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Do Any Of You Write

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  • Anjin-SanAnjin-San That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    I SAID I WAS SOLICITING YOU

    LETS SEE IT
  • ButtlordButtlord Fornicus Lord of Bondage and PainRegistered User regular
    next nanowrimo i'm gonna write a novel

    gonna be real secretive about that shit too

    the progress bar in my sig will tick up a little every day until its finally full

    only then will i reveal my masterpiece
    the word boner, copy-pasted for hundreds of pages
  • Anjin-SanAnjin-San That Wrong Love Registered User regular
  • SnowbeatSnowbeat Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.Registered User regular
  • LegbaLegba Registered User regular
    I write the way I make love.
  • MorivethMoriveth Registered User regular
    I used to write a lot but I just don't have any enthusiasm for it anymore.
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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    I SAID I WAS SOLICITING YOU

    LETS SEE IT

    do you care about the subject matter?

    https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1rM6JvS4cmaR2tqcHBXS1d3WG8/edit?usp=sharing

    oh it's 19 pages. I thought it was one of my better works

    I really hope that's the final draft, I can't remember.
    Jars on
  • SticksSticks Registered User regular
    Legba wrote: »
    I write the way I make love.

    Me too, but it's hard to find a ghostwriter who's willing to do all the work and let you take the credit when you're not already famous.
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  • Big Red TieBig Red Tie gem flipping just to get by stack your billions till they get sky highRegistered User regular
    i might write
  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    I try to write. Im not sure its working
    Ive restarted four different books at least twice
  • SirEtchwartsSirEtchwarts Edward Kenway's yer man. Arg, Swashbuckle, Avast, etc.Registered User regular
    I feel like I've got the mind of a writer, but I lack the gumption/confidence in my work to really see it through

    I usually get two or three chapters into a thing before I give up
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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Thats me in a nutshell

    Also some of my ideas may be better suited to comic books than a novel
  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    I really should be writing more, and reading a lot more, especially because I have previously given consideration to writing an ethnography or public-accessible archaeology that isn't trash

    but, as mentioned, bad student
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  • GustavGustav Registered User regular
    That's why I liked writing short stories when I did prose. Dunno if I have enough in me to ever do a novel of the non comic variety.
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  • SirEtchwartsSirEtchwarts Edward Kenway's yer man. Arg, Swashbuckle, Avast, etc.Registered User regular
    Thats me in a nutshell

    Also some of my ideas may be better suited to comic books than a novel

    Yeah, I sometimes get that notion too. My problem is just that I can't draw to save my life, and I really have no idea how I'd find someone who can.
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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Thats me in a nutshell

    Also some of my ideas may be better suited to comic books than a novel

    Yeah, I sometimes get that notion too. My problem is just that I can't draw to save my life, and I really have no idea how I'd find someone who can.

    Are we the same person?
  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 BFL Classic Same twin flavor that you've always lovedRegistered User regular
    Buttlord wrote: »
    next nanowrimo i'm gonna write a novel

    gonna be real secretive about that shit too

    the progress bar in my sig will tick up a little every day until its finally full

    only then will i reveal my masterpiece
    the word boner, copy-pasted for hundreds of pages
    All work and no boner makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no boner makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no boner makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no boner makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no boner makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no boner makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no boner makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no boner makes jack a dull boy.
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  • SirEtchwartsSirEtchwarts Edward Kenway's yer man. Arg, Swashbuckle, Avast, etc.Registered User regular
    Thats me in a nutshell

    Also some of my ideas may be better suited to comic books than a novel

    Yeah, I sometimes get that notion too. My problem is just that I can't draw to save my life, and I really have no idea how I'd find someone who can.

    Are we the same person?

    What did you have for supper?
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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    could you guys stop with the plaigurism please
  • AthenorAthenor Dapper Storyteller Registered User regular
    I try to write.

    Writing is one of my biggest points of self-loathing, because everyone says I'm amazing at it, yet I can't bring myself to do it outside of a couple venues like online roleplaying.

    My technical writing for work gets shredded because I tend to get wordy even when I'm trying to be succinct, because I believe the why is as important as the how in my position.

    I am so incredibly jealous of my friend and former classmate who got his first book published and is passing the 100k word mark on his 3rd novel in the series. Sure, he got dicked around for a year while it got published, but at least he's put creative work out there!


    ... God damnit if I could get up the courage to write something someday and actually put this mountain of debt to use.
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  • GustavGustav Registered User regular
    Thats me in a nutshell

    Also some of my ideas may be better suited to comic books than a novel

    Yeah, I sometimes get that notion too. My problem is just that I can't draw to save my life, and I really have no idea how I'd find someone who can.

    Through some peanuts around the art building of your nearest college.

    Oh and set-up a snare trap.

    Snare trap + peanuts = getting yourself an artist.
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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Hey guys!

    If you are new to the Writer's Block area you can always check out the chat thread to get adjusted to the community, if you want to get your write on might I suggest the new Flash Fiction Friday thread? Get those juices flowing and become a part of the best writing forum this side of anywhere.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Thats me in a nutshell

    Also some of my ideas may be better suited to comic books than a novel

    Yeah, I sometimes get that notion too. My problem is just that I can't draw to save my life, and I really have no idea how I'd find someone who can.

    Are we the same person?

    What did you have for supper?

    Food.

    Your move doppelganger
  • MagellMagell Registered User regular
    Well if you just write your stuff and then post it in TWB people who don't know you will give you advice and we're mostly nice. So if you don't feel confident just remember you're posting it anonymously to people who don't know you and want to help make you a better writer.

    I've found when people say they can't write it's because they are their own worst enemy.
  • LegbaLegba Registered User regular
    Melding wrote: »
    Legba wrote: »
    I write the way I make love.

    but you just wrote something.

    I can't take all the credit, your mum wrote half of it.


  • MorivethMoriveth Registered User regular
    I find when I try to write I get really self-conscious of it and end up giving up early on. It's rare that I write something I'm satisfied with, and rarer still that I find myself still satisfied after rereading it.
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  • AntimatterAntimatter I remember touch I need something moreRegistered User regular
    Legba wrote: »
    Melding wrote: »
    Legba wrote: »
    I write the way I make love.

    but you just wrote something.

    I can't take all the credit, your mum wrote half of it.


    her vibrator wrote the other half.
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  • AthenorAthenor Dapper Storyteller Registered User regular
    Magell wrote: »
    Well if you just write your stuff and then post it in TWB people who don't know you will give you advice and we're mostly nice. So if you don't feel confident just remember you're posting it anonymously to people who don't know you and want to help make you a better writer.

    I've found when people say they can't write it's because they are their own worst enemy.

    I've been using the same screenname, in almost all my online dealings, for 17 years now. I have a bit of a history so to speak. Or at least my mind thinks I do. Stupid thing plays tricks on me and makes me get all judgmental of my writing.

    True story: When I first came to this forum (I just got my 9 year badge), I used to post in extremely long, multi-paragraph ramblings on my naive views on the world. I also used to sign my posts above the signature. I got yelled at for that.

    ... Good lord I'm carrying around a lot of baggage.
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  • Captain MarcusCaptain Marcus Registered User regular
    It was a cat, but splat-
    a truck carrying Fiskars
    ground its whiskers
    into the asphalt flat.

    proudest moment of middle school, right there. also holds the record for "most horrified looks I've ever received"
  • SirEtchwartsSirEtchwarts Edward Kenway's yer man. Arg, Swashbuckle, Avast, etc.Registered User regular
    Thats me in a nutshell

    Also some of my ideas may be better suited to comic books than a novel

    Yeah, I sometimes get that notion too. My problem is just that I can't draw to save my life, and I really have no idea how I'd find someone who can.

    Are we the same person?

    What did you have for supper?

    Food.

    Your move doppelganger

    I had some motor oil, it's all we eat in Doppelgangsvania-wait a minute
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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    you know everyone else probably PMed their stuff. now I feel kind of embarrassed, but I don't think too many people are really that interested in comparisons between german and american new left movements in the 1960s.
  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt w o r s h i p c a t g o dRegistered User regular
    I like to write

    I don't do it nearly enough, and am constantly ashamed and in the middle of some other effort to invigorate myself in that department. used to do short fiction mostly.

    Right now I'm working on a board game, though, and it's offering some opportunities to write little thangs: players choose light-hearted fantasy/medieval congressional districts, and each district will have a short little history, sort of along the lines of an overly verbose ME-style codex entry

    here are some first-draft examples which are mostly series of ideas of me figuring out what I want each district to be right now

    district 1
    Perpetually oppressed, the denizens of The Break are infamous for their inability to peaceably assemble or to effectively articulate a reason for their on-again, off-again rebellion. “Geographically unfortunate” is a nicer accounting of the craggy, tempestuous rocks off the northeast shore of the P.F.R.H. Political careers (and the politicians that attempt them) are short-lived, as anything less than immediate secession is seen as mild treason by the laws of The Break (punishable by exile to “Imperialist Island,” southernmost tip of the archipelago) and actual, immediate secession is considered treason by the laws of The Crown (punishable by exile via trebuchet into the sea). Roughly eighty percent of the workforce is involved in the fishing industry in some capacity, the other twenty comprising the tavern proprietors, madcap inventors, and full-time rabble-rousers this district is known for.

    district 3
    The inhabitants of Golden Yoke are birthed in mines and die in mines: the pickaxe, their sigil, customarily takes part in both. Known the kingdom over for a stalwart belief in their cultural primacy, they adhere to a stringent policy of segregation between Yoke natives and travelers in their land. Their distaste for outsiders, proclivity for inbreeding, and tradition of mass multigenerational dowries has yielded a remarkably homogenous populace; purity of blood is rarely touted for pride in the mountains, as the exception is so rare.
    Though their annexation was met with fierce resistance, once defeated militarily they succinctly submitted to and have since unilaterally accepted the burdens of The Crown. The miners have proven themselves to be dutiful and cooperative, though officers of The Crown sent to oversee production corroborate that they, in no uncertain terms, loathe each officer of The Crown sent to oversee production. But the flow of gold from the mountains has remained uninterrupted for several years, and so long as the locals’ affairs are left unmolested, incident is unforeseeable. (The notable footnote here being the visitation of Crown Ambassador Harlow Grafton, who thought it fatherly and quaint to take up a pickaxe and endure a day’s work in the mines. He was rewarded for his perceived condescension with the dubious distinction of being the first outsider to both die and be briefly interred in the mines, though he was later dragged out and returned to the embassy at his family’s request.)

    district 6
    Pilgrims need only stay a single night in Bloodbursars’ Bay to experience the eponymous three B’s: you will witness a man being gutted; a man will solicit payment to insure your life in the event that you, yourself, are gutted; and the beauty of the bay is truly breathtaking and quite a sight at sunrise from any of our waterfront inns, now offering competitive rates for the discerning traveler! Life is chaotic in the bay, and begets meteoric ascents or descents with scant plateaus. Conglomerates vie for the considerable power there is to be had, ever spawning, collapsing and transforming; the richest businessman may be destitute or dead in a week, and from the spurting stump of his neck shall spring two new heads of the hedged hydra, each at odds with the other and in a massive amount of debt. Multiple guilds of considerable repute and legitimacy exist to enroll starry-eyed fortune-seekers into apprenticeships, their halls devoted to the alumni who’ve left their smoldering crater somewhere in the district. The Crown has little, if any presence in the Bay: it intermittently sends its more daring agents to collect what taxes they can from whosoever commands the region’s economy on that particular day, then leaves it alone to do the grand and reprehensible things that it will do.
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  • tapeslingertapeslinger utter Yog-Sothothery mmm, soulsRegistered User regular
    Athenor wrote: »
    Magell wrote: »
    Well if you just write your stuff and then post it in TWB people who don't know you will give you advice and we're mostly nice. So if you don't feel confident just remember you're posting it anonymously to people who don't know you and want to help make you a better writer.

    I've found when people say they can't write it's because they are their own worst enemy.

    I've been using the same screenname, in almost all my online dealings, for 17 years now. I have a bit of a history so to speak. Or at least my mind thinks I do. Stupid thing plays tricks on me and makes me get all judgmental of my writing.

    True story: When I first came to this forum (I just got my 9 year badge), I used to post in extremely long, multi-paragraph ramblings on my naive views on the world. I also used to sign my posts above the signature. I got yelled at for that.

    ... Good lord I'm carrying around a lot of baggage.

    hahaha
    yeah, there's a reason I chose a different screen name from my usual for posting on here

    I'm kinda loving this inter-forum raid thread, but seriously, come play with us word nerds, nerds
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  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Registered User regular
    Athenor wrote: »
    Magell wrote: »
    Well if you just write your stuff and then post it in TWB people who don't know you will give you advice and we're mostly nice. So if you don't feel confident just remember you're posting it anonymously to people who don't know you and want to help make you a better writer.

    I've found when people say they can't write it's because they are their own worst enemy.

    I've been using the same screenname, in almost all my online dealings, for 17 years now. I have a bit of a history so to speak. Or at least my mind thinks I do. Stupid thing plays tricks on me and makes me get all judgmental of my writing.

    True story: When I first came to this forum (I just got my 9 year badge), I used to post in extremely long, multi-paragraph ramblings on my naive views on the world. I also used to sign my posts above the signature. I got yelled at for that.

    ... Good lord I'm carrying around a lot of baggage.

    Everyone is.

    Some of us are just a tiny bit better at hiding it. I'm eternally grateful that the first forum I was ever on no longer exists. I've got some humiliating stuff hidden on extant sites, sure, but thinking back to then... yeah.

    As for the topic? Trying to write. Got something on Medium Difficulty a bit back, hammering out some stuff in private that probably won't amount to anything. Writer's Block up north a ways in the forum is an excellent resource, as is "On Writing". Think I've got some natural talent, but there's only a few freaks of nature who can coast on talent. Know I'm nowhere near that good. So, yeah. Just trying to get better.
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  • AthenorAthenor Dapper Storyteller Registered User regular
    What really pisses me off about my lack of writing is that it bleeds over into when I GM.. or hell, when I play. I can create a damned fine setting, flesh out a plot with NPCs and sights and sounds to make you feel like you are really there.. but when it comes to the actual plot I stall and procrastinate, and work myself up into a tizzy where I go into running an RPG mad at myself and sad that my players won't enjoy it or see through my web of lies.

    My players, mind you, who spent 3 and a half hours of a 4 hour session chasing the red herring I threw out in the first 10 minutes, despite multiple times goading them onto the right place. Though it did lead to my favorite moment in any game I've ever run before:

    <P1> "I go off and find a hooker for the night."

    <Me> "Allright.. *Rolls* Okay, everyone, what does [P1] see when he wakes up?"

    <P2> "A man!"

    <P3> "A goat!"

    <P1> "A sexy woman?"

    <Me> "Alright, alright. [P1], you open your eyes to find a satyr."

    That satyr ended up being the Agent Coulson of my Shadowrun universe. A very effeminate, fae little satyr who could scare the crap out of my players when it was needed, and not just with a Barrett 50-cal sniper rifle.

    (My second fav character was the smuggler mechanic with the flourescent neon purple dreadlocks. Because flourescent neon purple dreadlock cyberware is just awesome. He also worked with the satyr.)
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  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt w o r s h i p c a t g o dRegistered User regular
    Jars wrote: »
    you know everyone else probably PMed their stuff. now I feel kind of embarrassed, but I don't think too many people are really that interested in comparisons between german and american new left movements in the 1960s.

    i posted things

    it's okay

    let your words be heard, brother
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  • -Tal-Tal Truth is elusive It's nowhere to be foundRegistered User regular
    Are there any writers that have self-esteem
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  • AntimatterAntimatter I remember touch I need something moreRegistered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    Are there any writers that have self-esteem

    bad ones
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  • AthenorAthenor Dapper Storyteller Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    Are there any writers that have self-esteem

    I studied the Hemingway school of writing.

    No seriously. My senior seminar at university was run by a published, accredited, and kickass Hemingway scholar. Our final papers to graduate involved dissecting various drafts of his writing to see how he came to the final product, and analyzing what every change meant to the narrative tone, flow, and theme. My personal paper involved me indexing no fewer than 4 different drafts.

    God, what I wouldn't give to have a Kerouac-like adventure at least once in my life.
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