Thanx Mayawen, that's a cool idea. : ) Just watch out my History teacher realize I spend 2/3 of her hours making up names ... She's gonna kill me. =D

Amoniel, congrats! Share it w/ us!

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I was curious - does anyone find that they have certain things the inspire/influence them? I've realised that there's one CD I've got (my mum actually found it at the library - it's classical music) ... and I find it so much easier to write when I'm listening to it! It's weird!

I was listening to a song the other day, and realised that the words reflect how my character feels at one point in my story... am I just obsessive about what I write, or has anyone else found that sort of thing, too?


If anyone's interested, I've posted some of the novel I'm writing on my website. I would greatly appreciate feedback - I think. (Also would be happy to read stuff other people have written...)

http://www.freewebs.com/herenya/stories.htm
(scroll down, it's past all the short stories, under the heading "in progress" and it's the ones called "Waiting")

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Herenya, I know exactly what you mean about finding things that help you write better. For me, my full concentration and talent seems to come when I'm writing with a pen in a notebook. If I'm using a computer, or using a pencil instead of a pen, the words just don't come as well.

And I just read the prelude to your novel, cuz I am pressed for time and couldn't read more, but I luv it so far! I feel kinda confused. (But that's a good thing in a prelude, cuz it drew me in) Now I want to read more!!!

And, just to let you know, you can call me Maya for short.

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Really? If I'm making notes, it has to be by hand. I can't think about that sort of thing without a pen in my hand. (So I'll do that sort of thing on paper and type it out later...) I perfer to write on a computer, because I am constantly changing things, and I find it's faster. I'll write bits and pieces by hand, but I always end up with arrows and footnotes and comments in the margin all over the whole thing, and then I get frustrated because it's unreadable...

Oh, I'm glad you liked my prologue! I know it's confusing... I think it's meant to be. The rest of it is rather straight forward in comparison...

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I still edit my stories on the computer, even though I write in notebooks. After a story in a notebook is finished, I transfer it to a computer so it can go through a stage of editing before I give it to others to read. And then they're spared the trouble of desciphering my handwritting....

But I'm really really really really happy cuz I just got a new computer! Well, what I mean by 'new' is a used computer that my friends had but didn't use so they gave it to me! It's only a '98. But hey! That's high-tech!
My old computer was a '93!

This is what happened to the '93.

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Hehehe. We have a "92" computer - it doesn't even have a colour screen!

I edit my stories heaps, especially as I go, but it doesn't seem to really bother my if some of my friends read my drafts. Once for English had to get someone to "proof" read a story, and my friend wrote all these in-LOTR jokes as comments, which I doubt my teacher would have understood...

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I only read a few paragraphs in the prologu, but what I've read I can tell it's going to be a very good story I'll be back to read more when I have more time....

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i started writing my own bok i'm kind of slow but my teachers said they will help me get it published once i'm done because they really like it.

^ at least your teachers help you..

I am such a bad stroy maker...I cant write stroy worth well anything..They always end up being realted to LOTR in someway or another..It drives me insane..But i have pretty strange dreams..and they are the same dreams over and over again..so i write down what happens in one dream and in the next dream and that how the book goes...my book currently on Vampires and Humas........Strange?

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No, not really. Most of my stories are based off images that I've dreamt.

I think, with writing, you just have to perservere. You've got to tell yourself that there are no rules, so you've got to set those rules for yourself.

I remember reading something that went: "free yourself from the games of others and the expectations they impose on you. Free yourself to play your own game."

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[quote="Herenya"] I remember reading something that went: "free yourself from the games of others and the expectations they impose on you. Free yourself to play your own game." [/quote]

Wow! What a good quote!

On the subject of dreams, has anyone seen the characters from a story you've written in your dreams? I totally have! In one, my character, Ladelia, was walking down the street across from me and she actually turned and looked at me!

In the second, I actually lived out a scene from one of my books as my character, Kirali. That was really awesome! Then I did one of those half-woke-up-then-fell-back-asleep things. When I fell asleep again, I was the same character, but my real life dog was there and I was eating potato chips! Wierd huh?

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I've never had many inspirational dreams. I've only dreamed about my story three times that I can remember, and that's surprising considering how much I write and think about it

when I do have dreams about my story, it's usually a blend of the current books I'm obsessing over, RPGs I've joined, and my story.

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Hey, I'm writing a book, and am already half way through. It's entitled Fires of the Phoenix, and I think I have the prologue posted somewhere... Anyway, the characters in it are in fact all from my dreams, so there's a thought.

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Generally I've turned dreams into stories, rather than dreaming about my stories...

However, it happened once. I was the main character... anyway, I got the whole idea for a sequel. What happens next to the characters.
However, it involves the characters having to hide in a certain place, and I cannot come up with a plausible reason for them to do so... it's so annoying - great plot, but no way of explaining how the characters really came to be in that situation, because it's set in present day. So I think I might be tempted to write the sequel in another era, or turn it into a fantasy. Weird, but it would seriously work...

Maya, the quote's from this "Manifesto for Children".

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I have ideas, dreams, and thoughts great ideas that come to me- I just dont know how to express them that well.

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I'm writing...three stories, that I can recall off teh top of my head... Plot holes everywhere... character flaws... lack of plot... ACK! I'm right in there with ya!

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