So, I write stories/books. It's entirely for fun though I would love to be published one day. They usually involve some sort of romance, always gay. I just can't figure out how to write out a heterosexual relationship. I also love the supernatural/horror genre and generally write in that because it's fun.
Anyway...
Here is my site where all of my stories that I have typed can be found/will eventually be found:
http://www.fictionpress.com/~sccharlot (http://www.fictionpress.com/~sccharlot)
So, do any of you write? What do you write? Do you have any place that you share your writings?
I used to write a lot of stories when I was in middle school. I used Quizilla to store them and had so many quizzes and stories that I made. Sadly they changed and went so strict. I would write romance stories and some included sexual scenes. It used to be allowed when I was there but after I took a break for a few years I realized my account was deleted because I had so many stories with sex in them. I could never get it reopened either.
I always have stories in my head I want to write but can never bring myself to write them because I am just too lazy.
I rubbed a character study and it turned into a novel.
I used to. I even posted a short story here a few years ago. It's not very good though.
I don't really anymore. Most of my stuff was dark. Very dark.
I like your writing style, Lynn.
Quote from: Sephirah on May 03, 2012, 12:20:47 AM
I used to. I even posted a short story here a few years ago. It's not very good though.
I don't really anymore. Most of my stuff was dark. Very dark.
I like your writing style, Lynn.
Do you know the name of the story? I'd be interested in reading it. I understand having dark writings. When I was in high school I took a creative writing class and my writings often got criticized as too dark.
And thank you. :) I'm glad you like it!
@ Malachite: Hahaha, lazy I get. I'm very lazy and have often not written items down because of being too lazy. However, I love it and it's kind of an escape for me so I've started to try and curb the laziness.
@ Kahlan: ??? Rubbed a character study? I'm not certain what that is.
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 03, 2012, 09:31:20 AM
Do you know the name of the story? I'd be interested in reading it.
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,37638.0.html (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,37638.0.html) :)
Are you continuing Nighttime Wanderings? I'd be interested in reading more. It's intriguing.
Quote from: Sephirah on May 03, 2012, 10:04:30 AM
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,37638.0.html (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,37638.0.html) :)
Are you continuing Nighttime Wanderings? I'd be interested in reading more. It's intriguing.
I am! :) I'll be posting the second "chapter" up today, probably in a few minutes. :)
Thank you for sharing your story. :) I have it bookmarked so I can read it when I get home from school.
Edit: It's uploaded. I'm worried I went too fast...This story will probably go through several revisions before I'm happy with it. xD
I just read the second chapter. I have to say, whether it was intentional or not, I can see a lot of imagery and symbolism in it. There's real depth to it that illuminates more than just a relationship between the two characters.
Keep going! :D
Quote from: Sephirah on May 03, 2012, 01:48:25 PM
I just read the second chapter. I have to say, whether it was intentional or not, I can see a lot of imagery and symbolism in it. There's real depth to it that illuminates more than just a relationship between the two characters.
Keep going! :D
You just gave me the biggest smile! ^///^ I'm all red, lol. I'm debating about posting the next chapter because it's -cough- pretty much just a sex scene. :icon_redface: :icon_redface:
:3 I've been reading yours. I enjoy the use of words and the analogies/metaphors that you use. You really feel the emotion from the characters and the interaction is highly believable.
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 03, 2012, 01:56:47 PM
You just gave me the biggest smile! ^///^ I'm all red, lol. I'm debating about posting the next chapter because it's -cough- pretty much just a sex scene. :icon_redface: :icon_redface:
Do it, you know you want to! Besides, sex is a part of life. The story would lose an element of realism if you
didn't post it. :) Attraction is attraction, and since it adds to the story and exploring the characters' interaction and relationship with each other, it seems to me a natural progression. :)
And thank you very much. That was pretty much a stream of consciousness, as most of my writing seems to be. It kinda came out all in one go. Like literary vomit... minus the carrots. ;D
Chapter Three and Four are posted, hun. :3 Chapter Five hasn't been written, but I'm working on it. I'm rather irritated that Fiction Press keeps taking out the "*****" I use to denote a change in time. -.- I'm going to have to edit that somehow. If one of the chapters doesn't appear, that's why.
Hahaha, it's a good way of writing. I enjoyed it. :3
Wow.
I'm not really sure what I was expecting with those, but you did a great job managing to convey both tenderness and intensity. What interested me most was the internal emotional feelings Cailean dealt with and the struggle of wanting something even though you're not sure it's right. Head versus heart, as it were. You really gave the characters a third dimension and made it captivating to read. Although I must confess that the actual.. ahem... nitty-gritty of chapter three wasn't something which I would ordinarily read. Nevertheless, it was wonderfully written. You capture the seeming 'insanity of love' very well, how it makes you think and do things you would never have thought about. And the events in chapter four with Jake finding out who it was he actually has feelings for... well, I want to read more about that. It sounds like the makings of a 'tale of star-cross'd lovers' with a lot of twists and turns waiting in the wings.
I can't wait to read more. :)
You've really made my day. :)
I love reading your input. I'm glad it came off as tender and intense. I was real worried that things wouldn't be right or even the technicalities of the sex would be wrong. I'm horribly inexperienced with such things, but thank you so much. :)
I will let you know once I get the fifth chapter uploaded. :)
Quote from: Liam Erik on May 03, 2012, 07:21:56 PM
I write. I've been doing it compulsively since I was old enough to dictate to my mom. I won a lot of awards for it as a kid, but it's been a long time since I've shown it to anyone. I like to write characters most of all, rather than plot. I have an awful lot of writings. I also have a bunch of stand-alone short stories.
Me neither. Honestly, I really struggle with writing women at all. It's a little funny - I have years upon years of solid proof that I do not have a good handle on the female mind. I also don't know what's attractive about them.
That's neat! :D Character writing is fun. I enjoy it. :) What types of awards? Is there any type of genre you like to write?
Lol! I struggle hard when I write a story with a female character. I usually have to keep them as secondary because I can't grasp the mindset. I can see what's attractive (I'm bisexual), but putting it in a heterosexual context boggles my mind. It drives me crazy because I identify as male, but can't see myself being with a woman as a male and that reflects in my writing.
Quote from: Liam Erik on May 03, 2012, 07:21:56 PM
Me neither. Honestly, I really struggle with writing women at all. It's a little funny - I have years upon years of solid proof that I do not have a good handle on the female mind. I also don't know what's attractive about them.
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 03, 2012, 07:29:04 PM
Lol! I struggle hard when I write a story with a female character. I usually have to keep them as secondary because I can't grasp the mindset.
Not surprising really. It's easiest to write about what you know. :) I tend to struggle when characterising men, particularly with regard to the way they interact in a social environment. It's something I've never really grasped and observation can only take you so far. :-\
Maybe you'd think about posting something here, Liam? Or maybe a link to somewhere I could read something you've written? I would be very interested in doing so. The way a person expresses themselves through creativity gives a lot of insight into them.
Quote from: Sephirah on May 03, 2012, 07:41:35 PM
Not surprising really. It's easiest to write about what you know. :) I tend to struggle when characterising men, particularly with regard to the way they interact in a social environment. It's something I've never really grasped and observation can only take you so far. :-\
Maybe you'd think about posting something here, Liam? Or maybe a link to somewhere I could read something you've written? I would be very interested in doing so. The way a person expresses themselves through creativity gives a lot of insight into them.
Yeah, observation can only take someone so far. I have a little bit of issues with how certain men interact because most of the guys I know are "macho" and I don't get it. >>
Ooo! Yes, post something if you're comfortable doing so. :)
The first chapter of a novel I've been working on can be found here.
http://nhnovella.com/archives/443 (http://nhnovella.com/archives/443)
Quote from: dalebert on May 03, 2012, 08:06:18 PM
The first chapter of a novel I've been working on can be found here.
http://nhnovella.com/archives/443 (http://nhnovella.com/archives/443)
Yay! :D -bookmarks-
Is it your own site or is it another person's site?
Quote from: dalebert on May 03, 2012, 08:06:18 PM
The first chapter of a novel I've been working on can be found here.
http://nhnovella.com/archives/443 (http://nhnovella.com/archives/443)
I left a comment on the page. :)
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 03, 2012, 08:08:15 PM
Is it your own site or is it another person's site?
It's my friend's site.
I guess I kind of do..
I have a blog here but I don't write nothing interesting just my life and the things I go threw maybe struggle will be a better word.
- Nikki
Quote from: Nikki on May 06, 2012, 04:58:31 AM
I guess I kind of do..
I have a blog here but I don't write nothing interesting just my life and the things I go threw maybe struggle will be a better word.
- Nikki
Well, considering your life is unique to you, and a story that no one else can write, I'd call that pretty darn interesting because it's something no one will have read before. *hug*
I've been more than dabbling in writing for the past six months. The biggest thing I'm working on is a novel right now, it's been a very therapeutic experience for me in terms of coming to embrace my ->-bleeped-<- instead of repressing and denying it. It's kind of a fantasy novel, but a lot of elements about it were actually me putting into words certain fears and anxieties I had about coming out as a transgender. It's not near completion yet, I'm kind of stuck at a block on how to finish the last 10-20K words left to write on it, but I'm having a lot of fun with it.
I hope to have a LOT of fun with the throwaway online serial novel that I'm writing and will be having a very minor release bubble. I call it a throwaway novel because it's another "zombie apocalypse"-type thing and zombies have been way overdone lately, so I'm just using it mostly to fine-tune my writing craft.
I also have one short story that I'm outlining right now about a 90%-deaf girl and her music box. It's kinda cute, and I'm experimenting with a music arranger to make some MP3s to compliment the story. So all in all, I have a lot of love for writing, these three projects are on the plate, and that's not even detailing the 9 or 10 other book ideas I've put to paper.
I write.
I finished my first novel at university. It's not that good, but anyone interested, it's here.
Me, Myself and Colin (http://www.scribd.com/doc/55439417/Me-Myself-and-Colin#)
I finished my second novel Easter this year, I am not putting the whole thing on the web yet because I'm sending it to agents and trying to get it out in the mainstream publishing world. I made a miniwebsite for it and plonked it at the bottom of my blog.
http://grubstreetlodger.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/death-of-dreamonger-mini-site.html (http://grubstreetlodger.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/death-of-dreamonger-mini-site.html)
And now I am writing my third novel, which I hope to write in an intense six week burst.
I have won a prize for a short story and have a few small pieces placed here and there. I'd like to earn a living through my writing, but at the moment I only make bits of pin money here and there. I love writing and I love a good story.
I now get to read what everyone else has written, great.