NationStates

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 2:26 pm**

A little thread to discuss ongoing works and the process of writing as much as anyone feels comfortable doing. Whether it's that novel that's never going to get finished or an already published fanfic piece.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:08 pm**

well, I started writing at 14(currently 17) and I had 6 false starts before I found the right starting point for my Epic/Dark fantasy, then I had 2 more false starts before I decided to move backwards down along the timeline a few years and right a series of open-ended prelude books to introduce people to the history of the characters and world before going into the main storyline. Currently I'm one chapter in and it's looking good.

I usually write at the begining of my classes and when I have some time at home, I try and move forward as much as I can with the intention of editing later(adding in paragraphs, fixing errors, redescribing things/actions)

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:13 pm**

Yoite wrote:well, I started writing at 14(currently 17) and I had 6 false starts before I found the right starting point for my Epic/Dark fantasy, then I had 2 more false starts before I decided to move backwards down along the timeline a few years and right a series of open-ended prelude books to introduce people to the history of the characters and world before going into the main storyline. Currently I'm one chapter in and it's looking good.

Heh, I'm also 17. I started this current world in a very basic manner at thirteen, but I didn't develop the current storyline I'm working on until I was fifteen. I've lost track of the amount of false starts I've had since I've started, but I know the amount of scrapped pages I have is in the triple digits. I haven't started again since my last scrap in July, but I'm thinking of taking another go at it, since I'm not just going to leave the story untold.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:31 pm**

The story of my life, write, scrap, write, scrap, I found my own storyline's center the summer before last, but I've done little to advance i since then, I'm hoping that my current work will grant me more experience and actually help me learn more about my own world while I write.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:41 pm**

Yoite wrote:I usually write at the begining of my classes and when I have some time at home, I try and move forward as much as I can with the intention of editing later(adding in paragraphs, fixing errors, redescribing things/actions)

Ah, I generally make worldbuilding notes during class. I can only write in a narrative sense late at night.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:53 pm**

I shall hopefully strat writing a story I've been wishing to write in the next few days (which is probably what I was thinking a few days ago). I will likely have to work on it in the morning, since my mood and energy levels drop horrendously from afternoons onwards. I'm still trying to figure where to start the story, and whether or not I should have a more developed plan for it beforehand.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:54 pm**

I try to keep most of my stuff up here *taps head* my world building is okay, I just don't know where my people are going and what the end result is . . . .yet. I have 6 major nations, one of which is an Empire and consists of 5 unincluded nations, and another of which consists of 18 united provinces, 2 weaker natioons, some coastal islands, Codes of morality and ethics associated with these nations, and thats just one of my continents. My cousin made another one, just sat down one day and drew a map, it was pretty good(he had history for it as well) and he decided he wanted it in my world so there are two major continents in my world.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:55 pm**

I belong to a writing forum, (TG me if you want the site name) which has exponentially helped improve my writing. I'm more of a poet in my own eyes, but I do enjoy writing Fiction and regular stories.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:57 pm**

Alternate History novel that I hope can become a trilogy. Although it is only partially written, it is already largely thought out at this point.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:58 pm**

I explained to my sister a series of dreams that I've had. I guess I've built a new world and have plot for a story in the works. Maybe I'll do that more often. Keep a dream log, write stories inspired by my dreams.

I also have this other idea about a man who kills the woman he loves after she dumps him/tells him she's not interested in him, and then kills himself. Then the rest of the novel is what comes after that. I'm worried the idea for it, though, may be to much like the story told by The Black Parade album by My Chemical Romance. I'd love to just try it out and see where it leads, though.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:05 pm**

Aquitayne wrote:I belong to a writing forum, (TG me if you want the site name) which has exponentially helped improve my writing. I'm more of a poet in my own eyes, but I do enjoy writing Fiction and regular stories.

I am also a poet. I write poems on a website called allpoetry,but I have not write in quite a while.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:58 pm**

Yoite wrote:I try to keep most of my stuff up here *taps head* my world building is okay, I just don't know where my people are going and what the end result is . . . .yet. I have 6 major nations, one of which is an Empire and consists of 5 unincluded nations, and another of which consists of 18 united provinces, 2 weaker natioons, some coastal islands, Codes of morality and ethics associated with these nations, and thats just one of my continents. My cousin made another one, just sat down one day and drew a map, it was pretty good(he had history for it as well) and he decided he wanted it in my world so there are two major continents in my world.

Yeah, I doodled a map I'm not really satisfied with. History is something of an obsession of mine, so I've dedicated a lot of time to the various cultures and states that make up the world. I've got an Empire with eight provinces (And a 'State Territory') that have twenty-one culture groups between them (Two can be merged for all practical purpose, but I like keeping them separate for historical purposes), a Confederacy with twenty-two (Or twenty-one, depending on how you count the Union of Jewalso Owo) semi-independent states and thirty-seven culture groups between them, and a much less developed lower two continents with twelve states, with one arguably enforcing some sort of dominion over some but not all of the rest, and twenty culture groups between them.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:58 pm**

Alevuss wrote:I also have this other idea about a man who kills the woman he loves after she dumps him/tells him she's not interested in him, and then kills himself. Then the rest of the novel is what comes after that. I'm worried the idea for it, though, may be to much like the story told by The Black Parade album by My Chemical Romance. I'd love to just try it out and see where it leads, though.

That actually sounds interesting, if done right.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:04 pm**

I started writing a novel. You would all hate the subject. I scrapped it half way when it got to emotional.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:05 pm**

Trans-Danube wrote:I started writing a novel. You would all hate the subject. I scrapped it half way when it got to emotional.

What was the subject? You never know.

Besides, getting halfway through writing a novel is quite an accomplishment. I can't even get a tenth of the way through mine. :lol2:

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:08 pm**

Conserative Morality wrote:
Trans-Danube wrote:I started writing a novel. You would all hate the subject. I scrapped it half way when it got to emotional.

What was the subject? You never know.

Besides, getting halfway through writing a novel is quite an accomplishment. I can't even get a tenth of the way through mine.

Same here,

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:09 pm**

Yoite wrote:Same here,

My favorite time I started was when I wrote fifty pages in three days, felt intensely proud of myself, and then realized I had started the story about two-hundred pages too early if I was going to slog around like that. :lol2:

I wrote fifty pages of a train ride that had basically nothing to do with the story save introduce the main character.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:28 pm**

Conserative Morality wrote:
Trans-Danube wrote:I started writing a novel. You would all hate the subject. I scrapped it half way when it got to emotional.

What was the subject? You never know.

Besides, getting halfway through writing a novel is quite an accomplishment. I can't even get a tenth of the way through mine.

Star wars. *Crawls back into sad nerd cave*

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:34 pm**

Alevuss wrote:I explained to my sister a series of dreams that I've had. I guess I've built a new world and have plot for a story in the works. Maybe I'll do that more often. Keep a dream log, write stories inspired by my dreams.

I also have this other idea about a man who kills the woman he loves after she dumps him/tells him she's not interested in him, and then kills himself. Then the rest of the novel is what comes after that. I'm worried the idea for it, though, may be to much like the story told by The Black Parade album by My Chemical Romance. I'd love to just try it out and see where it leads, though.

Damn. Is everyone inspired by it?

I started writing since I was 8 or so, tried to make some stories but I always failed.

First was a Star Wars thing, just got to 10 pages or so. After that I did a High Fantasy called the 'Saga of Tieldor', where the eponymous hero rides a gryphon and goes around saving people and annihilating evil armies, though in the middle of the story he climbs up this tower and stuff happened. Then he went back down and got and set about looking for an apprentice. I did not finish it because my writing skills at the time were not satisfactory. Then, I made this fanfic about Warcraft (yeah, I liked it at the time) about this Orc Shammie. Didn't work out either, though I had slightly improved my writing skills.

As I was a little older, with much more failures, I got this idea about a huge Dark Fantasy about mages, where the mages get their powers from interbreeding with dragons. The blood of the half-dragons is passed down all the way to this one minor noble whose fortress just got sacked, and he was fleeing the place wen he is discovered by some mages. Long story short, he found out that he was more powerful than his peers, which was because his own father was one of the original dragons. Eventually, I lost interest of the story as I wanted a modern version with guns and swords ala Devil May Cry.

The result? A story where centuries ago, demons were summoned into Germania, and a tribe, wanting to destroy the Roman Republic/Empire, interbred with them for the promise of power. The coupling results in the first berserkers, with superhuman strength, endurance, and speed, but with a fiery temper. One small thing could drive them into a rage. This was troublesome at times, so the tribe started training them to control their rage. Some of them also had magic, though this was rare. When the time came, the Romans conquered a small part of Germania. That was a grave mistake, for three whole legions were slaughtered. Fast forward in time, and the Berserkers have not only extinguished the light of Rome, they have expanded throughout Europe, from Spain all the way to Romania. Meanwhile, Rollo settles in Northern France, and all the way to Guilliaume du Normandie, who conquers Britain. His great-great-grandson, of the Berserker Plantagenets, nicknamed the devil's brood, reigns, and from his bastard son, Philip du Cognac, the bloodline continues. All the way to the present day, where the protagonist is but one of the many berserkers in the world.

So yeah, that's basically what I've been doing. I've never finished even one.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:03 pm**

Conserative Morality wrote:
Yoite wrote:Same here,

My favorite time I started was when I wrote fifty pages in three days, felt intensely proud of myself, and then realized I had started the story about two-hundred pages too early if I was going to slog around like that.

I wrote fifty pages of a train ride that had basically nothing to do with the story save introduce the main character.

The most I wrote was 6 pages, sad yes, but I'm feeling good about where I am right now and I have 4 pages of that so far, the chapter is nearly complete, I introduce the protagonist and the antagonist, and I at the end of that chapter introduce a plot twist to the main character.

Edit: I also introduce a potential romance sub plot, but I don't intend to pursue it, I have another one lined up for the main character later in the story.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:10 pm**

I think a lot about stories. All the time. How to design a world is my great strength but I fail at making a main character which is goo for the story.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:14 pm**

Casta Nal wrote:I think a lot about stories. All the time. How to design a world is my great strength but I fail at making a main character which is goo for the story.

Whats the story about? (Genre, setting, etc)

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:15 pm**

Trans-Danube wrote:Star wars. *Crawls back into sad nerd cave*

Hey, 50% of Star Wars canon anymore is written by the fans.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:17 pm**

Yoite wrote:The most I wrote was 6 pages, sad yes, but I'm feeling good about where I am right now and I have 4 pages of that so far, the chapter is nearly complete, I introduce the protagonist and the antagonist, and I at the end of that chapter introduce a plot twist to the main character.

Edit: I also introduce a potential romance sub plot, but I don't intend to pursue it, I have another one lined up for the main character later in the story.

Ah, very good. I originally was going to introduce a romance sub plot, but then I realized it made no sense in context of the world or the character, so I just completely scrapped it.

Posted: **Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:17 pm**

Casta Nal wrote:I think a lot about stories. All the time. How to design a world is my great strength but I fail at making a main character which is goo for the story.

Odd to think that creating an living, breathing world is sometimes easier than a living breathing character.

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