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Like many of you, I'm sure, I've always been something of a writer. Spare time, school time, whichever, I have a tendency to make on a start on a thousand stories (and actually finish a couple). Anyway, I thought that we might see the kind of writing the board gets up to.
So - what's your masterwork so far? When did you write it? Why did you write it? How long was it? What was it about? Did you use any writing techniques?
My longest piece so far has been The Tachyon Journal, at 20000 words. It's about a teenager from the late 20th century who gets hurled forward 150 years in an accident, and the world in which he finds himself, written, as the titles suggests, as a diary. Probably the most interesting writing technique I used was interspersing the journal text with commentary and computer notation, as if from a reader accessing a text and reading as you do. I completed it four years ago and haven't finished anything major since, though I do have 18000 words worth of a sequel (far from completed).
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Posted 28 January 2005 - 12:53 AM
I write some stuff for my creative writing class at school, but only in five to six hundred word range. I'm pretty good with words, but my imagination sucks, which prevents me from writing on a larger scale.
Also, the last story I wrote was entirely too derivative of Douglas Adams.
Also, the last story I wrote was entirely too derivative of Douglas Adams.
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Posted 28 January 2005 - 12:54 AM
I once started on a daily journal of a moderately wealthy individual and his enormously wealthy associates who spent a good portion of the time traveling around, drinking tea, and sitting about in a private club owned by the hero (think a Socratic dialogue involving the types of folks in The Great Gatsby, written in the spirit of Douglas Adams with the witty conversations of a Robert B. Parker novel). I worked on it for four or five months, but came to the realization that I'd end up continuing the storyline ad infinitum without anything of substance ever happening, I also couldn't bear naming the characters, so they were referred to as animals (wombat, parrot, walrus, polar bear, etc.).
For the most part though, I'm more of a short story type of guy and have a number of stories floating around. Recently, the extent of what I write on a daily basis that doesn't have to do with work or school is contained here on the boards. Kinda sad really.
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For the most part though, I'm more of a short story type of guy and have a number of stories floating around. Recently, the extent of what I write on a daily basis that doesn't have to do with work or school is contained here on the boards. Kinda sad really.
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Posted 28 January 2005 - 03:26 PM
I've never written anything outside of school.
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Posted 28 January 2005 - 06:27 PM
Let's see...I wrote a news article about one of GD's posts if anyone remembers that 
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Posted 28 January 2005 - 08:58 PM
I write alot of poetry, and alot of story's (rarely finished), but I do have one shrt story that I wrote, that Im actually quite proud of, called "The Writer". I have one Major work that I was working on, big in a wordcount way (especially if you count all the different versions), but I kinda ditched it. Writings a great way for me to release, but during school I dont have as much time to do it as I would like.
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Posted 29 January 2005 - 01:58 AM
I used to write monsterous amounts. Some of it was good too. But, none of the big stuff was. I havn't written much in the past year or so and what I have written has been really crappy.
Can you imagine if I was deranged?
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Posted 29 January 2005 - 09:49 PM
Interesting. So, what does everyone write? Sci-fi? Fantasy? Thrillers, Dramas, Detective novels?
The majority of my work is either sci-fi or fantasy in flavour, though I do have a couple of surrealist pieces under my belt. English teachers often have a thing against fantasy as a whole, but there's a lot you can do with the genre. You don't have to write shallow, derivative good-vs-evil rehashes.
The majority of my work is either sci-fi or fantasy in flavour, though I do have a couple of surrealist pieces under my belt. English teachers often have a thing against fantasy as a whole, but there's a lot you can do with the genre. You don't have to write shallow, derivative good-vs-evil rehashes.
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Posted 29 January 2005 - 10:34 PM
Just joined. I never have enough time to write something interesting. But when I do, I prefer War or basically anything really. Can't think of a genre I don't like. 
I might think of one, but I can't right now. I like War the most. Fictional War.
I might think of one, but I can't right now. I like War the most. Fictional War.
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Posted 29 January 2005 - 11:30 PM
I used to start stories, but I've never finished anything. My writing these days is in solid history papers. I do them rather well, but usually only under pressure (class).
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Posted 30 January 2005 - 08:53 PM
I'm in the middle of a sci-fi futristic story that if I may say so, it's very good. I like writing a lot. It's something I find relaxing and something that I am good at. I write more than anyone will ever know.
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Posted 30 January 2005 - 10:07 PM
I used to be a fairly high level story writer at school, second highest in my class, but got out of the habit of it after a while. I got the flare again when doing my English course at college, but once again, got out of the habit.
Since leaving I've started writing several, but none have gotten anywhere. the furthest I've ever got on a novel to date was my Star Trek one, which got quite a long way in...
Other than novels, I write a lot of stuff for church. Especially liturgy, which I'm told I have a flare for. I've also written a few GURPS campaigns and characters, with fairly lush back story and descriptive writings.
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Since leaving I've started writing several, but none have gotten anywhere. the furthest I've ever got on a novel to date was my Star Trek one, which got quite a long way in...
Other than novels, I write a lot of stuff for church. Especially liturgy, which I'm told I have a flare for. I've also written a few GURPS campaigns and characters, with fairly lush back story and descriptive writings.
-H
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Posted 31 January 2005 - 12:22 AM
There's no question about that, µ. Literature, Art and Music have been the three pinnacles of culture since well before the Enlightenment. Writing just happens to be the one of the three which I have the touch of.
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Posted 31 January 2005 - 01:04 AM
Some of the best known intelligence just came from writing. Writing is absolutely one of the best things around.
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Posted 01 February 2005 - 12:07 AM
Hah, I found out where all the missing posts went.
Sometimes its better simply to split them into a new topic, but given the post content, it probably wouldn't have been worthwhile in this case.
Sometimes its better simply to split them into a new topic, but given the post content, it probably wouldn't have been worthwhile in this case.
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Posted 01 February 2005 - 03:40 AM
Hrm... creative writing. I wish I had the time...
But when I did have the time, I wrote FFF (65k words, or something like that), there are several bits and pieces relating to FFF which are probably languishing on a hard drive somewhere, and then I write random bits and pieces that I start and never finish.
I still have the inspiration, I just lack the time to sit down and write it when it comes to me.
-jdp
But when I did have the time, I wrote FFF (65k words, or something like that), there are several bits and pieces relating to FFF which are probably languishing on a hard drive somewhere, and then I write random bits and pieces that I start and never finish.
I still have the inspiration, I just lack the time to sit down and write it when it comes to me.
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Posted 01 February 2005 - 01:53 PM
moonunit4eva, on Feb 1 2005, 04:37 PM, said:
What other kinds of writing are there besides creative writing? Isn't all writing creative?
Well, I guess that depends on your definition of 'writing'
For me writing involves sitting down with an idea, and making something of it. Be it a short story, novel, poem, liturgy, whatever. And all of that is creative as you are coming up with it yourself. Things like essasys and informative writing gets a little cloudy in my mind. You are being creative to a point, but only by commentationg on someone elses creation. I guess you could class it as creative, but a different kind of creative
So to answer your question, you could say it is, but it's a different kind of creative...
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Posted 01 February 2005 - 05:43 PM
moonunit4eva, on Feb 1 2005, 04:37 PM, said:
What other kinds of writing are there besides creative writing? Isn't all writing creative?
Well, there's the kind of writing you do when it comes to papers for your degree... but then again, I'm pretty sure that mine qualify as 'creative' as well.
Never mind
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