Do Any Of You Write

godmode

Jars wrote: »

I wrote a bunch of stuff in college

also some erotic fanfics

If writing erotic fanfiction makes you an author, then I'm Ernest Hemingway

The Betman

tapeslinger wrote: »

Come flash fic with us already

This week's new prompt is up already

Might do this when I get home!

Snowbeat

godmode wrote: »

Jars wrote: »

I wrote a bunch of stuff in college

also some erotic fanfics

If writing erotic fanfiction makes you an author, then I'm Ernest Hemingway

because your fanfic has strong, direct prose and a charismatic conviction of will??

MalReynolds

I am do writing on sometime

Binary Squid

Houk wrote: »

Not the worst, but one funny thing I always remember - it wasn't my project, but we were working on a sort of generic medieval fantasy 3rd person action type game, and our translator (god love him) wanted to try and make it sound really era-appropriate and authentic.

At one point, two enemy groups are performing a magic/religious ritual to try and summon some demons or something. and the original translation went something like this:

"No! They're having an orgy! Well, we'll just have to have a bigger orgy of our own to stop their orgy!" ... "Haha! Our orgy was victorious!"

As it turns out, way back when, "orgy" was used to refer to "esoteric religious rituals" which I didn't know. These days, of course, it generally refer to group sex, which the translator didn't know. It took way more work than it should have to convince him that we should probably pick a different word.

Someday, I hope to use the phrase "Our orgy was victorious" in a sentence.

godmode

Snowbeat wrote: »

godmode wrote: »

Jars wrote: »

I wrote a bunch of stuff in college

also some erotic fanfics

If writing erotic fanfiction makes you an author, then I'm Ernest Hemingway

because your fanfic has strong, direct prose and a charismatic conviction of will??

Well, that...but mostly because I do my best writing when I'm drunk off my ass.

Sassori

godmode wrote: »

Snowbeat wrote: »

godmode wrote: »

Jars wrote: »

I wrote a bunch of stuff in college

also some erotic fanfics

If writing erotic fanfiction makes you an author, then I'm Ernest Hemingway

because your fanfic has strong, direct prose and a charismatic conviction of will??

Well, that...but mostly because I do my best writing when I'm drunk off my ass.

How do we live together and I don't know about this?!

Prolegomena

I haven't written anything since I dropped out of my PhD nearly 3 years ago, this is probably a bad thing.

Sassori

I had actually been considering trying to pick up a story I've had sitting on the backburner for a while.

I go back and forth on whether or not there is any point in trying.

Quoth

I write stuff

Uriel

There is really no reason I shouldn't write more than I do.

Larlar

I just joined a Vancouver writer's meetup to devote some time each week to not not writing.

I'd like to start creating a solid outline to this story idea I've had for a good ten years so that when I finally try to write it again one day I don't get about three chapters in before throwing my arms up and deleting everything.

Kochikens

I miss writing. I need a writing buddy again.

King Riptor

Larlar wrote: »

I just joined a Vancouver writer's meetup to devote some time each week to not not writing.

I'd like to start creating a solid outline to this story idea I've had for a good ten years so that when I finally try to write it again one day I don't get about three chapters in before throwing my arms up and deleting everything.

I have the basic story beats in my head but trying to get them into an outline generally results in a huge mess of a document that goes into way to much detail.

Tasteticle

I have books filled with material for stand up routines. Most of it is complete garbage.

Quoth

Outlines are allowed to have too much detail, there are no rules for that

I once made a wiki for a novel

Binary Squid

Tasteticle wrote: »

I have books filled with material for stand up routines. Most of it is complete garbage.

Badum tish!

Tasteticle

My gf's dream is to have a published novel and she has been working on it for years. Taking classes, going to seminars, the whole nine. Our bedroom is filled with so many sticky notes and string webs that it looks like a safehouse for an insane person.

She let's me review things from time to time and her prose is goddamn incredible and I am really happy to be a supportive part of all of this.

MalReynolds

godmode wrote: »

Snowbeat wrote: »

godmode wrote: »

Jars wrote: »

I wrote a bunch of stuff in college

also some erotic fanfics

If writing erotic fanfiction makes you an author, then I'm Ernest Hemingway

because your fanfic has strong, direct prose and a charismatic conviction of will??

Well, that...but mostly because I do my best writing when I'm drunk off my ass.

See, I'm kind of the same way, but I'll go back and forth between reading what I wrote and being impressed, and being confused because what I've written is complete gibberish.

MalReynolds

Tasteticle wrote: »

My gf's dream is to have a published novel and she has been working on it for years. Taking classes, going to seminars, the whole nine. Our bedroom is filled with so many sticky notes and strong webs that it looks like a safehouse for an insane person.

She let's me review things from time to time and her prose is goddamn incredible and I am really happy to be a supportive part of all of this.

It's so weird to have all of that information contained in one brain, and when it's let out for organizational purposes it blankets an entire room.

RawrBear

I usually try, and then subsequently fail miserably at nanowrimo every year. I'm also working on a tabletop rpg thing, which I guess counts as writing sort of.

Quoth

I am the local ML for Nano so anytime you guys want to Nano it up, just hit me with a trout or something

We always have a thread for it in TWB

DouglasDanger

i need to write actual prose instead of background and back story stuff. Even though I failed spectactularly when I tried to learn how to draw, I am a very visual person. I have to figure out what a character looks like before I write about that character's life.

I started writing another thing about the same things I always write about, and by odin's eye i will nail it this time. this time is different!

King Riptor

Quoth wrote: »

Outlines are allowed to have too much detail, there are no rules for that

I once made a wiki for a novel

See Im heading that route but its hard to draw a line between.vital for a beliveable world and they dont need to know that

MalReynolds

Every time I see this thread title, I read it as, "Do you even write, bro?"

jgeis

I'm just finishing up my bachelor's in English. The vast majority of what I've written is academic essays and research papers. I have written a little creative stuff, but I always styme myself because I think that I am a terrible creative writer even when my peers tell me otherwise. I did have one very short story, written for an assignment in a creative writing class, that got a lot of positive feedback. Maybe I'll post that here when I have access to it/am not phone posting.

Aneurhythmia

Snowbeat wrote: »

godmode wrote: »

Jars wrote: »

I wrote a bunch of stuff in college

also some erotic fanfics

If writing erotic fanfiction makes you an author, then I'm Ernest Hemingway

because your fanfic has strong, direct prose and a charismatic conviction of will??

And often dwells on literal emasculation.

Quoth

King Riptor wrote: »

Quoth wrote: »

Outlines are allowed to have too much detail, there are no rules for that

I once made a wiki for a novel

See Im heading that route but its hard to draw a line between.vital for a beliveable world and they dont need to know that

Pffbt, whatever, do what you want

I mean, at some point you do need to sit your butt down and write the story itself

But you can plan forever and then look at Rowling with her Potter dictionaries and side stories and whatever else, there are people out there who care about the tiniest crap

Oghulk

I also kind of see myself writing more academically/non-fiction stuff in the future, since my goal is to attend a graduate program and such. Also possibly writing articles and what not. Doing a piece for MD was a good experience like, a year ago, and I'd like to do more of those but I've got enough plans for the summer on my plate.

Sassori

I was contemplating dabbling in more realistic fiction instead of fantasy.

LTM

I like to think I sort of write.

Dubh

Kochikens wrote: »

I miss writing. I need a writing buddy again.

Hi

Would you like one of my drafts

Ladai

I'm a newspaper reporter, so I guess I technically fall under the category of writer.
I've written one piece of fiction (a short story) recently that I plan to shop around to some magazines.
Need to pick up the latest Writer's Market to take a look at my options.

Quoth

Or you can use Google, or Duotrope, or that new thing that is Duotrope but free

Or you can ask in TWB depending on style/genre and we may know of places to try

Ladai

Huh. I haven't kept up with any of this stuff since my magazine writing class in college. I like the format Writer's Market uses, which gives an idea of how many submissions from first-time authors a particular magazine accepts, how much they pay, tips on query letters, etc.

But I guess if something else did the same thing for free I'd be interested.

Quoth

Duotrope used to be free but alas, earwax

I think this is the new free ghetto version: http://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/

You can search by genre, style, length, pay, etc.

Quoth

I won a contest by the way guys, since you don't go to TWB

I win two books by this nice author dude

I also win a sad blogpost by a non-winner who was really mad that my story went over the word limit but still won

Munkus Beaver

godmode wrote: »

Jars wrote: »

I wrote a bunch of stuff in college

also some erotic fanfics

If writing erotic fanfiction makes you an author, then I'm Ernest Hemingway

You wrote fifty shades of grey?

Binary Squid

Munkus Beaver wrote: »

godmode wrote: »

Jars wrote: »

I wrote a bunch of stuff in college

also some erotic fanfics

If writing erotic fanfiction makes you an author, then I'm Ernest Hemingway

You wrote fifty shades of grey?

Someone else wrote that. I think his was called the Old Man and the Seamen