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Post by Kaez on Mar 23, 2015 14:24:12 GMT -5
The Writing Discussion Thread took off since the start of the year. 15 pages in 2015 -- that's more than the TV thread, the Politics Thread, or the Games Thread. That makes it the third most popular thread on AWR this entire year behind the AWR Cup Discussion Thread (49 pages) and, of course, SRBCT (57 pages). 2 of the top 3 threads have been directly writing-related. That's amazing, guys. Let's keep this thing going strong. Talk to me, guys. What are you writing lately? Anything at all? If not: any ideas in mind? Brainstorming? |
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Post by James on Mar 23, 2015 14:45:15 GMT -5
That makes it the third most popular thread on AWR this entire year behind the AWR Cup Discussion Thread (49 pages) and, of course, SRBCT (57 pages). 2 of the top 3 threads have been directly writing-related. That's amazing, guys. That is awesome. |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Mar 23, 2015 15:14:36 GMT -5
I've got a lot of irons in the fire at the moment, but not a lot in the way of heat:
1. I'm baby-stepping my way into self-publishing.
2. I'm exploring the blogosphere.
3. I've got revisions on "Mauwale" to do, with hopes to publish.
4. Got the Facebook thing I try to spam about twice a week (seriously, guys, pop on, LIKE us, follow us, reply, tell your friends)
5. I've got two short stories I'm working on with hopes to publish "Recoil" and "Mermaid's Purse"
6. I've got notes for a novel taking form.
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Post by James on Mar 23, 2015 15:40:12 GMT -5
I've got a lot of irons in the fire at the moment, but not a lot in the way of heat: 1. I'm baby-stepping my way into self-publishing. 2. I'm exploring the blogosphere. 3. I've got revisions on "Mauwale" to do, with hopes to publish. 4. Got the Facebook thing I try to spam about twice a week (seriously, guys, pop on, LIKE us, follow us, reply, tell your friends) 5. I've got two short stories I'm working on with hopes to publish "Recoil" and "Mermaid's Purse" 6. I've got notes for a novel taking form. Oooh. I like this idea of saying what everyone has got planned. If I post one, people can hold me to account and judge me when I don't do any of them: 1. Sending certain things out to publish, like "Homen do Saco" and "A Study in Taxidermy". 2. Editing a couple of stories with an eye to publish "Different Directions" and "At the Forest of Faerie". 3. I have a few short stories planned, one for the King of the Recluse, and one sci-fi story I want to get started on before I lose the mojo for it (I think it could be something special). 4. The Selfie of Dorian Gray. I haven't worked on it due to the World Cup, so once I finish the Cup and the above two short stories, this will take centre stage as my main writing project again. Inklings has helped me so much with the direction for it and to rely less on Wilde and make it more my own adaptation. 5. I'm going to do NaNo this year, so I'm beginning the slow burn of ideas for a novel. |
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Mar 23, 2015 15:46:04 GMT -5
1. May write for the next monthly thingy ...
2. ....
3. ...
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A-yup
Kinda feel like I'm in Mena's boat. On a real downer about my writing.
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Post by Kaez on Mar 23, 2015 16:01:22 GMT -5
5. I'm going to do NaNo this year, |
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Post by James on Mar 23, 2015 16:09:34 GMT -5
5. I'm going to do NaNo this year, You want to know the crazy thing? I keep forgetting I've actually written a novel. I spent -years- working on Phantoms and I've completely forgotten its existence. I remember the lessons I've learnt from it, but if a person asks me "what's the longest thing you've written", I'd probably reply with "oh, hmm, probably a 25,000 word novella, I thin- wait, no, I've written a novel." |
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Mar 23, 2015 16:13:58 GMT -5
Have you given up on it?
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Post by James on Mar 23, 2015 16:17:36 GMT -5
It's total rubbish. I'm glad I did it, I learnt a fair few things from it, and I improved dramatically over 90,000 words. But it's terrible. |
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Mar 23, 2015 16:20:29 GMT -5
It's total rubbish. I'm glad I did it, I learnt a fair few things from it, and I improved dramatically over 90,000 words. But it's terrible. I liked it. |
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Mar 23, 2015 16:26:26 GMT -5
It's total rubbish. I'm glad I did it, I learnt a fair few things from it, and I improved dramatically over 90,000 words. But it's terrible. I liked it. Haven't read it myself... Is it one of those things where the writing is just lacking, but the story itself is interesting and engaging? Or is it bad all over? I've read a number of things which the the actual writing is just amateur-hour, but the author still manages to tell a good story. |
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Post by James on Mar 23, 2015 16:27:37 GMT -5
It's total rubbish. I'm glad I did it, I learnt a fair few things from it, and I improved dramatically over 90,000 words. But it's terrible. I liked it. There were scenes that had the potential to be really good, and probably provided enough to hook people. But the writing was poor, really shabby. |
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Post by Jenny (Reffy) on Mar 23, 2015 16:28:17 GMT -5
He only ever shared snippets - when pestered - but what he did share were tasty little morsels of excitement.
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Post by James on Mar 23, 2015 16:30:17 GMT -5
Haven't read it myself... Is it one of those things where the writing is just lacking, but the story itself is interesting and engaging? Or is it bad all over? I've read a number of things which the the actual writing is just amateur-hour, but the author still manages to tell a good story. The story was decent, I think, though I would change a lot of it. It was also inconsisent as plot strands were dropped and added over two years. But the story was okay. It was the writing, yeah. |
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Post by Kaez on Mar 23, 2015 16:33:25 GMT -5
You want to know the crazy thing? I keep forgetting I've actually written a novel. I spent -years- working on Phantoms and I've completely forgotten its existence. I remember the lessons I've learnt from it, but if a person asks me "what's the longest thing you've written", I'd probably reply with "oh, hmm, probably a 25,000 word novella, I thin- wait, no, I've written a novel." Yeah, I known the feeling. Even though I successfully completed a NaNo, I definitely don't think of myself as someone who's written a novel. Because Wolves is basically shit. And while I liked Phantoms when you were writing it, I liked Wolves when I was writing it. So. I'm not shocked you think it's shit now, too. Pretty cool that we may both being doing a proper NaNo again something like 4 years later. You've clearly proven that you've improved as a writer since then. I've... done a whole lot less writing. Maybe mine will still suck. |
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