Thread: So What Are You Writing About ?

Originally Posted by MrWalker

I'm going to do a man narrating his fall into insanity. It's a rather unoriginal idea, but it'll mostly just be rambling, because I can't write a decent story. It should help me stop criticizing my writing so heavily and just write, though..

Wow, can't believe it but I hadn't noticed this post was from 2008! Nevermind on my last response...!

NaNoWriMo is seasonal...this thread gets revived every year. Speaking of reviving (speaking to the higher and mightier mods), are we gonna have a nano group this year? I missed last year.
Fall's coming. I always look forward to nano in the fall, after my birthday. *snif*
Gotta hankie?
*honk*

I had no idea, I was thinking of writing out a wizard casting different magic, maybe learning the magic?
I wrote out a SS on companion summoner (find familiar), I don't think it was to exciting, but Nanowrimo doesn't have to be great. Maybe the wizard remembering the first time he cast these spells?
If thats what I will do, I will need to make up the grocery list of items for each one.
I have Mage lights, Companion summoner, how to become a lich.
Still not sure I need to be motivated to write, good or bad.

Well...I've finally decided on a subject, and am working out character/plot details. I've had a story set on Mars in my queue for quite some time, and have moved it to the front of the line. The story will be set some years in the future, without much (there is some-one segment in particular I see as set in pioneering times, but it's more story-to-scare-the-kids than anything else) exposition about the origins of the society. Though I'm aware of those details, as they're part of my overall "future history" concept, I'm choosing to have them inform the story rather than making them active ingredients in my stew.
I need to come up with some active sequences to mix in with the family life stuff and the pastorals. Enough to keep the ms from going too Philip K Dick on the one hand or too Fred Pohl on the other (referring respectively to the novels Martian Time-Slip and Man Plus/Mars Plus, which are seminal Martian works).

Everyone's ideas here are very creative and I feel as if I am falling behind, but I am indeed planning to write something in which I will create a new world filled with many unheard of beasts and new Brave souls to combat them. I really do like the idea of creating my own world when writing which is part of the reason I love Fantasy and Fiction.

World building is awesome. Have fun with it, let your imagination soar! Your readers will thank you for it.