Tell us about your work. What are you writing about or have you written? Who were your inspirations?
Tell us about your work. What are you writing about or have you written? Who were your inspirations?
Austin Adams
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David Allen
It's not much of anything rn, but I'm working my way through a satirical hip hop musical about two white, upper-middle class kids who are personally offended by Hamilton's massive success; "of course," they say, "the first hip hop musical to get so successful is about white people and white history." So these two kids decide to write an "actual" hip hop musical that "properly defines the black struggle in America."
Jordan Watson
I have difficulty finding enough disicipline to start writing seriously.
I have probably composed some 50 poems this year - mostly sonnets - and yet all of them have been created in a 'nothing-better-to-do' kind of mood. I have never actually seated on a chair to spend 8 hours a day working on a sonnet in order to POLISH it.
I was thinking of doing in on my two-month vacations, but apparently they will be spoiled due to some courses I will have to take. I wish I was a Literature student, so I could dedicate my life do it, but my family has forced me to study Law.
At any rate, by the end of 2017 I hope to have translated the whole of Guido Cavalcanti's Rime into Portuguese.
Lucas Morris
Been writing seriously since 2013. I had a few failed projects before then but I decided to actually put my mind to it after my honeymoon. I wrote four novellas in order to warm up to the main event. They were four interlinking stories based in a pub. Very sophomoric stuff in retrospect, very purple, very easily influenced by whatever else I was reading at the time.
After that I spent eighteen months writing a bildungsroman. I'm proud of it and I've been submitting it all this year (to praise, but ultimately rejections) but I don't hold out much hope of it getting picked up at this point. Again, I was struggling with purple prose and after a few drafts I ripped out an absolute shitload of what I thought was 'good' writing at the time.
My latest book, which I should have finished next week, strips all of that purple flowery stuff back completely and gets down to the story. The only thing is it feels a little bit flat now. My previous attempts were at literary fiction but this is more of a mainstream, contemporary effort. Iain Banks writes Breaking Bad, only probably a lot worse than that.
Ryder Reyes
I wish I had your willpower. Unfortunately, I can only write very short pieces. Even when I tried to write a narrative poem I couldn't get past the 100th verse or so.
It's the same with everything. If I read a 500 page novel, I either finish it as fast as possible (2-3 days) or I start losing interest.
I'm probably sick or something...
Gabriel Davis
I am writing a massive "novel" about a story I have been imagining since I was 7 years old. It's the same continuity, same world. came out of my autistic habit of imagining trees / buildings as huge cities and fortresses and space battles taking place around them, mostly when I was bored at school or dragged with my mother shopping. Called the two races at war "whos" and "lice" at the time because I had no better ideas.
I am 22 and I still imagine this. Things in my life became analogies to the story. Journeys I made in real life were epic quests in the story. Defeats in real life were defeats in the story. Many of the characters' deaths coincided with something real.
The plot is not very good and due to the names of the races it is not even publishable. I have the artistic skill of a 10 year old yet I mostly want to get as many of the images in my head onto paper as I can.
As for writing, I started writing up this story when I was 14, realized I hated most of the technology in the story as it was bad Star Wars ripoffs so I edited a lot of it. Only wrote about 2,000 words in that first attempt. Started again when I was 17, I am now 22 and I have written 334,000 words (for reference it is 558 pages of 12 point Times New Roman with 1 inch margins). It is fragmented as hell, as I would "peck away" at the massive bulk of story material available to work on. it contains pretty much every cliche I can think of -- "chosen ones", zombies, massive sci-fi wars, long sieges, cheesy romances, etc etc. It'll never be any good yet i feel this autistic drive to work on it anyway. I'll probably leave it behind when I die along with my box of drawings, like Henry Darger.
Could talk about my characters, different parts of the story, etc. forever. They grew more complex as I got older. Felt like my alter egos, to the point where I badly missed some of them when they died. I've never told anyone about this story, of course. It's sad that my greatest "accomplishment" has to remain a secret. I've told my friends vague things about the characters but left out the autistic details.
I've written some other stuff, too, which might have a chance of being publishable, but I can't find the motivation to work on it like this.
Tyler Cook
The only thing I'm writing seriously right now are a series of video games, but I've gotten tired of explaining them because they aren't simple.
Nathan Parker
Writing is what I want to do with my life, so I just do it. Who knows? Maybe someone will eventually pay me for the pleasure. I've got my research all set up for my next book, so maybe the third novel is the charm.
Colton King
keep up the good work user, it's worth it most when it's the hardest. I responded to you in a /crit/ thread before, at the very least you can blog it or self-publish. There's lots of far worse stuff out there like on royal road legends. I checked wattpad out of curiosity and found a anime fanfic that was just characters going back and forth and it had like 20k views.
I want to do that someday. Writing game design documents. It's good to read them before you write them, the hard part is understanding all the shit programmers can and can't do for me. It's more like technical writing than creative writing. I suggest checking out some technical writing online college classes, those helped me think about how this is supposed to work.
My game idea is about a tower rpg where you constantly have to get to the next tower. Going into a tower just reveals another huge open environment with another tower, and there are towns in each tower. I want it to be very progression based, so you start out as super weak and annoying and you can't reach the next tower until you do well enough in combat.
Recently did a short erotica about an anime character where the protagonist though he hypnotized the destitute character but she's just actually using him for his money. I didn't realized I wrote it like that until the end though, then when I reread it I realized I was implying something entirely different from what I was writing about. It's just implied.
Grayson Wright
Started work on my first novel yesterday, right now im just creating a timeline of events, got the beginning, ending and 3 major events in the middle so far
Having fun