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[Scrimgeour10]

Sometimes it's the thought of getting started, for me anyway. I'm about 13 chapters into my sibling rivalry fic and in the beginning I was writing loads of chapters at once, but now it's harder to sit myself down and write one. But I always find that once I've started, I lose myself in it and it ends up flowing really nicely - it's just the thought of it that's off-putting. So yeah, I'd agree with the 'force yourself to write' advice.

[Mahati]

The Sarendoctrinator wrote...

Mahati wrote...

Advice from me? Hmm...the easiest way would be to set some sort of schedule, force yourself to stick to that schedule, and write something. Anything. Doesn't matter if it isn't good. Then it'll get a lot easier. 

I'll give it a shot. I do worry about writing when it isn't coming out well though. It makes me feel like I'll only mess up what I've already written. xD (And I'm terrible at sticking to a schedule. I know that's part of the problem.)

Happens to me too. Sometimes I look back at something I've written, go all  Then it's a mad rush to rewrite it 
Sometimes you just have to get started. Then the words flow, and the beginning, if it isn't good enough, can be reworked.

Edit: As Scrimgeour10 said.

Modifié par Mahati, 03 février 2012 - 09:12 .

[The Sarendoctrinator]

Yeah, that's true. When I get off to a bad start, I probably don't stick with it long enough for my writing to flow better so I can fix what I've done. And I can definitely relate to the idea of starting being discouraging.

[Mahati]

Isn't it? Especially because that's the first part of the story the reader's going to see, and it's likely they'll judge the rest of it based on the beginning. Makes it all the more challenging.

Editing a finished story is tough, too. Really tough.

[The Sarendoctrinator]

Luckily, the beginning of my story is already done. (Yay! ) It's the middle and end that have to be finished up, and a lot of it is there but just needs major editing. It still seems like a lot when I think of how many chapters need to be finished though... and how I had wanted to have it finished by now.

It does seem like the editing is the hardest part for me, or at least it takes the longest. I probably pay too much attention to choosing the perfect word all the time.

[ColorMeSuprised]

Klidi wrote...

Maybe we could always have one story every week, which we would give honest feedback - good things, things that we think could be better, or discuss different ways how to do something... every week it would be someone else's story.
Just an idea, though.

I like this idea. Since this is going to be a really busy thread I would suggest we flag the entry of the week with a picture so we see it immideately. I try to read everything but the only reason it's possible right now is because I'm home after a car accident. As soon as I go back to work/school I won't have that many time.

Mahati wrote...
Besides fanfiction, Has anyone here had their writing published? Just curious! ../../../images/forum/emoticons/grin.png

Not published no. Well, not really. I won a few contests if that counts.

But I'm working on a novel right now. It's Young Adult. I'm not really a fan of Fantasy, oh, but cursed Dragon Age. I love it!

BlazePT wrote...

Good idea! But oh boy, there goes my time but I suppose I could use the practice

Let's see if it turns out like with Sten.

Klidi wrote...

The 'don't start with the description', for example. I'm sorry, what? The way how to start the story should depend on the type of the story, and for whom it's written, in the way that fits the needs and purpose of the story the best. If description would work the best, then it should be description.

I know what DG is going on with. It's a short story, don't waste time using needless description. So I disadree with you and agree with DG. To be fair, I'm not a fan of too much description anyway.

Klidi wrote...

I'm so glad that the complaints worked and Amazon decided to remove it.

Oh, they did? I didn't even notice that but YAI! Cheers to us!

Modifié par ColorMeSuprised, 03 février 2012 - 11:09 .

[Mahati]

@The Sarendoctrinator, I guess it's okay to take time to write, unless there's a deadline. I mean, so many chapters are already done...that's great.

As for choosing the perfect word, me too But I find it annoying when I have to actually stop writing and just sit there and think...it unsettles me, for some reason.

@ColorMeSuprised: That's awesome Are you close to completing it?

Modifié par Mahati, 03 février 2012 - 11:57 .

[ColorMeSuprised]

Mahati wrote...

@ColorMeSuprised: That's awesome Are you close to completing it?

I have the draft/framework finished. All I have to do is write it in a way I'm not ashamed to show others. It's rather difficult since it plays in two eras (present and ancient greek). What took the longest was the research about the Ancient Greek. I had to look up everything. The way they greet eachother, how about kissing, do they even kiss? I had to check the language and got a professor to translate a few sentences into old greek, what was the main role of women at that time (I didn't knew that cooking was a mans task. In Ancient Greek it was something only man should do, same as shopping for ingredients, something superior, who would have known. ) and so on.  That almost killed me but now I'm all good. There a still a few things I have to look up every once in a while, but I got the main pattern.

The novel is about two boys with the same unique name. The wirst time they meet could have been the worst way, since their characters are not really compatible - at all. But soon they learn about the other and get to like eachother and help eachother out. They soon find out, why they have the same name and that their mothers had been good friends but parted ways. It's like an omage to friendship and how important it is to have someone, who ones in a while kicks your ass. I guess it's sounds boring, right now.

Modifié par ColorMeSuprised, 03 février 2012 - 11:35 .

[The Sarendoctrinator]

It's cool to see so many of us here are working on our own novels.

Mahati wrote...

@The Sarendoctrinator, I guess it's okay to take time to write, unless there's a deadline. I mean, so many chapters are already done...that's great.

As for choosing the perfect word, me too But I find it annoying when I have to actually stop writing and just think there and think...it unsettles me, for some reason.

Not an official deadline. It's more like a very rushed personal goal.

And that's exactly why the editing can take forever. Whenever I have to stop and think for too long, it feels less like I'm writing a story and more like I'm just trying to move words around.

[Mahati]

The Sarendoctrinator wrote...

It's cool to see so many of us here are working on our own novels.

Mahati wrote...

@The Sarendoctrinator, I guess it's okay to take time to write, unless there's a deadline. I mean, so many chapters are already done...that's great.

As for choosing the perfect word, me too But I find it annoying when I have to actually stop writing and just think there and think...it unsettles me, for some reason.

Not an official deadline. It's more like a very rushed personal goal.

And that's exactly why the editing can take forever. Whenever I have to stop and think for too long, it feels less like I'm writing a story and more like I'm just trying to move words around.

Yes...and it's painful if the said word has to be cut  Ehh...thinking for long periods distracts me completely. 

@ColorMeSuprised: Ancient Greece! Really? Your story sounds fascinating, how'd you choose ancient Greece? I hope I can read it sometime  

[ColorMeSuprised]

The Sarendoctrinator wrote...

It's cool to see so many of us here are working on our own novels.

Yeah, I will support whoever publishes their novel from you guys here.  As long as it's not only avaible on kindle (don't have one) and I can read the language. :happy: Since not everyone here writes English (or in my case German).

Mahati wrote...

@ColorMeSuprised:
Ancient Greece! Really? Your story sounds fascinating, how'd you choose
ancient Greece? I hope I can read it sometime [smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/smile.png[/smilie]

Oh, it's Greece. So Greek is the language I guess.

I chose the Ancient Greece because of the name "Antaris" (the "i" is intentional) which is the name of the main characters. I had to decide between Ancient Rome or Ancient Greece. That was an easy choice, even though I know more about the Romans than the Greeks I can agree more with the mentality of the people in Ancient Greece.

I don't know if you will be able to read it some time. It's German and it has to be really popular to be translated in another language. I'm not that confident enough to think that many people will be intrested in what I have to say.

I read you are a freelance journalist. Is there something we could read from you? <3

Modifié par ColorMeSuprised, 03 février 2012 - 12:59 .

[BlazePT]

ColorMeSuprised wrote...

Mahati wrote...

@ColorMeSuprised: That's awesome Are you close to completing it?

I have the draft/framework finished. All I have to do is write it in a way I'm not ashamed to show others. It's rather difficult since it plays in two eras (present and ancient greek). What took the longest was the research about the Ancient Greek. I had to look up everything. The way they greet eachother, how about kissing, do they even kiss? I had to check the language and got a professor to translate a few sentences into old greek, what was the main role of women at that time (I didn't knew that cooking was a mans task. In Ancient Greek it was something only man should do, same as shopping for ingredients, something superior, who would have known. ) and so on.  That almost killed me but now I'm all good. There a still a few things I have to look up every once in a while, but I got the main pattern.

The novel is about two boys with the same unique name. The wirst time they meet could have been the worst way, since their characters are not really compatible - at all. But soon they learn about the other and get to like eachother and help eachother out. They soon find out, why they have the same name and that their mothers had been good friends but parted ways. It's like an omage to friendship and how important it is to have someone, who ones in a while kicks your ass. I guess it's sounds boring, right now.

Ah, I am also writing a novel! Do you know Haruki Murakami? I found myself influenced by his style that I wanted to create something so real but at the same time mysterious! I already have the cover and the title:

"Where cats go to die" but it's being written in Portuguese so, I don't have a sample for you guys but I can summarize it.

A boy gets caught in a thunderstom with his father and a random bolt splits the boy in half, metaphoricallyspeaking that is. So he starts to live in two worlds, ours (normal) and his. Talking to cats it's just plain normal among other things that he recalls, a candy dealer? Why not? A motherly prostitute? Why not? An astronaut? I know I am sounding all over the place but it is solid, although I am afraid of the outcome...

[Corker]

Mahati wrote...
Besides fanfiction, Has anyone here had their writing published? Just curious! 

Yes, but not my creative writing.  I've got about a dozen conference papers and one journal paper out in various aerospace engineering publications.

And I have two lovely hardback copies of my dissertation on the shelf.

[Mahati]

ColorMeSuprised wrote...

I read you are a freelance journalist. Is there something we could read from you? <3

Sure, thank you for asking! I will DM you with a couple of links 

[Sialater]

I sold a short story once, ages ago, to the Sword and Sorceress anthology series by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It's in #15.

Looking back at it now, I cringe. I'm not that writer anymore.

[Rinshikai]

Another from Asunder here, thank you ColorMeSurprised for pointing me here. Talking with some of you on the other boards has given me incentive to continue my writing.

[Sialater]

Well, that's what we're here for, right? To crack that whip on each other.

No, not like that.

ETA:  it's good to be back, though.  Took a short hiatus since things got nuts at work and ME3 spoilers kept popping up even in the Dragon Age threads.

Is anyone collecting all the info on our projects, or anything? 

Modifié par Sialater, 03 février 2012 - 04:40 .

[Rinshikai]

No idea.

[tklivory]

Sialater wrote...

Well, that's what we're here for, right? To crack that whip on each other.

No, not like that.

ETA:  it's good to be back, though.  Took a short hiatus since things got nuts at work and ME3 spoilers kept popping up even in the Dragon Age threads.

Is anyone collecting all the info on our projects, or anything? 

*waves at Sialater*  Welcome back!


Hmmm.... info on our projects, eh?  I wonder...

I know that a lot of people have links in their signature, or have a thread on the BSN that they update occasionally (in some cases very occasionally, *cough cough shut up mirror cough cough*)

So far as I know, however, there is not place where the links are collected to everyone's on-site or off-site works *centralized*.  Now, I have a post early on in the thread - perhaps I could collect everyone's links so that people's works are kept in one place, at least on the front page, so that we have a 'front page' list of all the writers in the thread?  It would strictly be a list of links &c, but it would be a good way for people to get to know each others' works...

So, a tentative format (which should be either posted or sent to me via PM):

Name: BSN username  (and other sites usernames, like FF.net, as you wish to be listed)
Location of works: Link to BSN thread (link to other sites as you wish to have listed) (Anonymous reviews allowed: YES/NO)
Current ongoing project: Name of current ongoing project (and link, if provided)
Favorite story I've written: Name of favorite story you've written (and link, if provided - please?)
Favorite story I've read: Name of favorite story/work/book you've read (and link, if appropriate)


ALSO:

I love the idea of a weekly concrit.  I'd also volunteer to try to keep that in my front-page post so that people don't have to go searching through all kinds o' pages of posts to find the 'discussion of the week'


ALSO ALSO:
Aaand, I wonder if we could have a 'writing article' of the week thing?  Like, this week it could be DG's blog?


Let me know what ya'll think!  I'd love to get a collation going, especially for those that don't necessarily work in the DA forums all the time!

Modifié par tklivory, 03 février 2012 - 05:43 .

[ColorMeSuprised]

BlazePT wrote...

Ah, I am also writing a novel! Do you know Haruki Murakami? I found myself influenced by his style that I wanted to create something so real but at the same time mysterious! I already have the cover and the title:

A boy gets caught in a thunderstom with his father and a random bolt splits the boy in half, metaphoricallyspeaking that is. So he starts to live in two worlds, ours (normal) and his. Talking to cats it's just plain normal among other things that he recalls, a candy dealer? Why not? A motherly prostitute? Why not? An astronaut? I know I am sounding all over the place but it is solid, although I am afraid of the outcome...

I studied Japanese literatur, so of course I know Haruki Murakami. Though I'm more a fan of Dazai Osamu. He inspired me a lot. Unfortunately, he was mentally unstable, which pretty much showed in his writing.

Your novel sounds very intresting. I would like to read it, but I cannot speak Portuguese.

tklivory wrote...
Aaand, I wonder if we could have a 'writing article' of the week thing?  Like, this week it could be DG's blog?

I really like that idea! Though how do we realize this. Everbody posts suggestions or PMs them to you?

Modifié par ColorMeSuprised, 03 février 2012 - 06:00 .

[tklivory]

ColorMeSuprised wrote...

tklivory wrote...
Aaand, I wonder if we could have a 'writing article' of the week thing?  Like, this week it could be DG's blog?

I really like that idea! Though how do we realize this. Everbody posts suggestions or PMs them to you?

I'd suggest a PM, simply so that we don't have 2-3 pages of 'this one!  no, this one!'  That way, even if someone doesn't suggest an article each week, I'd have a list of articles that I could choose from and just update the 'front page' link with it once a week (like, say, on Sunday).

[ColorMeSuprised]

tklivory wrote...

I'd suggest a PM, simply so that we don't have 2-3 pages of 'this one!  no, this one!'  That way, even if someone doesn't suggest an article each week, I'd have a list of articles that I could choose from and just update the 'front page' link with it once a week (like, say, on Sunday).

That sounds good.

[Rinshikai]

that works

[Sialater]

PM for a suggestion incoming.

[tklivory]

Sweet! Received the PM. I also have already updated my 'front page' post (the third one in the thread) with David Gaider's blog concerning FF.

I will update my 'front page' post with a new article once a week, and then maintain an archival blog on BSN with a link of all the writing articles so that people can peruse them as they wish. (although that won't get created until I update the post *wink*). The archival blog, once it's created, will also be link from the front page post.

Also, would anyone be interested in listing their project on the front page? Just wondering...