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  1. I’ve been considering putting my novel I’m writing (or some of it) on here. Who would be interested?
  2. Some of you may know I’m working on a novel, I’ve been very blatant in all my posts about it (I’m sorry for that btw, I just have no other creative ppl to talk to). Anyway, I’m creating a language for my book because from listening to writing excuses I realized I can’t outright use Japanese in my book for MANY reasons, no matter how much I know and study the language. I settled for using the alphabet to create a similar feel, but I’m not sure if using the same particles is wise. More over, I’m having trouble coming up with words that I feel fit. I’m even going so far as to create my own kanji. If you fantastic folk have any tips, recommendations, or any advice at all, then I’d love to hear it. I have my first draft done and I’m looking to have my language done soon so I can get it in the second draft before August rolls around
  3. Guest

    Roo's Writing Thread

    Welcome to my Writing Thread! I'm writing around 6 books, several with my cousins, and two on my own! I like writing XD "Why don't you stay for a while? I've got some soft blankets and a few mugs of hot chocolate. I even have two dogs! You can pet Sam, he's a good boi."
  4. It was recommended (by myself and Wizzy) that I start one of these... so, here it goes. I would probably put myself under the 'sensitive artist' category, so, I might not want a whole lot of critiquing... Mainly, I hope that my words can help someone out there... I won't be posting all my poetry here, as some of it might be a bit more personal, but, if you would still like to see it, please let me know. NOTE(S): a bunch of them are very long, so I will put them in spoiler boxes to make things easier. please assume that what is here I have written, unless marked otherwise. I hope you enjoy them and/or, they help you get through some things. I also hope that they do not all sound like they are expressively about me. without further ado, I present.... My Poems! Rest I probably won't go into backstory/ inspo here, but if you would like some, reach out personally. @The Wandering Wizard Feelings
  5. speak again the ancient oaths i will create instead of scrap. i will save everything for later. i will write for those who cant write for themselves. I accept that there will be things I cannot include. i will dream world beyond our own. the writers radiant shall rise again. this is meant to serve 2 purposes. 1 to help provide worldbuilding help to all the authors out there. 2 gives us a place to talk about worldbuilding a bit like the Frustrated Writer Support Group. and 3 just a bit of fun.
  6. So, I started writing this story for a creative writing class at my school. As such I was on a time crunch, and the story was much shorter than I had originally planned. This is my first foray into the mystery genre(I usually do fantasy series, but I don't feel comfortable publicly sharing my future profession online), so please offer any criticisms or praises. Anyways, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I loved writing it. Spoiler for length Yall might have noticed the 2 at the end of 'Maxwell Sterling'. Well, fun fact, this is actually the second story in a series of short stories/novellas I plan on writing some day in the distant future. I've tried writing the first one before, but the pieces never clicked, so I wrote this one first instead. Just a nugget of trivia.
  7. Well folks I finished the first draft of my very first novel yesterday! I feel like that SpongeBob scene where he’s writing the essay, and just drops a smoking pencil on the desk. But now that I’m done I’ve been thinking more about the pitch I’ve put together for it. Then I had another thought, and I checked the forums, I don’t think we have a thread for pitches! Here marks the creation of just that thread! Feel free to put pitches here for opinions, if you’re seeking them, and if you are not pitching feel free to leave a few notes on the pitches you see fit. Even if you don’t like a pitch, maybe let the person know where the pitch lost you. I would be a fool if I didn’t also stress this: Please be kind always. If you don’t like a pitch, don’t trash talk it. So without further ado, I’ll give you a one sentence pitch. Then I’ll put a slightly longer one in a spoiler. An extravagant fantasy, where a suspicious drug addled widower stumbles into becoming an agent for an ancient proclaimed god. I can’t wait to see what everyone pitches
  8. Hello! Greetings to all Denizens, Citizens, and Netizens. We're making this thread to create a place where characters new and old can look for someone to collaborate with for the RP. This may vary from something very specific you have in mind 'My character is in the middle of a difficult time and I was hoping they might bump into someone very irritable and dangerous so that they can gain a new enemy to focus their attention on.', to the casual 'My character is going to the tavern to get some drinks, does anyone want to start up a drinking buddy relationship', or guild recruitment 'My character is alone and scared in this new city and I was hoping they could bump into someone from the Scholar's Guild to give them a reason to join that guild.'. One of the more frequent uses we imagine for this thread however is for new characters to find other characters to interact with and kick off their RP journey. In these circumstances you may not actually know what exactly you're looking for, if your character is new to the city they may not have the means or the resources to begin working towards any of their goals yet, they may need to meet some people first. Whatever the case may be we hope that this provides a useful location for people to work together with their writing and plan things out a little more. We would suggest that you try to be specific with any requests for collaboration when possible, if you know what you're looking for mention it in the post, and ideally post a little bit about your character as well, we have a lot of characters in the RP so no everyone is familiar with all of them.
  9. I just got the urge to write the past couple of days. This summer, I went backpacking through the mountains for a few days. It was a breathtaking experience (sometimes quite literally). And at one point, we were hiking up to a ridge and were planning to walk along the ridge for a time, but rain was coming and it got very windy towards the top. So much so that I nearly got toppled over a number of times despite the 15kg that were strapped to my back. We ended up deciding not to climb all the way to the ridge in the interest of not being blown off a mountain side. But as I was trying to decide what I wanted to write, that experience came to mind. And what follows was kind of born out of it. I don't really know where (if anywhere) it's going, but I'm enjoying writing it for now. Perhaps I'll post some more of it here as I write... if I end up sticking to it. EDIT: So, I'm quite enjoying writing this for now, so I think I will make it a slightly more permanent habit (for how long, we shall see). I will post scenes as i write them in this thread and when I complete a chapter, I will add it to the OP (provided there isn't like a word limit or something, idk). Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 - trigger warning: there is a PTSD flashback in this chapter
  10. I had some drawings I liked and I thought it would be fun to share. I'm not sure how regularly I'll post though. anyway, here's our favorite sad boi and a kind of ok Syl
  11. Good afternoon! For my hundredth (or, rather, my one-hundred-second) post, I am going to post the first two chapters of my book. I will refrain from trying to write a synopsis as I am quite bad at that sort of thing. It is in PDF form, so you should be able to open it in Google Docs or any other PDF reader. Enjoy! And there you have it! Please, let me know what you think! Mar sin leat! (goodbye!)
  12. I am currently working on a Dungeons and Dragons homebrew that is based on Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere. It will include all the known planets in the Cosmere universe, with varying levels of emphasis on each one. I am in search of someone who can assist me with the writing. This is an online collaboration, and there won't be any in-person meetings. It's crucial to note that this is strictly for fun, and I won't be offering any payment. However, if we ever manage to publish it, I will make sure to give credit where it's due and share any earnings. I am searching for someone who has an interest in writing descriptive content. Due to time constraints, I'm more focused on the actual rules. If you have a flair for writing filler material and action-packed content, then you are who I am looking for. Additionally, a skilled artist would be highly appreciated since my current art is AI-generated and is not up to the mark. I also need someone to playtest the project, and if you're willing, we can do it over a video call. Please note that this is a fun project, and I cannot offer any guarantee of payment except for a share of the profits gained (if any).
  13. Here's a book I wrote for english class on Nanowrimo, and I'll probably post the chapters one at a time. It's linked to all of my other writing, as in, same world and characters, but i don't think I've posted any other writing on the shard and for this one you don't need any context. Prologue : Darkness. Chapter 1 : Flight.
  14. gonna copy @Doomslug The Destroyer here so let's see. this is an original thing. I'm going to post more but for now you get this one thing. Scene 1 bank fight.
  15. Aight, idk if any of you are going to be interested in this, but I'm writing a book tentatively titled Magic Is Undeniably, Illogically and Unfortunately Real, though that title is likely to be changed since the tone has been drastically changed from when I began it. Currently, I'm working on writing the prelude/prologue to the story and rewriting the third chapter because it went through limbo once when I had to turn the whole 18 pages that I had into past tense for sanity purposes. I think this beginning to the third chapter, introducing the second pov character, works well, though I'm going to have to practice making the Narration for the two characters different. I'm going to be posting on here every once and a while, talking about how it's going! I'll also be asking for some advice on names for places, characters and artifacts, so y'all are in for a wild ride. I hope y'all like this... I would also like to mention that this book is the first book that I am working on by myself and am actually trying to finish. Technically, I've been a part of a project that's finished a book, but it wasn't my book. It was a co-writing effort... it still is ongoing in a rewrite, though I may quit on it, though I'm not sure how to do it since I'm doing it with a friend and have been working on it for like four years. Well, kinda working on it, he's been doing most of the heavy lifting while I've been figuring out my life and how to actually prioritize things. Anyways- Hope y'all will enjoy this as I post sporadically! Edit: here's the first two chapters. They're not too good, but they set up some things. I'll put the third chapter here two. The first two chapters are not my best work by far. They'll change a lot through the drafts, but since I've given y'all the third chapter, you might as well have the first two as well. Chapter one. Chapter two Chapter three There you go!
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    Roo's Writing Thread

    Welcome to my writing thread! Stay a while and have a cup of cocoa. You can pet Sam, he's a good boi! This is a little part of a book I gave up on a few years ago. Let me know if I should continue it!
  17. Hello! Having discovered that this subforum exists, I've decided to post the first chapter of my as-yet-unpublished fantasy novella so y'all can read it. Critique it if you'd like; it's supposed to be in revisions, except that all the people I've asked to beta-read it have promptly gone and gotten themselves busy with other, more critical things. Any feedback or input you've got would be great! Anyhow. Here it is, spoilered for length.
  18. So I saw @Ookla did one of these and I’d figure I’d give it a go. This is the first chapter of the rough, still incomplete draft of my book, The Lord of Windswept Steel. I don’t know if that’s the best formatting. I can’t wait to hear what you guys think.
  19. Ok, let’s start an add on story! The rules: Make your part of the story as long as you want, but try not to do multiple scenes. It can be one line! It does not have to be long. Do not include anything suggestive or inappropriate. Don’t make any completely outlandish turns, unless they work well, but di so carefully. If you add on, make sure you have read all the story up to that point. Don’t end the story abruptly. On that note, I’ll go first. It might be long, but I’m doing that to start it. There will be typos. Bard crept along the tree branch. This was a narrow one. He thought. He been doing this for years, and he could balance skillfully on the branches, but even then, ones like the branch he was on still made him nervous. It was only a foot wide. Most ones that people walked were serveral feet. Even a yard or two wide. Bard continued forward and down with the branch. He was getting close to the camp. Dangerously close. But he kept going. I’ve done this before. In, out, and a little boost from my pops. He spotted the first one. Approaching Kiabs was never difficult. They didn’t put guards or watchers. It was getting away that was challenging. He looked past the Kiab. There were about thirty of them. They were spindly, slightly off in body shape compared to a human, short creatures with nasty habits. As he scanned, he saw what he was looking for. Their chest. And as always the not to bright creatures had put it on the outside of their camp. The camp was on the top of a huge tree trunk. His own branch led to it. He came to the chest, and opened it. There! Yes! Thank the trees! It’s here! He took out the thin chain. At the end of it was a key. He didn’t know what that was for, but he knew his buyers really wanted it. Then the horn blew. Darn trees. He didn’t even bother to look as the kiabs all started. They spotted him and began the chase. Just as he expected. They had some sense Bars knew. Too many people underestimated them. They backed him to a branch too thin. He wouldn’t be able to go out far on it. He back away until he heard creaking. He looked around. The kiabs had already moved to surrounding branches. so he did what he always did. He jumped off. And Immediately he used his pops. He had first learned then when a mysterious man without pinky fingers had passed by him as he travelled they stuck together for a little bit, long enough to to teach bard this trick, then he disappeared. Bard could make tiny explosions. And he used them to fly. He called them pops. He jumped off the branch, and put a foot outward as if onto something. Right under his boot, he popped. It propelled him as if he had jumped off a solid branch. He continued this process, running through the air. As he got to far branch, he looked back. The kiabs were confused. As they always were. Reminder: make this as short or as long as you want. Mine was kinda long cause I wanted to start it off solidly. Please add!
  20. Just finished the book, and its gotta be one of my favorite Cosmere stories of all time. But one aspect of it just felt.....so off. After Aux sacrifices himself to give Nomad his final burst of flight, Nomad's reaction is just.....wrong. like its literally just the wrong reaction. He's obviously sad, but one moment in particular just ruins it. He's back in unity, just a few pages later, and we get this: like what. I don't think I need to explain how this is weird. it COMPLETELY took me out of the book when i first read it. The nahel bond is one of the most intimate relationships I can even imagine. Your spren is literally your most constant companion, and with Sigzil specifically, he's been bonded to Aux for maybe hundreds of years. Your best friend, your most intimate companion, who you've been with for entire lifetimes just died...and you forget????? And it's not just that, that last line is terrible too. "it hurt anew when he remembered" That just sounds weird right? like you could make the argument that Nomad was talking out of habit, he didn't literally forget, but even still, we should be getting more pain from him. those 3 words "it hurt anew", are all we get, and the story just continues. just "it hurt". that's all. no further description. He should be a broken man at this point. He should be fighting through tears. His ONLY companion through all these years of running, His ONLY friend, just DIED SACRIFICING HIMSELF FOR YOU, and we barely get anything. The weirdest part is, Brandon did an amazing job at writing the fear of grief. The scene where Nomad is swinging on Aux as a chain under the ship as they climb the mountain, that was beautiful. I genuinely felt as terrified as Nomad did that Aux was about to sacrifice himself. The tension there is insane, and the way Nomad mentally screams at Aux to not do it, its just awesome. (Page 172 if you want to reread it. It's the ENTIRE PAGE too. We get actual CONTENT regarding this conflict, rather than the TWO WORDS we get after it actually happens.) That's the sort of reaction we should be getting AFTER Aux sacrifices himself too. the actual specific moment where Aux sacrifices himself was...alright I guess. it was very high in emotion, but I still think it wasn't as good as page 172. It's the aftermath of this moment that I specifically have an issue with though. nomad should not be as high-functioning as he is. I think part of the reason I feel this way is actually because of page 172. it set up Aux's death SO WELL, showing us how TERRIFIED Sig was of losing him. and then he does. and we get barely anything. The payoff is just not there. also. it's weird because I know Brandon has written grief well before! Kaladin's entire character for example. RoW is tragic. but I feel like he just..... absolutely missed the mark with this one.
  21. So here I'm just going to post random scenes of stories i've invented. You can too, because I want to read stuff. #1
  22. Here’s a lil exert from a chapter of my first draft. Opinions, tips, recommendations, questions, all appreciated and welcome! Maybe I’ll share more in the future. I’m 60k out of my 100k goal for the first draft currently. Ok… Welp I hope yuh like it!
  23. Hello, friends. I made an SU asking if I should do this and three people said yes, so here I am. I wrote the beginning of a story/novel about three or four months ago, based on a very loose premise that I came up with a while before that. Some of you have already seen it. Currently I have a prologue-type thing and two additional scenes. I'll start here with the prologue, the same one I wrote three or four months ago, lightly revised. I hope you like it, at least a little. It's still pretty rough, so feedback greatly appreciated if you have the time. Or you could just briefly let me know what you think. Or you could do none of those things and not read it at all! It's up to you. I hope you read it, though. It's not that long ꟼ: As for plans with this, I honestly have none. Like I said, there are two other scenes, which I wrote yesterday and will post here soon probably, but this story is absolutely being made up as I go. Will it end up as a disjointed mess? Probably. Will I only post here like twice a year? Most likely. But... I'll try. We'll see where my short supply of creativity and motivation take me.
  24. For those who expressed interest in making a TLT story adaptation, this should probably be where we plan it. @Nameless* @xinoehp512 @thaidakartheghostblood Uh- yeah.
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