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Post by Anandrine on Sept 17, 2016 14:24:55 GMT -5
are you a writer? what kinds of things do you write? what do you love about it, and what do you find hard? my favorite thing to write is poetry ( some examples here) but i find it so much harder to really get started on poems than on prose! i've also started and stopped various attempts at novels, but i have a hard time with all the "filler" stuff necessary to get it to a proper novel wordcount. just this month i realized that i could solve that by making them a collection of short stories or novelettes though! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2016 14:45:40 GMT -5
I used to write a lot in school. Over the course of two years I managed to write a half-decent novel. I think I only made it because I had a friend who was writing as well and we read each others' stories.
It was a story that was originally planned to be a romantic novel about two girls caring deeply about each other, but ended up being fantasy. (This was years before I realised I like girls, why didn't I take the hint? lol)
I have so, so many ideas but I can never put them to paper. And, like you, I can't write filler scenes anymore. I can imagine the story in my head like a rough draft, but that's all it's gonna be. I've written short stories after my high school years, but I wish I could get back into writing longer stories. Especially now that I know which topics my books can have. (They're gonna be gay.)
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Post by eilonnwy on Sept 21, 2016 20:44:15 GMT -5
i used to write my own fantasy stories, and even once wrote a book about war on a typewriter, lol. but then i mostly did fanfiction, avatar was my favorite to write. in any case i don't write much anymore but i really want to get back into it and write some sci-fi/fantasy post-apocalyptic novel with lesbians of course
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Post by LostSlough on Sept 22, 2016 0:51:25 GMT -5
For work: Mostly history, very local government/business/health journalism, and ghostwriting blog entries for a senior living center, but I branch out sometimes.
For fun: Mostly speculative fiction. I've been doing a lot of "current days but with magic" type short stories lately, but I'm working on post-apocalyptic YA novella (like everyone? probably?) and a pure fantasy ... something. Not sure how long it's going to be.
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Post by ash on Sept 30, 2016 16:19:30 GMT -5
i am really good at writing mid length fanfic but the dream is longer and (obviously) original..... i get overwhelmed with thinking either "everything has already been done" or "this is just self indulgent fictionalised autobiography" but i'm working on working past that (and anyway the latter's not worthless, young lesbians can always use an inspirational true story from an older lesbian, right?)  |
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Post by Anandrine on Oct 1, 2016 12:26:14 GMT -5
ash i totally feel you on both fronts!! i find it helpful to know what differentiates my stories. like sure, there's been a lesbian robin hood retelling, but has there been one that takes place in present day and where female robin hood's love interest is a girl who's secretly a WEREWOLF? i think not. and then just think of what other things will have to change as a result of that one differentiation. (and yes, never enough self indulgent lesbian fiction!)
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