Are you currently writing something?

[Glordreen]

Just like to know if any of you are writing a book or novel or are planning to write one in the future.

I am currently writing a novel, its fantasy. I have created a new race also for my novel and it is coming along well, but I dont want to give too much away. I have just finished the prolouge and synopsis, and have begun writing first draft. How about you guys.

[JBond]

I've considered writing something for some time now but I never could get it started.

[Brock Landers]

I'm writing a Novel right now actually....fictional story called Writing Pictures

Suprisingly, it's going quite well. 45 pages written so far!

[PsychoMike]

I have tons of ideas for books but I can't write too well, especialy dialogue. So no I'm not writing anything now.

[Glordreen]

When ever I wrte, I usually listen to music, not like rock or rap or any of that, but musical scores. If I get the right type of music I write alot better. I usually listen to the LOTR scores, they help me a lot.

[hpk37067]

I always wanted to write a book, which makes the villan the hero, but i never started, but plan to. New Year's Resolution.

[spiderman_2k]

Im not writing anything at the moment, But I may consider attempting to write something as this year goes on.

[JBond]

Originally posted by PsychoMike
I have tons of ideas for books but I can't write too well, especialy dialogue. So no I'm not writing anything now.

Ditto

[Brock Landers]

Originally posted by Glordreen
When ever I wrte, I usually listen to music, not like rock or rap or any of that, but musical scores. If I get the right type of music I write alot better. I usually listen to the LOTR scores, they help me a lot.

Same here. I listen to Beethoven and the film scores from LOTR. Plus some Zeppelin and White Stripes and all that fun stuff. But NO rap. I hate that stuff. :D

[Izzy]

I tried to write fantasy stuff. But when i write the dialogue i say to myself, "Wow that's cheesy." Or when i try to think of battle scenes I think, "What a LOTR knockoff."

My inspirations are intimidating to me, so i don't finish it. My dad and his wife (my step-mom) got mad at me when i erased all my writing.

[Glordreen]

Originally posted by Izzy
I tried to write fantasy stuff. But when i write the dialogue i say to myself, "Wow that's cheesy." Or when i try to think of battle scenes I think, "What a LOTR knockoff."


I used to think that a lot during my writings. But you have to realize that almost every fantaasy are the same. There is usually always a journey that one or a company of people go on, there is always a Dark lord (maybe not every fantasy, but there is an evil force in every fantasy) There is always a Wizard/Sorcerer/Mystic. The Sword of Shannara and the Lord of the Rings are extremely alike yet they are both very successful.

My book has a Dark Lord, a Sorcerer, many battles , and a company of people sent on a journey. Its just how, what, why, and where there sent on that journey that makes fantasies different.

[m00se]

Originally posted by JBond
I've considered writing something for some time now but I never could get it started.
I start things, but never finish them. I'm not really an idea person, but once in a while, I get a small idea and start writing, but then it goes nowhere and ends up having no plot. It's irritating.

[MazzaRedd]

I'm writing two fanfics, a matrix and x-men one. im writing my own short story called Red Eyes which im also writing a movie script for.

[bbf2]

I am currently writing the words that you are reading right now.

[Spike2002]

I'm writing my own script/story idea for a 'Freddy Vs. Jason 2'.

[ambrosia]

Originally posted by bbf2
I am currently writing the words that you are reading right now.

And I see you got them published. Nice work. ;)

[pennywise]

I currently have 3 stories that I have down on paper, but the problem is that I reach a point where I relaize I have to go back and change a whole lot of stuff and then put that project on the shelf, or i'll get to a point and put it on hold while i figure what's going to happen next. I'm currently working on a story about a vampire who struggles to be the last one so that he can regain the life that he forsook as a mortal. It's vampires vs vampires, screw the whole vampire hunter ****. I have 7 pages of it currently and it's going good. I expect to get a high mark for it in English, just as I did for my last unfinished story that I handed in.

[Mat]

I'm writing short stories right now. The thing is I hate writing description, but I love writing dialogue. So my stories end up having practically no plot, but some pretty good conversations.

[Brock Landers]

The book I'm writing right now is now up to 53 pages written, which I guess is pretty good for the fact that I only started writing it about a month ago with no experience in the Noveling trade(don't get me wrong, I've always been a good writer.....I've been screenwriting since I was 10 or 11 years old). I'm digging it, especially the ending I got cooked up.

[outrageous italian accent]'Tis a spicy meatball I gotsa cookin up in the kitchen! MAMA MIA![/outrageous italian accent]

[Garnet Spring]

I have so many ideas, but I'm so darn lazy. But lately, not writing down some of these stories has been driving me crazy, so I guess I should get around to it.

[Glordreen]

After nearly a year and a half of writing my book, I have finally come up with the story that I want and have about 20 pages on it. I started writing this about a year and a half ago as I said. Made a backstory, prolouge and synopsis, and began writing it. I got about 60 pages into it when I realised that It was not going well, and it was not what I wanted, then I revised absolutely everything, and I mean everything except for a few Chracter names. And finally I have the perfect story IMO. I will do everything in my power to get this published by 2006, 2007 at the latest.

[Tim37ninjageniu]

I've started books before and I'm finally consistently working on a novel. Its more experimental to figure out my writing style but the ending is going to be amazing. I have it written out in my head. So far I have about 50 pages or so. I want to work on another novel idea I have but I know if I dont sit down and finish something then I never will so I am getting this done. I just need a good title.

[Godzilla]

I really want to become a screenwriter. I have a few ideas, and have been told by many friends that I have the writing talents to pull it off, but so far I haven't gotten off my lazy ass and typed my first script yet. I know what it's going to be about. I've got the begining, plot points, and the climax all worked out though.

[Madness]

Why is everyone so 'fraid about sharing their ideas?? I know everyone's scared of them getting stolen (even though they're all too lazt to do anything about it) but still, an idea isn't a story. Ideas are a dime a dozen. As you all must know, having a sentence long idea doesn't mean you have a story!!...

Sigh, anyways, I guess I'll spearhead this initiative as usual and lead by example; I'm working on a story where the main character was born with with one body but to different hemisphere's in his brain, that is, conjoined twins that begin and end in the brain. I call it a "Conjoined anomaly". The name I'm worknig with is "Mental Prison" for now.'

What y'all think??..

[ambrosia]

Originally posted by Madness
I'm working on a story where the main character was born with with one body but to different hemisphere's in his brain, that is, conjoined twins that begin and end in the brain. I call it a "Conjoined anomal". The name I'm worknig with is "Mental Prison" for now.'

What y'all think??..

Very original :applaud: One of the better story premises I've read.

[Madness]

Originally posted by ambrosia
Very original :applaud: One of the better story premises I've read. Much appreciated little one. Of course, then it goes into the whole "good twin bad twin" thing, which in this story translates into Dr. Jeckyl Mr. Hyde kinda dealy, so what woukld seem to the outside world a kinda split personalty thing......Although, they really are different people....Yah, my brain hurts now.....

[JBond]

Brings up interesting quesions if it were possible, in which brain would he store a memory in from somethign he sees?

[beemanbone]

I don't write, but I do come up with movie plots that me and a friend mull over and work out to pass the time. The latest one I imagined is called 'Shade' (i think it's an original plot, but hell it might have been done before, I don't know) Key points: there is no afterlife, Earth has 2 planes..the light (where we live) & the dark. Heaven and Hell exist on earth.

The moment you are born in the light, a being that's identical to you is born in the dark. As you grow & have happiness in the light, it grows & is tormented in the dark. Our Heaven is their Hell. Their sole purpose is to kill us and end their suffering. Thus when I die, it's because my "dark" finally became strong enough to end my life.

They walk amongst us, constantly trying to end our lives, but they vary in power. For example, you are driving late at night, doze off, and start going off road. But, you suddenly jerk awake & get back on the highway... your dark wasn't strong enough yet to make you die. Babies that die have very strong dark beings.

There are a few people in the light who can see the dark. Those people see 2 of everybody, as my dark looks identical to me. They see their own dark who is trying to kill them. It's maddening.

There is no God. There is no afterlife. There is no fate.

There is only my life & the being that WILL eventually end it.



...it's a pretty stupid plot & I don't think it would translate well into a film, but when I'm bored this is what I do

[JBond]

It's interesting, but if our happiness causes them suffering, happy people will die quicker ;)

[ambrosia]

Originally posted by JBond
It's interesting, but if our happiness causes them suffering, happy people will die quicker ;)

Kinda what I was thinking. ;) Not that I'm complaing, as you said, it's jsut a branstorm of yours which you had while killing time.
But I wonder, can the dark ones see and interact with each other? If not, then they are classic examples of creatures known as 'Dopplegangers.'

[jpdill]

I'm writing a script for my Indian Soul movie.

[Madness]

Originally posted by JBond
Brings up interesting quesions if it were possible, in which brain would he store a memory in from somethign he sees? Actaully, that's part of the story too. Their brains being interconnected, they shrare eachothers grey matter. As most people know, we only use 10 percent of our brains, so in these guys cases thgey use 21% or some junk like that, just for effect.

Yah, further down the story one of the plot-devices is that one of the "twins" is paralyzed within the other's body, but he has control over the dreamworld. So when the one twin in control goes to sleep he enters his evil twins demented dreamworld. Eventually the dark twin figures a way out through this process and leaves the "good twin" comatose whilst he gains consciousness. Madness and killing sprees ensue :twisted: :hehe:....

[Garnet Spring]

Originally posted by beemanbone
I don't write, but I do come up with movie plots that me and a friend mull over and work out to pass the time. The latest one I imagined is called 'Shade' (i think it's an original plot, but hell it might have been done before, I don't know) Key points: there is no afterlife, Earth has 2 planes..the light (where we live) & the dark. Heaven and Hell exist on earth.

The moment you are born in the light, a being that's identical to you is born in the dark. As you grow & have happiness in the light, it grows & is tormented in the dark. Our Heaven is their Hell. Their sole purpose is to kill us and end their suffering. Thus when I die, it's because my "dark" finally became strong enough to end my life.

They walk amongst us, constantly trying to end our lives, but they vary in power. For example, you are driving late at night, doze off, and start going off road. But, you suddenly jerk awake & get back on the highway... your dark wasn't strong enough yet to make you die. Babies that die have very strong dark beings.

There are a few people in the light who can see the dark. Those people see 2 of everybody, as my dark looks identical to me. They see their own dark who is trying to kill them. It's maddening.

There is no God. There is no afterlife. There is no fate.

There is only my life & the being that WILL eventually end it.



...it's a pretty stupid plot & I don't think it would translate well into a film, but when I'm bored this is what I do I think that's a damn good idea. You hammer out a few kinks and it could work on screen.

[ambrosia]

Originally posted by Madness
As most people know, we only use 10 percent of our brains


Not to be a pain in the proverbial rear, but that's actually a myth. And one that just refuses to die :p

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html Just one of many websites stating this.

[PsychoMike]

thank you for finding evidence to debunk the Myth, ambrosia.

[Madness]

Originally posted by ambrosia
Not to be a pain in the proverbial rear, but that's actually a myth. And one that just refuses to die :p

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/tenper.html Just one of many websites stating this. Well shut my mouth and call me Sally!! That's horrible!! I always wondered about that, since I'd seen clear mapping's of the brain and pretty much every region had it's purpose, but then I figured it was like we only used 10% at a time or something....Whatever.....I'll just go burn my story now and hang myself from my ceiling fan :(....

Stupid false facts, always permeating popular culture.....

[ambrosia]

Originally posted by Madness
[B]Whatever.....I'll just go burn my story now and hang myself from my ceiling fan :(....
[B]

*Steps into the thread and sees Madness hanging by his collar on the ceiling fan.*

Oh man, not again.
;)

That's just one easily dismissable kink. You can easily iron it out. You could dismiss it all together if you wanted. The Congenital twin explaination is more than enough detail you'd have to go into. It got me hooked so there's really no need to go into over-detail which alot of psycho thrillers lately have been suffering from.

[Madness]

*(Pulls out a 12 in'' machete blade and slices the necktie and drops to the floor.)* (cough) Better.....

Yah, i have a habit of over doing it with the techno-babble, but I always want my stories as detailed or scientifically accurate as possible. Whatever, all it means is they share brain functions but still retain a distinct impression of self. One of the other details I had in the story was they were born with two seperate brain stems, each leading to a different hemisphere, so I guess that can still kinda work :(.....

[JBond]

Originally posted by Madness
Actaully, that's part of the story too. Their brains being interconnected, they shrare eachothers grey matter. As most people know, we only use 10 percent of our brains, so in these guys cases thgey use 21% or some junk like that, just for effect.

You shoudl know the 10% quote is always greatly misused, we use 10% of our brain for "thinking", the other 90% we use just as well bt for other stuff like hearing, seeing, memory storage. We use our entire brains.

I just felt liek saying that ;)

As for the dream think that's interesting too, sort of relates to this idea I have about a story that deals with dreams.

[ambrosia]

Originally posted by JBond
You shoudl know the 10% quote is always greatly misused, we use 10% of our brain for "thinking", the other 90% we use just as well bt for other stuff like hearing, seeing, memory storage. We use our entire brains.

Really? Is there a site that affirms this statement?

[ambrosia]

Double post.

[TyRoss]

I am currently writing this post.... well... I was.

[ambrosia]

Originally posted by TyRoss
I am currently writing this post.... well... I was.

I give it a one... no... two thumbs up... no... one. Kinda lost interest in the post halfway through. :p

[spiderman_2k]

Im currently going over an idea for a zombie story in my mind..

[droidguy1119]

I'm writing my fanfic, along with tons of scripts and ideas that just haven't taken off yet...I have over 50 script concepts.

[Madness]

Originally posted by droidguy1119
...I have over 50 script concepts. Lay one of your favourite ones on us....

[droidguy1119]

Hrm...favorite one? That's a hard one. The one with the most work done is Low-Budget Motion Picture, which is fictional, but inspired by reality -- kinda like Spinal Tap, except about indie films. My friends and I all play ourselves, except for the main character, who has a different job (he's the director in the script, but if the movie were to be made, I'd be at the helm).

One I would really like to write is Nightmares, a psychological horror movie about a man who starts having horrible nightmares following a serious car accident and works to discover who killed who. The plot twist, ala Tell Tale Heart, is that at the end, he discovers he did it, the car accident having caused him to forget.

I also like Martin's Long-Ass Road Trip, read about that in the top link in my signature. The menu navigation should lead you to it (you have to click on the panda picture to enter the site). It's on the menu, I believe, as MLART.

Haunted will be fun, a B-movie about a curse on the land where a high-school sits and a group of twentysomethings, with their armament-stocked mail truck, try to save the town.

Finally, I like the FvJvA fanfic I am writing -- it's fun, just sort of cramming in anything I want to see I think would be cool.

[Switzer]

No, I'm not writing something

[Madness]

Originally posted by droidguy1119
The plot twist, ala Tell Tale Heart, is that at the end, he discovers he did it, the car accident having caused him to forget. That's actually kinda cool!! It's got a Fight Club/6th sense kinda twist ending to it.

Well done!

[droidguy1119]

Thanks.

[Matt Mosley]

Hi, I'm new.

I'm currenty working on 3 projects (screenplays).......
School's Out (think AP2)
Student film (comedy, 3 teens attempt to make a porn movie) &
Camp Kill (a straight-to-video, Camp-slasher flick to get some cash)

I'm also looking to collabarate with others on screenplays, anyone interested, my e-mail is matt_mosley2004@yahoo.co.uk

[MovieFreak]

I'm currently attempting to write a movie script. I'm not saying any details, i know how some people in the world are. They like to steal ideas.

[Partyman343]

Hey Glodreen and Brock, and whoever else is writing, that's really cool that you're working on novels. How old are you guys? I just found out that the author of the novel Eragon is 20!

To answer the question, I also have begun a work but have far to go yet. Take care!

[Diablo]

I just started writing a book, i thought i was too young, but i looked up on google, teen authors and this girl won an award for a book she wrote, and shes only 15!

[ambrosia]

I had a friend who wrote and successfully published a book, after a few goes, when he was just seventeen. Since then, he has submitted and resubmitted nearly seven different manuscripts to various publishers over the course of five years... none of which have been accepted.

Getting something published is a great thing but here in Australia only 1% of authors make their living off their writing. God honest statistic.

Still, once published.... you have something to brag about to your work mates :)

Screenwriters are a little different, though. When they hand in their written work and have it purchased... that's it for their involvement. Their concepts are usually left in tact, but execution, dialogue... pretty much everything else is chopped up and made into whatever the director feels is good. The directors have all the power, that's why after a few successes, Screenwriters eventually turn to directing.

But, if you can put your heart and soul into creating good screenplays and have no qualms handing them over for subsequent edits and rehashing and be left completely out of the movie's creative process... then you can make big bucks :)

[Brock Landers]

Originally posted by Partyman343
Hey Glodreen and Brock, and whoever else is writing, that's really cool that you're working on novels. How old are you guys?

I'm 15, soon to be 16.

I've been taking the Novel slow. I've got 72 good pages written

[kauvarvo]

I'm actually working on getting the Comedy I wrote published...and I'm hoping to write an biography about Billy Joel,Titled "The Piano Man"

[neonblade88]

well my story is at the bottom of my post- called evo war- copy the link and you will go to many of my ideas such as the last illiad, evo war and some ideas for a dino crisis story

The last illiad- A young boy finds himself in a cold post nuclear war surreounded by gangs, machines and worst of all, traitors

EVO:War a group of military personel in the same world as The last illiad find them selves face to face with new monster, the evolutionary form of the next human species

[Citizen Kane]

Currently I'm working on developing a pilot to a TV show that a friend and I might shoot in August.

[anaria22]

I've written several things now, currently on my fifth. Their lengths are right (this new one is some 250 pages regular, translating to probably around 500 actual book pages.) and I think the stories and writing style is pretty good. But, seeing as I'm 14, I think I'll have to wait a time before trying to publish anything. (a dream of mine)

[freakyplatypus]

I'm writing my autobiography:

The Man without a Emu : Death, Sex, and Sex with the Dead in a small Iowa town.

[JustAnAlias]

I'm on page 57 of my book. I need a good title for the book now.

[freakyplatypus]

How about "Transsexual midgets: Nature's quitters"

[JustAnAlias]

I like it! Now I just gotta write in some transexual midgets.

Pure genius.

[droidguy1119]

Originally posted by Citizen Kane
Currently I'm working on developing a pilot to a TV show that a friend and I might shoot in August.

"What's a pilot?"
"Alright, you know television shows?"
"...I don't watch TV."
"Yes, but you are aware that there's an invention called television, and on this invention they show shows, right?"

[freakyplatypus]

Ah... Pulp Fiction. The day we stop quoting you is the day we're all killed by a meteor.

[Citizen Kane]

Yeah.

For some odd reason, I seemed to remember Jerry and Kramer having that conversation. Go figure.

[Skrybe]

Just finished my first screenplay. It's about a group of friends who conspire to give the nation its first Black president - by killing the actual president. There's your usual relentless FBI guy, some pretty cool car/motorcycle chases, and one mean ass chick fight. All in all the script is alright. *shrug* I figured it'd be an easy start.

The next one I just started on (peep my sig) is going to take me forever to write. It's a 2-part epic of sorts, somewhat of a spinoff of the X-Men world, set some 200-300 years after the death of Professor Xavier, and centering around his offspring. I'm trying to incorporate every mutant trick in the book, as well as create some new ones, and I'm also incorporating some Christian elements into the script as well. I've thought up so many twists and turns to the plot of this script that it's going to come out very sticky, and will probably need several rewrites before I'm happy, but if I can pull it off, it's got the potential to be a serious blockbuster.


I also have two other scripts in mind that I might begin on the side . . . one's about a surrogate mother who instead of giving the baby to the parents decides to keep it and goes on the run (no comedy involved in this one).

The other is set in the 1940's and is about a group of men kidnapping a man's brother, and that man's quest to get his brother back at all costs. Thing is, this is a rural town, the man is black, and the men who kidnapped him are white. The repercussions of stopping at nothing in that day and time would be nothing short of disastrous. I can't wait to write it.


I also have a light comedy in mind . . . but it's cookie-cutter material. Y'all wouldn't wanna know about it . . .

[freakyplatypus]

I'm proud to say I'm actally writing a script now! It's a war-movie parody! Yeehaw! I'm hard at work with it

[Skrybe]

I say some of these guys should start posting a few lines from the script. Make our mouths water, so to speak. Hehe. :eek:

[Citizen Kane]

Hmmm...

I just might, only fear is that some of my stuff might be stolen.

[freakyplatypus]

I feel you, but mine is going to be mostly improvisational - that's how my friends and I do our movies. When my site is up in the next few days, you can see the movie "Camel" to figure out what I'm talking about. The war movies I was talking about would have a story structure, but I will have no lines in the script, just the actions that will take place. Maybe some definite lines and things that sound cool will be put in the script so we don't forget them, but that'd be about it. The movie is going to be filmed this summer, no matter if a script is ready or not!

[Citizen Kane]

We were going to ours as an improv project, but the writing has gone too well.

[freakyplatypus]

Originally posted by freakyplatypus
. When my site is up in the next few days, you can see the movie "Camel" to figure out what I'm talking about.

Now you can! Yes!