or more tilemodules where a student needs to select and carry out ten tilemodules and thus gradually prepare a portfolio of original work. The tilemodules need not all be written by the same author. There could be tilemodules on story writing, song writing, haiku and so on. Interested in haiku? A search for haiku on http://www.yahoo.com/ is a good place to start. An article explaining my concept of tilemodules is available in the file tile0001.htm on this website.
It may be helpful to state the basic structure of a story, which basic structure I have followed in Action on a Bypass. This is that there is a character who has a problem, then the problem gets worse, then the problem is resolved. I have thought about this structure and I was amazed to find how often this formula is used to effect in episodes of many television serials. I feel that writing a short story might well be three tilemodules of work, producing an outline, producing an improved version, producing a final version.
Action on a Bypass is published in the file aoab0001.htm
Action on a Bypass is Copyright 1997 and 1998 William Overington
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Copyright of an item such as this story is an interesting topic in itself. In England, copyright exists in an item such as a short story (and also in lots of other things, such as novels, poems, songs, paintings, drawings, software, sculptures) automatically.