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[Bea Avelli]

Sir Icehawk

Trying to tell a story via a lengthy poem.

That sounds exhilarating! About how long is lengthy in this case? At the heart of my life's maze I envision a boon in the form of a ridiculously long but coherent poem that will get written — someday.

Also, hi scribes cool What with darker days coming down on us and the jaws of academia clenching ever tighter around me I have some ambitions to regularise my recreational writing. Meaning I might as well move in here at the same time. Can I take this corner?

[Desi the fuzzy fluffhead]

Sir Icehawk

@Desi

Just changing forms. Trying to tell a story via a lengthy poem.

A break sounds nice. I think I might take a week or two off once I get this draft of the novel done. Only 30 or so pages left. ^-^

Epic poem format. OuO

Coolio. It's hard to get right.
My favorite book that does that is Sharp Teeth. It actually resonates like poetry unlike some books that just feel
like
they're pressing
enter
and calling it
poetry.
I never would have picked it up, it was one of those blind dates with a book. I"d like to read it.

30 is not much more to go. Good luck.

Bea Lavesa

Welcome to the thread.
The corner is your's.

What are you working on?

[Bea Avelli]

Desi the fuzzy fluffhead

What are you working on?

Fanfiction, to my chagrin (I'm still wrestling with the meta, too: how in the world do people set a tone that suits pre-established settings? IT BOGGLES THE MIND. And all the research, what in the truck — I thought this'd be easy etc etc). Then poetry when I feel upset, but that's a whole other form of recreation.

And wooo, since I didn't want my first (admittedly kinda busy) day to be a disaster, I set the floor-low goal of 200 GLORIOUS WORDS with the ambition to pile on to that number and reach a good daily thousand by the start of next week. Uh — so far so good..!

[Diabolical Indulgence]

Uh, hello everyone! Despite how long I have been writing, I've never posted in the Writers section before. Sadly I'm in a bit of a rut for my story and I thought it best for me to hang out here so my muse will come out of hibernation again. :'D

Hasn't been much progress at all for my main story aside from a lot of re-writing in the first chapter. Haven't even opened the file for the second chapter for ages now...

[Desi the fuzzy fluffhead]

Bea Lavesa

I'm kind of under the impression that matching the tone to the previous setting doesn't matter. I don't know though, I don't read or write fanfiction. I think you just kind of decide what thing you want to bring out of the original work. I imagine it's difficult.

Did you hit the 200?

'"Diabolical Indulgence"

Welcome to the thread.
Nothing like hearing about other writers progress to guilt you into making your own.
At least that's how I feel. I'll avoid this place if I'm really not writing, or even thinking about it.
How long have you been working on your main story?


My Progress:

I've decided to take that break on my main WIP. Six months. I've decided to revamp Unrealities. I'm making my characters older. I'm just not sure how to show my character's grief at losing his brother 4 years after the fact. My MC hasn't moved on, but he's functioning. How to avoid angst, basically.
I've only written about one handwritten page on it.

[Bea Avelli]

@Desi Well there wouldn't be any dictates, I suppose (because I mean, what're they gonna do, really?) but I don't read much of the stuff either so your guess is as good as mine! Just to sate the public's general disinterest, this thing's gone through phases influenced by practically all conceivable authors except the ones who actually do write in the setting. Because they're awful. So I'unno, we'll see where I can actually take this.

And yes, I sure did hit 'em, and my — drum drum drum — ambitious 300 today! As long as I have to actively stop myself from continuing beyond my set goals, I'll feel reassured.

Six months sounds like it could do a lot of good. Heck, it might have done a lot of published works a lot of good. — What style does Unrealities come in? Does that main character narrate it?

@Diabolical I do a lot of opening and closing (those damn) files as procrastination, and only leave them untouched when I get frantic for whatever reason. I'm — not sure if that's gonna make you feel better or worse now that I think about it! Do you also split up your text into different files, juggle them around, put them back together, take them apart again and so on ad infinitum, by any chance?

[Diabolical Indulgence]

Desi the fuzzy fluffhead

Hmm... 4 years now? Maybe a little more. A whole lot has been changed over the time to make the characters better so a bunch of the writing got scrapped. I still have all those parts saved though in case I can re-write them back in.

Bea Lavesa

Yeah, I find myself doing that a lot as well. Or I open it to actually do work for once, go to do something else first and a few hours later realise what I was meant to be doing, aha.

Um, sometimes I do. But right now it's more just a lot of separate parts for the second chapter that I have to piece together on the one file. The part I'm currently writing will most likely make a lot of it be put into a third chapter because I want to give the characters I'm introducing more show time.

[I am The Compendium]

Finished!

59 pages of a manga rough draft (didn't check word count).

[SebastiansLittleDoll]

Finished writing a short story for a new contest on Gaia. I'm hoping to spruce it up more and send it off to this official contest-thing in January. My deadline is coming up in like, two weeks D:

[Sinster InkPen]

@Desi: It's comfy once you get all the boxes out and the furniture just right. I still have some around the place so it feels a little cluttered even with one pet.

Three animals? Mm, it'll probably feel like they're all under foot. I'm sure you'll manage somehow. ^^

Mhm~ Big, monstrous bird. Some of the pictures I saw had them look like an eagle. I'll probably do some research to see if there's any specific natures they have so it doesn't clash with what I have. But usually territorial mothers will attack any who get near their babies.

My progress: Not too much, about a hundred words before I stopped. Might save the details for later when I edit and push through.

[XxFreezy Frosty ForeverxX]

About a good while to go.

[Desi the fuzzy fluffhead]

Bea Lavesa

More time between edits is always good. The thing is nothing is ever actually done, you just got to send it out when it feels done enough. Least that's what I think
Yay for hitting goals and surpassing them!

@Sinister:
3nodding Dogs are underfoot all the time. Dog, though fun, cute, and pretty awesome, are pretty dumb. Are you planning on doing your own spin on the roc?
Awesome for the words .


@Diabolical:
I always save my scraps. I feel like if I don't then one night I'm going to be sitting there, desperately thinking that I deleted the best thing I've ever written and hate myself for it.


My Progress:
I've written a bit in my journal. Plan on writing today while I commute to Seattle. Because I can't by conditioner here.
Without walking an hour.
I'm having a hard time decided how to splice up my time between reading and writing.

[SebastiansLittleDoll]

Just quickly came on right now to say that I finished going over the short, called 'Circus'. Haha, I'm quite please. ...And I have to get off now, 'cause I have to sleep T.T I shall reply to messages tomorrow!!! D:

[Sinster InkPen]

@Desi: Indeed dogs are always under foot. Have one of my own so I know how it feels. cat_3nodding

And a little bit, aside from making them territorial monstrous birds out to fly off with random hikers if they're not careful. Some in this story of mine live on mountains or live in this huge tree that's closer to a plains area so they'd have a lot more food choices (the mountain at this point is near a dense forest area) along with the mythical animals that wander the place. They're also somewhat harder to control unless a high ranking magician/wizard/witch or a being of nature. I know I'm gonna have to write down the complete lore for human towns/villages that are connected to Nature and all about their vessels.

My progress: Got the ball moving again. A couple hundred more, and gaining steam! I'm gonna pinch myself if I keep reading sporks and not writing when I'm not unpacking. sweatdrop

[Desi the fuzzy fluffhead]

SebastiansLittleDoll

Just quickly came on right now to say that I finished going over the short, called 'Circus'. Haha, I'm quite please. ...And I have to get off now, 'cause I have to sleep T.T I shall reply to messages tomorrow!!! D:

Whoot Whoot! Congrats. Hope you got some good sleep.
What are you plans for Circus

@Inkpen:
Nice. I'd have different species live in different places. Lore is fun though.
Sweet job with the progress.


My Progress: Just got home. I've worked on an outline for Unrealities.
I feel like fantasy can be an easy genre to get lost it. I need to set rules for myself.
Otherwise it was the boyfriend's birthday today and didn't get much progress done.