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Re: Writing Workshop!
« Reply #30 on: February 02, 2009, 07:00:58 pm »

Least somebody saw the lovecraft refrences. I was wondering when that'd pop up.

Heavy editing tonight!
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« Reply #31 on: February 02, 2009, 10:16:35 pm »

You actually put Lovecraft references in there? I'm not crazy! :D
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Re: Writing Workshop!
« Reply #32 on: February 02, 2009, 10:35:43 pm »

I'd "sign up" but I know I wouldn't be able to commit.

I may post some short stories set in my fantasy universe (no, not the one I live in) later, though.
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Re: Writing Workshop!
« Reply #33 on: February 02, 2009, 10:38:00 pm »

I would love to contribute, but I write incredibly slowly. The icecaps will have melted by the time I finish a story.
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« Reply #34 on: February 03, 2009, 02:50:17 am »

I spent an hour or so writing, I should have a story withen in the next few days. Its dwarf fortress related, and rather long. =]
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« Reply #35 on: February 03, 2009, 03:46:55 pm »

This is gonna take a little longer than I thought, I overestimated my ability to make time to write.
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Re: Writing Workshop!
« Reply #36 on: February 03, 2009, 04:21:46 pm »

I keep telling you... Lets use this page.
It's been abandoned for lack of advertising and has a great interface for commenting and awarding points.  And endless one page forums.  ;)

Some poems of mine. http://www.thestories.net/stories/local/bmfy_alexhans/

I started once a large story about vampires in my ol  laptop but I dropped it from 2 meters and it never worked again trapping my story... forever?

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Re: Writing Workshop!
« Reply #37 on: February 03, 2009, 08:49:10 pm »

Ah, a place to vent my creativity! Now I can do something with the stacks of half-finished stories I've started and never had the heart to finish.

For starters, here's one of my more recent one.

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« Reply #38 on: February 03, 2009, 10:11:33 pm »

Nice, but a bit hard to follow at the "One Month Later" part.
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« Reply #39 on: February 04, 2009, 01:04:12 am »

Here's the first chapter of my currently untitled book. I'm pretty sure that it's not going to end up being a full-fledged book in the end, but it will be a good ten to fifteen chapters. If I ever end up publishing it, it'll be with a couple other similarly-sized stories.

The biggest problem I think there is would be that I don't exactly have the characters fully planned out. They're pretty flat now, and I'm wondering if a semi-parody can function well with no round characters. Luckily the first chapter doesn't need much characterization.

Also, the names are not finalized. They'll probably end up changing eventually.


And yes, the Cool Kids Club is a reference to Slackerz. It's only a joke they throw around occasionally, and I think I've done enough with it to make it my own.
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« Reply #40 on: February 04, 2009, 01:27:32 am »

Penguin that was the weirdest story I have ever read. What inspired you to write that?

er.. It was good though
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« Reply #41 on: February 04, 2009, 01:59:33 am »

Arg...Damned tiredness..fucked up my post, so, delete.
« Last Edit: February 05, 2009, 02:11:11 am by Mulch Diggums »
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« Reply #42 on: February 04, 2009, 02:46:46 am »

This seems like a good idea.

I'm in my final year of [home] school and taking English first language. My current story is to practice some mixed up chronological sequencing. In that spirit it's about a time traveller that is stuck in the past. It should be done by the end of today or at the latest by the end of the week. It has no definite length constraints but is looking to be about 3-5 pages. Feel free to be mercilessly critical.

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« Reply #43 on: February 04, 2009, 05:14:25 pm »

Thanks for the compliment, Mulch. It was supposed to be weird. I like taking things like kids fighting in school and making them a lot more interesting. I have an idea for a story about some snowplow truck drivers, inspired by seeing all the snowplow trucks around here after the crazy snow thing that has apparently killed 40 people throughout the Kentucky. None in my area though.

I was printing it out to give to people at school to critique, and I discovered that I used the phrase "boss us around" twice in about fifteen words, so I'm fixing that now. I'd like it if someone else would read over it and tell me how it is (Strife, where are you?). The biggest problem is word repetition, because I really don't like it and I'm afraid I missed some more. So if you see me using a word a lot in short time, then make sure to point it out.

I haven't read Mulch's yet because I have to revise this big paper, do some other school stuff, and do some non-school stuff like putting DF this USB drive wehtam gave me since his internet doesn't want to work and he's not to download a ton of stuff on his laptop because of virus paranoia, but I'll read it later. Also, if any of my other RTD-ers are reading this: I'll try to update that tonight too.
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« Reply #44 on: February 05, 2009, 01:43:13 am »

I've put this off long enough! I'm writing now.

Oh, and it's a short story, the inspiration for which came from this very forum...
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