Forum: Creation Station

As detailed on the Giraffe Boards, and with permission gained from BiblioCat and CRSP: http://giraffeboards.com/showthread.php?t=1306" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Summary: Jaade and I, along with some other folks, are...

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...

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...

1. Angels in the Misty When Mathias Kaufmann woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a man. As he had gone to bed as a three foot long insect, this was somewhat of a surprise. He had known that this...

“I can't hold on much longer!” Catherine screamed. Mathias looked out across the skull-basket of the mecha-man, searching valiantly for some sign of Catherine after her fall. “There she is!” cried Wang, pointing down towards where she was...

It's inevitable. We all know that. We can bitch, we can moan, we can scream in terror as if we were no more than Tyrrhenoi, but it doesn't matter. Nothing short of an anti-matter meteor striking Los Angeles will prevent the networks from making a...

There was a wicked old tavern just off the waterfront in Port Royal - mind, it could have been most anywhere in any of half a hundred islands not so very far different one from another, for let the law do what it might in those days, even the King...

The house was left over from some other generation, before the entire neighborhood had gone to shit. It looked out of place largely because it had been kept up well. Most of the other big houses had been split up into apartments, or knocked down to...

Rather than resurrect the old thread, I thought I'd add a new one with an update and a few notes in case anyone was thinking of using them. We did the run, and I was happy enough with lulu that I'm using them for a personal project. The good and the...

Over here, CairoCarol thought of a fun writing challenge: Take nonrhyming poetry and make it rhyme. Butcher it, if necessary -- all in the name of the almighty rhyme! So here, without further ado, is the rhyming version of since feeling is...

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

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...

If you are writing something with the intent to put it on the front page, here's a place for it.

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 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...

"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...

Many years ago, I had the chance to take a Master Class from Terry Wolverton, who is a fabulous poet that I adore. She taught a technique called the 20 Little Poetry Projects. I've always kept this method on hand because I loved to write poetry this...

We did this once before and I was hoping to do it again. Your goal is between 100-200 words, but nobody will be counting so if you go a little bit over don't worry about it too much. Once a week we'll have a new prompt to start off with. You can...

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...

The Maid of the Mist A Native American Myth: Ongiaras Tribe She lost her husband and her hope at a young age, and the beautiful girl could not find her way...

I love 'em, can't get enough of them. Ok some huge percentage of them are just shit but there's so much gold. Here are some I've cobbled together using ragebuilder and similar sites.

===== Prologue==== “Forget all that, what really happened?” The president scratched at a fleck on the window of his railcar and turned to face the other character, “Something very bad. We know that,” he stabbed a finger into the air, “for...

I haven't been posting for a while, but I did get some good news. One of my lenses, Longitude, just got Lens of the Month for May 2009 for the British Literature Group on Squidoo :smile: . It's a bit of good news that certainly helped with my...

I thought this might be of interest to any fans of the NBC show The Office... the set where they film it is less than 2 miles from where I live. I swung by today and took a few pics. I want to figure out when they shoot and try to sneak some pics of...

I do some role-playing gaming as a hobby, and has come up with a site (http://www.gamestopica.net) where I post a an 'idea seed' per day. The premise behind a seed is that I would describe a situation, list down 3 possibilities for an adventure (or...

Just thought I'd pass along the slogan that kept me plugging towards the interminable, plot-packed ending of my first novel. (It didn't help me get it published, alas, but finishing it did teach me things about professionalism and discipline that...

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...

Lucinda was in a pickle in the moonlight; she was surrounded by penises. The penises belonged to the 30 Steampunk Air Pirates of the good ship Electric Dildo. They had fat penises and long penises and blue penises (from a cream) and curly penises...

Well, I'm not that creative but it looks as though the BBC have released plans for a DIY Dalek. That's right make your own, evil exterminator out to conquer the galaxy from some plywood and a sink plunger. I believe a Mr. D Avros will be...

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/

A Wilki Jhanden Adventure Up until that moment, it had been a disappointing week for the Mayor of Siceltown. His thinning hair and pasty skin had not improved under the stress of a gamble that was far from paying off. It had taken every ounce of...

A Wilki Jhanden Adventure It was amazing the things a person got used to, without even realising it. As a wanderer of the stars, Wilki Jhanden had witnessed many things, half of which he would not have believed coming from another’s mouth, but...

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...

Tell me if this has the potential for publication.... or perhaps it will end up as a webpage of some sort. ================ Chapter One: Prelude Do you remember where you were on 31 December, 1999? Perhaps you do; it was an unusual day in...

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...

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...

Since they're all quite short, I'm just going to post them all in one post here. All comments welcome. In Reverse, We Do Not Die, we coalesce from dust, to mud, to flesh. A thousand bits of ghost

I thought I'd kick things off by sharing a couple of my older sonnets. I think they are more accessible than a lot of my more recent work, and they seem to have a broader appeal than some of my more offbeat stuff. But soon I’m writing...

You know how one thing reminds you of another. Down the road from our house there is a cherry tree, and right now the road beneath it is red with fallen squashed cherries. They aren’t very good cherries, the tree is a seedling and the fruit is...

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...

This is probably the worst story ever written. I haven't even edited it. But it had to be written - erotic fiction about Australian Federal Parliament. Enjoy, or don't. “Thank you for joining me, Acting Prime Minister.” Julia strode into...

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...

That's one odd titke, AG. Where'd it come from?

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...

You have to type at a certain speed or something happens? Meant to get you concentrating on volume rather than finesse I think.

Here's a short story I found on my hard drive, one I'd written a year or so ago. Tourist Trap Tourist Trap The signal echoed throughout Dyrinian controlled space. Come to Earth, it said. Visit a beautiful, unspoiled landscape. Observe the...

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...

Since I was about ten, I always thought I'd be a novelist. Wrote a (crappy) book as a teenager, and have always had several more in the back of my mind. But a while back I realized that a lot of my ideas played out in my head in a cinematic...

One night I was sitting at the bar with Kim and Dan and we were talking about beauty pageants, because that's the sort of butch conversations we have. "Miss Beverly Hills quoted Leviticus about how gays should be put to death," Dan was bitching...

For this POS I'm writing. What would you think would have been the biggest American city to escape Soviet ICBMs in a US/USSR nuclear war? What parts of the US in general would you imagine would survive most intact after such a conflict? ...