Writing anyone?

[Melkor]

Just wondering, does anyone write?
At all?

I myself write quite often, and well you people are supposed to be my mirror images, only completely different in looks, less evil and not standing in front of me.

So anyone?

I might even be so cruel as to share something with you.


-no innuendos please mam-

 

[loveofreason]

I might even be so cruel as to share something with you.

Please do cruel sir. Wax lyrical.

 

[Radioactive_Springtime]

I think about it now and then, but never get around to it.

 

[Ermine]

Yeah, I like writing, though I seldom get around to writing for myself, beyond journal writing. With school and all, I end up writing nothing but essays.

 

[Melkor]

Thats sad.
very much so.
-plays a violin-
So If I wanted to, where on earth would I post it?

 

[Ermine]

Make a thread?

 

[SlerdNut]

I used to, but hardly write anything anymore. It's as if something broke some 5 years back. I'm nursing a slow return, but the output so far is underwhelming. Tips welcome!

 

[loveofreason]

So If I wanted to, where on earth would I post it?

Aye, start a thread. Down yonder in the Handmade and Blogging forum.

 

[Melkor]

Ahhh. I think I'll wait until; I'm less nervous/ confident.

 

[Ermine]

Oh, come on. No pressure here. You can bring up anything you want here without being ridiculed.

 

[Aphasia]

True. Remember, we're psychologically deficient in judgment skills I like writing, but I never gain enough momentum to proceed more than a few pages with a book. With typing, it's even worse. I spend all my time backtracking to smoothen my sentencing. To all avid persistent writers, I salute thee!

 

[Radioactive_Springtime]

I get Ideas but no follow through, I was gonna write some philosophical stuff, but I couldn't remember how i felt the day after the shrooms wore off.

 

[CowSavior]

I get Ideas but no follow through, I was gonna write some philosophical stuff, but I couldn't remember how i felt the day after the shrooms wore off.

Youre hilarious.

Hmm, what's more hilarious was when my cat did shrooms...

 

[Radioactive_Springtime]

I try

 

[EditorOne]

The secret to writing for us is to write faster, to get it done before we get bored. Yet another reason newspaper journalism emerged as a tolerable occupation for me.

Doesn't work so well with 100,000 word novels, but if you're not in a hurry you can eventually get something done.

www.brokenlanceenterprises.com

 

[LeeLeeIsMe]

I tend to write. It is what I do when I want to shout something, usually out of anger, and don't know what else to do to get it out. I also tend to write part of a story, but I have yet to put it all together. Maybe one day...

 

[Scribble Scribble]

Just wondering, does anyone write?
At all?

I myself write quite often, and well you people are supposed to be my mirror images, only completely different in looks, less evil and not standing in front of me.

So anyone?

I might even be so cruel as to share something with you.


-no innuendos please mam-

I write. I've had a bunch published. Questions?

 

[murkrow]

I write. I've had a bunch published. Questions?

howd you get your first things published?

how lucrative has your publication been?

what do you do to support yourself?

what sort of things have they been?

 

[Thread Killer]

I write loads to compensate for my lack of interesting social connections and me suppressing my ideas to be easy-going. I've always floored my teachers with how I write and am currently working towards a major in English writing.

And that doesn't mean I write the way I would write when I'm 'writing' writing in a forum or other venue, m'kay?

 

[Cabbo Pearimo]

As you already know, kori-mel, I'm writing a script entitled pscycholand about a group of four drug-loving weirdos who have fallen upon a bag of uncut diamonds. The diamonds are stolen from them, and they quest to get them back with big guns and classic cars. Up one for cool-yet-well-written gun flicks!

 

[Radioactive_Springtime]

sounds like something me my brother and my two friends would get into

 

[Ex-User (221)]

This probably sounds very, VERY strange, but when I'm writing I always end up having arguments with myself.

e.g.
"I always end up having arguments with myself"
"No, don't say that, it sounds weird."
"I'll write it if I fucking want to."
"This is why people always think you're insane."
"I probably shouldnt have said that."
"See? Now, stop it before you get commited"

 

[bealert]

I'm writing!
I've always journaled. And I wrote a book once (which I now detest).
But now I'm writing a screen play and it's the most fun I've had.

 

[bealert]

This probably sounds very, VERY strange, but when I'm writing I always end up having arguments with myself.

e.g.
"I always end up having arguments with myself"
"No, don't say that, it sounds weird."
"I'll write it if I fucking want to."
"This is why people always think you're insane."
"I probably shouldnt have said that."
"See? Now, stop it before you get commited"

this does not sound strange to me, it's called "resistance" in Steven Pressfield's book "The War of Art".

 

[Radioactive_Springtime]

I get that in my head ALL the time

 

[Jesin]

This probably sounds very, VERY strange, but when I'm writing I always end up having arguments with myself.

e.g.
"I always end up having arguments with myself"
"No, don't say that, it sounds weird."
"I'll write it if I fucking want to."
"This is why people always think you're insane."
"I probably shouldnt have said that."
"See? Now, stop it before you get commited"

Are you by any chance Aphasia's other half?

 

[Thread Killer]

This probably sounds very, VERY strange, but when I'm writing I always end up having arguments with myself.

e.g.
"I always end up having arguments with myself"
"No, don't say that, it sounds weird."
"I'll write it if I fucking want to."
"This is why people always think you're insane."
"I probably shouldnt have said that."
"See? Now, stop it before you get commited"

Just when you're writing? Because I tend to have those arguments all the time, especially when I'm trying to deny my feelings for someone. =P

 

[Ex-User (221)]

It dosn't only happen when I'm writing, that's just when it becomes obvious. The thing is, I have 4 or 5 different kinds of writing for all the different parts...

 

[Jordan~]

Sometimes I can try to write. Sometimes I have to write creatively, for school. I don't think I have any particular gift, but I'm good at description. I like to describe things in painstaking detail, which is pretty good for setting the scene, but not much else. It's probably because I can never call an image to mind, only the ideas associated with it. Like trying to remember a face, I can remember "long nose... close eyes... small mouth..." but I can't actually picture it, unless you count drawing it based on memorised details.

Anyhow, as I say, I don't think I'm especially gifted. My reflective writing is pretty good, if I say so myself, but my fictional writing tends to be frivolous and indulgent, rather than deep and profound. What I am good at is creating fantasy worlds. I'm very imaginative when it comes to coming up with whole mythoi, and I can do so quite quickly. Jeez, did I say I'm bad at talking about myself?

I'm a bit too self-conscious to post anything here, if I can even dig it up.

 

[bealert]

The secret to writing for us is to write faster, to get it done before we get bored.

Okay, this is a great truth for me.... thanks.
(Got anything else?)

 

[EditorOne]

Short chapters (for the same reason.)

Never dwell on how big the total project is. Make it a series of small goals: One chapter a day, for instance. Break it down into things that can be done at one sitting, so that every time you get up, you've got something done.

My routine when going full bore was to get up, eat (because this is hard work and burns energy) and then review the just-done chapter from the day before. That reveals rough spots and holes you missed. It also primes the pump for the next chapter, and the writing on that begins as soon as the editing is done on the last chapter.

Do have a general outline for the total work, but don't hesitate to change direction. Sometimes, and this is when it gets great, your characters do things that surprise you and produce a better story. It's your own brain working at some undetected level, of course, but it's still fun. Do leave that outline out where you can see it, and when your done with a chapter, check if off so your progress is visible (otherwise you'll conceptualize and agonize that you're not getting anywhere). And give yourself a reward, even if it's just a bowl of ice cream. And then, of course, go to your day job. :-)

One other trick might help. I got badly bogged down in one book, but one night the penultimate chapter came into my head, the climax of all the plots and concepts and story lines and whatnot, it rang like a bell. So I got up and wrote that chapter just about as if it were a stand-alone short story. It was both intellectually and emotionally fulfilling to read it - a signal to me that I'd nailed the "feeling" part of this, which is always a struggle -- and it became a motivator to me to then fill in all the intervening action between where I was bogged down and where I needed to go to incorporate that very satisfying passage.

Your mileage may vary. :-)

 

[bealert]

Thank you for the specifics!

I’ve re-written the first ¼ of my screen-play 3 times and am trying to push to the end (even if it’s dreadful).
I also write and rewrite the end a lot…
And I re-write my characters back story a lot…

My characters do take off and change the story…which is quite enjoyable but causes the re-dos…
I think I need to write out the outline as you suggest and keep it visible…and check off progress.
People often ask me if I am making progress and i don't really know.

I am encouraged to know that an INTP can make it to the end.

 

[Zero]

I write... in journals and blogs. I've a few stories from a creative writing class and I've even attempted fan fictions...

I have a few short stories, but I always want to do long stories. I think I only ever got to around 70 pages (for a long project) and I was younger then and thought I could actually be an author. I end up starting a lot of stories that never get finished. It's not necessarily because I don't want to write on the subject or I get bored with it (that quickly), but I stop and think that there's no point. No one would ever want to read this...

I use to like to forum role play all the time, but I don't do it so much now. I can have random inspiration for an idea and write out five pages for it, but then I might get bored with it.

I do have a story I've been thinking about for a while and working on (off and on). I've already written several versions of the beginning and I know how it ends. When I get to that point, the middle is the hard part to fill.

 

[bealert]

I hope you finish your story.
I have been surprised to learn that most people don't have story ideas... For example, my brother is brilliant--graduated with honors from West Point. And he recently told me that he NEVER HAS IDEAS. I'm not just talking about story ideas; I'm talking about ANY ideas. He evaluates other peoples ideas, but never has any of his own. I was shocked.
Anyway, he is ESTJ. So there you go...
People with good story ideas are even more rare.
Why are there so many bad movies and remakes of good ones? Not enough stories...

 

[EditorOne]

"Why are there so many bad movies and remakes of good ones? Not enough stories..."

Partly that, and partly the reluctance of those with the money to back anything but a proven formula for making money. The "logic" goes like this: People loved the "Poseidon Adventure" the first time around, so let's make it again." (Sarcasm mode on.)

We can criticize that, on the other hand it's not our $20 million being invested. :-)

 

[Zero]

I'm at least happy I've finished a few short stories and some other stuff.

And that I have ideas... I think life would be kind of boring without ideas...

 

[Mischz]

I write... but very sporadically (only when I am in the mood). I've never posted the prose I've written so far, but my poems are on mischz.livejournal.com if anyone's interested.

Professionally I am a copywriter as well so yeah.

 

[Aphasia]

Are you by any chance Aphasia's other half?

No he isn't. I am not telepathic, despite what I imply.


Recently wrote the setting and the synopsis of a story in my head . When I tried to write the story proper, though, I couldn't kick it out onto paper.

It was about a child in a post-apocalyptic world visiting ruined city after city searching for his guardian. Along the way, he learns more about why the world is in the state that it is now. It's sort of a surreal horror-drama-parable, but I can't make the child sound convincing, so it's been nixed. Anyone interested in picking it up? *mentally scans for anyone capable*

 

[rocky00753]

Yes my own novel under progess currently.
Fantasy Genre. It is called 'Abberation'

5 years down.... probably another 5 to go...

 

[arkityp]

i write here:

blog / http://imago.arkityp.net

 

[Kidege]

I write lame stories that make no sense, except when I start as if I were writing a script, just jumping in the middle of it, with no real planning. I just grab the idea, keep myself from trying to get into descriptions, set the characters through dialog and fill in the holes when the plot has come to an end. Then, if I want to -but I don't because I'm lazy- I can go back and make it an actual story with moods and atmospheres enhanced by the description.

It's like EditorOne said, we have to get it done before we get bored. If I spend more than half an hour thinking of how I'm going to write this and that, I just don't do it, or do it so badly it's embarrasing.

I can write pretty well and taking my sweet time when it's not fiction.

As for poetry... I'm improving. Honest.

 

[Perseus]

I write, mostly I can if I get paid. Sometimes, when I don't get paid. Motivation is difficult for me. Always has been.

Technical forum:

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[Melkor]

I love writing/writers...


Hey..funny how a few of my threads became sucessful eh?

 

[Chimera]

Currently I write strictly for my own enjoyment.
...that's what I say to keep myself motivated, at any rate. ​

I've always wanted to get a novel published. Ever since I was in 3rd grade and started writing my first big story...I think the thing got to be ~67 pages in a year. I remember I would bring in new chapters every week and let my librarian read them...I lost the file on my computer because it crashed, then managed to get the story back from some person I sent it to online.
Yeah, the thing sucked. It was so pathetic. It can't taunt me anymore; the file died again and I don't feel like ressurecting it.
Anyway. Right now I'm nearly a third finished with my current novel-ish story, and pretty happy with it so far. Except for a hiccup in my inspiration when it got ripped apart by a malicious critiquer on a site...but that's another story. ​

When I get bored in school, I have this one notebook that I use to spew short-story-type-things. Some of them are just random events that I want to see if I can put into writing. I like to challenge myself to practice the things I suck at portraying, too, such as fight scenes or subtle description. ​

 

[kellimaier]

I write almost compulsivly...I write for a genre and sometimes sell it, and then I write for myself.
I don't write well in my own opinion.

 

[Chronomar]

I usually draw something, make up a long, involved, and detailed story about it, never get around to writting it down, and move on to a new idea.

I have also thought up poems, usually during long car rides, and never write them down, and become very frustrated. Then forget I ever thought of it.

 

[Ancalion]

I write, mostly post-apocalyptic SciFi. Never finished a story, yet.

 

[Perseus]

Writing Style


What Is Your "Write Type?"

Writing style, even that used in memos and reports, is a reflection of personality and a little insight will help you write better. Of the many personality instruments available, the best may be the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) because of the strong relationship between results on the MBTI® questionnaire and writing style.
http://www.ranshawconsulting.com/thewrite.htm

 

[hermann morr]

I started writing novels three years ago, mostly sci-fi and fanfiction, some fantasy, all published in various forums just for the glory. Participated at some contest, never won anything. In this same moment i should be working on the novel for the next contest, instead of reading that intp forum. Recently published a book with more novels, at my expenses.

 

[figaro_black]

I've started so many novels that I've actually lost count. And we should not talk about essays!

I think if there existed a machine that could record all of my thoughts at once, I might actually finish something except my coursework. But alas, such a machine does not exist and so no matter how much I try, my thoughts will have fled before I've been able to commit them all to paper.