A place to show off your creative works.
I have been writing a novel for a very long time. Or I should say conceptualizing it. I've mainly been writing it for the past year, but I've got notes on ideas for it going back more than a decade. So what has been holding my back recently...
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...
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...
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...
Hey, I wanted to start a thread on semi-colon usage. I am finding that I probably use commas where a semi-colon would work better. I'm hoping for something more than just a repeat of the wiki page as I've read it and I kind of get it. I am...
Here is the basic idea, a world of Kingdoms and fantasy races that is slowly consolidated into a new Empire. Parallel to but not identical to Europe. The Dwarves are technologists, the Elves mysterious and the Wizards most mysterious. Threaded...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Alice
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...
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...
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...
"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...
Here is the Google document. Anybody can view it, but only the posters with permission can edit it. This morning, I was going about my usual routine, when I stumbled upon this call for submissions. As I read it, I realized one of two things was...
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...
I need some alternate means of reproduction for a story I'm writing. There is a magical race of beings who don't reproduce sexually, but I'm having a difficult time trying to decide how they do reproduce. I have a few ideas, but sometimes just...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I have moved this to Write Here, Write Now to hopefully get some constructive criticism of my writing. If anyone is willing please read, review and let me know where I can improve my writing. I was trying for interesting and humorous anecdotes and I...
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 don't believe in ghosts or paranormal activity but I love ghost stories. The creepier, the better. I want that heavy feeling of dread when the lights go out and I'm the only person still awake in the house. And I especially want some good scary...
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...
I absolutely love America by Allen Ginsberg, this version with music in the background by Tom Waits apparently, is beautiful. Another favourite is Inniskeen Road: July Evening by Paddy Kavanagh. Most of my favourite poems are by him. What...
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...
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...
Please note that I did not write Let's rewrite the Iliad. After all, Homer's lesser epic* is not the story of the war between the Hellenes & the Anatolians; it is the story of a particular incident in the middle of that conflict. What I'd like to...
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...
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 ...
A story: "The Funny Farm". I never was much for the superhero aspect of life. It always seemed to me that if Superman could do all the stuff he was supposed to be able to do then within about 10 days or so everything on earth would be good,...
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...
A story I wrote a few years ago. Let me know what you think! I know it's kind of rough around the edges but I'm thinking of polishing it. She was older than what I might normally have thought of as someone I'd engage in sex with, though younger...
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...
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'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...
It might be fun to post a few paragraphs of whatever project you are working on right now. Here is a random selection from my 'Healing Hearts': As the van came closer to the exit, Hannah glanced at Jesse; the windshield wipers were keeping...
Over the last couple weeks, I have been struck by the most horrible case of writer's block you can imagine. I have several different stories all going at the same time but when I try to write, I mostly just sit and stare at the screen; anything I...
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...
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...
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...
OK< I wrote this years ago, but lost the file. So I just rewrote it now. I post it without editing as a warning to everyone never to post an MS without editing. Learn from my example. ====== The Gringo Doctor (Erotica, 750 words) Damn it was...
I think most of you know what I mean, but just in case I'll define the term. Killing your darlings is when a writer removes an element or passage in a story he is particularly fond or proud of for it's own sake because the story as a whole is...
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...
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