What exactly do y'all write?

Chucky

I am wondering about what exactly y'all write? It would appear mostly poetry, but some seem to write a lot more complicated passages - plays? stories? Biographies?

Just tell me. I'm very curious.

I've just been writing poetry on and off for the last 6 years. I only turned 21 on Feb 27th

ShriekingSheet

Im the same age

i write songs

i love playing guitar so thats prob why i dont write much else

tried ONCE to write prose but it was ...erm... experimental!

but rather plain!

Chucky

Im scared to write prose. Like, I'm sure I would make a total ass of it. This negativity is all brought on from what grades my english teacher gave me in school for my weekly essay.

Still, are pieces of prose to be written for the attention of others or for yourself.............???

ShriekingSheet

good point

writing/expression is definitely a tool for relieving stress

but its an individual thing

i write for others to hear and hopefully like it. not that i have an extreme array of talent to offer! but its like writing 4 those who appreciate it and who cares what the rest say!

thats the theory anyway!

passive

i gave up on poetry after a few failed attempts..its fair enough to say "i just don't get it"
i only really wrote for school essays and stuff but put enough effort in that it turned out a few nice stories i'm still happy with.
mostly i'd just write rants and stuff like that or, occasionally, an idea would get stuck in my head and i'd do my best to put it down properly to paper (a word, a memory, etc)
i mostly write stuff that only i will read (unless someones in the habit of going through my stuff) but with a self conscious tone of trying to make everything sound right (as though somebody else unknown is reading)

Bibliofemme

I find poetry very difficult to write and much prefer short stories or even just prose about personal experience, my thoughts on various topics. Short stories are great fun but my biggest problem is discipline, I find it very hard to actually finish them! I have tons of ones that are started or midway through that I've given up on - though I'm getting better.

Plays and screenplays are something I'd love to have a go at but in my head, they seem like such a different format, but then maybe writing is writing.

Anyone in here every attempted a novel?

Chucky

Originally posted by Bibliofemme
Short stories are great fun but my biggest problem is discipline, I find it very hard to actually finish them! I have tons of ones that are started or midway through that I've given up on - though I'm getting better.

Anyone in here every attempted a novel?

I find that a problem with everything. I feel the world is supersaturated with creative 'entities'. To get distracted is very easy...and rather annoying. There's so much beauty out there.

A novel? no chance. :eek:

anyone else tried one?

Bibliofemme

A novel? no chance. :eek:

anyone else tried one? [/B][/QUOTE]

I think about it a lot and recently came up with a starting point and a rough idea of what it would be about and got very excited. Haven't done a think about it yet (see aforementioned discipline problem) but I might give it a go soon. I can only try...

Chucky

At least your mind is active - thinking about all of these make-believe trail of events that make up a novel

The Beer Baron

You mean other than trolls and flames?
Lotta short stories, unfinished stories, be they SF, fantasy, contemporary stuff, crazy stuff but in a contemporary setting, poetry, essays, rants and raves....

Anyone in here every attempted a novel?

Attempted? Almost certainly, I've attempted several in fact, but hadn't either the momentum or the discipline to do so, until now.

atm I'm working on a novel (360-odd A4 pages and counting... \o/ :cool:) about Ireland in the not-so-distant future.
Think Mad Max, Taxi Driver and Fight Club, but in Ireland :ninja:

Yeah, I'm sure the publishers will be throwing themselves @ my feet for that one. :rolleyes: But that doesn't really matter, the very fact that I'm doing it and more importantly sticking with it is something that never ceases to amaze me, especially considering I've a the attention span of a stoned goldfish.

Then again, when your characters get to the stage that they write their own dialogue then you know you're on a roll, all you gotta do is fabricate a serious of trials and tribulations for them, make them jump through hoops for you, it becomes addictive, and much as I like my characters, I tend to be a little sadistic in my treatment of them.

I love writing anyways, been at it since I was old enough to pick up a pencil. It's good escapism and it does one good to express themselves creativly, exorcise their demons and excercise the old noodle all at the same time.