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So there are a lot of bandwagon threads on DC already, lemmie add one more.

I've been addicted to writing for just over a year now, but just over a year ago stuff started actually taking up time in my life, so I don't have as much time to write as I'd like. My first attempt at recreational writing is still in progress after this first year, and another two ideas for stories are getting a few sessions of writing, but my main is currently at ~54k words, and in need of time in order to put down the ideas I still have in my head but have yet to commit to buttons.

Who else writes out there? And how hard is it for you to find readers that give constructive c&c?

yeah man we have a lot of writers, check out this ancient thread: http://definecynical.mancubus.net/viewtopic.php?t=734

I never went into it (I don't write) but I was scared of it each time I saw it during the months that it stayed atop of the forum, so I assume we have a list of writers in the tens place at least. Ghostway is a writer. (he left...right? )

I write sometimes, but I rarely finish a story. I do however, have one in the works. just have witers block.

GhostWay left, then came back, and is gone again (without statement) since I haven't seen him in the chat for awhile following his return and you frequent the fourm more than I and think he's gone and I think I think that.

By the way J.A.M. that link doesn't work for me

I've got some ideas but I haven't been very active in prose.

I used to write a decent bit, but the ony time I've ever written a real book, I got to page 74 and read back to find that it was rather crummy. So now I've begun writing my own webcomic.

Same story, actually...

You could try copy-and-paste, but it that fails, go to the Tiny Toons section and you'll find my stories on the first page. Click on my name and you'll see all my works.

I loves to write, I loves it goooood!!!


although, I am constantly plauged by writers block ,

I personally want to write, but not novels or anything. I always want to write huge essays and stuff. If I ever actually start writing something, it's going to be a parody "Computer Piracy for Dummies"

I do some writing. I lost much of it a long time ago when my hard drive failed (curse you Dell). I have some stuff in the works right now, but nothing complete enough to show.

Well, I write some fanfics, and some short stories. But most of my writing time goes into scripting the strips right now.

GhostWay left, then came back, and is gone again (without statement) since I haven't seen him in the chat for awhile following his return and you frequent the fourm more than I and think he's gone and I think I think that.

I'm still here! Just been away for over a week, is all. (I've developed a certain disdain for leaving such messages in The Airport.)

Yeah, I had some stories here way back when. Over a year-and-a-half ago, methinks. Now, I have three major book ideas kicking around in my head, clanging their cheap prison mugs on the brain cell doors and screaming to be let out by way of graphite. But at the moment, all that gets out are ideas and reminders such as "English, the linguistic cannibal" and "Latin was dead, which is about as foreign as one could get." Along with things like multidimensional cyclical time and Zeugojeswehlahthogan, an n-dimesional sentience with a gods complex, but that's a long story (and fairly new on the idea list).

And then there's the world made out of a dead moth crystalis, and the man who travels great distances by walking through doors (with the aid of a quantum-reality skeleton key), and the secret angsty journals of the goddess Kali who hates her job of destroying the world because it makes everyone think she's evil, and the hollow man who's missing half a physical dimesion due to an accident with quantum physics and a canteloupe, and the cylindrical spaceship <i>Zephyros</i>, and a tongue-in-cheek parody of stereotypical <i>noir</i> detective stories. But most of those haven't gotten very far. They're still hanging around in my mind's lobby, though, hoping to catch the next neuron train to the typewriter.

Speaking of which, I do my notetaking in a journal, but a fair amount of rough drafts on an old manual typewriter. Why do I do this? Well, I'd like to know the answer to that one myself. Especially since I can't use it all that well.

I'm also writing a comic strip, which will probably be presentable in a week or so, but that's neither here nor there. I originally wrote the scripts by typewriter and then typed them into Word, until a clerk in the back of my head started screaming, "Are you insane? This is horribly inefficient! Productivity is down 25% and the neurons are so worn out that they've been trying to wear their coffee as <i>gloves!</i> And the teal armadillo just ate my tie-- WHY IS THERE AN ARMADILLO IN HERE?!" At which point I started typing straight into Word. You don't want to upset the neural accountants.

ETA: Just looked back on the previous thread. I'd completely forgotten about Marvin Blunt! I'm gonna have to dig that up; that was fun writing. I might also mention that I have plans for a play, but that's off a ways.

oh yeah sorry I forgot you came back because of your avatar

I think of myself a writer of sorts. I'm a semester away from graduating college with a degree in English, so it's something I've been pretty well trained in. It's something I plan to make a career out of...somehow. But most of my writing for pleasure goes into opinion rants, unfinished fanfics, reviews of DVDs, and things of that nature. Most importantly though, I do a lot of writing for my proposed comic strip (COMING SOON!).