Writing Stories

[DrinkTeaEatBooks]

Hullo!

It's me.

Is anybody else here a writer?

I must say, imagination does not necessairily scream out of my pen, but I try the best I can. I write childrens stories usually. They're all in very much the beginning stages, and I think that's how they usually stay, because I normally lose interest and hop onto another idea. But I really enjoy writing. At least, coming up with the ideas for stories.

Are there any other writers here?

[DrinkTeaEatBooks]

Hullo!

It's me.

Is anybody else here a writer?

I must say, imagination does not necessairily scream out of my pen, but I try the best I can. I write childrens stories usually. They're all in very much the beginning stages, and I think that's how they usually stay, because I normally lose interest and hop onto another idea. But I really enjoy writing. At least, coming up with the ideas for stories.

Are there any other writers here?

[hypecity]

http://www.blacktable.com/images/0412pics/jesus/28000.jpg

[Edited on 3-23-2006 by hypecity]

[hypecity]

http://www.blacktable.com/images/0412pics/jesus/28000.jpg

[Edited on 3-23-2006 by hypecity]

[The Sad Witch]

Yes, I love writing- also children's stories, as it happens! I'd love to do picture books at some point, but its so competitive, and there's so much to consider. Like one of my favourite characters smokes a pipe, but that could never get published because it would encourage smoking, but without his pipe he isn't my character :( Curse this PC world! Plus it pays really, really badly. I also don't finish a lot. With the picture book style ones I just want to do the pictures mainly, with my longer ones I start off and can never finish. Now I try and start stories in three parts, like write out my introduction, write out my key turning point, and write my ending, then fill in the bit in between. I find that helps quite a bit, but usually I want to write for the sake of writing and do it organically, because I just like to write about characters rather than complex plots. I just wish I was better at it! :(

[The Sad Witch]

Yes, I love writing- also children's stories, as it happens! I'd love to do picture books at some point, but its so competitive, and there's so much to consider. Like one of my favourite characters smokes a pipe, but that could never get published because it would encourage smoking, but without his pipe he isn't my character :( Curse this PC world! Plus it pays really, really badly. I also don't finish a lot. With the picture book style ones I just want to do the pictures mainly, with my longer ones I start off and can never finish. Now I try and start stories in three parts, like write out my introduction, write out my key turning point, and write my ending, then fill in the bit in between. I find that helps quite a bit, but usually I want to write for the sake of writing and do it organically, because I just like to write about characters rather than complex plots. I just wish I was better at it! :(

[DrinkTeaEatBooks]

Sometimes it can be quite a chore, I find, actually getting my ideas to paper in the first place, as I'm completely adverse to any form of forward planning, it seems. So sometimes my ideas clog up my brainwaves. Although, sadly, this doesn't happen enough.

Sometimes, though, I just like to sit down and write a story straight out, with no idea where I'm going to start, what's going to happen, or where the end's going to be. I think it's refreshing.

[DrinkTeaEatBooks]

Sometimes it can be quite a chore, I find, actually getting my ideas to paper in the first place, as I'm completely adverse to any form of forward planning, it seems. So sometimes my ideas clog up my brainwaves. Although, sadly, this doesn't happen enough.

Sometimes, though, I just like to sit down and write a story straight out, with no idea where I'm going to start, what's going to happen, or where the end's going to be. I think it's refreshing.

[ladylamentingonalawnchair]

I've written a few stories, and many more beginnings of stories. I create some characters and write about them poetically but I often can't figure out what they should do. Nowadays I've been writing lots of my dissertation, which gives me confidence for my ability to write a novel when I have the time. I do have ideas for my (YA) novel--it's about a girl who turns into a snowshoe hare and then back again.

[ladylamentingonalawnchair]

I've written a few stories, and many more beginnings of stories. I create some characters and write about them poetically but I often can't figure out what they should do. Nowadays I've been writing lots of my dissertation, which gives me confidence for my ability to write a novel when I have the time. I do have ideas for my (YA) novel--it's about a girl who turns into a snowshoe hare and then back again.

[okinomiyaki-sensei]

I`m writing a novella right now. It`s about spirits, gardens, forests, dreams, philosophers and paranoia in the not-too-distant-future. I think it`s coming together quite nicely, actually.

[okinomiyaki-sensei]

I`m writing a novella right now. It`s about spirits, gardens, forests, dreams, philosophers and paranoia in the not-too-distant-future. I think it`s coming together quite nicely, actually.

[Harnk]

I have about 30 or so stories. They're mostly immature and without regard to logic and reason.

[Harnk]

I have about 30 or so stories. They're mostly immature and without regard to logic and reason.

[Harnk]

Yes. Well some of those make up the 30 or so.

[Harnk]

Yes. Well some of those make up the 30 or so.

[jaimi]

I like to write 50+ page stories in Microsoft Word instead of doing my actual assignments, and then delete them when I get bored with them. What happens to all the bad, unpublished writing in the world? Rotting on my hard drives and decaying in various landfills is all it's doing now, I guess. Rather organic, don't you think?

I really do want to do a "comic book novel" (touché, Dan Clowes) someday though.

[Edited on 8-17-2005 by jaimi]

[jaimi]

I like to write 50+ page stories in Microsoft Word instead of doing my actual assignments, and then delete them when I get bored with them. What happens to all the bad, unpublished writing in the world? Rotting on my hard drives and decaying in various landfills is all it's doing now, I guess. Rather organic, don't you think?

I really do want to do a "comic book novel" (touché, Dan Clowes) someday though.

[Edited on 8-17-2005 by jaimi]

[Harnk]

Originally posted by Half-Handed
Any plans to do anything with them?

No. Not really.

[Harnk]

Originally posted by Half-Handed
Any plans to do anything with them?

No. Not really.

[hypecity]

http://www.blacktable.com/images/0412pics/jesus/28000.jpg

[Edited on 3-23-2006 by hypecity]

[hypecity]

http://www.blacktable.com/images/0412pics/jesus/28000.jpg

[Edited on 3-23-2006 by hypecity]

[boyindrag]

i tried to write a children's story once, but it turned out really depressing..

[boyindrag]

i tried to write a children's story once, but it turned out really depressing..

[Fwching]

Well, since I'm bored and there's nothing else to contribute to, I'll post a reply in here. So I'm writing a "children's book" right now. It's part of a long-running project that I've been trying to complete for nearly three years now, and it's really a nag. I'd write about the premises of the book, but it's not super-original so I'll spare you.
It's driving me *crazy*, the story just isn't that good!

[Fwching]

Well, since I'm bored and there's nothing else to contribute to, I'll post a reply in here. So I'm writing a "children's book" right now. It's part of a long-running project that I've been trying to complete for nearly three years now, and it's really a nag. I'd write about the premises of the book, but it's not super-original so I'll spare you.
It's driving me *crazy*, the story just isn't that good!

[porc-épic]

Originally posted by jaimi
I like to write 50+ page stories in Microsoft Word instead of doing my actual assignments, and then delete them when I get bored with them. What happens to all the bad, unpublished writing in the world? Rotting on my hard drives and decaying in various landfills is all it's doing now, I guess. Rather organic, don't you think?

I really do want to do a "comic book novel" (touché, Dan Clowes) someday though.

[Edited on 8-17-2005 by jaimi]


why, you're a regular kilgore trout.

[porc-épic]

Originally posted by jaimi
I like to write 50+ page stories in Microsoft Word instead of doing my actual assignments, and then delete them when I get bored with them. What happens to all the bad, unpublished writing in the world? Rotting on my hard drives and decaying in various landfills is all it's doing now, I guess. Rather organic, don't you think?

I really do want to do a "comic book novel" (touché, Dan Clowes) someday though.

[Edited on 8-17-2005 by jaimi]


why, you're a regular kilgore trout.

[birdman]

i just wrote a childrens story for my final project last semester. About a boy who leaves his world behind and meets a wolf in the woods. sort of a combination between siddhartha and thus spoke zarathustra. i rather enjoyed its outcome.

[birdman]

i just wrote a childrens story for my final project last semester. About a boy who leaves his world behind and meets a wolf in the woods. sort of a combination between siddhartha and thus spoke zarathustra. i rather enjoyed its outcome.

[echelle]

exceprt:

Cora walks away from the car. She rubs a hand on her forehead. Concentrates on circulating her blood. She moves her lips over air, conjugates the honks and noises rising from the street. Her feet take her behind pop-up trailers, a cigar shop, a bakery.

At her front door, Cora's spine slips, an incident having nothing to do with leaving the piccolo player, and everything to do with the poor condition of her lower vertebrae. The war is causing everybody to cringe in their own way.

Her house is full of chickadees and sparrows. Twenty-eight total, perching themselves on the faucet and the wooden kitchen table and the top of the fridge and the bedposts and the railings. They chirp and sh!t. Cora tells them, "Isn't it enough I let you live here? I'm sorry there's no place for you outside anymore. It's bad. I know it's bad." She laughs. There's nothing else to do. The whole world is red and twitching, bullets riding zephyrs, battalions collapsing into backdrops.

Cora wears noseplugs made out of cotton and cleans and cleans and cleans but the downstairs still smells awful.

click here for the story:
Cora. Cora. And Her Eyelids Folded Into Origami Animals. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/echelle/12216.html)

be well.
-Jon

[Edited on 8-19-2005 by echelle]

[echelle]

exceprt:

Cora walks away from the car. She rubs a hand on her forehead. Concentrates on circulating her blood. She moves her lips over air, conjugates the honks and noises rising from the street. Her feet take her behind pop-up trailers, a cigar shop, a bakery.

At her front door, Cora's spine slips, an incident having nothing to do with leaving the piccolo player, and everything to do with the poor condition of her lower vertebrae. The war is causing everybody to cringe in their own way.

Her house is full of chickadees and sparrows. Twenty-eight total, perching themselves on the faucet and the wooden kitchen table and the top of the fridge and the bedposts and the railings. They chirp and sh!t. Cora tells them, "Isn't it enough I let you live here? I'm sorry there's no place for you outside anymore. It's bad. I know it's bad." She laughs. There's nothing else to do. The whole world is red and twitching, bullets riding zephyrs, battalions collapsing into backdrops.

Cora wears noseplugs made out of cotton and cleans and cleans and cleans but the downstairs still smells awful.

click here for the story:
Cora. Cora. And Her Eyelids Folded Into Origami Animals. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/echelle/12216.html)

be well.
-Jon

[Edited on 8-19-2005 by echelle]

[el topo]

I am in the middle of a novel right now. I went to grad school for creative writing, and it taught me much, but I still kind of wish I chose a more useful major, so I could actually make money. But I feel what I'm writing now might stand a chance of getting published.

If anyone has ever downloaded the Marshmallow Coast song "The Fallen Detectives Lament," that was written for my last book. That was before Andy stopped taking commissions from people. The story was about a group of cultists who think God checked into a hotel room on a tropical island, and the metaphysical mystery that ensues. I gave Andy G. a chapter and he said some positive things and wrote the nice song.

[el topo]

I am in the middle of a novel right now. I went to grad school for creative writing, and it taught me much, but I still kind of wish I chose a more useful major, so I could actually make money. But I feel what I'm writing now might stand a chance of getting published.

If anyone has ever downloaded the Marshmallow Coast song "The Fallen Detectives Lament," that was written for my last book. That was before Andy stopped taking commissions from people. The story was about a group of cultists who think God checked into a hotel room on a tropical island, and the metaphysical mystery that ensues. I gave Andy G. a chapter and he said some positive things and wrote the nice song.