What Are You Guys Writing About? - Writers Forum

Samy :] · 07-22-2006, 02:34 AM

Hey, I'm around 15 yrs. old & I was wondering exactly what people in there own spare time are writing about. Do you have a specific genre that you love most, or are you playing with so many you can't decide? Or how about your story & how is it going? What do you find hardest to overcome? Character development? Scenery? The plot? I ask because I may be wanting to ask the same things, but I may not be sure of how to point them out. But still, I am really interested to see how respond to this

Fantasy of You · 07-25-2006, 08:35 AM

I am writing fantasy now because it is easier than general fiction to some degree. I have leeway with what I can write and my imagination can take over completely. My biggest challenge is always deciding what to put into the story and what to leave out, because my imagination farst out too many ideas.

Samy :] · 07-26-2006, 12:04 AM

The hardest challenge for me is this:
ORIGINALITY.
I'm sure every upcoming author has suffered from "Writing Under The Influence." Obviously, its great to have influence, but when you want to make your work your OWN, you have to somehow deal with those inspirations and create something that belongs to you.
I've been having a hard time with lately in my story, because I've read so many stories.

And you know how complicated that is

But still, good thing there is such a gift as fanfiction or fictionpress.com to write some of your "WRITING UNDER THE INFLUENCE."

G. Palmer · 07-26-2006, 02:58 AM

Right now I am trying to write a sci-fi short story, something I've never done before. Once I get around to reading some more hard boiled dectective stories and watching some more film noir I am going to take a shot at that.

Samy :] · 07-26-2006, 03:02 AM

wooh.
science fiction.
really dificult.
i personally feel as if its more difficult than trying to write a world of fantasy.
but thats my opinion <3

daisydaisy · 07-26-2006, 09:25 AM

I am actually writing 3 different things at the moment. 2 short stories and a novella. All are themed around the supernatural and a little fantasy to some degree, but all are very different. My main obstacles are time and discipline. On the odd occasion I do get lots of time to play with, I let myself get distracted from my writing too easily, but I know that once I start, It'll be great! Once I start writing, it goes swimmingly, I rarly get any major blocks or problems.

Mike C · 07-26-2006, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by 'Samy :

I'm sure every upcoming author has suffered from "Writing Under The Influence." Obviously, its great to have influence, but when you want to make your work your OWN, you have to somehow deal with those inspirations and create something that belongs to you.

Don't worry about it. every writer is influenced in some small way at least by other writers. And those who claim they aren't are either lying, or haven't read enough to write anything significant.

Embrace your influences, keep writing, and your own style will develop naturally.

Mike C · 07-26-2006, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by G. Palmer

Right now I am trying to write a sci-fi short story, something I've never done before. Once I get around to reading some more hard boiled dectective stories and watching some more film noir I am going to take a shot at that.

Or combine them... Blade Runner is a near perfect synthesis of SF, Detective novel and film noir.

aliceedelweiss · 07-26-2006, 09:42 AM

I write....well uhhh. I write with a specific scenery, if possible. Mid to late 1900's. France or England. It gives my writing a certain...feel to it. They're usually stories that start out normal and get some really strange, paranormal thing happening. Once it was vampires, weird puppet people, anything really crazy I can think up. They're short stories, so its sooo easy. I'm sixteen (Just today...wow. my first day of being sixteen) and I seem to be writing pretty good for my age, which makes me happy.

I find it hardest to over come my horrible grammar. Story wise? Making something believable, not being repetitive, and making a really good mood/voice with my style, because i love doing that. I'm not writing anything now though...I'm in totally off mode, I have 2 stories I should be editing but... I just can't get myself to do it.

Thanks for asking

I rambled a lot...
Alice

Mike C · 07-26-2006, 09:44 AM

Alice, you just turned 16? From your posts I always assumed you were much older.

Happy Birthday!

S1E9A8N5 · 07-26-2006, 12:00 PM

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Do you have a specific genre that you love most, or are you playing with so many you can't decide? Or how about your story & how is it going? What do you find hardest to overcome? Character development? Scenery? The plot?

My favorite genre is science fiction. Anything that has a possibility of becoming a reality. My story is still in the developing stages.

It is about a world (50 years into the future) where illness and disease plague the country and terrorists are tainting drugs etc. But there are the few (the resistance) that know the truth and for this, they are being jailed and or executed. That these terrorist are not terrorists themselves but our own government profiting off the sick and poor while killing millions of people. To spread fear to the public. Scare them into conventional medicine. Control. Making them undergo toxic chemical treatments that are more fatal than helpful. In a world where our own country is trying to suppress the truth about cures for disease. Nutrition is outlawed. etc.

The hardest thing to overcome is probably the plot itself. I want it something like the movie "Equilibrium". The novel "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. That kind of story. Hope that wasnt too much information lol.

Sean

Samy :] · 07-26-2006, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by S1E9A8N5

My favorite genre is science fiction. Anything that has a possibility of becoming a reality. My story is still in the developing stages.

It is about a world (50 years into the future) where illness and disease plague the country and terrorists are tainting drugs etc. But there are the few (the resistance) that know the truth and for this, they are being jailed and or executed. That these terrorist are not terrorists themselves but our own government profiting off the sick and poor while killing millions of people. To spread fear to the public. Scare them into conventional medicine. Control. Making them undergo toxic chemical treatments that are more fatal than helpful. In a world where our own country is trying to suppress the truth about cures for disease. Nutrition is outlawed. etc.

The hardest thing to overcome is probably the plot itself. I want it something like the movie "Equilibrium". The novel "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. That kind of story. Hope that wasnt too much information lol.

Sean

Are you joking? That was a fine amount. Not too much for some idiot to steal and not to less for us to understand. And its a pretty well thought out idea. i like where you seem to be headed. you should post a bit of your chapter for us, or me, to read. it sound interesting. wow, i would like to hear more great ideas from other upcoming authors.

G. Palmer · 07-27-2006, 03:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Mike C

Or combine them... Blade Runner is a near perfect synthesis of SF, Detective novel and film noir.

Yeah, I'm still getting around to seeing that

Scarecrow · 07-27-2006, 03:10 AM

A mix of fantasy, sci-fi and apocalyptic fiction.

I've noticed I like writing things where the normal rules don't apply, and the characters have to do things they normally wouldn't in order to survive.

CZ · 07-27-2006, 03:51 AM

43k words into a fantasy novel and it's the only writing project I allow myself to work on.

I'm moving 5,100 miles away in 3 weeks and will be between jobs, so I may be writing fulltime for a few months (oh man, we'll see how this goes... I'd really prefer not to, but it looks unavoidable at this stage).

What's the hardest thing to overcome? Personally, I tend to write too sparsely. After years of editing 1,000 word articles down to 700-800, it feels almost "wrong" to leave what I feel is "fluff" in a journalistic sense in a story. I'm just under halfway through the rough draft and I'm trying not to agonize over going back and fixing stuff - I've made a promise to myself that I won't go back and edit until I've finished the bulk of the rough draft. I'm just writing now, getting the basics down and then I plan to go back through it and add a little more internal monologue, some flashbacks, a little more description where the story needs it.

This is a neat topic, Samy. Glad you posted it. Hope the heat wave we have here isn't hitting you too hard