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Jonut

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Hey guys,

I was just flicking about the place and I know that people enjoy writing fan-fics and stuff like that but does anyone do anyother kind of writing, prose, poetry, I don't know, anything really.

I write quite a bit when I'm bored, sometimes stories, sometimes poems, just something to do with my spare time, even though I would'ne say I'm good at it.

Any of yous that do write, do you show many people or is it just something you enjoy to do for your own reasons and wouldn't want anyone else reading it?
 
I write sometimes when I'm bored. Although I dont really share it with anybody. I am not a poetry writer at all!!!1 not my thing. Not a fan. But I do enjoy writing ALOT.

Mostly its just short crappy stories, I haven't attempted to write a novel or anything...yet. I would like to at some stage in my life.
 
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BillieHunter
go for it! you never know maybe well see it on the shelves at book stores one day...
Although I do write a lot of fanfic, I definitely write a lot of other stuff too. Short stories (original) and poems (freehand and rhyming) mostly, I just don't have the gusto to do a novel or really long one yet, although like WHTGTV I'd like to at one point, have a few plans for a couple of them already.Also have a song or two started and another couple almost finished. I'm almost always writing something in my spare time, sometimes it's just a journal entry or something, mind you, but I love writing things out.

As for sharing, I have a lot posted online (under a penname of course, which is secretly hidden far far away 😉), I've shared a poem or two with my close friends but not really often, and then there's always a couple that I find are just too personal to share. But for the most part, I generally post some of my stuff (fictionpress.com is a good one for feedback just fyi 🙂 )
 
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What happened to good TV?
plans for a 'couple' of novels eh? :p Writing rules!!!
Poetry mainly it's good to help you through your feelings... and short stories... one Faith fanfic but that was ages ago... 😀
 
I write a lot. These days I only really have time for school stuff, but I try to write about film and TV as much as possible (like to write reviews etc.).. I write about TV shows in a local newspaper.

I used to write a lot of poetry/short stories and that stuff. Wrote a book about a year and a half ago. Bascially, I write all kinds of stuff, and I do let people read at least some of it (most of it is in Swedish though).
 
Does journal / diary count? lol.... I'm sure I could have part of mine published and be a hit given the drama lives of ppl around me... hahaha... or not... since everything since Sept is in my refusing-to-work laptop... 🙁
 
I don't write a lot these days cuz of my lack of time...but I'm working on a screenplay with a friend...planning on directing it as soon as possible...
The other thing I write isn't poems or songs(cuz I really suck at it) it's just thoughts,questions,comments etc...that's really helpful...
 
goldenboy said:
I don't write (creatively), but I bumped into this piece today. May be of interest:

10 Things Teenage Writers Should Know About Writing
http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004175.html
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Heh yeah yeah I suck, it's always nice to be told that a few times a day 😉

But yeah, I know my writing sucks, totally. Hopefully I'll get better some day.. Both my parents are journalists, so I've got stuff to live up to, lol..
 
What happened to good TV? agrees: plans for a 'couple' of novels eh? 😛 Writing rules!!!
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Well I have to be a starving writer somehow 😉 And writing does rule! :thumbs:

And good link goldenboy, I bookmarked it to read throughly later, but it's interesting to see an actual and experienced author's point of view. I think his best advice is to write everyday. One thing I've noticed reading my older stuff (and watching other writers grow) is that you can only get better as and IF you keep writing. And lol, as far as sucking goes, we can all suck together! 😀 (and wow, speaking of teenaged minds....😛)
 
Definitely. One of the proofs that my writing sucks, is that I already think some things I wrote a year ago sucks (not the poetry though, actually, but I bet everyone else thinks that)..
What I mean by that is that your writing really develops when you write a lot, and maybe even I can become a real writer? lol..
 
Angelic Slayer
Angelic Slayer
It really does, and hey, I'd definitely buy your novel =D
I tried to write Poetry once... and well it wasn't to bad i wrote i think 16 different poems before my ryming ability really started to suck so i no longer write anything but fanfic on occasion lol
 
Have you guys been following this? Pretty amazing. There was a film deal with DreamWorks, everything...

Publisher Cancels Deal With Young Author

A Harvard University student's "chick lit" novel has been permanently withdrawn and her two-book deal canceled, publisher Little, Brown and Company announced Tuesday, as allegations of literary borrowing proliferated against Kaavya Viswanathan's "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life."

"Little, Brown and Company will not be publishing a revised edition of `How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life' by Kaavya Viswanathan, nor will we publish the second book under contract," Michael Pietsch, Little Brown's senior vice president and publisher, said in a statement.

Little, Brown, which had withdrawn the book last week, declined further comment. Tuesday's decision caps a stunning downfall for the 19-year-old Viswanathan, a Harvard sophomore with a reported six-figure book deal whose novel came out in March to widespread attention.

http://www.forbes.com/infoimaging/feeds/ap/2006/05/02/ap2715372.html
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/3828527.html
 
Angelic Slayer
Angelic Slayer
wow! I hadn't heard about that, thanks for the scoop!
Learning more about modern publishing here. Sounds like American Idol or something.

"˜Lit chick' debacle that damns the publishers

The daughter of two New Jersey-based doctors, she got her break while using a $10,000-plus counselling service for her "” successful "” application to Harvard. The founder of the service looked over her novel and passed it on to an agent at William Morris, the famed talent agency.

From there it was farmed out to 17th Street Productions, a division of Alloy Entertainment, now probably the most famous "book packager" in America. Alloy specialises in developing young adult "chick lit" authors before passing them on to publishers.

Alloy's team craft the proposal, shape the plot and create characters. Even the writing of the book is often farmed out to a team of authors. The process is more similar to television writing than most readers' idea of the creation of a novel and the packaging closer to creating a boy band than promoting a new literary star.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2157647,00.html
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