forum What are you writing?

Started July 24, 2020 by Deleted user

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For all we know, this forum is for writing, so I'm gonna use it to my advantage.
What kinds of things are you writing? What genres, plots, stuff like that? Any WIPs?
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For me, I'm currently working on a fanfic (pls don't judge) and it's in the "word barf" stage where everything's just a stream of whatever comes to mind on a page and there's no editing besides spellcheck, and it's not finished yet. It's actually available in the critique section, but I shut it down after I went insane over it.
But enough about me! What kinds of things are you working on?

I'm working on my webcomic, a manga-inspired dark fantasy called "World:Light"! It focuses a lot on the elemental magic aspect of fantasy, such as how people use it or exploit it, and what happens to the world when it's unbalanced. It's currently in the late stage of what you wonderfully called the "word barf" stage for the script, but the main story line and timeline stuff is done (or at least in bullet points), as are the character designs.

I also have a few homebrew D&D things on here, but those are more like scattered plot hooks and characters than anything.

I'm outlining a fanfic. It got 5 parts, each being a separate "book". And guess what? I started outlining the last part, instead of the first. 8D I'm dumb like that. The first 4 parts are in the "present", while the last part is 150 years after the start of the first part.

I already said I'm dumb? Because I am

Amazing stuff in the works, I see!
And hey, sometimes outlining the end first is a good thing! Occasionally, I want to make sure my story ends a certain way, so I start at the end and move backwards, but I have to check that it all makes sense overall.
For mine, I actually started it, and about a fifth of the way through, sketched out the ending of the story and then continued with where I left off. And I also get sudden inspirations for different little scenes and things, and I figure out how to work them in along the way.
But don't beat yourself up if you have to work on the end before you finish the middle part of the story. Because, like I said, it can be a good thing.

@TiramisuGrenouille Actually, its a bit more complex. Each part is a complete story, and, while they're connected, I want to write them as fandom-blind as possibly (ya see, I hate fandoms in general). But at the same part, the last part needs the other parts even though it is so in the future because of its themes of "legacy" and "letting the past go".
And you see, I already know how the last and penultimate parts will end, but not the others.

I'm dumb I know

Oh. I see. I get it now. (That's a cool concept, by the way.)
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I know you're writing a fanfic, but what does it mean to make them as "fandom-blind" as possible?

Fandom-blind is that you don't need to know anything about the source material to be able to read.

Okay. I was just wondering.

I'm so happy to be able to talk about it. I always thought I should keep things to myself. I got anxiety, so talking about what I'm planing makes me less anxious, and makes me more motivated to finish (I'm easily demotivated and lazy)

I know how you feel. I don't remember when I first shared my WIP on this site, but it kinda felt good to share it with people. Especially with people who liked writing.
However, it's been getting me super anxious lately for other reasons. Unfortunately.

I have a few WIPs in various stages!
All Hail The Queen of Hearts is a twisted Alice in Wonderland story, where Alice is the Queen of Hearts. That's in beta reader stage! (and if you're interested I'd be happy to have you)
The Black Cloud- technically a finished manuscript, but needs serious overhauling bc I'm changing it from a trilogy to a duology.
Crystal Cove- ideally this would be a webcomic or cartoon/tv show, but I have no art skills lol. But it's just in concept stages. The premise is aliens in the cold war! It should be tons of fun!
Finworth Academy (working title)- gonna be a magical university! Also in concept stages, not well developed
Aeron Ascending- an LGBT scifi romance… premise? SPACE PIRATES! This is gonna be my nanowrimo for this year

Alice being the queen of hearts picked my curiosity

Alice being the queen of hearts picked my curiosity

Here's the blurb!
You know the story of Alice in Wonderland. Or, rather, you think you know the story. You think it is a story of a girl who gets carried away in her imagination, carried to a fantastical land of Cards and tea and talking animals. That story isn't quite true. Wonderland is not a figment of Alice Liddel's imagination. Or anyone's imagination. Rather, it is the product of everyone's imagination, throughout all of Time. It is a real place, just as real as Earth, as real as Neverland. And, like any country, the government isn't perfect. So come, and enter the tumult of Wonderland politics at this moment.
After the rebellion overthrows the despotic Queen of Hearts, Helena, sixteen year old Alice Liddel takes the throne, despite her misgivings. As Wonderland emerges from a time of political turmoil, Alice learns to play the role of queen as she seeks to find a way to stay young forever.

That is SUPER cool!!!
…And that's all I really have to say!

A product of everyone's imagination. Reminds me of the concept of Collective Unconscious, proposed by Carl Jung.

i have a couple stuff i'm working on, but (as a semi-responsible writer) i'm taking it one at a time.

• the new age is a post-nuclear-apocalypse story where a secret organization works both sides of a silent war between the U.S and China and has both sides sending engineered viruses to each other and eventually convinces China to send a nukes to the U.S. (and the government kinda falls apart). the story follows the son of an immunologist who was kidnapped by the secret organization and his goal is to find her and help her take over the organization so they can start trying to rebuild the country after the previous leaders nearly destroyed it.
• and i don't have an official name for this one yet (its a major WIP) but the working name rn is simulation. its about the government forcing everyone into a simulation for generations, but one day it fails for a small group of people and they escape. the reason the government put them into a simulation is because nature was truly on the brink of destruction and if nature ceased to exist, so would humanity. but the group that escapes wants to overthrow the government to free everyone in the simulation. objectively, the government is in the right, trying to let nature fully rebuild itself before reintroducing people, and the group trying to free everyone is in the wrong, but since it's from the POV of the people who escaped, technically the antagonist is the government.

Those both sound super cool. And taking it one at a time is the smart way to go, I think.

Right now, I'm just kinda brainstorming different stuff for my story in the works, handwriting stuff down as I think of it because I know I'll forget it later. Most of it includes stuff that arcs over the entire story, so I'm trying to work on implementing it in when I get the plot all ironed out.

its good to take it a little slower. i honestly wish i had waited a little longer before i actually started drafting my story cos i don't really have it all figured out yet.

Honestly, I make it up as I go, which I know is a terrible strategy (I say that loosely – not all of it is made up as I go, but most of it is).
But sometimes inspirations hit me like a brick for certain events, and I try to fit them together the best I can.

I have 3 docs for writing mine, one for a timeline/overall outline with main events (and smaller bullet points for stuff per scene), one for misc scenes and events I want to put in that I write when the inspiration train hits, and one for the official rough draft that has it all written out. That way I can get all the scenes more or less in the right place, where exposition needs to be and where I can fit in more scenes for pacing and such.
_{I dont count the first 3 failed rough drafts, they have been mysteriously lost forever}

I try to write down stuff as it comes to mind, but I have yet to kind of organize them in a doc. (Honestly, I don't think I ever will, since the only document I want to deal with is the one that has the story's draft.)
Another thing I feel like i need to work on is pacing, now that you mention it. My pacing is far from adequate, lol

i have mine in various documents too and it helps a lot. the first one is kind of a thought dump, which is basically where i collect every single thing that comes to mind. i've tried very hard to organize it, but its still super messy. my second one is my outline where i have just a general timeline, which i desperately need to add to. its vv scarce right now and that's a big reason that i'm kind of making it up as i go as well. my third on is my rough draft and my fourth one is a to-do list. basically anything i need to do, whether its characters or plot holes or arcs or whatever.

I am in the process of writing three different big stories.
One is a post apocalyptic world where there are gangs and the main characters are a small group of military people that just got back to the U.S. from war with Russia.
The second story that I am working on is a beginning apocalypse world, were dinosaur aliens from an alternate universe and different planet invade earth and it's up to a different small group of people to try and keep humanity alive.
The third story I'm working on is by far the most complicated, and definitely the biggest. It takes place on a different planet, and it follows five individuals who are working their way through huge enemy territory to try and stop a war that has been raging in that land for almost fifty years. The person you think is the main character, turns out not to be the main character, but you don't learn that until near the end. The person you think you can trust turns out to be the person leading a double life and spying on both the good guys and the bad guys. Think Game of Thrones in the sense that no one is safe from death. If you think I won't kill them, I will kill them. The bad guy actually wins. The romance you think is going to happen doesn't happen. And the character you see the least of does the most work in the whole thing. That one character that you think isn't very important that dies at the beginning of the book is not actually dead. They are also not dead the second or third time they die.
That is the shortest summary I could come up with for the third story, it's also the shortest that I've ever managed. If you would like more details about it, PM. That is all have a nice day, thank you.

I try to write down stuff as it comes to mind, but I have yet to kind of organize them in a doc. (Honestly, I don't think I ever will, since the only document I want to deal with is the one that has the story's draft.)
Another thing I feel like i need to work on is pacing, now that you mention it. My pacing is far from adequate, lol

Oh god outlining is so hard, lmao. I'm using Trello and Google Keep for it. In Google Keep I wrote my ideas as they come (plot bunnies love to mate during work hours) and in Trello I organize the chapters and scenes. But it is still so freaking hard maaaaaaaaaan. I hope I can get something written during my vacation (20 days off starting monday!! F yeah!!!)

One of my current projects details with two vastly different worlds (multiple, rather, but the focus is on the two for the time being), the human one..and the not so human one. While humans live their lives in their own world, they remain unaware of the creatures - and events taking place under their very ground.

The trolls are the main non-human species focused on, and what I have planned so far is it begins with a Kuwak Troll (tailed trolls) stealing an artifact known as the Heginir (Hedge-een-ear). The Heginir looks to be just an orange gemstone, but in troll society, it holds great power. Obviously, our little (or tall, rather) thief (primarily known as Lady Suja, although she goes under different names depending on the form or person calling her) intends to return the Heginir back to its rightful place (according to herself).
However, she runs into a problem after a rather short conflict with another Kuwak Troll, ending with the Heginir falling into the pits below.

It doesn’t really fall down, though. As the Heginir is a ‘unique’ artifact, it’s unable to be destroyed (at least, in a simple way such as falling down a pit) and instead is transported to the human realm, where it falls into the back of a truck, and begins its journey across the continent (where it eventually ends up in a store, and sooner or later, bought…then stolen.)
Although Suja is greatly dismayed at its disappearance, she’s smart enough to recall the Heginir would not have been destroyed. The other Kuwak troll (Hoodah) doesn’t realize this at first, but after Suja informs him, he’s relieved, up until Suja tells him that “Because you were the reason that the Heginir vanished, you must help me retrieve it.” But as Suja is a far more powerful and older troll, he doesn’t have much of a choice. Hesitantly, he joins her on the journey up to the human world.
This does not go without notice, though. Other trolls, aiming to retrieve the Heginir, set their sights on it.

Although the Heginir does play quite a big part at first, the story doesn’t end with the Heginir‘s retrieval (since the reason it’s being retrieved for does put forth a much larger piece in the story.)
Primarily from the focus of some human characters as well as the trolls Suja and Hoodah.

There are different troll species: Kuwak and Ekuwak (tailless trolls) are simply used to refer to whether or not the troll has a tail or not. A general categorization. Hoodah, although he is a Kuwak troll, his species is known as the Feinturgl. Suja is apart of an unnamed troll species since this idea is fairly new (12 hours as of writing this lol).
It’s kind of a modern fantasy. There’s humans, trolls, and the many species that I’ve thought of purely from my mind.