A place to show off your creative works.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I've started submitting short stories to various sites. This means I've also started collecting rejections. Most of them are a generic "does not meet our needs", but the latest one was more specific. It said, "This just didn't hold our...
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...
Forgive me if I'm rambling, but I worked 14 hours today, and got a flat tire on the way home, and I'm freaking exhausted, but I want to address this while it's still fresh in my mind. One thing - I want to avoid another beating-a-dead-horse kind...
Ok, so I am running the Mafia game in the Games and Sport Forum and it has spiralled into something special. A complete clusterfuck. My english skills are not the greatest, so I am looking for some assistance in writing the End of Day colour. This...
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...
It was early evening as the crowd gathered round the gallows, while being held back at a respectable distance by a set of guards in the local count's livery. Pikes were jabbed out and sharp orders given to the soldiers as the onlookers were waiting...
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For those who wish to write further on the backgrounds of their characters in the ongoing Star Trek campaign.
Any genre goes. Sci-fi, Fantasy, Mystery, Crime, Horror, whatever. Put the title of your story, genre and word count in the subject line of your post. If you can, write something new — don't draw off of an old story laying around. Crank up that...
So, suffice to say that I had until today a somewhat peaceful place to write, where I was left alone and where my bed was nowhere near so I couldn't just lie down and read or sleep instead (I'm a terrible procrastinator.) That has now been taken...
I write fiction only nowadays, but I used to write poetry in high school and college. Most of it is not fit for human consumption, but there are some pieces I still like. I'd love to hear what people who don't know me think about them, since the...
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...
About 9:40PM, it was time to try once a gain to get Demon & Devil to come in side. Demon will usually come in when the White skunk shows up... Well, right on time, I looked out and there he was. The white skunk. This time I took a camera. The...
I wrote a death scene for two central characters as the conclusion to a long epic fantasy I worked on for a couple of years, and found myself breaking down repeatedly as I was writing it, having to stop and compose myself before I could go on. ...
"No Horse of Mine" Sam was his name, or at least that’s what he told people. Not that many asked, not these days, not when they saw his eyes. He had once worn gray and cheered the Confederacy as loudly as anyone, but victory was no closer...
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...
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...
The DoMeBo Photography Class Lesson #1 - “Your Camera & You” The purpose of this lesson is to familiarize you with you equipment, the basics. The good news is that, because it’s the basics (remember?), you probably know much of this already. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
Inspired (though I cry at using the word) by this: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=598&sid=4ee5db7d0cef21753aca671ea35eb6fc#p10906 and based on a true story. Some really awful shit gets hinted at, and it ain't hard to figure out what's wrong, but I have...
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...
I've had an idea in my head for a series of seven short films, each involving a quirky character. I have an artist who finds a corpse and decides to use it as art. I have a guy who's a little too obsessed with a woman he sees on a monorail. I...
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 ...
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...
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...
In the early 90s, I was challenged to write a short story illustrating the lives of people in a libertarian context ... with a catch. I had to use a particular cast of people in a particular setting. The point, as I recall, was to show that...
On Poor Children A nine-year-old girl is found in the stairwell of a crack house in Chicago. She has been repeatedly raped. Her stomach is flooded with gasoline. Upon her body is the mark of a gang insignia, a pitch fork, made with something like...
Something new to get the creative juices flowing. Rewrite a fairy tale, fable, myth etc. Modernise it, tell it from a different POV, put a twist in the ending, your choice. 5000 word limit. SFW. I'm working on the Pied Piper, should have...
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...
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...
I met him as I was leaving my apartment, late for a meeting downtown. He glared at me, obviously looking for a confrontation, and demanded: "Is this your gay?". In his hand he was holding a tiny gay. It was a cute little thing, below the grime of...
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