What are you working on?
 

What are you working on currently? Elaborate epic poem? Heart wrenching love story? Insightful essay? Various and sundry miscellany?

At the moment I'm devoting myself to two different pieces of writing, though I'm struggling on one of them.
The piece of writing I am having difficulty is a novella of sorts. I've given it to a few people to read so far and they all say that I should keep on writing, but I can't seem to get my ideas out. I have the whole plot and whatnot, but it just won't flow.
My other piece of writing is more of a collection of short stories -insert shameless plug-. The characters are reflections of people in my life as well as of myself, and they are all linked by the two main characters who appear in each story. I've so far written three stories, and I'm aiming to fill up a small journal with them all.

I'm working on a story that... I can't put into a genre, it could be a mystery, a thriller and it does have some romance in it (as a prelude more than anything lovey-dovey) and involves people who for various reasons break moral codes (they deceive, manipulate, commit fraud, lie to one another etc), but the reasons surrounding their actions are supposed to make it difficult to judge them as good or bad guys. As in, is it right to commit a crime for the sake of someone else? Are you a bad person for committing the crime or are you a bad person for sticking to your morals at the cost of someone else's wellbeing, perhaps even life?

Sounds like the ideal dark pyschological thriller, Alissa. I'd love to read it! I'm working on two pieces...

Flowers Die In Summer: This is what I consider to be my masterpiece, even though it's not done. It's intended to be a heartrending drama about family, faith, certitude, and unconditional love. The story revolves around Eric Bradshaw, whose older brother Liam takes a blow to the head in a fateful construction accident and, as a result, is mentally reduced to someone childlike and sensitive. Eric must learn to be the caretaker, and throughout the story, he struggles with warring feelings of injustice, grief, role reversal, protection, and abandonment in that he'll never get back the Liam he once knew. I want it to be novel length, but stretching it out is proving to be a Herculean task.

Heaven and Earth: Something of a companion to Echoes, though I wouldn't call it a sequel- merely a piece that touches upon similar ideas. The story begins when a bereaved man's wife calls him from her grave of eighteen years, and it regresses into his lifelong quest to recover her killer and enact revenge. The man recollects how his quest clouded his duty as a father to an impressionable six-year-old boy, and struggles with feelings of guilt, weariness, and a deep-seated insecurity that his search for revenge may not be righteous due to its effect on his son. The son grows up throughout the story, but ultimately, it exposes that pain is vulnerable to love and time. It also features one of my classic indefinite ends .

Ohh, Rabid. I would absolutely adore to read Flowers Die in Summer. It sounds amazing...

Thank you! I'm glad that you're interested- having a vote of confidence is quite encouraging. I've been mulling the story over for about six months and have the entire plot outlined, but it's just a matter of committing it to paper . As soon as I have more than my present tally of five pages, I'll be sure it post it in the creative corner.

I know exactly what you mean. With my novella (of sorts :P) Bleed Me Dry I'm having such a large amount of difficulty getting it down. People keep pushing me to continue, but then again, none of these people ever do creative writing and aren't really grasping the difficulty I'm having with it

I tend to write more escapist style fiction, since I've had the great fortune to live a charmed life and can't get into a really messed up charachter's head.

I have two major current projects, along with various and sundry short stories and poems.
Time Again: In 2038 the world is ruled by a totalitarian dictatorship that took power in the first social world war from 2019 to 2022. James Emry is a physics student during the war, and due to the fact that he is useful, his life does not change much and he lives fairly happily for decades. Then, in 2036 his life is ruined when it turns out that his wife is one of the leaders of the rebel movement. He is not punished, but he can no longer support the dictatorship. In two years he finishes a pet project he's been working on since college: the Phase, a time machine. He goes back in time to attempt to stop the social war, and in the process creates dozens of new universes. Unbeknownst to him, there is only so much space for new universes, and if too many form, then time itself will equalize itself, so as to make the problem never happen.

I'm working on the second project with someone else, and as such it is private.

Rabid - yup, that description fits, lol.

And would love to read Heaven and Earth (*wink, wink, nudge*)! (I SO loved Echoes) and also Flowers Die In Summer, too - it sounds beautiful!

PixCii - I loved it, and I thought it was great the way you didn't name them, it made it feel like they were the only people in existence and yet they could be anyone

Furry - That sounds really interesting, sort of like The Butterfly Effect, but self-repairing?

Aww shucks. Thank you very much. I actually got that idea from one of Rabid's stories, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'. I just really loved how mysterious it seemed and decided to try it out Thank you Rabid :D

I've actually never seen the butterfly effect, but I got the idea from a lecture on biology as art, and it was talking about how if you want to draw a tree if the trunk forks then one branch will fork, and the other one has to fork before the first one can. I was reading about paradoxes then, and it occured to me time could fork. And much doodling and brief WW2 obsession later, i got the above idea.

FurryPanda, I'm loving the futuristic setting! ^_^ And Rabid, I'm already amazed at how heartfelt you make Flowers Die In Summer sound for an outline. You're obviously an emotive blurb writer Don't worry too much about stretching it out. I've had big ideas that shrink on paper and they can actually be more poignant as short stories.

At the moment I'm working on world building, and having a great time! All my characters that I've created over the years are coming together in one, coherent setting and it's really exciting imagining how they all react to one another.

The project that will stem from the map is a mixmatch of characters, stories, myths and suchlike, a la Chronicles of Narnia. I find that I have too many notable characters spread over the world's history, so will probably jump back and forth in time to cover the interesting bits. XD

Because I'm self-employed and primarily working on building my storytelling business, I don't have much time to write these days. I'm currently just working on a Sims story, partly because I've always loved graphic novels yet never felt my drawing skills were quite up to snuff to make one, myself. The Sims story lets me play with the juxtaposition of visual image and text. I have to say it's much harder than I thought it would be, and I'm not yet satisfied that I have a good balance of picture quality versus text. I don't mean just technically, but also in framing the best, most dramatic shots with the most emotional punch.

However, it has been a tremendous learning experience so far. It is also making me think about story and writing in a different way, sort of opening up that intuitive side of the brain that responds so well to imagery. I doubt I will ever be totally satisfied with the results, and I'm not sure that's such a bad thing. A complacent writer usually isn't a very good writer. To me it's important to push the envelope and force myself out of my comfort zones.

Right now, I'm working on a stupidly-fluffy piece of Transformers fanfic. Go me.

I'm also contemplating a very cracky AU Transformers thing, plopping them into medieval Europe instead of modern-day USA. It needs research in order to find the most interesting place/time in which to plop them. And speaking of research...

I'm researching my Richard I novel, but that's been kind of backburnered since December, due to the pounding of snow we got that month that made me not-enthusiastic about the concept of driving the 20 miles to the "local" college library. I'm sure my enthusiasm for it will fire up again soon. I'm still sort of working with online sources for it, as well, but I just like the feel and the ambiance of a library for researching, is all. I like to be able to hold sources in my hand.

Gee, can you tell my favorite part of writing tends to be researching?

iCad, you're not the only one who hates to get out in snow or cold. I hibernate every chance I get. When the weather gets better, I'll get back to the historical society for research on local history. Until then I'm quite happy to stick to fiction. :D

I'm writing something new called Faith. It's a short story about a religious skeptic who meets a dying woman at a support group for the terminally ill. They navigate a relationship in which she teaches him about the comfort of belief, but when he is healed after she convinces him to attend a faith healing, his newfound religious prosperity falls through in that he can't believe in a God who doesn't heal the deserving. Although religious quandaries linger about while the story unfolds, it's essentially a narrative about love, loss, and (surprise, surprise) faith.

A little story about the Phantom of the Opera which is turning about to be quite epic.
I planned it to be one or two chapters, but, I've been bored as of late, and have worked on it more.

Three things:

1. A story i am writing writing with my friend that at the moment goes by the name 'Kernishia'. It's about 80 pages with a map draw and all. It takes place in an imaginary world in the middle of a war. About two orphaned children who's mothers have been murdered and who's father are in Kernishia. They decide to find their way there and in the end do, after trekking through a country wrecked by war. The girl finds her dad, the boy doesnt. The second part is 10 years later where they come back into a dictatorship and again have to hide and act as slaves for a while. The third part is where they realsie their parents were part of an organisation to save children from the war through underground tunnels. The join in and try to save children but many die. Both the boy and the girl die at the end. The fourth part is about the surviving children and the life of one of them (Maeve) who ran away thinking she shot the boy (she didnt). She goes into a world of magic and pretty much gets betrayed all the way through. At the end she dies along with many others, but her child survives. In part 5 her child is raised to be evil and told to kill all the people who still know about the other country.

2. 'Ataska'. A story about a young girl who is a blind artist. She spend her whole life not seeing and its about how she discovers the world and how she sees it.

3. A story about a white man who finds a black girl in a racist world. He takes her in and tries to intergrate her into a white society. The girl doesn't understand why she is different. One night her dad comes home after being beaten by some peopel who dont agree on him rasing a black child. The girl runs away and manages to get adopted into a black society. She lives her life in poverty but makes something out of herself. After a revolution she goes back to find her father, finding out that he is dead and being told it was her fault she throws herself into a river.

Well, I have a rough idea for a new short story, though I'm not too sure how I'm going to put it to paper.
After watching the latest episode of Supernatural, I was thinking about writing a story on Sirens. I've been told that I make mythical stories work when I focus on them, so I'm quite tempted to do this one. I have the whole idea planned out in my head, now all I have to do is put pen to paper.

That sounds like a great story, PixCii! I'm fascinated by Greek mythology and would be quite interested in reading it, even more so if a Dean-esque character made an appearance .

Currently (as in, right now) I'm working on an Omerta screenplay. Derange and I are testing out this format because it seems to lend itself better to our story/plot. It's actually some what easier to get everything down because you don't have to worry about poet, elaborate sentance structure or flow. Opens with a nice little death scene. Oh, mobster movies, ILU.

Also, I'm working on a screenplay for my film class. It's called Fight the Cravings.

Description/Pitch:

Cheryl has been overweight and unhappy nearly all her life, and she will no longer live with it! She’s tried everything to get her weight done to no avail until a new solution prevents itself: HypnoHelp – a hypnotherapy clinic dedicated to eliminating the addictions of their clients.

The hypnotherapy session Cheryl attended seems to have worked. She’s beginning to eat healthy, with a salad in her hand as she walks downtown past restaurants she normally would’ve been eating in. And then, the scent of a nearby bakery catches her attention. It entices her, and she struggles with herself. “Fight the cravings. Fight the cravings. Fight the cravings.” And she does. She seems to go into a trance, stuffs the remainder of her salad into her mouth and enters the bakery to verbally assault the proprietor. Eventually she is thrown to the curb and shaken from her trance. But this trend continues throughout a montage of her week. Destruction of property enters the picture. Near fist fights, too. Her fights elevate in seriousness until her final battle… with a little girl running a side-walk bake sale. Flashing light and sirens.

Dissolve to the waiting room (specifically the sign) of HypnoHelp. The camera pans over and down a poster that reads: “Believe it! HypnoHelp really works! I used to be 355 pounds and NOW…I wear…” Cheryl’s face and body is slowly revealed, skinnier and clothed in “a size five jumpsuit!”. A size five ORANGE jumpsuit - to be specific.

I wouldn't say I'm working on anything, but I do have many ideas which I hope to eventually follow through with. One of these would be a novel in the perspective of a female teenager or young adult who has a neuropathic disorder or something along those lines. I would need to do a lot of research for that one, since I despise science-fiction and alike, so it has remained untouched for quite some time now.

Another dusty idea that has been sitting around for a while would be again a novel, this time about a woman in her thirties or early forties who has a disordered lifestyle making a living from painting and anything else to make cash. She suffers from depression and goes through a period of perplexity, forlorn and dispair whilst somehow developing an intimate relationship.

Great ideas everyone!

Those sound like interesting pieces, burnziiy. As far as a neuropathic disorder, I've always wanted to read a novel from the perspective of someone with synaesthesia.

I've seen the Watchmen preview a few too many times, and it led me to a question. So often in the comics we see superheroes who die a human death, but what would a superhero death entail? I'm writing a short story called Not With A Bang, But A Whimper about the possibility of their special abilities causing their deaths- the invisible girl slowly disintegrates, the kid who walks through walls disappears, etc. It's not fangirly in the least, and I'm not writing it with any specific superheroes in mind- it's actually a rather serious piece about how lost and forsaken the narrator feels as his contemporaries slowly die away.

^ I really love that outlook, Rabid. It's an interesting idea, I've never really thought about it before.

At the mo I'm still working on my big map and weaving some character's stories into it. It's mostly finishing off details in the world now, but I've got some gorgeous characters that I can't wait to write about! I just have to form a solid story.

I'm trying to make it less magical or fantastical and focus on emotions and such - it's the main feedback that I usually get... my writing gets very fsr-fetched if I don't watch out!

At the moment I'm working on a story with some religious belief in it, where there is a man who doesn't believe in the idea of religion until he meets his God. It explores the idea of soul mates, except your soul mate would be like your God. Admittedly, I did get the idea from 'You Found Me', by The Fray.

I also have been researching Norse folklore, and I've found a few myths and lore that interest me (what can I say? I'm addicted to the supernatural), so I'm thinking about writing a longer story about some of these. Of course, I always have trouble starting mythical stories, but I'm quite interested in writing this one.

Everyone has such great ideas! Plus, everyone has such a great writing style. I hope to read them all.

Everyone's ideas seem so much more profound than my own. PixCii, I too love using folklore in my writing. I incorporate it very often!

Just because your story may not strike you as profound in its initial planning doesn't mean that it won't end up being emotionally affecting, Gemmareno. I think it sounds like a good read! Fantasy isn't my preferred genre, be it reading or writing, but what I really enjoy about fantasy is the constant ability of its authors to create a rich fictional world lush in sensory detail. I admire your ability to map it out, too- I pretty much get an idea and go . And thank you for expressing interest!

PixCii, your first story sounds lovely, to me. Even though I am not a religious person in the least, there's something inherently beautiful in literature about crises of faith and the eventual epiphany. I read something in a philosophy book about the concept of love being complete union with God, which might be an interesting idea to incorporate into your story. I look forward to reading it!

Thanks Rabid, it's great to get unbiased encouragement such as yours. The mapping out is the most enjoyable part for me. I like using bits of string to measure out how long travelling would take from city to city. If I ever scan it to a computer I'll put it up. It's pretty big though.

Gemmareno, you must be so patient. One of the reasons why I never write long stories involving fantasy (especially where I have to create a whole other world), is because I can't seem to commit to planning everything out. I would love to see your map, though.

Yes it does take some time - the map has been hanging around for about 4 years now! I love fantasy for its settings, history, cultures so I put a lot of what I like reading about into what I write... otheriwse it wouldn't be as fun! I'll see about scanning it in. Thanks!

Thanks, Rabid. I would think that the novel would have to be cleverly written to get the experience of synaesthesia across. It’d be best written in first person for the affected and perhaps also first person for a friend/family member/lover of the affected person.

I also really like you superhero idea, particularly the relation that the narrator has.

I've managed to finish part 4 of my story and am currently editing. Its about 100 pages of A4 at the moment. It's been 2 years and i'm so glad that part is done at last, it was the longest. Now only part 5, 6 and 7 to go!

Hello! Now I study psychology of people and try to select the genres of verses on their psychological type. Interesting enough employment. All of us raznye and very contradictory. Yet I write little truthful histories about life :lovestruc

I need something new to inspire me. At the moment all I'm doing is rewriting a few of my older stories with better language use and grammar, and attempting some rewrites of other stories, such as what people did during the 5th writing challenge here. I really want some new ideas though, because I have all of this pent up want to write, but I can't write a decent story without any inspiration.

^ Try something totally new? A genre you've never done before? I tend to get really creative when I've read a chapter of a book I love (but not two, because then things get depressing for my enthusiasm! XD)

I'm currently working on a vampire story. Yes, a vampire story, and I'm not ashamed. I hate how Twilight made vampires into something cheesy and cliched. I like vampires. The most important difference between my vampires and vampires in traditional vampire stories is that in mine vampirism is a recognized condition, like a disease. There are treatment facilities and research institutes and there are lots of ways to go if one is bitten by a vampire, and one still wants to live in society.

I'm working on a noir sci-fi graphic novel and a DevART exclusive book series.

At the moment I'm working on a story for an assignment at school. It's from the perspective of a tree, but hopefully it won't end up all cheesy and whatnot. The tree is talking about how the world has changed, focusing mainly on the topic of industrilization in modern society.

Sounds very interesting PixCii, I'd love to read it when it's done.

In keeping with attempting to hammer away at pre-existing projects (I have a bad habit of starting something new and therefore losing steam on what's old), I'm writing a little story about a dog whose owner has died, and the dog doesn't understand. The dog knows that he is gone but cannot comprehend that he isn't coming back, and so she continues to search the property and wait for him. It's really nothing more than an experiment (Jesse Ball has gotten me into experimental, non-linear fiction), but it's a learning experience to write about something other than a human.

I'm working on an epic poem that wont go anywhere for some time because I don't have a solid hold on it yet . I'm also working on two stories that turned into comics, I have beginning and end for both but no dialog to push them forward, I'm currently procrastinating on it because I want to up my drawing skills before I continue with it. Both of the stories is fantasy, not really unicorns and mermaids, but magic and non-realism; one is actually a mockery of fairy tales, but not a parody; it would be a crossover of Brothers Grimm and other fairy tales, that gives me a lot of pain in the ass research to do. My other one is on gypsy magic and tarot cards, which also induce a lot of butt hurt research -_-.

Right now I'm working on chapter 2 of a long forgotten story...The beginning is similar to Twilight, but I don't plan any mythical creatures into it...It's similar in that I have a girl named Megan moving from Florida to Seattle...*not very creative*
I'm also working on my story on here which takes more of my time...

Occasionally I like to troll writers' websites for prompts, and I found something absolutely fantastic in my latest excursion. "Five things she knows about him that no one else does."

And so, I've started on a short love story. As I understand them, "five things" prompts are expected to be brief and seemingly anecdotal, and as I am an incredibly verbose writer, it's turning out more like a short series of five interconnecting vignettes than a brief portrait. Still, it's my story to put a stamp on, and I'm delighted with it so far. The tentative title is When We Talk About Love, which is a gross allusion to Raymond Carver.

A new story I'll soon post on the story section x) It's called either....:
I Found You
Love Never Leaves Me
Slipping Away(Copywright...Sounds so familiar)
Wishes
Love Triangle

Maybe you guys help...

A really long fanfiction, that as of now is titled "You Belong With Me" (yes, as in the Taylor Swift song) and will probably get a new title later on down the road. I've been trying to come up with something original, but I've had trouble.

A book about a young girl (teenager) who get's kidnapped.That's all I'm telling in this post

1. A book about four 25-30 year old immortals who live in a world where it appears that humans reign supreme... but really, it's the humanoid interfaces and Assembly of Magical Beings who are keeping everything under control, from making the world spin out of order. It doesn't help that one of them has an ancient, powerful tiger demon trapped inside her... or that another one is a direct son of Pallas Athene, the Greek goddess, and therefore a member of the superpowerful Olympian family...

That ^^ is a fairly light read, probably good for lifting your spirits up, possibly making you laugh, maybe even choking on your ice cream, forcing you to get sent to the hospital because you broke your leg after tripping over the ice cream that fell out of your mouth. (It’s just… my kind of humor…)

2. A light novel titled "You Belong with Me" (wow, like chelleypie's!!) loosely based on Taylor Swift's music video, where a very unpopular girl, named Carolina Brown ('Lina' to her friends, of which she has one), has had a crush on her next door neighbor James Mason since they were kids; James grew up to be popular and the star of the football team, and is dating Lina's former best friend Renee Jasper, who had told Lina that she would no longer be friends with her after becoming superpopular practically overnight after being invited to a party by a girl who had a lot of influence at the school.

Renee is not snobby or stuck-up; she just thought that what she was doing was 'right for her', as her other friends, who are actually rather cruel but not to Renee, told her. Basically what happens is that Lina undergoes a major transformation, because she says to herself, “If I just put my hair in braids, wear the cute leggings I bought at the mall, maybe with a pair of ballet flats and a purse, then they’ll accept me. It’s as simple as that.” However, the reason she’s doing this is because she thinks James will accept her as more than a friend if she makes herself more attractive.

In the end of the year, Renee breaks up with James knowing that Lina loves him, although she (Renee) still loves James; she and Lina’s relationship has then healed. James and Lina are now a happy couple, and Lina looks back on the year reflecting what has happened to her. She quits being with her so-called ‘friends’ at the cheer team, as does Renee. Everything is then ‘happily ever after’.

(Sorry that the summaries are so long. I’m just so horrible at making short, sweet little summaries.)

I'm still working on my five things prompt: five things about him that only she knows. I think it's shaping up to be a lovely, intimate piece, but the length makes me nervous. Most five things prompts are two-thousand words, if that- mine has only three of the five things written and it's at nine-thousand. I have this awful deficiency in which even the simplest of prompts has to become an emotional masterpiece under my supervision- I can't write something that isn't grandiose and fleshed out in every aspect. It started as five vignettes, and now it's a chronicle of their relationship and everything she feels about him.

What am I working on? Trying to write something, anything besides a poem.

Franki, just don't give up! Novel writing can be difficult, authors have admitted. But its fun and worth it in the end

A writer's courage can easily fail him . . . I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.” --EB White.

Anyway, as for me I'm banging my head around with a few ideas. I already have the plot sort of layed out.

At the moment I don't really have a story line, but I've just been working on a lot of character profiles. I wish I had an idea, but the moment hasn't struck me as of late.

Same as before, and failing miserably on account of the fact that all my stories move too fast. I really need to work on my description. Back to describing the alarm clock in great and glorious detail, I guess... *groans*

...Oh, and also an essay about the Shakespeare play, 'Much Ado About Nothing' and the deception in it. *groans again*

I've started thinking about a sort of fantasy spoof. I'm fleshing out the characters and thinking of a possible plotline. It'll be something fun to write

For the past few months I've been thinking on my next sims story. I find that having the visual outlet really helps with my writing as I can picture it clearly.

It's going to be set in a more grungy, urban and slightly Victorian influenced setting, and at the moment I have a vague idea of the main plot point but I need to take some time and plan it out more. I'm waiting until uni is over for this year though so I have time to focus on it.

English assignment.

working on a horror novel called Delirium. Abt a man with split personalities that make him do bad bad things.

Drafts can be read HERE

I love The Garden Party! I read it for my 9th Grade English class when we had to read all kinds of different genres for various projects. Katherine Mansfield's short stories collection were the ones I chose. I even brought it to college with me.

I'm writing a parody of boarding school stories at the moment for a friend, basing the school on our old high school. I'm never going to finish it though, it's just a fact. I never finish anything.

I've revived this story I started writing a while ago, I took the basic plot and am re-writing it.

It's about this girl named Martina. Her friends call her Marty. She's really into skateboarding, and is like a tomboy. She's in love with her best friend, and they have this little secret place in the park. One day she goes there by herself and finds her best friend there, and he brought a different girl there. She gets all angry and stuff about it...

My friend thinks she should find out she's like... a vampire or soething? What should I do with it?

That, actually sounds like a good idea
Okay, I will do that. Once I have time... hopefully. My life is moving way too fast for me right now.
But now that I'm re-reading that, it sounds really bad. Trust me, though, it is a bit beetter when you actually read it

I'm writing a book called "Moon"

I've finally managed to stretch a short story into a novel (an objective I've aspired to for years but handily failed at each time); I'm thinking of calling it The Sun is Coming Too Close.

It's a tale set in a somewhat distant future (I'm thinking 300 or so years ahead) involving a female physicist and her astronaut husband, whose research is conducted in deep space. She muses extensively upon how she is meant for the ground, and despite the fact that she attempts to keep him with her on earth, even their undying love cannot triumph over the fact that he is meant to do great things in space exploration. When she is days away from giving birth to their son, the mission that he's currently on (some sort of research that will change life as we know it and establish him as a hero) goes foul and he dies, but not before making an enormous scientific breakthrough.

This leaves her the widow of the world's greatest hero, raising a child so much like him that she thinks she can't stand it. Raising their son is not without challenges, and sometimes she thinks that she can't look at him because he is so like his father. She has to cope with her grief as well as be an effective mother to a fatherless boy too smart for his own good. However, nothing scares her more than the possibility that he will become an astronaut and meet the same fate that his heroic father did. Naturally, that's what happens, and when he comes home after a few years away to tell her of his accomplishments (something akin to the legendary status of those of his father), she is finally able to see him as a separate person and be proud, ultimately understanding that grief is vulnerable to time, as is love.

I plan the novel to exist in three spheres, so to speak: one in the present that draws out the scene of his homecoming, one in the past that details the parents' courtship/marriage and the raising of the child, and one that plays out the part in which the father dies. I imagine that he and his wife are having their last video conference, and I plan to reprise the scene every few chapters or so, each time with more and more vital details, building it up to be bigger and bigger as the novel goes.

I've started working on it already, and the actual writing aspect is a delight. I love space imagery, so this is a dream come true.

At the moment, I'm writing a story called The Forgotten Past.
The story starts with the main character running (we don't know what from yet). However, when she attempts to cross an old, broken bridge, she falls and hits her head. When she awakes, she is in a foreign place, with no memories of who she is. The only clue she has is a bracelet with her name on it. Over time, the girl starts to see visions that are triggered by things around her and she eventually figures out that these visions are her memories of her past. Because of this, she sets out on a quest to discover her past, using only the few things that she has remembered.

However, this story sounds very childish compared to the AMAZING stories that everybody else here is writing. Seriously guys, just from your descriptions your writing is amazing.

I want to write something for a competition...

Essays. Many essays. Well, that's just for school. In my spare time I'm writing a few other random stories, but none of them are working out. Oh, and I'm also working on a fan fiction or two at the moment.

That sounds quite a lot like a story I was going to write a while ago, but never really did...

I'm working on what was originally a silly fantasy spoof but is turning into a bit of an epic novel in itself.

It's basically about a barmaid, a wizard-in-training and a hero (think dragon-slayer, medieval hero). And they are travelling together, and there's an evil empress and a princess who is much smarter than she looks and an old man who has lung cancer and evil men setting fire to things and and and and stuff! :biggrin:

At the moment I'm working on a new short story about a young man who has just come back from serving in the Iraq war. Three months later, he finds he has leukemia. As with all of my stories, it's dreadfully depressing.

At the moment I'm writing on 3 storys (maybe too much^^) called 'Chase', 'Die Suche' (german for: 'searching') and 'Don't forget - I'll always hate you'.

Chase: I write it together with my best friend and it's about our real life. Ok, sounds boring.^^ It's 'bout real persons with new names, but the story is kind of thriller. But cuz I don't know what my friend will write I can't really say what's about.^^

Searching: It's definitly in the past (maybe middle ages), but I cannot say it exactly cuz it plays in a fantasy world. It's war because of two princes who both want to became the next king. Nyasia, a 18-years-old-girl, is caught by one of them, but Jayce, a guy she hates at the beginning, comes to rescue her. (sounds sort of corny, i know ) At last he's caught, too, but they can escape (after a little fight XD). Then they wanna find the lost prince, to stop the war.(Cuz this prince is older than the others and so he would be the king) On their way Yuna and her brother Ramiro accompany them. (They'll all die... I'm so evil :P)

Don't forget. I'll always hate you: It's a story I write with a few sims2 pics for a german sims-site.
It's about Araceli, whose mother is very mean to her since her dad was killed. (To her siblings she isn't.) Cuz she can't endure this anymore, she goes to a friend. But when she decides to come back again, her mum isn't angry and it seems like she totally changed. But appearances are deceitful...
A thriller and a bit lovestory, I'd say.

I'm working on two books right now...

Fragile is about a girl who's dad dies, and she faces it in the worst way possible. It's based very loosely on my own issues with depression.

Do You Remember Me? is about a couple who are driving home from a date and end up in a car crash. One of them gets hit in the head pretty badly, and suffers brain damage in the form of amnesia and can't remember a thing.

I'm working on several stories, each of which I am at a complete writers block with :'( I mainly write horror, and that's what all the stories I'm working on are, except one. =)

I'm turning my diary entries into a complete story :D

I'm working on 2 really , but right now i'm Working on this Novella serious
A fantasy novel that based on a fictional world of mine .

I am working on this story that i called "Trying To Be Me"
Its about this young girl who is 16 and she is trying to find out who she is and what she is about. Her life is like a ship wreck nothing goes right and her dad beats her and makes her feel worthless and her mum died when she was four just before the royle ballet company accepted her,but he dad would not let her go because it reminded him to much of her mother.

Does anyone want to read the intro to it?

I am currently working on a piece about the "old time" prospectors.
A man is working in a mine and at his station finds a big part of the mine is holding gold. He hides it from everybody else, but soon dies from a freak accident. His son, Thomas (doesn't sound like a very good "old time" name, but whatever) was only seven at the time, but starts working as a prospector also.
And I've got the rest figured out, but don't want to type it. :P

On my friend's request I am now working on the backstory of Shaunee in the House of Night. Something tells me this will take a while. X)

I quit out on the prospector thing, now I'm working on nothing.

Me, I want

I'm working on a book totally based on my life this year: love, jealously and sadness.

...I kinda quit the backstory thing. I dunno why, I just can't come up with anything original enough when I'm using someone else's characters. It kinda means its not 'my' story if you see what I mean. So now I'm working on Plan B, which is try to resurrect the story I was going to write with TS2 but never got round to posting (or really writing anything other than the first two chapters). :P

As of now I am writing a chapter book about... well, I don't want to ruin the surprise, but anyways, it's an action and adventure book... fiction. It also contains morals related to friendship and teamwork/trusting others.

I am in the process of reasearching for my murder mystery in the eyes of murder.

I'm currently writing a fantasy story... Haven't worked on it in a while though -.-

A story about an angsty, promiscuous bitch. Oh, and some other characters.

Wow, this group is totally dead.

I'm also working on a story about a guy and a girl and the progression of their relationship. It's quite simple, but I like it.

Threadcromancy!

^Sounds interesting, PixCii. Are you messing with chronology? I always think that chronologically disorderly love stories, à la 500 Days of Summer, are so interesting.

I'm writing a prose piece based around a line from Richard Siken's exquisite "You Are Jeff": "You're in a car with a beautiful boy and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you." I love writing prose with refrains, so this is right up my alley.

Supernatural Mystery "Blue Lakes"
 

I'm currently writing a novel(la) for NaNoWriMo. Just something quick, unedited but hopefully over 50k words. Blue Lakes is about a depressed beat cop (Summer Tan) who becomes obsessed with the murder of her aunt's ex-husband, and, after a series of unfortunate events, commits suicide. She wakes up a few hours later, however, and goes to the quiet but eerie Minnesota town of Blue Lakes, where her grandmother Sun Ying is sleuthing. On the eve of her departure, Tan is drowned in the lake, but awakes in the Minneapolis Insane Asylum, in what appears to be a parallel universe. Now questioning her own sanity and having to cope with sporadic "jumps" between realities, in addition to being pursued by shady FBI Special Agent Jericho Franklin and his partner Helena Torres. In both the asylum and Blue Lakes, she must rely on help from the most unconventional of places to find the truth behind her reality and put a stop to the shifts; one way or another.

I most certainly am messing with chronology. I love writing stories like that.

im writting a story about a girl and here big family.shes called lucy jones.theres a school for vampires,witches and warlocks,faires(but not girly winged ones,ones that can read peoples minds)and wearwolfes.shes a witch.they have tons of adventures at school.only on chapter one.

shadow pharoph a story i started a month ago and still have'nt finnished it

I'm working on my novel, did three or four hours today, the same yesterday, yet i never feel i'm moving it along quick enough.

Writing is like, hard!

Sad zombie story. I haven't worked on it in 3 months.

This group always needs more love.

I'm working on something called I Couldn't Get the Boy to Kill Me. It's about two male assassins named Lior and Jude who are madly in love, but they both have moral quandaries with the nature of their work and want to lead a suburban existence free of bloodshed. Lior wants it more than anything (perhaps even more than Jude does), and as he sees it, the only way to be free of their dangerous profession is to ensure that they can't be dragged back due to information of their whereabouts volunteered by friends. As such, he goes around the world killing anyone who knows enough to jeopardize their idyllic future. He's a good guy trapped in a bad world and a bad set of circumstances, so works to keep it a secret from Jude, deals with the moral repercussions of what he's doing, and struggles to justify his actions to Jude when Jude discovers what he's up to.

More than the sum of the plot, though, I think it's about how it's possible to love someone too much-- how love can become so frightening and all-encompassing that the things it would drive a person to do are terrifying and immoral. It's also about the danger of forgetting who you are when you're in love and allowing the other person to consume you entirely. It's kind of a tragedy, in a way.

UPDATE: I'm working on a story about monster-hunters. I hope to make money off it. I'm also making a CSI story for the creative section of MTS, but should I make it a Sims story instead? I don't like taking pictures.

A novel I have started in December. I really like adore it. I only have around 60 pages left, can't wait to publish it.

Nothing at the present time, which is quite infuriating. I just can't seem to eek anything out =/

My sims 3 story, taking pictures is harder than it sounds! I need to get the writing finished up so I can finish up a few short stories then get cracking on the planning of my new novel.

A novella, due for publication in a literary magazine in January/February of next year, and a few short stories which I like to keep around as a means of tracking my progress and improvements in writing.

This group is far too inactive for my liking!

I'm working on a novel, seeing as I have a hell of a lot of spare time this year, and a few short stories which will no doubt end up within the novel. It's going to be a long process, working on this, but I hope it will be worth it in the end.

Yeah I agree with you lethifold.