Anyone do any fantasy writing? - Page 10

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-18-2003, 11:26 AM

I take it they are the heroines, if you don't mind my asking?

Elessar the Elfstone · 03-18-2003, 12:52 PM

I too like writing fantasy at the moment I'm writing a novel about Gandalf's return to middle earth I'm planning to send it to this site's fan fiction page.

P.S If anyone reads it in the future I apologise for any spelling/punctuation mistakes

elvendrummer87 · 03-18-2003, 11:20 PM

i've done some fantsy stuff. most of it i've chucked after a few miserable pages though. currently i'm working on a story that sounds pretty much like every other fantsy i've read (besides Tolkien) but i like it. i've also done some historical fiction about the american civil war and stuff. and i'm really into writing poetry!

**crickhollow** · 03-19-2003, 01:04 AM

Most of my stuff involves parallel worlds, and the characters stumbling from one in to the other. After the great tradition set in motion by Carroll, MacDonald, Baum, and Lewis (chronilogically in that order

), I suppose, but the worlds are my own.

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-19-2003, 01:28 AM

Ok, lemme pose a question to the good people o' the 'Moot: Do any of you belong to/attend any writer's groups?

**crickhollow** · 03-19-2003, 02:48 AM

no. This semester I'm taking a creative writing class, but when that ends next month, I'll be homeless.

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-19-2003, 11:48 AM

I've joined a church writer's group with monthly meetings on the third Tuesday. In last night's meeting, a new person came, who reads fantasy! Woohoo!

I plan on taking at least one creative writing class, maybe more, but unfortunately I can't do that in my current school system

, so I'll have to wait until I'm out of school.

EDIT: wrote at least one a creative writing class.

See title for more info.

Laurus Nobilis · 03-19-2003, 02:38 PM

I haven't taken part into any groups until now, but I want to find out more about a creative writing group that begins next month in my college. Let's just hope it's affordable!

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-19-2003, 03:01 PM

Ha. Mine's free.

Lief Erikson · 03-19-2003, 08:09 PM

I tend to think of all the characters in my books as just characters, rather than heroes or heroines. But I guess Syrayal and Ebrella could be called heroines, yes

. They are main characters, anyway, and are involved in one of the missions.

I'm not involved in any writers' group either.

elvendrummer87 · 03-19-2003, 08:10 PM

i'd like to join a group but there aren't many "creative writing" type people 'round here.
(i can't STAND it when people come up to me and say,"what are you reading<or writing>?" and when they look at the cover and see a fantasy kind of painting or read a bit of my fantasy story say "oh. that's not my kind of book and walk away looking at me like i have lobsters coming out of my ears. i get that ALL the time!)

Lief Erikson · 03-19-2003, 08:19 PM

Jeepers! How sad; they ought to encourage you and suggest improvement if they see improvement as needed, but it's ridiculous to just stamp on someone else's inspiration. Luckily, even when I was writing at a very early age and had almost nothing in my books but fighting, people still encouraged me

. Do you have any encouragement then, besides Entmoot?

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-19-2003, 08:25 PM

Yeah, by Heroines I meant Protaganists, like the central Characters.

I know the feeling. People sometimes act like fantasy is stupid.

Fortunately, I don't encounter that much. My mom, although she dislikes fantasy, is supportive of my writing, and the people at my writer's group have expressed interest in reading what I'll bring.

Lief Erikson · 03-19-2003, 08:27 PM

Is everyone reading each other's writing in that group, then?

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-19-2003, 08:33 PM

At our last meeting, we all brought something of ours, and had it read by another member of the group, while the rest jotted down thoughts, and then critiqued (The leader of the group . But I didn't get much critiquing.

I think I intimidated them a bit by bringing my poem that had been published.

Lief Erikson · 03-19-2003, 08:37 PM

That's too bad. Part 1 of my book is being critiqued by a screenplay writer, and my Dad also might help in that. He's a good writer himself, though he doesn't do much fiction. So again, I'm lucky.

Does anyone think we should start posting our own fantasy books/stories on this thread, or do you think we should ask one of the admins for a new forum?

I'm just wondering because there are a lot of writers at Entmoot, or people that are trying to write. It'd be fun to be able to share those stories, but I'm afraid they'd swamp the Fantasy/Sci-Fi forum.

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-19-2003, 08:42 PM

I don't really know, that might be a bad idea with stuff you intend to publish, due to copyright problems.

Lief Erikson · 03-19-2003, 09:07 PM

People would have to make that decision for themselves. I have no plans of posting The Uirlon Cord on such a forum, but I'd be fine with posting my short stories.

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-19-2003, 09:09 PM

It would certainly be fun.

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-19-2003, 09:47 PM

Hey, if they've got one for Harry Potter *cough*, why not for new fantasy stories?

Think you we should PM them or wot?

03-18-2003, 11:26 AM	#181
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I take it they are the heroines, if you don't mind my asking? __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-19-2003, 01:04 AM	#184
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	Most of my stuff involves parallel worlds, and the characters stumbling from one in to the other. After the great tradition set in motion by Carroll, MacDonald, Baum, and Lewis (chronilogically in that order ), I suppose, but the worlds are my own. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

03-19-2003, 01:28 AM	#185
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Ok, lemme pose a question to the good people o' the 'Moot: Do any of you belong to/attend any writer's groups? __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-19-2003, 02:48 AM	#186
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	no. This semester I'm taking a creative writing class, but when that ends next month, I'll be homeless. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

03-19-2003, 11:48 AM	#187
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I've joined a church writer's group with monthly meetings on the third Tuesday. In last night's meeting, a new person came, who reads fantasy! Woohoo! I plan on taking at least one creative writing class, maybe more, but unfortunately I can't do that in my current school system , so I'll have to wait until I'm out of school. EDIT: wrote at least one a creative writing class. See title for more info. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-18-2003, 12:52 PM	#182
Elessar the Elfstone Enting Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Usually located Bree Inn of the prancing pony Posts: 59	I too like writing fantasy at the moment I'm writing a novel about Gandalf's return to middle earth I'm planning to send it to this site's fan fiction page. P.S If anyone reads it in the future I apologise for any spelling/punctuation mistakes

03-18-2003, 11:20 PM	#183
elvendrummer87 Enting Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: new jersey Posts: 80	i've done some fantsy stuff. most of it i've chucked after a few miserable pages though. currently i'm working on a story that sounds pretty much like every other fantsy i've read (besides Tolkien) but i like it. i've also done some historical fiction about the american civil war and stuff. and i'm really into writing poetry!

03-19-2003, 02:38 PM	#188
Laurus Nobilis Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Posts: 73	I haven't taken part into any groups until now, but I want to find out more about a creative writing group that begins next month in my college. Let's just hope it's affordable! __________________ "...So the essential Quest started at once. But I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was than had Frodo. The Mines of Moria had been a mere name; and of Lothlórien no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away I knew there were the Horse-lords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fangorn Forest was an unforeseen adventure." ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

03-19-2003, 03:01 PM	#189
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Ha. Mine's free. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-19-2003, 08:09 PM	#190
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	I tend to think of all the characters in my books as just characters, rather than heroes or heroines. But I guess Syrayal and Ebrella could be called heroines, yes . They are main characters, anyway, and are involved in one of the missions. I'm not involved in any writers' group either.

03-19-2003, 08:10 PM	#191
elvendrummer87 Enting Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: new jersey Posts: 80	i'd like to join a group but there aren't many "creative writing" type people 'round here. (i can't STAND it when people come up to me and say,"what are you reading<or writing>?" and when they look at the cover and see a fantasy kind of painting or read a bit of my fantasy story say "oh. that's not my kind of book and walk away looking at me like i have lobsters coming out of my ears. i get that ALL the time!)

03-19-2003, 08:19 PM	#192
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	Jeepers! How sad; they ought to encourage you and suggest improvement if they see improvement as needed, but it's ridiculous to just stamp on someone else's inspiration. Luckily, even when I was writing at a very early age and had almost nothing in my books but fighting, people still encouraged me . Do you have any encouragement then, besides Entmoot?

03-19-2003, 08:25 PM	#193
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Yeah, by Heroines I meant Protaganists, like the central Characters. I know the feeling. People sometimes act like fantasy is stupid. Fortunately, I don't encounter that much. My mom, although she dislikes fantasy, is supportive of my writing, and the people at my writer's group have expressed interest in reading what I'll bring. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-19-2003, 08:27 PM	#194
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	Is everyone reading each other's writing in that group, then?

03-19-2003, 08:33 PM	#195
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	At our last meeting, we all brought something of ours, and had it read by another member of the group, while the rest jotted down thoughts, and then critiqued (The leader of the group . But I didn't get much critiquing. I think I intimidated them a bit by bringing my poem that had been published. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-19-2003, 08:37 PM	#196
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	That's too bad. Part 1 of my book is being critiqued by a screenplay writer, and my Dad also might help in that. He's a good writer himself, though he doesn't do much fiction. So again, I'm lucky. Does anyone think we should start posting our own fantasy books/stories on this thread, or do you think we should ask one of the admins for a new forum? I'm just wondering because there are a lot of writers at Entmoot, or people that are trying to write. It'd be fun to be able to share those stories, but I'm afraid they'd swamp the Fantasy/Sci-Fi forum.

03-19-2003, 08:42 PM	#197
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I don't really know, that might be a bad idea with stuff you intend to publish, due to copyright problems. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-19-2003, 09:07 PM	#198
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	People would have to make that decision for themselves. I have no plans of posting The Uirlon Cord on such a forum, but I'd be fine with posting my short stories.

03-19-2003, 09:09 PM	#199
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	It would certainly be fun. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-19-2003, 09:47 PM	#200
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Hey, if they've got one for Harry Potter cough, why not for new fantasy stories? Think you we should PM them or wot? __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

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