Writing

kimzor · 19th July 2008, 5:22pm

Any of you forum internet-types do any writing, serious or otherwise?

I'm talking about screenplays, poems, short stories etc. Do any of you give writing articles a bash? (Other than the ones seen on the home page?)

What about blogs or journals. (Used for more then "I went to the shops and got cheese, lolz!!")

I'm interested to know if you do. Any why. Out of curiosity.

I attempt to write myself, very badly. I need more confidence. Fuck sharing it on here.

endless psych · 19th July 2008, 5:23pm

I do a bit of writing when the mood takes me. None of its likely any good but I enjoy writing it down anyway.

Rio Ohki · 19th July 2008, 5:25pm

I've got the skateboarding blog (which I should update, meaning I should do some skating)
I do write other stuff, mainly wee poems and the like. Nothing too big, I've got a shite attention span.

MarkMono · 19th July 2008, 5:31pm

Funnily enough I was talking about this earlier.

Gonna start a blog for short-fiction/historical non-fiction in an attempt to get me writing again. The problem is that I need to be relaxed, and I very rarely am for any length of time. Songs, reviews and other short pieces generally spew out of my brain fast and virtually fully-formed, requiring very little in the way of polish or rewriting, but I have trouble finding the right environment for anything heavy.

Fiona_B · 19th July 2008, 5:46pm

i used to write short stories when i was wee, won a trophy in primary for written language, had a poem published in the local library magazine and won a few runner up places in some competitions. then i entered high school where it was always essays about cloning or whatever you had to write and i couldn't for the life of me be bothered with writing about reality. it just didn't interest me. didn't help that when it came to writing stories my standard grade english teacher told me i was shite at doing so, kinda knocked my confidence a fair bit. got back into it when i met a guy who was a writer, with his own books published, he told me i still had the talent, but it needed to be improved slightly here and there and that i should join a writing group.

never have though. working full time just takes it out of me. but i can safely say it is definetly the one passion i have.

Hammer · 19th July 2008, 8:43pm

Aye. Used to do analysis of the games industry and stuff like. Psedo-academic shit in other words.
Occasionally bits of political stuff.

Keep meaning to start again, because while 99% of it was shit, 1% was pretty good.

Dario · 19th July 2008, 10:09pm

I try my hand at it every now and again. Nothing really specific, just whatever's in my head at the time. They tend to be incoherent rants, and often unfinis---

CHUCK LIDELOL · 19th July 2008, 10:13pm

johnnie walker · 19th July 2008, 10:29pm

I've been trying to sit down and write seriously for quite a while. I have 2 main problems though, most of the characters and situations i come up with seem too derivative, i end up taking bits and pieces from all of the other books i've read and end up feeling like there isn't really anything new.

The other problem i have is that once i get in the mood to do some writing, i usually end up with some excuse or other to start reading and then end up getting caught up in a book.

Mwezzi · 19th July 2008, 10:50pm

I've never been able to write fiction, I have no talent for it. I was the kid at the back of the class in primary school who sat staring tearfully at the blank pages of my story-writing jotter for days on end until the teacher eventually gave up and let me do something else.
I can get angry about things, though. I have a small feminist blog which I turn to whenever something makes me want break all the pencils in the house and set fire to anything that bears newsprint. The last thing I wrote was about the media coverage of female tennis players.

Goth_pixie · 19th July 2008, 11:30pm

I write the occasional short and not-so-short story. Submitted a couple of things for publication when I was a lot younger, but nothing much came of it, so I've stuck to writing for myself since then.

Christie. · 20th July 2008, 12:07am

I wrote poems.
I used to enter several competitions a month and won most of them, been published several times. I don't write much anymore though, most of the inspiration I get these days is art graphic wise rather than in the poetic form.

Click here to view my most recent poetry.

I've dabbled in article writing several times, I've even had a few published in the Sunday Herald. I'm actually going to pursue this by attending Met College in late August to do an HND in Practical Journalism.

I've attempted a few novels but I always get bored writing them because I can't type/write it out as fast as I can think of the plot line so it comes out as a big rushed muddled mess.

¡Punk! · 20th July 2008, 12:10am

I love writing and do it all the time. Just a hobby tho'. Too scared to take it further. Shitbitch that I am.

Hammer · 20th July 2008, 12:13am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Christie.

I've dabbled in article writing several times, I've even had a few published in the Sunday Herald.

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of stuff have you had published by them?

Just out of interest really.

I thought about trying to get one of the politics rags or a paper to publish one of my rants a while back, but never got round to following the idea up.

Christie. · 20th July 2008, 12:18am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hammer

If you don't mind me asking, what kind of stuff have you had published by them?

Just out of interest really.

I thought about trying to get one of the politics rags or a paper to publish one of my rants a while back, but never got round to following the idea up.

Articles for the teen perspective that comes with the Sunday Herald, it's called 'Fresh'.

The editor also used to e-mail me to make up random letters to fill in spaces so I just complained about the prime minister and public transport in exhange for free merch.

That's easy to do, just write the article out and then e-mail them saying you've got a piece prepared for a soapbox type article and that you'd really appreciate it if they'd publish it as you have some strong points you'd like to inform or discuss to the public about and you think it'd prove beneficial towards the paper's reputation and to the readers as a whole if it was published for the public to read.

Or say you're studying journalism and that it'd be great experience.