Ziggy455 Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 I can say now, that won't take off at all. There's a serious lack of original narrative around here compared to the rest of the year. I'd wait until we're well into the new year to see if things pick up. It'll just be wasted right now. Yeah, I was keeping it in planning until the New Year. "I might have laughed if I'd have remembered how." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omnia sunt Communia Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 I know I said that rumours of my demise had been greatly exagerrated, but I think my browser was pretty certain they hadn't. I haven't been able to vist GTAF via my parent's house ever since I arrived back for Christmas. I'm currently viewing the forums via a proxy; which is bombarding me with annoying adverts every five seconds! Either way, I'm still alive, and still writing. Even though most of my writing has been plot outlines, leaflets and letters to political prisoners. I haven't really focused on creative writing since I left my parent's house, though I do have an idea brewing in my mind right now which I'd like to share with you. It is a Red Alert 2 fanfiction, since I've been playing that game a lot recently, though I hope to make it seem more realistic and gritty than the game world: "A squadron of Soviet Conscripts are sent behind enemy lines to disrupt Allied operations in a guerrilla warfare campaign. Their loyalties are put to the test when the end of the Second Great War leaves them stranded in unfriendly territory with no hope of extradition. Will they carry on fighting for the Motherland or will they surrender themselves to the Allies? Can they survive the harsh wilderness alone or will they succumb to nature’s elements before their enemies can finish them off?" That is the rough idea, at least. Let's just hope I can get around to writing some of it before I go back to Bristol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osric Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Ziggy, with your BUYA idea, I can help. Maybe we can use the same theme and game format, but I was thinking a new story for a new BUYA. Or a prequel, either way, it works. PM me soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omnia sunt Communia Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Another idea I've been working on as-of-late is a simple one, but one I think can be done in great detail and with lots of originality: "Animals with super powers." Set in the present day, strange reports start popping up all over the world of animals with super powers. Nobody knows how these animals got their powers or which animals have them. A state of emergency is declared as governments across the globe label these new super-creatures as a threat and start killing any animals with the slightest hints of super powers. The story is told through the perspective of several different animals, each with their own super-powers and struggles to stay alive in the face of a global enemy. The ones I have worked out in my head so far are: A labratory monkey with the ability to phase through walls, a captive elephant with super-speed and a dog with Superman-esque powers who is accompanied by his loving, but young, owner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Capel Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 If anyone feels I'm not entitled to say this due to my lapse in activity or a change in tone as of my absence, please, speak up. Also, if you don't want a semi-rant, please, skip over this post. /begin rant Ziggy, Osric, I don't think I can possibly be more blunt when I say to DROP buya. It's a horse that has been beaten to death, revived, beaten to death again, revived, poisoned, shot, beaten some more, run over with a car, dragged into the woods, shot again, electrocuted, walked over, thrown off a cliff, drowned, and burned. To put it simply, of the reasons I allowed my absence to occur was precisely because this mind-numbingly droll and tired sh*t keeps getting brought up instead of people actually trying to put some damn effort into original narrative. Honestly Osric, Ziggy, I've gotten more enjoyment from "The Badfellas" then I can ever recall getting from BUYA. I get enjoyment from reading Badfellas because even though it is a recurring theme and could definitely use some polish, it shows a new voice expressing interest, TAKING A HINT WHEN IT IS OFFERED, and at the very least learning the basic mechanics of the trade. I enjoy watching that development more then the story itself, but with this BUYA sh*t, I get neither satisfaction with anything related to the plot, nor to the author's own personal journey. I had hoped to come back to a WD, if not more active, at least no longer beleaguered by this asinine cloned formatted sh*t. I suppose I was wrong. Who knows, maybe Dickens will roll over in his grave and give us a WD Christmas Miracle. /end rant ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- @Jackie: I'm not big on anthropomorphism so I've got a biased view regarding the animal plot-line. But as far as the gritty guerrilla warfare Red Alert 2 story goes...coming from you, I'm intrigued, as long as some of black/tongue-in-cheek humor makes it's way through the "hardcore grit". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omnia sunt Communia Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Thanks Jean. The more I play Red Alert 2, the more I want to write a story about it. It has such an interesting in-game world that I believe needs to be expanded on as best it can! There is always the possibility of changing the setting of the story to some fictional (but original) or non-fictional setting, though I think I'll probably stick with Red Alert 2's quirky and interesting setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxidizer Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Is Red Alert 2 the game with Jodi Lyn O'Keefe as Kelly Weaver? And regarding the idea for using animals instead of humans in stories, I got a Word doc. in one of my foldery things from September about a street gang consisting of cats; I don't know where the f*ck the idea came from now, but they were all bi and f*cking nasty pieces of work . It was called Pussy Gang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashy Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 To all of the Writers Discussion, I thought I'd just take the time to wish you all a Merry Christmas, and have a great new year. Merry Christmas, Guys! Cashy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhus Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Did anyone read the last chapter of my Humpty Dumpty story? Was there anything I could do to improve it. I haven't finished a story in some time and I really want to get this done. Just to proove to myself that I can. I don't want to keep abandoning ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omnia sunt Communia Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 Random writing exercise which I couldn't be bothered to finish: There it was, that smell again; that same putrid aroma that had hung on the air now ever since all this all started. Billie-Joe could do nothing but place his wrist against his nose and hope the odour would pass before he began to dry heave. Because that would mean he would begin to retch, and that would mean he’d begin to throw up and if he began to throw up they would no doubt find him. And that didn’t bode well for him. Tucked behind a wooden crate on the outskirts of the farm he could hear them off in the distance. Their blood-curdling groans were mere whispers on the wind at this range but that didn’t make them any less of a threat. If one of them were to find him, he’d be a dead man... or something like that. Billie-Joe poked his head over the top of the crate to check for any signs of life. There was nobody between him and the farm house. The coast was clear. He took to his feet and sprinted for the front door, an almost comical trail of dust followed closely behind. The shotgun shells slung around his shoulders rattled back and fourth as he swung the weapon left and right with the natural momentum of his body. As he reached the house he skidded to a halt and jumped up the small flight of stairs onto the veranda. He walked towards the front door cautiously and wrapped his knuckle over the rustic wooden panel three times. No answer. Billie-Joe tightened his grip on his shotgun and laid his boot through the door, shattering it too pieces. He hit through the last of debris with the butt of his gun and made his way into the building. The farm house was strangely cold compared to outside; which was partly due to the boarded up windows preventing all but the smallest rays of sunlight to enter. Billie-Joe walked over the splinters of wood which lay strewn across the front room as he made his way towards the bedroom. If the owner of this house was anything like his Papa, then the gun cabinet would be in there. Right next to the bed. For easy access. Billie-Joe made his way down the narrow hallways towards the bedroom. He chose his steps wisely, selecting the least squeaky floorboards as possible, as not to wake up anybody who might still be inside. The thought never occurred to him that he’d just kicked the door down, and anybody who could sleep through that could probably sleep through a few squeaky footsteps. He reached forward slowly and grabbed hold of the door handle. Billie-Joe turned it and opened the door cautiously, letting it swing open before stepping inside the room. Inspired by this picture: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltinespike Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Has this place turned to garbage or am I just looking at the wrong stories? Jesus Christ. Hello to all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Capel Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Oi mate, check my garbage out if you ever get the chance. Thread's "Excess". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhus Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Has this place turned to garbage or am I just looking at the wrong stories? Jesus Christ. Is my story garbage? I can never tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxidizer Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Has this place turned to garbage or am I just looking at the wrong stories? Jesus Christ. Just a bit. Hello to all. How's things going with the Marines? You home for Christmas or on a government-issue laptop looking at their top secret stash of army porn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxidizer Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 And BD's plotted. It's a three-parter, like M&P, only more gangsta and streetwise. I had to omit two of my favorite characters though, which I'm a bit annoyed about, but I'm thinking of giving them their own story tentatively called Faces in the Smoke. One's a kingpin, the other's an eighteen-year-old who deals drugs and guns for him and ends up being shagged by a much older female gangster who he caters the merch to. I don't know whether BD's bordering on being wrong though (he says after writing countless rapes); there's sex and sexual violence between a fifteen-year-old girl and two guys in their early twenties. I'm a bit uncomfortable about it but it seems realistic for these type of characters, so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pac. Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 I was going to write a Comedy, Well the Idea isnt totally mine, i got a few ideas from the Prince of Bell air mixed up with a TV show called Police, camera, Action and a whole load of Programmes togther made me think of writting a Comedy of two brothers, one a menace, the other innocent and geekish, they are both Black, and bassicly they get so much of the fuzz because they are black, or because they think the cops are racist, its still brewing in my kind, i might get to it later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TV1213 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 can someone help me? I'm knew and i like to write, but i don't know what about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy455 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 can someone help me?I'm knew and i like to write, but i don't know what about. Well TV, I'd say try things like: A Gta story. Your Life. Random things. Or anything which would sound good. "I might have laughed if I'd have remembered how." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TV1213 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 ok ill do like a army man's journal, how's that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhoda Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 ok ill do like a army man's journal, how's that? Great, but it's a good idea to only make a topic when you have writing to go with it, else it's just going to get locked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TV1213 Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 ok when i have something to go with it can i make a new one or you unlock it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhoda Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 ok when i have something to go with it can i make a new one or you unlock it? I've answered your PM, but I may as well say it here to serve as a reminder. Do not make a topic and simply post "coming soon", that's a big no-no. If it does happen, which it does from time to time, I'd much rather lock the original and have the author make a new topic just so it isn't tainted with me or Eminence locking it with a reminder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxidizer Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 So, I roughly outlined Faces in the Smoke... - and it is so f*cking sh*t-hot I wanked off to it. It was meant to be just smut but now it's got an actual plot and is probably the most realistic story I've thought of (although it's gangland it's mostly a story about a guy sleeping with someone else and how it affects his relationship with his girlfriend; surprisingly, I f*cking love it). I've only got a handful of scenes in mind and so I'm not sure yet whether it'll be a one-shot as planned or just an open-ended thing that I can just tack more onto whenever I please. Either way, it definitely has the Oxi seal of approval. F*ck knows if or when it'll get written though. (I should just write it as I go along instead of planning it scene-by-scene like with all my other stuff, but I'm not sure whether that'll stuff up the flow of the storyline.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy455 Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Is it me, or does this forum have alot of unecessary topics nowadays? There are alot of newcomers that are flooding the place with first chapters and then leaving them When will Writers' Discussion Resurrect!? "I might have laughed if I'd have remembered how." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny_zoo Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Im hoping in the new year... maybe we can even get a competition going. Ive had to put off writing a story, because of uni, until the new year. Hopefully when Im done it wont be the usual cliched story something completely different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean Capel Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Well, because I am a stubborn bastard and refuse to start on another project (project being novel), till I finish this one, but am constantly harassed by the ideas all stuck in my head beating the sh*t out of each other for my attention, I just finished writing out a plot outline for a revisionist western I intend on getting written (eventually). Best part? I actually did some research, it's historically accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TV1213 Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 not trying to sound conceited but check out my chapter three in journal of an american soldier. its my best work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vercetti21 Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Finally getting back into the gist of things. Hoping to see a more lively Writer's Discussion in the new year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unvirginiser Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 I keep meaning to read everybody's work, how about we set a date and all promise to have something ready and all post it on that date, then all read each other's and leave feedback? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhoda Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 I keep meaning to read everybody's work, how about we set a date and all promise to have something ready and all post it on that date, then all read each other's and leave feedback? You mean we all set a date (the same one, of course) and we all have a piece to share for then? As well as leaving feedback? Sounds ace to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
