leonard267 Posts

Yes, I share that frustration and sense of wishing to know more about the pointless unknown, because really, it is pointless, isn't it? Funny that we want to know it so badly before we are able to attach in any form. I would question, why does it matter why he's outside? That he was on his way to see his lover, or that his old lady kicked him out of her basement, or that he saw a bit of currency fly away, or he was hunting for dinner, or he just likes cold, or he hates cold so he wants to leave it, or he wants to die, or he wants to live, the reader does not know, cannot know without more information, so wondering is pointless until more information is learned. All one can do in that situation is...continue to read while breathing in the experience this man is having. All you need to know at that point is that he is walking through really high snow, and that is likely not a good thing, because I wouldn't like to do that, but maybe I will read why he is doing it later. That's the best I can explain it, but allow me to argue for your point.

I once read a piece by a friend who is a pretty talented writer. He wrote about a girl in her room on a cold night waiting a long time for a text. However, throughout the whole short, it's never explained why she's waiting, what she's waiting for, how long she would wait, if this is romance or horror; the entire piece was simply about her waiting. I didn't like that concept very much at all. I, like you, wanted to know more. I thought that was the point of a story, that it would progress and we would learn more about their situation and perhaps learn something trivial for it, a moral or lesson. However, he told me there was nothing else, that it didn't matter. He wrote about the small experience of a sad girl simply waiting frustratingly for a text. However, I have to acknowledge that he did know something about writing, because he got a national award for English writing in his home country, which is an impressive feat. I still wonder about it to this day, and I suppose I try to learn from it.

I actually specialize in creative writing, so I need to learn these things, and you love writing non-fictional monologues, so those are different genres with a vast many differences I could never compile a list for. I think it's nice that we can come together and write something, however nonsensical it may end up being. That is why I am always encouraging your works, and also your participation in the communal stories.

Quick question to anyone really: have you ever gotten so attached to a character you created that you can't stop writing about him/her?

I'm afraid I am a victim of this.

The reason why I don't put all that at the forefront is really because that's what the authors I'm trying to emulate do. I think the reason they do it is because they don't want to overload readers with too many of the details at once. Maybe I'm not doing the best job emulating them. I freely admit that just maybe, that's a possibility.

Like d, I write in that style because most fiction authors do. Good creative writers bury the key details within the story because they aren't trying to tell you a story, they're trying to help you experience it yourself through describing what your senses would pick up on if you were in that situation.

Someone said to me once, do not tell your reader 'it was snowing and cold outside,' but act through description, such as 'he shivered as his feet plowed through the calf-high sheets of white dust.'

One is factual, the other is sensual.

I think this is where your difficulty stems, because you do prefer non-fiction and that is where you are particularly talented. You enjoy writing monologues and rants while some of us prefer writing an experience. I think if you prefer one style so much, it does make sense that you would understand it much faster, but I always find myself frustrated that I can't help you out in that endeavor. I wish I could, but I think the way we write has become so natural through experience.

I think it will help if you begin reading and tell yourself 'A lot of the things that will be described or written about are solely for the purpose of painting the scenery.' Perhaps in that way, important things may pop out harder?

well, as long as I'm able to understand the main point, it's fine. I'm not sure if I understood the story properly like the writer's intention though. I mostly just skimmed things through and look up on the key points in which the plot was hinted to progress. for example, the characters' significant actions and dialogues, locations, and some 'topical' sentences.

Honestly, I think most of your trouble comes from you thinking too hard, searching for meaning in details that have little to none.



Exactly. You not making a post directing the story away from hermaphrodites definitely won't help, Rise.



Thank you.

I think I can safely say that I will FINALLY be adding new Age of Anarchy chapters in the very near future. Just saying in case anyone cares. You know you guys care.





Wait, what?

Oh, absolutely. Good to hear that you'll be adding to it, and I wish you much luck and success.





Now, don't look at me. This was actually the natural progression ever since high turned Rise's wanted man into a wanted woman, then said Jacqueline was hunting gigolos. If gigolos are going to be working in a burlesque house, then a lot of them are going to also be catering to clientelle with more...questionable tastes, and not all of them women. Bound to be a lot of cross-dressing and she-males. The plot makes sense, I just knew high and leonard would have a field day with it because they write about it anyway regardless of if it makes sense or not, so at least it makes sense this time, given the circumstances.

Yeah that's fine, please post them if you wish.

I treat them like the inner most thought of the writer posted in a beautiful and passionate way that is open for anyone to interpret them as they wish. That way almost anyone can enjoy them and debate the meaning of them.

The poem itself is more of a representation of pain and the 'Trials and tribulations' we are forced to go through in life whether it be physical or emotional.

No it's not a real Bluebird, I intentionally did it so you could interpret it any way but if you wanted to know what I was thinking, I was thinking about the suffering of people and how some wounds take longer to heal. This is seen in the reference to "broken wing" and then the literal meaning of this "broken heart" if that makes sense.

I have been trying for some time to come up with some absurd ideas for a fantasy story, so far its just a few names and little things... But the story needs to be crazy from the bottom up...

A detective story wouldn't be complete without one.



Have you considered having it set on a gigantic walrus named Paul who hates pop music?

Lol just woke up and I can't find much time to. Been working constantly but I'm trying to when I get the chance.

Yo guys

i'm probably going to write about my summer vacation being filled with summer classes instead and complaining about various things too.

after this 30th, yeah =)

good luck on it =)

well, I guess it kinda serves as an emergency deposit in case something happens, because we cannot really hold on to much cash for long without the risks of crime happening to our finances.

can you summarize what happened in the story?

i kinda heard it's a government insurance for your country, not sure if such systm exist in mine though.

so, what kind of benefits do that have?

hmm...probably, I kinda forgot.

well as long it doesn't hurt the paycheck too much, it's fine i guess?

idk the ones in work though. maybe one portions of your wage goes to insurance? o-O