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Ragamuffin

Where would you post about books?

BEAT

if you are posting abou reading a book then go to the Literature forum.
If it is about writing a book then post a thread in our forum.

Fuhrio

i have a sort of series called the leet league. i wrote the first issue as a joke but all my friends loved it on my other board. its got a load of stupid insode joke cos its all my friends as characters but i was thinking about editing it so everyone could read it and posting it here.

its set about 100 years ago where were all superheroes fighting against skanger. its all a total joke but still a decent stroy.

its against skangers, in a joke way, no profanities, i guess some very slightly adult content. would this be considered mupetry, cos i dont wanna be banned.

BEAT

you can always pm the story to me if you think it may not be sutiable and I can read it and let you know

Fuhrio

ok, once ive made the editions ill pm it to you.

nobodythere

Can I ask that the ****'s on profanities be removed for this thread? artistic freedom and all.

Shad0r

grasshopa wrote:

Can I ask that the ****'s on profanities be removed for this thread? artistic freedom and all.

Why dont you just do what everyone else does and be a little bit smart about it.
i.e. Fvcking hell, sh!t...etc

Or if you cant reconcile yourself with the incorrectness of the spelling then just put bold tags in the middle of the word. (That at least used to defeat the censor.

For FUCK sakes.

Shad0r

actually turns out that this new version of Vbulletin has fixed that tag bug.

BEAT

unfortunatley its the software and hasnt anything to do with the moderators. It automatically does that when certain words are posted.

thogh I am sure you can get your point across without a lot of trash talk I imagine

BEAT

If You Have A Question About Something Pertaining To Creative Writing Then Post It Here.

New Threads Should Be For Posting Your Work And Creative Writing Related Topics.


Any Other Questions Feel Free To Pm Me




Ps. Had To Do A New Thread For This Since I Screwed The Other One Up Merging Someones Thread With A Question Into Mine.

Hooky

I need some help,
I am currently trying to write a play and im fairly new to this game.
I have an idea for a play and i have a basic outline of it written down but (theres always a but) i dont know how to write a script, it looks easy but its very hard , can anybody give me some easy tips??

MojoMaker

There's been a few scripts posted on this board over the last few months. Why not look at one of those and get an impression of the overall style and flow of the piece? Some of them have been quite good.

BEAT

MojoMaker offers the best advice I can give you, other than checking out our posters work you can go to the library and check out some screenplays...thats how I learned to write them. Just by studying how they are put together you should be able to adapt your story well enough.

There are a ton of books you can buy that will tell you how to do it, but I would suggest reading a few first and going from there.

Post your work up and we can offer some help along the way also.

Hooky

Tanx alot

rorygbluz

I know criticism is rough but part of the craft....Are there nasty critics here who will dismantle someones work and throw it back just to hurt?
By the way critics are a great learning tool

BEAT

Generally that kind of critic is frowned upon...unless its what you ask for.
If you would like harsh criticism and your work to be picked apart then just post it before or after your piece and let the flood gates open.

Other than that we offer our criticism in a civil manner here

the smiley one

I was just wondering could anyone recommend a good poetry collection in one book; modern stuff maybe, or just generally good poetry regardless of the genre, thanks

BEAT

That is a hard one to answer really, there are endless amounts of poetrybooks out there...it all depends on what you like to read.
I would suggest going to the library and checking out a couple,
you can always type in poetry books in your search engine for numerous amounts of books to choose from.
Without knowing what you like to read it is hard to suggest

MojoMaker

If you have any family or friends sitting the leaving cert you could have a flick through the prescribed English poetry text. Soak up some Shelley, Keats, Milton, and Wordsworth. Not a bad classical starting point.

Paradise Lost and The lady of Shallott - two particular favourites of mine.

If you're after contemporary stuff with a local flavour try the works of Seamus Heaney.

Haruspex

the smiley one wrote:

I was just wondering could anyone recommend a good poetry collection in one book; modern stuff maybe, or just generally good poetry regardless of the genre, thanks

The Rattle Bag, a collection of poetry across the genres and epochs, and edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, would provide you with an excellent rudimentary starting point. It's a widely available and well-known, so you should have no trouble locating a copy. Any good library or bookshop should have it stocked.

Pen0s

emmmm quick question

im into hiphop and i write a good bit, it wouldnt really be poetry. is it ok if i post some of my "raps" up, i can keep the profanity(bad language etc.) to an absolute minimum.

BEAT

yes, and I would also suggest you post them up in the rap music forum...since the people in that forum are fans of that type of music they can probably offer better criticism

Pen0s

BEAT wrote:

yes, and I would also suggest you post them up in the rap music forum...since the people in that forum are fans of that type of music they can probably offer better criticism

ah good thinking!

ty

CerebralCortex

Sorry if this isn't the place to ask this question. I was wondering where I could get a good project report template?

kohima

Hi. Not being well versed in board etiquette, i was gonna ask if it'd be ok to post up an invitation for writers to contribute to a magazine we're publishing? I imagine it would certainly be rude to just advertise off the bat...

BEAT

ya ther is no advertising allowed, you cant post a link or email addy but you can post up info about it and ask people to pm you if they are interested in it

cammy

I have a short story I'd like to post but it's too long for one single post.

Whats the normal convention on the forum for this?

BEAT

just post up a link to your post say in word?
that will work, or you can do what some people have done and just post the story in as many posts as it takes in 1 thread

pwd

Most publishers require you to send a stamped self-addressed envelope to get a response. If you do not have stamps for the appropriate country you can use an international reply coupon.
The lady in the post office said they are no longer available, but Googling indicates they are still used.

edit:

I cross-posted this in After Hours. IRCs are no longer available in Ireland. They were last year, which is why there are references to using them here on the Internet.

In case anyone is interested, you can buy US postage stamps online at

http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productCategory.jsp?prodCat=/Stamps+by+Rate/International

doonothing

i cant find any creative writing youth groups in dublin.

wexford offaly and other places yes, but not here!

does anyone know of one? or would anybody be interested in forming a workshop?

i know a lot of you are a bit older than me, but it'd be pretty beneficial for me and anyone else my age getting advice like that from more experienced writers... you all get...the satisfaction of doing a good deed (:

i know, i know, this forum sorta fulfills the need for a group or workshop, but still, its probably more fun to be in a social situation

i dunno

anyways, back to my question, anyone here part of a group or workshop, or know of any?

thanks! (:

claire h

In response to Mr doonothing (*waves hi*), I know there's a group specifically for teenagers in Tallaght (or general vicinity), but that'd probably be a good bit out of your way, yeah? Um, there are courses on in the Irish Writers Centre that you could go to, but they're mostly adults, and their children's courses are for, y'know, kids rather than teenagers.

Have you checked with your local library at all? 'Cause those library-places do sometimes have things on, or they might let you hold a writers' group there if you were to start one.

doonothing

well, coolock library has a adults group, thats about it unfortunately.
there were some fairly expensive teen writing courses on in town over the summer, im a wee bit late for them...

ah well, ill just suffer on in solitude. (:

claire h

doonothing wrote:

ah well, ill just suffer on in solitude. (:

Take action! Start your own group! Do not live up to your username!

*waves pom-poms and stuff in support*

DonegalMan

I haven't had any great interest in poetry since my schools days but now I feel a sudden yearning to get back into it.

I'm looking for recommendations for good anthology of poems; to give a flavour of the sort of thing I am looking for, here are some of the poems I recall with great affection from schooldays that I still remember some lines from and would especailly like to read again.

• Autumn - John Keats
• Nightmail - Auden
• How They Brought The Good News from Ghent to Aix - Browning
• Sea Fever - Masefield
• Daffodils - Wordsworth
• Lake Isle of Innisfree - Shaw

A somewhat eclectic taste I think

Any recommendations on a good anthology that would include at last some of these?

luckat

Oxford Book of English Verse, maybe.

luckat

doonothing wrote:

i cant find any creative writing youth groups in dublin.

Next month is Nanowrimo month (www.nanowrimo.org), when lunatics all over the world register on the nanowrimo site and write a 50,000-word novel in a month.

Usually a bunch of Irish writers join, and get together occasionally during it. You might find some people who'd like to start a group through that - it's also good fun.

The other thing you could do is advertise in school, see if anyone there is interested. Or you might try asking the people who run ... is it scoil.net it's called? The schools site that has all the exam questions. They might put up a query for you and host an online private youth writing group.

Phat Chance

Your stance on gore? I've got a sortof western-zombie movie type story (though I didn't set out to write that, it just flowed out of the pen). There is one curse (to the latest installment, today's) and a good bit of gore in later installments, but the writing is in the third person which sortof dries it out a bit. Acceptable- yea or nay?

BEAT

As previously stated, just put a warning in the header and it should be fine.

bspoke

Hi guys and gals. I need some help.

I am the feature writer for Manic-Motorz.com ,a modified car website, and have recently had a couple of features printed in Modified Motors, the leading modified magazine in Ireland.

My problem is that I need some honest critics to have a look at some of my stuff and tell me where I am going wrong or if not wrong then just not quite right. I have asked this on Manic-Motorz but everybody seems to be too polite ti tell me im doing anything wrong.

If I post a few of my previous works up here can i get some constructive criticism??

Night_Rocker

If a file i wanna post is too big how do i make it smaller?

Blush_01

DonegalMan wrote:

I haven't had any great interest in poetry since my schools days but now I feel a sudden yearning to get back into it.

I'm looking for recommendations for good anthology of poems; to give a flavour of the sort of thing I am looking for, here are some of the poems I recall with great affection from schooldays that I still remember some lines from and would especailly like to read again.

• Autumn - John Keats
• Nightmail - Auden
• How They Brought The Good News from Ghent to Aix - Browning
• Sea Fever - Masefield
• Daffodils - Wordsworth
• Lake Isle of Innisfree - Shaw

A somewhat eclectic taste I think

Any recommendations on a good anthology that would include at last some of these?

Norton Anthology of Poetry. (I think the most recent edition is number 7.) It'll have an eclectic mix from old and middle english up to modern / postmodern poetry sampling the romantics et al along the way.

JakeTheMsitake

Apologies if I sound a bit naive but I odn't know a lot about this stuff. After writing a book and wanting to send it to publishers, what should I do?
Is there some way of preparing it with double-spaced lines or something? Should I send in a full book? Any other tips?

cinnamon

What do writing classes entail ?
I would really like to join one but I don't really fancy the idea of reading my stuff to other people. It's not a shyness thing, I just feel my work is quite personal and it would feel weird saying it out loud.
Also I would really like to get published some day but I rarely tell people I write. I suppose I think people might take the p!ss out of me or something. I don't know - does anybody feel this way?

claire h

JakeTheMsitake wrote:

Apologies if I sound a bit naive but I odn't know a lot about this stuff. After writing a book and wanting to send it to publishers, what should I do?
Is there some way of preparing it with double-spaced lines or something? Should I send in a full book? Any other tips?

Double-spaced, one side of the page only, don't send the whole manuscript, just a synopsis and the first couple of chapters, either get yourself an agent or check that the publisher accepts unagented submissions/queries. And good luck!

Alex de Large

Does anyone known of a good creative writing group in Cork city? Or maybe be interested in forming one?

MagnumForce

BEAT wrote:

Poetry should say something about man's situation or the nature of the world.

Poetry can be about anything the poet wants and by its very nature shouldn't be limited by a definition of what it should contain. somebody could write a perfectly good peice of poetry about 5 seconds in the life of a peanut and, depending on how well it was written of course, it would be just as acceptable as a peice about the futility of war etc

BEAT wrote:

Poetry should avoid wordiness.

Poetry can include anything it likes to get its point across, unless of course, as a few poems I have read it just turns into a prose peice broken up into equal sections. but if a poet feels he needs to be "wordy" in his poem then he/she is perfectly entitled to be.

Alex de Large

Does anyone know of a good creative writing group in Cork city or be willing to help set one up? My email is no6@gofree.indigo.ie.

polycarp

I run a monthly PDF magazine for absurdist writers and I'm looking for nonfiction article submissions. Can I post a call for papers in the main area here? Is there a more appropriate place to do so?

Thanks

Chez Mistou

Is there any update on the creative writing group being set up in Cork?

Thursday*

About the modern/general poetry anthology thing - Lifelines, Lifelines, Lifelines. Specifically, Lifelines 1, 2 and 3.

Also Being Alive and Staying Alive.

And writer's groupness - a teenage writing group somewhere in the city centre would be cool cool cool. claire h, I believe you would know some, ahem, _students_ whose teacher you were, ahem, _assisting_ recently, who might be interested? Bwa ha ha ha, I know things. (Hoping to God I'm right about the Claire H involved now, or the people in the white coats will be coming for me any minute.)

claire h

Thursday* wrote:

And writer's groupness - a teenage writing group somewhere in the city centre would be cool cool cool. claire h, I believe you would know some, ahem, _students_ whose teacher you were, ahem, _assisting_ recently, who might be interested? Bwa ha ha ha, I know things. (Hoping to God I'm right about the Claire H involved now, or the people in the white coats will be coming for me any minute.)

I am trying to figure out which CTYIer might have picked Thursday* as a username. Hmmm.