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Author:	Lunar Jesty [ Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:48 pm ]
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I know there are a handful of us around here who are creative writers (me, Didy, Layla, probably more). Everyone's always talking about how cool the Fanfics are, but I think us creative writers who write original stories get the short end of the stick. So what are you other writers writing about? In November, I wrote a novella titled "Desert's Sewer." It was one of my worst pieces ever, but I managed to get 40,000 words down. However, it was riddled with cliches and wasn't very good overall. This month, I'm writing a more absurdist scifi story, tenativly titled "The Status of Plutonian Hair Care." It's about a guy who ends up running a hair salon on some planet, while discovering one of the patrons is a SECRET FUGITIVE. So what are you guys writing?

Author:	Clan rHrN [ Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:50 pm ]
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I'm wrting a fanfic called, "Clan rHrN's Destiny at H*R Wiki." You may review if you like. I sometimes do double posts for when I write chapters, but those aren't intentional double posts. (Yes, I'm one of those creative type peoples, and I'm not a troll. If Encountering Gremlins wants to call me a troll as well as COLA, then fine. They should know already that I haven't broken a rule the admins set. Stu seems to be the nicest admin of all time from what i've got)

Author:	Lunar Jesty [ Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:53 pm ]
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Clan rHrN wrote: I'm wrting a fanfic called, "Clan rHrN's Destiny at H*R Wiki." You may review if you like. I sometimes do double posts for when I write chapters, but those aren't intentional double posts. (Yes, I'm one of those creative type peoples, and I'm not a troll. If Encountering Gremlins wants to call me a troll as well as COLA, then fine. They should know already that I haven't broken a rule the admins set. Stu seems to be the nicest admin of all time from what i've got) I'm sorry, that's a fanfic. People that discuss fanfics here will be ripped to shreds thank you have a good day.

Author:	Clan rHrN [ Sun Jan 01, 2006 5:55 pm ]
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JIBBLIES!!!!!

Author:	Susan [ Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:19 am ]
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Would my Werewolf game count? It could easily have the user names replaced with other names. The story just happens to have the names in it for game purposes.

Author:	Cybernetic Teenybopper [ Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:13 am ]
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Budding novelist "write" over here! is hit repeatedly with cream pies Am I perfect? No. Am I pretty darn good anyway? You bet! I'm currently working on a book tentatively titled... well, tentatively titled nothing. We (my co-author and I) called it Magicide for a while, but then decided that it wasn't a fitting title. We don't know what to call it any more. I still head all of the chapter's title with "Magicide," but it's only a working title. What it's about: The book is a modern fantasy. It concerns four teenaged mages. Nikolai "Nick" Griffin is a talented spellcaster with plenty of raw power, but he is quite prideful (moreso than he thinks), and he lacks focus and, due to his sheltered life, working knowledge of the real world. Movies and magic have been his only reality since age 10. He is picked on for being both a "seven" (hard to explain) and homosexual. Ran Cole is his best friend, and she's quite new to the whole "magic" thing. She's very creative, bright, and is learning the ropes quickly, but unfortunately she has no notion of self-control, and has a dangerous proclivity towards biting off more than she can chew. She has loads of trouble being serious, cannot be social to save her life, and misses her family terribly. Apollo Sun is a were-tiger, and extremely shy and reserved, though he'll talk your ear off if he likes you. He's more streetwise than you'd expect, and has a passion for music and poetry. He acts like a big kid sometimes. And Alexander "Alex" Phoenix--boy, is this kid messed up. He was adopted and abused by his adoptive father, has had problems in the past with binge drinking, occasional theft, vandelism, and above all is completely and totally paranoid. He hates music and just about everything else. He hates the world he's been forced to become part of. Although he considers the other characters his "friends," the only person he really trusts is Lisa, the woman who babysat him when he was younger. This rather dysfunctional band of characters are the unfortunate quartet who must stop Bak-Sha, an ancient word of power with the ability to destroy anything it fancies. Nick thinks he's all that, but he begins to doubt himself severely as the book goes on and his weeknesses become apparent. Ran's saved the world before, but only in video games. Apollo knows that stopping the word will mean fighting, and he doesn't want to do anything to worsen his already flabby reputation. Alex just wants to go home and forget all about what's happened to him, but his father hates him and his emotionally dependent mother may have already been dominated by him. Will they be able to pull together and save the world in time?! Sorry to bore you all with all that. There's a lot more to it than that, but I don't want to ruin any keyboards by making you all fall asleep into them. I suppose I'll post a little bite out of it, if you're interested. Warning: Due to this being part of a first draft, this may be Extreme Suck. The wyrm had righted itself, and was strewn in reptilian coils over the bottom of its cage. It couldn’t balance on its miniscule limbs very well, and still felt too tired to hover properly. But its head was poised and didn’t loll; its jaw was kept firmly shut. Its eyes centered hungrily on Radston as he came in. Even in its animal way it was still bright enough to remember his face. The smell of rubber wrapping his hands was not thick enough to mask the flowery perfume he applied to his wrists. It could still see those wrists pressing into the tawny shells of its eggs and thieving them away. What do you want of me now? its gaze seemed to challenge. Radston smirked at it. “There now. Are we feeling better this afternoon, my dear?” It keened shrilly at him, raptorlike. “Good, good. Glad to hear it. I was worried that you weren’t feeling up to working today. You… aren’t, are you?” The wyrm wailed. “I’ll take that as a ‘no,’” Radston said cheekily. “Ah. Good. Always good to see my operatives in tip-top shape. Can’t have my fine employees coming in to work sick. You know, just yesterday, I saw this poor little messenger come in, and—you should have seen this fellow—flushed in the face, eyes swollen and watery, nose dripping like a faulty faucet; could have cooked a marshmallow over his head. I tell you, this poor kid was sick as a dog! And he has the audacity to tell me it’s just ‘a little cold.’ A little cold! I ask of you! Well, I sent him home of course. Even bought him a bottle of orange juice to take home with him. I told him—I said to him, ‘You can never get enough vitamin C when you’re sick.’ And this sweet little fellow; he looks up at me and says, ‘Thank you, Sir.’ Honest as you please! Not brown-nosing at all! I tell you, you can’t buy that kind of devotion. You have to earn it. You have to have you ethics.” The wyrm made a sudden leap for the bars of its cage, spearing its beak through the bars as far as it would go and snapping threateningly. It attempted to slash through with a claw, though it was too short for the swipe to be at all frightening. The look in its bestial eyes was bitter. Stop toying with me, you! it screeched.

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Jenny [ Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:00 am ]

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Cybernetic Teenybopper wrote:

*buncha stuff that wasn't as boring as she thinks it was*

Wow you got the characters totally mapped out! That's great, half the work is figuring out who your characters are. Me, I just start writing randomly without a clue how my characters are gonna be and that is why I easily get stuck. And any story with any kinda dragon thing in it is bound to be awesome :mrgreen:

I write about as much as I draw. My life can be described in 4 parts: drawing 1/4 of the time, writing 1/4 of the time, doing computer stuff 1/4 of the time, and the other 1/4 is everything else (eating, sleeping, interacting with other human beings).

At any one time, I got about 4 or 5 stories going at once, so I jump between them when I get stuck with one. Right now I am working on:

If You Give a Dragon Directions

Supercharged

Sheila & Nick

Lets see... I also do poetry. My favorite poem of mine is Stonespeak.

And essays. I like Shades of Purple and Pimp Your Ride.

Oh, and autobiographical sorts of thingies. True stories about me, that is. Like Bubblegum Flouride.

For any interested persons, in case you didn't find my fictionpress.com homepage from those links peppered throughout my ramblings, here it is.

Author:	Acekirby [ Tue Jan 03, 2006 3:49 pm ]
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I'll occasionally write short stories that are simply entitled The Adventures of Ed and Ace. They're all right. If I get enough of them I'll post them here.

Author:	Cybernetic Teenybopper [ Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:52 pm ]
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To Jenny: Well, thank y'all! If You Give A Dragon Directions sounds quite amusing. I've done a few kids book parodies, but the only "notable" one was my parody of "Green Eggs & Ham," which was called "Eggs 'n' Brains." But I KNOW that one was dumb, so I'll not press it. I love my characters. I'm generally quite good and piecing together imteresting characters--I've got some really nifty supporting characters lined up. That dude in the blurb with the wyrm is called Radston, and he's kind of like the other, non-word villain. He is completely civil, chivalrous, polite, hospitable, pleasant, and he finds nothing in the world more pleasant and conversational than the wholesale genocide of mages. He's almost insane, but he's so deadly sure of himself that you know he knows very well what he's doing, and oh how he loves it so. He's the embodiment of what I find most terrible in people--sweetness and pleasantness underscoring a fierce hatred--racism, sexism, classism, whatever. Nothing stings more than finding out someone you initially trusted, or who initially seemed nice to you, is really racist/religionist/sexist/insert bigotry of your choice here.

Author:	The Noid [ Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:18 pm ]
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I my "fanfic" even considered a fanfiction? Would it count? I really didn't have anything in mind when I thought of it... I'm good with plots. Ask Funkstar. I like to write stories, including one that'll be in the forum later on. (It's in about 9 or ten large parts, and basically is about robots, and a war and stuff. It's a little bit of I-Robot, mixed with Mega Man, mixed with the entire theroy, mixed with originality.)

Author:	Susan [ Tue Jan 03, 2006 9:47 pm ]
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Oh, I have a short story called Destiny’s Toll. It came about one day when my dad said for short stories you really need to polsih them and refine them and I said not really and I ran upstairs and 5 minutes later I came down with this. When I say short I mean really short. Its umm, interesting...enjoy. Destiny’s Toll As I stood there looking over my limp body, blood flowing freely from my wound, I wondered. I wondered what could have caused such madness, such pain. What in all of gods name caused me to kill myself yet live in my place. As my last few drops of cold blood disappeared down the drain I realized something…I had not killed myself…I had destroyed my world. * * * I woke the next morning not remembering the events of the night before. I never remembered it again, anything again. A fog had covered my mind hiding me from the truth. The night that destiny took its toll had never happened. From that moment on the earth continued on its rotation, its purpose, except for one place, in my mind…were I was still dead…were I was still real…

Author:	Norman Rorqual [ Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:46 pm ]
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I would like to be a writer...I've just never really written much. I have lots of good ideas for stories, but fleshing them out is another thing. The only thing I've ever really written was the "answers" to a joke assignment. My high school physics teacher said he was giving us homework over christmas break, and on the last day of school, he gave us a paper that looked something like this (I've shortened it a bit): Science Assignment for Christmas Vacation 1. Memorize the periodic table. Including all chemical and physical properties. Ex. melting points, oxidation states, atomic masses, symbols, densities, etc. 4. Construct your own thermonuclear detonation device. If you need plutonium or uranium let me know in advance. Write a thesis on it. 5. Use your own personal computer (the one you got for Christmas) and tap into the computer running the scoreboard at the Rose Bowl. Make sure the Big Ten team wins. Also, put your name up in lights so that I can grade you while I'm watching the game. 6. Visit the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. Determine their progress on conquering the AIDS virus. Make sure and wash your hands when you leave. Write a 20-page single spaced article on it. 7. Volunteer your body to laboratory technicians so that they may test out various vaccines. If successful these vaccines could prevent future epidemics. Keep this in mind when minor side effects such as extra finger/toes (polydactly) or hair starts to grow on the soles of your feet. 11. Set up your own genetic engineering laboratory. After you get it set up.....clone yourself. To receive full credit bring your clone to school the first day back. 12. Travel to Africa and be there in case a new outbreak of the Ebola virus flares up. Since Ebola is a Level 5 containment hazard, burn all of your clothes, use a #3 wire brush to scrape off the outer 2 layers of skin and take a sponge bath in a 5% bleach solution before returning. I realize this is shorter than usual, but since it is Christmas, I'll go easy on you. I put a lot of time answering all twelve questions, writing about how I built a particle accellerator, travelled through time, created a superhuman clone of myself, defeated Micheal Moore, and revolutionized the scientific world as we know it. I would post a sample answer here, but they tend to be very long-winded and I've already taken way too much space. Now that I think of it, I should probably go start that fanfic I've been meaning to write. THen I'll have to find a website where I can put it.

Author:	Jenny [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:35 am ]
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Norman Rorqual wrote: Now that I think of it, I should probably go start that fanfic I've been meaning to write. THen I'll have to find a website where I can put it. http://www.fanfiction.net i like that site... my pen name on there is Chakrum Chucker

Author:	Markie [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:52 am ]
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I've done lots of fanfiction before, but due to time constraints, they seem to go unfinished or become crappy at the end. RANDOMNESS...IN SPACE!!! (2004, without any knowledge of Space Tree) "The S.S. Stardrome II sped its way through the spaces of the Mushroom Galaxy, dodging asteroids and wild starglow meteors warping through warps that were unknown in the vastness of space..." The Melonade Legends (2004 - 2005, discontinued because of...other reasons) ""Stwooooong Baaaaaaad..." spoke an odd voice coming from the left side of Compy 386. Homestar silently walked inside the computer room, repeating Strong Bad's name over and over, possibly for something he wanted. Finally, he stopped mentioning his name. "Hey, Stwong Bad, can I borrow your pencil sharpener again?"" I haven't written anything good in a while, because school has caused me some writer's block. I might write some video game fan fiction (how unoriginal) and/or probably somethings about technology and wildlife preserves. It would be called "1001 Ways to Terrorize a City". I'll admit, I'm not original.

Author:	Jenny [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:44 am ]
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better go to the fanfic thread then. this one ain't for you speaking of which... i should go check that out too...

Author:	ramrod [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:41 am ]
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I actually have a few things written. My problem is geting motivated to continue to write. I'll be on a roll and get three chapters in one night, then not work on it for weeks. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Author:	Mr.KISS [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:46 am ]
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ramrod wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions? Monkeys! Robots! Lasers! Guitar Solos! Hope that sparked your imagination. Anyways...I'm working on some poetry right now. I was reading a whole bunch of quotes and they really inspired me to do something creative. I also tried writing a decent story a while back, but I never got around to finshing it.

Author:	Jenny [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:48 am ]
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ramrod wrote: I actually have a few things written. My problem is geting motivated to continue to write. I'll be on a roll and get three chapters in one night, then not work on it for weeks. Does anyone have any suggestions? try poetry... it takes less time to finish so when you feel creative you can get a whole project done rather than just a piece of one otherwise, you aren't alone. i do the same thing.

Author:	Lunar Jesty [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:28 am ]
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ramrod wrote: I actually have a few things written. My problem is geting motivated to continue to write. I'll be on a roll and get three chapters in one night, then not work on it for weeks. Does anyone have any suggestions? Yes. A deadline. It's worked wonders for me, as long as you know how much planning you need to do for your work to not suck. Say you want to write a 75,000 word novel. Promise yorself 30,000 words of that be February 1st. Set rewards, if it helps. Other solution is "okay, this time is WRITING TIME" but that usually turns into "surfing the internet time."

Author:	Cybernetic Teenybopper [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:41 pm ]
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May I also recommend Seventh Sanctum? You can play around with it to get some ideas if you need writing help. I never use it for anything major, but for curing writer's block or gettin' the old creative juices flowing, it can't be beat!

Author:	Douglas [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:18 pm ]
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Well, the Extermination fan-fic I wrote be a novella, if I replaced your guyses names and tweaked a few things. Maybe.

Author:	Acekirby [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:50 pm ]
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ramrod wrote: I actually have a few things written. My problem is geting motivated to continue to write. I'll be on a roll and get three chapters in one night, then not work on it for weeks. Does anyone have any suggestions? This was the problem I had with Wiki Potter, the now-auto-pruned fanfic. I got out to a great, fast start, but eventually I drifted away from it. Jesty is right, though. With the deadline I had for my English Class, I was able to write a full Ed and Ace short story in no time.

Author:	Cybernetic Teenybopper [ Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:30 pm ]
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We had to write a "character sketch" once of ourselves in four year's time. I ended up writing a twenty-page short story (double-spaced, 12 point--it was more like nine pages in 10-point single spaced) about my future self overcoming my fear of public speaking, with character traits intersperced in it. It was strange, but kinda cool. CF

Author:	Ath-a-late [ Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:25 am ]
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I'm currently writing a sci-fi trilogy (yeah, veeeery original). I'm aiming to make it as unique and not-an-apparent-mock-up-of-Star-Wars-and-Star-Fox-64 as possible. And because of the title (Hammerspace), I'm driving the humor genre into second place. I'm a bit discouraged with it so far... it's the first time I've ever written original fiction, so it pretty much stinks character-wise. It's about a squad in the midst of a war that gets sucked into the Back Pocket Realm. I've been doing The Hammerspace Saga in script writing before I move onto paragraph. One step at a time, I suppose.

Author:	Jenny [ Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:01 am ]
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the first (good) fiction i ever wrote was a science fiction story. i actually finished it too! one of the few completed story-format writing projects i've finished. i originally wrote it in 5th grade, then i rewrote it in 8th grade, rewrote it over again in 10th grade, and edited it in 11th grade some more. i like it now, but i still think there are some things i could throw in to spice it up, like more plot twists and such... expand it a bit. the story was called Empyreon. It was pretty involved. Basically a martian girl is haunted in her dreams by the ghost of a space pilot who crashed on the red planet thousands of years ago while transporting valuable artifacts from earth to be preserved from its destruction (a giant meteor). The crew of the Empyreon never completed their mission, and the history of the event was eventually lost to the Martian colonies. Earth had been forgotten, but the girl was determined to find the forgotten historical records by searching for the remains of the Empyreon in order to save the souls of her crew. my earlier (completed) projects were: one in 2nd or 3rd grade, called The Great Journey... that one was, uh, interesting... it was about an orphan named John who met up with a dragon and... walked somewhere for some reason. they ran into a giant ant lion and a sea serpent and some other stuff. at the end, John found a family. it was written pretty well for that age, actually. i had typed it up on a typrwriter even. the other story i can remember was one i made in 1st or 2nd grade about Snowball, my Dungeons and Dragons character that I played in my dad's campaigns. She was a special type of white dragon. That book was illustrated and everything. I still have it somewhere. I based the story on one of my D&D adventures where my friend, Slush, ran off and I had to save him.

Author:	Cybernetic Teenybopper [ Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:21 pm ]
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I once wrote a story in seventh grade for a children's book project that was some fifty pages long... it was about a princess named Pansy, her lady-knight friend, and a kindly dragon who were searching the Five Kingdoms of Kanni for the magical jewels that could stop the evil man. At the end all of her friends wish her happy birthday for some reason. I lost it a while ago, sadly...

Author:	Jenny [ Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:11 am ]
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yeah i still have mine... somewhere... finding anything in my room is a health hazard

Author:	Susan [ Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:53 am ]
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So did anyone read Destiny's Toll?

Author:	Itsy Bitsy [ Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:13 am ]
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heres a horror story called "The Bloody Big Top" i made: http://forum.hrwiki.org/viewtopic.php?t=6303 i put it in that topic^

Author:	crcookiemonster [ Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:22 am ]
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I've been working on a story (i hope to make a book) about like fantasy. Its really gory in the beggining (sp). Ill tell some people about it if you want.

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