Writers' Bloc - Creative Writing Off Topic Thread

"Write drunk, edit sober." -Hemmingway

pickarooney wrote: »

It was mostly a joke, but it could be a bit of fun either way, just basing it on stereotypical stoner/cokehead/LSD-tripper behaviour.

I find myself intrigued by your "write like pickarooney" idea

pickarooney wrote: »

I reckon some time down the line we'll be able to have a piss-take contest where everyone has to write in the style of someone else.

I love this idea:)

Antilles wrote: »

I'd like to take all my unfinished stories and merge them together to form a single, epic tale about zombie US marines (led by a man who thinks he is Batman) fighting Napoleonic soldiers on the third moon of Saturn for control of a small demon-built hotel just outside the capital city.

Call it "Zomb-man and the elastic underpants situation"


I have a major GRRR... went through all the effort of ordering a Kindle on amazon.co.uk, then at the final hurdle I'm told I have to order from the US store in order to get it to Ireland. GRR.

pickarooney wrote: »

I reckon some time down the line we'll be able to have a piss-take contest where everyone has to write in the style of someone else.

As long as the people involved aren't too sensitive about it. I think it'd be hilarious to see someone write as though they were me. (Cap'n Negative would probably do a very good job, as we were in the same creative writing group in college, and he knows my addiction to adjectives well! Although I have one word for him - Brie. 'Nuff said.)

It would be great fun actually. It's nice to get outside your own head sometimes and try not to let your preconcieved notions about how someone else must look at things based on arbitrary things they say or do influence you - obviously it'd still be you then. I'm sorry, I ramble a fair bit when I'm tired and become pretty inarticulate, I hope I've gone some way to convey what I mean... I'll shut up now.

I have a Sony reader and it's currently housing Ulysses for me, but I haven't looked at it in a while. It's not really a curling-up-in-bed type product either, which is unfortunately where I'm doing most of my reading these days.

Kindle - €140 approx, lasts for a month or so. Super light.

Ipad - €600 +, heavier, wouldn't feel happy reading it on the Luas.

I would like to pick up an iPad at some stage, but not right now.

CD. wrote: »

The only thing that pisses me off about the kindle is that you cannot order books off .co.uk, you can only get them from amazon.com

before i knew this i had found two or three books that i wanted to download that were free, only to find i had to pay on the .com site. didnt buy them though.

i have so much writing to do and so little effort to do it. i have to write a few short stories and start work on two novels along with a longer short story and edit a novel/really long short story.

I know i can do it, it's just the effort of sitting down and there are so many reasons not to. oh someones in the hosue, can't leave them alone (cos it would be rude, not because i don't trust them) can't leave the dogs alone all day, thats mean, cant write on laptop, it burns my lap after a while, can't work on anything when i have to clean my room/office.

Procrastination, thy name is Alan.

I know how you feel, I know the routes I have to take, but I keep finding exciting stones along the way.

I'm inebriated and just had a fantastic idea for a story. Hope it still makes sense in the morning

"A futuristic theme park where all is not as it seems"

I'm on to a winner here, I think...

You're mah wafe now!

bluewolf wrote: »

i do my best not to keep a list of to-read books, and yet suddenly i find myself with 3-4 books on this non existent list. which sounds very short and everything except that it should be zero because i do not want a list!!!!

I would suggest scribbling out the names of the books on the non-existent list... but... how would you do such a thing when it doesn't exist? Use a non-existent HB?! Dun dun dunnnnn

bluewolf wrote: »

it's ok i have decided i will write them down and then leave it at that... somehow
and hurry up and finish 2 of my current 3 in-progress

You could have warned me of your predicament and I'd have held off on sending you my bookywooks

bluewolf wrote: »

ah no i will have a look over them dont worry
might be tomorrow night at this rate

No rush by any means, rushing in this game seems to be impossible with the dreaded publisher wait always present. Feels like an age since I submitted my stuff, but it's just barely two months, with a quoted minimum wait of two months. Damn. I need the rejection letter to add to my collection!

bluewolf wrote: »

how long did they take you to write

Hmmm... book 1 started well, but I only really wrote with a full moon, so, a few months for the first 6 or 7 chapters. Then it kinda died. Girlfriend at the time was less than enthusiastic. Then I moved to Germany and suddenly found loads of time to write. Maybe two years for book one.

Then book two was never getting off the ground until I gave the first book to a classmate who absolutely loved it, spurring me on to do book two. Think book two took a year, though it still needs some tweaks and two extra chapters, but I'm getting feeback before I make the changes, just to gauge how much I need to correct certain elements.