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Writers' Bloc - Creative Writing Off Topic Thread

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  • #32
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    writers block is fine then!


  • #33
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    pickarooney wrote: »
    or Bloc?

    Little Thread Writing Hood?

    Bloc, yes.

    The second thing no.


  • #34
    CD.
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭CD.


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Your short stories are the number 1 (or 2) downloaded free thing on Amazon :eek:

    I definitely have to grab a copy.

    they're number 1/2 in the short story subsection, and 112 overall last time i checked.

    thank you for all the congradulations :)
    when i first published it i was thinking if it gets ten downloads i will be happy


  • #35
    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    CD. wrote: »
    when i first published it i was thinking if it gets ten downloads i will be happy

    That's what I would be like. Still have to get something decent worth uploading. I was planning on doing a book of short stories on Death, just after my lil The Arena adventures. Could be fun.


  • #36
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    pickarooney wrote: »
    BTW this thread title sucks, and I'm not gone on Antilles' suggestion either. Moar ideas!

    Um, what suggestion would that be?


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  • #37
    CD.
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭CD.


    it is very gratifying to know that people enjoy reading your work on a slightly larger scale.

    though covers are a right pain in the bollocks but a good cover can do wonders.
    I used to do paper cuttings (don't really know what you call it, silhouetted scenes cut into paper with a scalpel) and settled on one i did of some trees and their roots for the cover after soem tweaking in a free photoshop type program.

    it's my 3rd cover two. I liked the second one but it looked crappy, the idea was good but the execution was poor.


  • #38
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Antilles wrote: »
    Um, what suggestion would that be?

    Whatever one you were about to come up with. It's rubbish.

    Ok, I admit I can't actually read and just take a best guess at who writes what based on the username's initial.


  • #39
    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Whatever one you were about to come up with. It's rubbish.

    Ok, I admit I can't actually read and just take a best guess at who writes what based on the username's initial.

    Can't spell either based on "Wrtiers' Bloc" - or was that deliberate?


  • #40
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Fewcifur wrote: »
    Can't spell either based on "Wrtiers' Bloc" - or was that deliberate?

    he's just trying to get me to start twitching again :pac:


  • #41
    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    bluewolf wrote: »
    he's just trying to get me to start twitching again :pac:

    Hah! Good job Pickarooney :D If I had known spelling was yuor ting I wud harv madde moor of a efford.


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  • #42
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Fewcifur wrote: »
    Hah! Good job Pickarooney :D If I had known spelling was yuor ting I wud harv madde moor of a efford.

    doesn't work if it's obviously typos or deliberate
    (so i was joking earlier...)
    :pac:


  • #43
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Nobody is voting in Total Write Off. This is most disturbing.


  • #44
    Mr E
    Registered Users Posts: 55,451 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    I read one pair last night.
    I'll try and do the others tonight. :)


  • #45
    FewFew
    Registered Users Posts: 12,746 ✭✭✭✭FewFew


    bluewolf wrote: »
    doesn't work if it's obviously typos or deliberate
    (so i was joking earlier...)
    :pac:

    So you mean if I went back and re-wrote my novels and filled them with subtle typos... you'd go mental? Nice :cool:
    pickarooney wrote: »
    Nobody is voting in Total Write Off. This is most disturbing.

    I'll read them all on Friday. Don't have the time nor focus today.


  • #46
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    We're getting into story fatigue territory I think. It would be nice to have a few new members swing by and give some feedback.

    Has anyone ever made a piñata?


  • #47
    bastados
    Registered Users Posts: 606 ✭✭✭bastados


    pickarooney wrote: »
    So what's the worst idea you've ever heard?
    There are no terrible ideas...just misplaced ones


  • #48
    CD.
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭CD.


    pickarooney wrote: »
    We're getting into story fatigue territory I think. It would be nice to have a few new members swing by and give some feedback.

    Has anyone ever made a piñata?


    Never made one before but now I kinda want to make one for my 21st birthday. already having jello shots, have to think of an interesting display for them though. last year they were in hulled out fruit skins so they looked like wedges of fruit.


    Also, has anyone written under the influence of anything? (alcohol, drugs)
    if so how did it turn out? only ever written twice while drunk, both times in the past few weeks, though I was probably closer to tipsy than drunk.


  • #49
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,856 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I wrote a blog entry last week while I was still quite drunk. Fortunately I saved it as a draft instead of pressing "publish". I was able to go back and revise it earlier this week. Somewhat ironically, I turned it into an anti-binge drinking essay!


  • #50
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    CD. wrote: »
    Never made one before but now I kinda want to make one for my 21st birthday. already having jello shots, have to think of an interesting display for them though. last year they were in hulled out fruit skins so they looked like wedges of fruit.


    Also, has anyone written under the influence of anything? (alcohol, drugs)
    if so how did it turn out? only ever written twice while drunk, both times in the past few weeks, though I was probably closer to tipsy than drunk.

    very rarely drink and never do drugs so... no :)


  • #51
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    CD. wrote: »
    Also, has anyone written under the influence of anything? (alcohol, drugs)
    if so how did it turn out? only ever written twice while drunk, both times in the past few weeks, though I was probably closer to tipsy than drunk.

    Many's a time. Absolutely brilliant stuff, though curiously only really appreciable by returning to the state in which I was when I wrote it. ;)

    Actually, it's incredibly hard to read, let alone write, on a lot of drugs but if you can remember the experience you can sometimes turn it into something readable.


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  • #52
    Kinski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭Kinski


    I think Charles Bukowski used to write under the influence a lot, and often wouldn't remember having written anything the next day. Worked for him, but then he was pissed all the time anyway.


  • #53
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    "Write drunk, edit sober." -Hemmingway


  • #54
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    I write my best stuff while drunk. I once atook a field trip to Amsterdam and tried writing on weed but I kept falling asleep.


  • #55
    Insect Overlord
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    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    "Write drunk, edit sober." -Hemmingway

    Wasn't he noted for writing under the influence of absinthe?


  • #56
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    It was more like absinthe writing under the influence of Hemmingway, I reckon.


  • #57
    cobsie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭cobsie


    Not exactly sure what this whole thread is about, but I'm liking it...

    writing on drugs...it's a myth. You can never actually write creatively on drugs. But it's useful for unblocking and thinking laterally (and blotting out the feeling of failure...) the trick is to remember what the **** you were thinking about!


  • #58
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    I'm sure it depends on the person. Mind you, I don't take drugs of any sort (other than caffeine, which I find an excellent writing aid), so perhaps I'm not qualified to judge.


  • #59
    cobsie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭cobsie


    Kinski wrote: »
    I think Charles Bukowski used to write under the influence a lot, and often wouldn't remember having written anything the next day. Worked for him, but then he was pissed all the time anyway.



    Woke up this morning and it seemed to me,
    that every night turns out to be
    a little bit more like Bukowski.
    And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read,
    But God, who'd wanna be...
    God, who'd wanna be such an asshole?

    [modest mouse]


  • #60
    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    cobsie wrote: »
    Not exactly sure what this whole thread is about, but I'm liking it...

    writing on drugs...it's a myth. You can never actually write creatively on drugs. But it's useful for unblocking and thinking laterally (and blotting out the feeling of failure...) the trick is to remember what the **** you were thinking about!

    It definitely depends on the writer, cobsie. Lots of artists create great art while intoxicated on one substance or another. It can be much easier to block your internal editor if he's passed out on the floor while you write.


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  • #61
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I just had a great VOATish idea (although once the mescaline wears off it might sound stupid). Basically, take a simple outline and write a load of versions each as though high on something different. No extra points for 'method writing' as that kind of thing has to be discouraged.


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