Could you recommend me any websites including true stories?

[Jenny Lau]

Hi, I am trying to find some good English websites including true stories, about 1000-3000-word long. Those like the stories in Soup for Souls or Guideposts magazine (these two websites I have got).
Or the websites of some good magazines are OK, sometimes there are archives available. But as a non-English speaker, I don’t know much about what English magazines are suitable for me, not to say their websits. So could anyone here help me? I am in fact desperately need such information, thank you!!

 

[RonBee]

Re: Could you recommend me any websites including true stori

I'm not sure what you are looking for, but for some true stories you can go here: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

 

[Tdol]

I did a Google serach for amazing but true stories and got the following results:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=amazing+but+true+stories
Any use? ;-)

 

[RonBee]

Re: Could you recommend me any websites including true stori

I found this via the link tdol provided. This writer provides links to six different websites. It might be worth a look.

True Stories and Magic Mail
By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/17/t...00&en=341f9d2d5b30db1c&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

 

[Jenny Lau]

Re: Could you recommend me any websites including true stori

Thank you, Ronbee and Lib! Any clues for this question are treasured, and you have offered me so much useful information! It will take me time to look through so many websites, but yeah—They do help! I am grateful. And any time, any information about it is welcome!!

 

[Lib]

Re: Could you recommend me any websites including true stori

Your gratitude is very much appreciated Jenny, but I think you should thank Tdol and not me!

 

[RonBee]

Re: Could you recommend me any websites including true stori

There are quite a few good stories at the National Geographic website. Here are a couple.

Everest Anniversary Expedition Wrap-Up

June 12, 2002 — "It was a tough trip, with a great finale," said Peter Hillary, now relaxing at home in New Zealand after reaching the summit of Mount Everest last month. He was part of an eight-person expedition that scaled the world's highest peak to mark the historic first ascent of the mountain by his father, Edmund Hillary, and Tenzing Norgay half a century ago.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/aig.html

Deadliest Volcano of the 20th Century, 100 Years Later
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0508_020508_pelee.html

There are many more stories there.

 

[Jenny Lau]

Re: Could you recommend me any websites including true stori

Sorry, Tdol, I am so careless. And Lib, for you have anwered many questions of mine, I wrote dowm your name bu mistake And Ronbee, you are so kind, I think it is very lucky for me to find such a good website by searching in Google, thank you all for what you are doing for English-learners.

 

[RonBee]

Re: Could you recommend me any websites including true stori

Let us know how your search goes. I would like to know which stories interest you the most and why.

 

[Tdol]

You're welcome. Google gave me this as well:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=true+story+site

 

[Jenny Lau]

Ronbee, I really want to explain to you what kind of things I am looking for, but I am afraid I couldn’t express myself very clearly in English, but I want to have a try.
I am collecting those good true stories that happened in the west countries, they should be interesting, amazing, moving or inspiring. The articles should be 1000-3000-word long. But I need not news stories. I am going to translate them into Chinese and try to make them published.
Besides, I think there should be some columns publishing such stories in certain English magazines too, but I don’t know what magazines in America are popular and have good stories. Could you recommend some magazines to me?

 

[RonBee]

Re: Could you recommend me any websites including true stori

You could try the National Geographic website for starters. They have stories from all over the world. They are about all kinds of things. Also, you might want to ask your question on some other forums, where you can get some more ideas.

 

[Jenny Lau]

Sure, thank you