A place to show off your creative works.
For keeping track of facts we've established in the chapters as they're written. Mathias Kaufmann is a Bavarian bugman barbarian who has just morphed into his human form for the first time. He loves coffee and books and exudes pheromones which...
I was going to add this to Paul's thread, but it's just as easy to start a new thread. I just got an e-mail from NYTVF (New York Television Festival) about a new script contest for a procedural drama tv movie with potential for sequels or a...
Disclaimer: I am in no way connected with this offer. I found it on a job board I frequent and figured someone here could make some extra cash. http://miami.craigslist.org/pbc/wri/1084043729.html
http://soundcloud.com/bigmonsterlove/01-nollaig-na-mban-come-and-gone I wrote and recorded this a few weeks ago. It's on a charity Christmas EP that can be got downloaded at http://heftyhorse.bandcamp.com/
This is for Myrnalene. I said it was a “terrible monkey story” and it is, in 2 ways. First, it’s terrible in not being much of a story and second, it’s terrible because it didn’t end happily for a monkey. So forewarned is forearmed - if the...
Easily offended? Skip this, please! ;) And this has appeared elsewhere! The "Almost" Carroll County Accident (apologies to the late Porter Waggoner) Coming back from Border's Books one day where I...
I apologize for the sucky subject line, but my question is difficult to summarize. I'm Swedish, and a Swedish website (run by a publishing company) is currently running a competition. Participants post a novel or collection of short stories, they're...
You enter the room and find a scroll, on the scroll is a fair and flowing hand you read: Oh woe is the wanderer the adventurous soul for he that chooses to leave hearth and home is rare to live to gray haired remembrance I must choose ere...
Okay to prove my point I was making chate about poetry I'm going to wow you all with poems i make up off the top of my head. This is how easy it is to write bad poetry. Crap Poem #1 There was a star hastened glare, as I stood at the foot...
In the geek hierarchy, writers of fan fiction fall just below amateur scifi/fantasy writers. Unless, of course, you happen to write erotic fanfic, or (Og forbid) write yourself into your fanfic, write yourself into erotic fanfic, or write yourself...
First of all I want to make it clear that I am under no illusion that I should give up the day job. I just enjoy drawing cartoons and cartoony-type drawings, nothing that's ever going to be mistaken for Art. That having been said, anyone else out...
I need to get a small run of books done, but it's too small for my normal small press (the run is only a couple of hundred, and the books aren't exactly big). Going through the alternatives, lulu looks the most promising. On first look it's a little...
This is not the place for critiques (unless the artist says otherwise), this is just to share what you've drawn, sculpted, computer-generated, or whatever. This is a bit of fanart I did for a friend of mine. These are the two main characters...
How many of you write characters, big or small, that are highly reminiscent of you? I've examined my stories since reading about the whole Mary Sue thing a few years ago, and I find that I rarely do (the "perfect hero" deal I am susceptible to, but...
We've all read bad books. In fact, I'm reading one right now. One of my biggest frustrations is looking at an awful book and wondering, "HOW was this published?" Another one is wanting to discuss the badness of the book with someone else, but...
I've moaned and whined about 'book three' over various boards and several years. I've deleted it and started over from scratch twice and done major edits (>50% changes) more often than that. It's the third of a trilogy and must tie up all the...
"Beauty is pain. "All art, all music, all of our strongest pleasures come from pain. What is the joy of accomplishment without knowing the agony of defeat? How can a love song hold any meaning without the fear of losing love, without the near...
Skald and I were talking in chat the other day about sonnet sequences in general and my biblical sonnets in particular. Here's an example of mine: Abra speaks to Holofernes in confidence Your head is heavy. I did not expect ...
That's one odd titke, AG. Where'd it come from?
Since we have more than a few people on here who write professionally, I thought it might be helpful to have a thread for collecting submission calls. A couple I've seen recently: Alimentum: The Literature of Food is accepting submissions of...
pepperlandgirl often mentions her writing partner and obviously many books are written by two or more authors. I'm having trouble understanding how this works. To me, writing is a very private activity and I certainly couldn't have someone peering...
You are challenged to write an effective dating-site intro for the gentleman above. You're intro must be as truthful as possible, but still get this guy calls. Your intro should be in the 75-150 word range. Assumptions: Lives with...
An article in today's Vancouver Sun got my blood boiling. I could write a letter to the editor, but the Sun has this little thingy where you can submit up to 750 words as an "opinion" piece. This is exactly 750 words, so my computer says. I...
I'm not quite sure where to put this, but since I'm asking for pictures, I'll go with here. I'm trying to finalize the design of a character and the only thing that's missing is his crown. I'm trying to find inspiration - right now the only piece...
A Wilki Jhanden Story Wilki Jhanden felt uneasy. The galaxy is a big place, and a human life so short. It was impossible to see it all, and he was content with that. but he did want to see as much of it as possible. Life. Life in a million...
Dancing in the basement silently, I wonder if they can hear the echoes up above. My feet pounding in beat with their blood and the music in my mind of the most sublime beauty. If they hear me do they wonder about my identity, or do they even...
This is a story I wrote around 1991 or 1992. The way it came about is that a coworker was taking a creative writing class, which she thought would help make her creative. She came to work one day, and said the teacher had written DEAD HORSE, NM on...
The Foregone Conclusion was, technically, part of human-controlled space. Though the formal boundaries of the Human Domain were blurred, subjective and always changing, the ship was well beyond the outermost worlds that any reasonable person would...
I am working on a story, obviously, and am a bit worried about the actions of two of the supporting characters. I'd like some input if y'all don't mind. Here's the scoop. It’s a fantasy story, first of all. I'll call the characters in...
When JK Rowling outed Dumbledore my first thought was that I would never do anything like that, because if a character of mine isn't gay on the page, then he isn't gay, period. I know very little about them that's not written down. I don't make up...
Something in the thread "Do you know more than you write?" got me thinking. Do you base your characters on people you know or make them up completely? I tend to make mine up completely, but the number of times someone has insisted that all a...
I notice while browsing through old books in the store that in the past, say before 1990 it seems to have been common, perhaps even standard to write your name and the date or year you got the book. More curiously perhaps it seems to have been...
I'm putting this in TDR because it is photo-related - I hope this is the right place. I'm just curious if other people with on-line photo sharing accounts at places like flickr and picasa have had an experience like mine. I only have a few photos...
Hello everyone! 'Tis Froddy. :3 I love to draw and doodle in my spare time. I'm not a professional but I have been doing it ever since I was little. It's one of the way I express myself. Here's a doodle of a chameleon. I attempted to make him...
I read recently that there is a campaign here now to get all students at Secondary level (analogous to High School in the US school system) using eBook readers instead of books. It isn't an entirely coherent campaign as yet but I imagine calls for...
A Wilki Jhanden story The worldlet had no real purpose, and thus had no real name. It was a spec of a world, a moon really, adequately habitable by anything from a biosphere similar to Earth’s. From a galactic standpoint it was the planet which...
January 12th, 2139 CE "What are those doing in my lab?" Dr. Theresa Barnes stood frozen to the spot in the doorway of the psy-lab. The door began to beep steadily, warning that it had been left open. Due to safety protocols it couldn't close...
April is National Poetry Writing Month, or NaPoWriMo. There are a number of places online where people participate (here is my favorite. Scroll down to NaPoWriMo 2009), posting a poem per day for the month. It's an exceptional exercise for your...
If you are writing something with the intent to put it on the front page, here's a place for it.
I am in the habit of occasionally uttering poems, and this is one that came out today. Poetry is a kind of Tourette's with me: Gross Vehicle Weight: Sometimes words bubble up like spring water. But this is blood. My world is bleeding...
I don't get poetry, and I would like to. We sometimes wrote poetry in school and I always got good marks for it but I always thought my stuff sucked even worse than everybody else's, which with few exceptions sucked really badly. Even a poem I like...
I'm working on a fanttasy short story set in a alternate world peopled by mythological and legendary creatures rather than humans. Part of my conceit for the story is that, though it's impossible to communicate in a systematic away between the...
Seriously, I find it at least twice as hard as writing normal fiction, which makes it for me nearly impossible. Even after I learned to type one handed at a normal pace, I still find myself writing at probably half the speed. I find it hard to...
I was reading a blog entry about the last, posthumous books in the Wheel of Time series when I realized that the professional author writing it seemed to write slowly when compared with myself. Last year I wrote a 100.000 word novel in under five...
Amateur writing is always a popular topic around here, but I have a question that I haven't seen so far. I have never written any fiction, but I would love to be able to do so. I don't have any specific story in mind and I would be open to...
Warning: This fic includes RPS (Real Person Slash) and explicit m/m content. If you don't like homoeroticism or reading fanfic about real people, you probably won't like this story. Summary: Set while The Beatles are in Hamburg. Paul hates Stuart...
I've been writing since I was a kid. Back then, I had very little idea of what was going to happen and I was along for the ride more than anything else. These days I'm more in control and (usually) know where the story is going even if the details...
Okay, it's a really small barn. The story behind the barn: When I was little, my step-grandpa started building this thing. I loved it as soon as I realized it had to do with horses. I wanted to look at it every time I went to their house. But...
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