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Post by gailoraanf on Jun 26, 2007 4:40:28 GMT
Should this be in General Cretivity? It isn't a piece of creativity or anything, but it has to DO with cretivity... I'm not sure. Mods, feel free to move it if this isn't the right place.
Hokay.
So... who here writes a lot? Besides KND fanfiction. Studies show that almost everyone in America is working on a novel.
Whataboutyouguys?
I am working on a book of short stories. Novella's actually. But some are just short stories.
In one short story, I couldn't get a characters personality down right, so I went onto a chat site, and pretended to be him while talking with everyone. You know, I said that I had a twin brother and that my dad had just got laid off of his job... and people believed me. And I learned tons about my character.
Anyone have a writing.com account? It's a pretty cool website... They give you good feedback.
Anyway, this is because... I wanted to create this thread. Yeah.
Anyone have anything interesting to say?
EDIT: or is there already a thread like this? I haven't looked
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Post by Shwoo on Jun 26, 2007 4:54:58 GMT
I don't think there's a thread like this.
I like to write, but I have trouble putting what I see in my head into words sometimes. I wrote a Homestar Runner fanfic a few months ago, and that was pretty well received. I'm also wroking on a novel, but at the moment, my Homestar Runner fanfiction is more interesting to me. My original characters aren't really that interesting. I need to practice some more.
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Post by numbuheightbitstar on Jun 26, 2007 5:09:13 GMT
I was trying to write, but I was never really satisfied with anything I did. Nowadays I'm trying to work on my drawing so I can do graphic novels instead.
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Post by thesuki on Jun 26, 2007 5:13:45 GMT
People have said I'm a good writer, but I suck at descriptions. I think they're boring, frankly, and am better at writing dialogue. So I got into art. I wasn't intending to do comics, but that seems to be the direction it's taking. I can tell a story without having to explain the action and dialogue in minute, boring detail. I can just draw what it looks like instead.
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Post by SAVE_US.WBTC on Jun 26, 2007 5:23:04 GMT
Besides some KND fiction, I've been trying to write fiction for the Thief video game series. In both, I blitzed through the first installment with fresh ideas and blooming inspiration, but got quagmired in my second one, checking to make sure I'm not redundant, and making sure I give enough detail.
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Post by Shwoo on Jun 26, 2007 5:54:35 GMT
I don't like the description part either, but I can't draw very well or quickly, so I'm going to stick with just writing.
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Post by thesuki on Jun 26, 2007 6:27:50 GMT
I don't like the description part either, but I can't draw very well or quickly, so I'm going to stick with just writing. Neither can I. XD Some people here have seen my modest skills, and those took YEARS to develop. But I like it better than hammering out all those inane adjectives to explain the design on a bowl.
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Post by sunnybunny on Jun 26, 2007 12:43:10 GMT
I´m currently writing a fantasy-novel, which will come out at least 200 pages long XD I´ve worked on this about 2 years, I got the idea 7years ago But when I´m done with it, I´ll definately enter to one young-writers contest in Estonia, which takes place every year
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Post by numbuheightbitstar on Jun 26, 2007 14:14:46 GMT
I don't like the description part either, but I can't draw very well or quickly, so I'm going to stick with just writing. Drawing isn't a quick process. Even professionals have to be calm and patient or their work ends up looking like a five-year-old's. In my case, it's not so much that I don't like descriptions as it is that I feel they don't get across what I'm trying to convey. Especially since I tend to come up with... unusual things.
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Post by Numbuh 0xFF on Jun 26, 2007 14:48:40 GMT
I hate the way I write. I don't think I've ever written a sentence I'm happy with. But I just love writing too much to stop.
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Post by hoagiegal1970 on Jun 26, 2007 15:04:24 GMT
I love writing, but unfortunately for me, I have a very short attention span. (Don't have adult ADHD--I just get bored and move on too quickly.)
I can go for a long time without writing or producing anything of any kind of quality.
However, I wrote a couple of short one-shots that I'm proud of.
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Post by gailoraanf on Jun 26, 2007 15:34:10 GMT
When I try to write, I never write about anything that I don't want to write about. Like... if I want to write about a boy and his twin brother who were put in a foster home after their parents died, I will. (I've written about those twins on countless occasions. Things never go very well for Mark and Anthony...) So, I hold up my enthusiasm for writing. I write a lot about twins...
But after reading my writing over and over again, I have realized that my style just... isn't that good. I write tragedy for the sake of tragedy. Dramatic angst. But, I enjoy doing it, so nothing'll stop me.
One of my problems, though, is that I go into fits of perfectioism. Usually, I'm the furthers thing from a perfectionist, and I just have fun with my sentences and be all loose. But then, bang, perfectioism hits me. And I need to write that sentence perfectly. Or I need to find a synonym for that word that doesn't end with "ness" (usually I hate words that end with "ness") And then, after those rare fits of perfectioism, a loooong writers block always hits me.
One thing that I deciced I don't want to do, ever, is get published. About a month ago, I was SO exceited to get published one day, but then I decided that I don't want to unless it's a REALLY, SUPER, best-seller type of book. Not for selfish reasons... for... other.... reasons.
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Post by ♥Comet..Adie♥ on Jun 26, 2007 17:34:29 GMT
I like to write stories. Usually Its Fanfiction(currently a sp fanfic ^_^) basically its all fanfiction.I write poems sometimes too,but its not for fanfiction. Its really hard for me to stick to chapter stories, because my mind tend to wanders when i write and i loose interest. So usually I write one-shots. Actually most of my one-shots are song fics. a few months ago i tried to write a non-fanfic,but then it somehow turned into a fanfic. currently my goal is to write a very good sp fanfic,non oneshot....So far im only like af ew sentences into the story, and started yesterday.
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Post by Numbuh 278 on Jun 26, 2007 19:01:29 GMT
I love writing, but unfortunately for me, I have a very short attention span. (Don't have adult ADHD--I just get bored and move on too quickly.) I can go for a long time without writing or producing anything of any kind of quality. However, I wrote a couple of short one-shots that I'm proud of. Yeah, same ^^; like I'll start something and I'll get bored and go to something else. x.x thats why Ive been working on this one painting for months cause I'll redo it over and over XDDD Ive written things before but sometimes I get really bored of it.. most of the things I write are stupid "funny" stories anyway xD
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Post by numbuheightbitstar on Jun 27, 2007 5:02:36 GMT
But after reading my writing over and over again, I have realized that my style just... isn't that good. I write tragedy for the sake of tragedy. Dramatic angst. But, I enjoy doing it, so nothing'll stop me. Ain't nuthin wrong with that, really. I used to be anti-Angst, but you know... the more I think about it, the more I think that was just an insecure mind not wanting to see something too close to its own faults. Really, "angst for the sake of angst" (whatever THAT means) is no worse than "adventure for the sake of adventure" or "happy ending for the sake of a happy ending." Yeah, thinking your own work is so terrible that you don't want others to see it is perfectly understandible. I've considered taking down my KND fics for that reason. But that would be selfish. One thing I find helps ease the pain a bit though, is that really the definition of "good prose" is so subjective as to be useless. I've seen discussions on whether or not Dickens, Tolkien, REH, Lovecraft etc. had "good prose," with convincing arguements either way. Most authors don't write like Dickens or Tolkien or whoever... many people out on the racks don't have prose that's noticeably better than anything you could get out of a fanfic author. But that's okay... people don't read stories for the quality of prose. They read it because there's something about the work itself that connects with them and "fills up" their mental tank (in other words, inspires them. To do what, I don't know).
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