Writing II

[copyKatt]

well, i should check threads i think are inactive more often...

anyway.

im not a very gud riter so im probably not going to be submitting much here, but i like to read. so im still intrested.

coral- sorry coral, im having trouble finding the metaphor. it is supposed to relate to how you were treated here or something? im not quite grasping what your refering to..

fargo- heh, im in wills boat with this one. there arent many writings on the internet that actually hold my attention, but your did. i just wanted to know wtf was going to happen next. it was an intresting read. ;D

tass- thats a pretty clever idea. i think if your going to expand it out, though, that you should hold off on the technical discription til later. like let the reader make his own assumptions about whats going on and then show them the big picture. i always like reading things like that anyway. its a good short story to get the idea across though. you still planning on working with it?

heather- there is know way id be able to squeeze out 50,000 words from my brain in less than a month. my mind doesnt work that way . but it sounds like an quite an endevor for those up to the task.

[Cobra5]

Writing 50,000 words in less then a month seems rushed at best, anyhow.

Writing anything worth reading shouldn't be done that way.

[Deimos]

heh...i'd try...if I had time...you never know what could happen, you know?

[palla]

The point of it is to get down the rough draft that quickly. Afterwards, you go back and refine it to whatever specifications you want, whether it be personal ones or ones set by your publisher, agent, whatever.

It is possible, Cass! Believe me, I never thought it was either. :S Though, when you look at it, its quite a small amount in terms of pages (think a novella, which is what 50,000 really is, but who's counting? *lol*).

[BugHunter]

Yea, my english professors write about that much. I could write that much too if i wanted to, but it most of it would probably end up being cencored for violent language, hehehe.

A one page essay usually is around 400-ish words without double spacing.

[palla]

Hey, if its your book, you can put whatever you like into it, violent language and all.

[copyKatt]

i mean hell, look at catcher in the rye. and thats a classic.

[palla]

Hm...I havent read that in a good many years. I vaguely remember what its size was...would that be around 50,000 words?

[copyKatt]

i was refering to its language, not its length...

[Tassatul]

Is it really considered a classic? I thought it was just famous because it got banned a bunch with its language. I read it, and didn;t really think it was anything special. I mean, basically the main character needed a good asskicking if i remember correctly.

[BugHunter]

Hmm, so in order to become a classic - get your works cencored. The possibilities.... *evil grin*

[Cobra5]

bughunter said:

Hmm, so in order to become a classic - get your works cencored. The possibilities.... *evil grin*

No! No! Bad bughunter!

[BugHunter]

Hey! I'm trying to leave a legacy here dangit!!! By any means necessary!!! () And it'll involve a watermelon while I'm at it!

[copyKatt]

hum, i dunno, i really like catcher in the rye. my english teacher considered it a classic, and i see its name everywhere. but then again, it depends on what you mean by 'classic' i guess. its all in how you look at it, i suppose.

[Tassatul]

I suppose the definition of classic is arbitrary anyways, so whatever.

I should start a full-length story sometime. I prolly ought to start now since its what i want to do for the rest of my life. . .