Writewights - Page 12

Fred Baggins · 01-01-2003, 07:43 PM

HAHAHAH! You may be wierd Adrian, but I promise I'm much wierder! Ask Lubyla, or Silverstripe!

Lubyla · 01-01-2003, 07:47 PM

Yes, she is VERY VERY wierd, but I scare her sometimes

And i have a friend who is scarier than Faith.*cough*N*cough*

Fred Baggins · 01-01-2003, 07:51 PM

AAA*covers head* WHERE! *looks around sheepishly* o...sorry. But she's not a LOTR fan...well not really, I mean SHE CAN"T EVEN REMEMBER ARWEN"S NAME!

Lubyla · 01-01-2003, 07:54 PM

I know. hum, anyone know some good facts about Massachuesetts? I need it for my report. *grumbles* Stupid Mr.Durr, Stupid stupid.

Elenka · 01-02-2003, 12:14 PM

Please, please, please, someone get to work on WrWrInt.com I would myself but I'm terrible with that stuff.

Lubyla · 01-02-2003, 01:09 PM

Ok, um, have we decided where we were housing it?

Starr Polish · 01-02-2003, 11:53 PM

Hallelujah! I have a printer that works now! This means writing will be far easier.

For those of you who don't know (all of you, I guess) I have a fairly unique way of writing. At least, it's the most comfortable way for me to write. I write down the initial ideas, usually with paper and pen/cil, and make a sort of outline for the main ideas of the story and the plot. I may work out some dialogue I may want to use throughout the book, but am not sure where I'll put it. Then I hop on my computer and start writing a couple of pages, and then add notes at the end. I'll print it off and edit it with pen and go back and edit eventually.

I haven't had a printer for nearly two years. It'll be nice to write this way again.

Lief Erikson · 01-03-2003, 03:18 AM

That's an interesting method

. I'm glad you can get back to it now.

When I'm writing a story, I write up only the basic plot and then plunge into it, writing the whole thing freelance. That's if it's ten pages or less. If it's more, I have an utterly and completely different method.

Frequently the ideas for the bigger things I write start very small and innocently. Like writing a few lines of interesting sounding dialogue on the edge of a math paper. It's through something tiny like that that my biggest book ever has sprouted from. It's called The Uirlon Cord, and is a fantasy book. It's currently 318 pages long, and when finished will probably be around 500 pages.

I was doing a grammar lesson when the first starters to it emerged, and I had to form a sentence using adverbs, or something like that. I basically made my sentence "Athor ran quickly across the catwalk and leapt into the moat, where he swam swiftly to the shore."

Then in another sentence, "The demon archers rained arrows down at him as he scrambled up the bank, getting to his horse."

I liked the name 'Athor.' So I decided to use him in a few more of my grammar papers. Then I had a project to do, on the back of the papers, which involved doing some writing for classmates to correct. We're homeschooled, so I had my Mom check it. I started writing a story on the back of my grammar pages. Each day I wrote and gave her a new selection. I started write where I'd first begun: "Athor ran quickly across the catwalk and leapt into the moat," and continued going by hand. Mom got really wrapped up in the small story, and at the very end of it, I'd developed the demons a little better, and the enchantress Sihona, who had another name I really liked.

The final page of the short story involved a scene where Sihona goes to the Rainbow Castle, which I envisioned as the most important place in the world- a place where wizards and diplomats all went to, and the decisions of which decided the fates of countries. A 'castle in the clouds.' That final page got me interested in going farther with that, and I decided to make a map which showed where the country Arla was. Arla is the location of that short story that I wrote by hand.

I made the map, and a lot of history for the different places. I named mountains and decided why they were named that, and what the countries relations to each other were. By then I really wanted to go farther with this, so I decided to launch into the greatest book I'd ever written: "The Last Knight of Iastanva." Sihona was a main character in that one. In that one I introduced a new villain who was called Darkagrin. There I also introduced another somewhat minor character who plays an important role at the end: Thordon Atardii. There were other characters too, of course, who lived in Iastanva. I won't bother with listing them and their relevance to the plot.

When I finished "The Last Knight of Iastanva," it was 105 pages long, the biggest book I'd ever written. Those of my family that read it liked it, and I was still locked into that world. But I didn't feel like stopping, so I wrote a sequal called "The Wraith of Fire." That one was a good deal longer, but I didn't like it as much.

After that I decided it would be a trilogy, and that the first book would be called "The Uirlon Cord."

As I wrote more in The Uirlon Cord, I wanted more character freedom. I was using the same characters as in The Last Knight of Iastanva. Thordon and Darkagrin were important in this one, but their characters had been decided in The Last Knight of Iastanva. So I eventually came to the decision to ignore Last Knight entirely, and The Wraith of Fire, and do The Uirlon Cord as a separate work. That improved my ability to expand or change the characters as I saw fit.

So, what books or stories do some of the rest of you write?

Blackboar · 01-03-2003, 05:47 AM

I've always been a writewight but I have bever posted in this thread before because I wasn't quite sure what one was

Ok, I know I'm not that good at rpg's but when I get into mode my stories are a LOT LOT LOT better than them

At the moment I'm writing about a creature that lives in the molten rock under the Earth. There are lots of creatures in it and I think it is one of the best stories I have written yet.

The creatures name is Savóya. Savoy is a cabbage with very wrinkled leaves in France therefore suiting the creature as that is pretty much what it looks like

Elenka · 01-03-2003, 10:54 AM

Ok...You people scare me!!! Have we decided on a site yet?? I know, I'm very impatient.

Starr: good luck with your printer. Just wait til it breaks down. They always do so get prepared.

gimli-son-of-gloin13 · 01-03-2003, 11:34 AM

I can be a writewight if i could actually think of a good story/tpic

Adrian Baggins · 01-03-2003, 05:07 PM

My tecnique is odd. I just get an I dea and either start writing on paper or hop onto my computer and type the story. I just write and worry about editing later. I bet my history Teacher is editing my fan fic. right now. Hee hee hee! Anyway I just write, I don't know why.

Blackboar · 01-03-2003, 05:34 PM

I'm just browzing round the internet and I see a name a.k.a cabbage and I think " HEY! That'll make a good story!! Something that looks like a cabbage!!"

Thats how I came up with my Savóya!

Adrian Baggins · 01-03-2003, 07:00 PM

Man do you need a reality check Blackboar. That has been done before, needless to say that you don't know about it because it was a rotten story and didn't get past the editors.(my school had a contest and the two winning stories were one about your idea and one by me about lotr, mine didn't get published either though it almost did). When will people ever learn that we need to get to know one another better? Sheesh.

Lubyla · 01-04-2003, 12:27 AM

*does a happy donce* I finally got my story started. Who wants to hear it...or at least what I have so far????????

Fred Baggins · 01-04-2003, 12:33 AM

I do! even...though...I just read it on IM. I'm gonna be in it! Well, Freida anyway. Have we decided on a site yet?

Starr Polish · 01-04-2003, 01:20 AM

With my short stories I just plunge into them. My long in-depth stories require the other way I write.

So far I've written a good amount on a historical fiction based on a girl named Elizabeth (now abandoned), an attempt at a fantasy novel based on elves of my own making, and their war with human kind, another attempt of fantasy in a world I created that dealt with dragons and mythology of the world (both fantasy stories had snippets of their own languages, and this was before I was interested in Tolkien), and am currently working on a slightly philisophical novel that you could say has a fantasy twist, though it's not strictly "fantasy".

Bring it on, Lubyla!

Adrian Baggins · 01-04-2003, 01:13 PM

I would most definately like to read your story so far Lubyla. When I can I will post short pieces of my story(like real authors do on the back of their books and in the beginning of books to make you read them). I will post something not to revealing to the plot but mysterious and enticing so that when we get the web site up and I put my story on you will go read it, although you probibly will anyway just to be nice. Oh well. All I can tell you now is the title because I don't have the story with me

. It is called Winds of Change. I will now admit that I once wrote a book report for history and I only read the first 3-6 chapters because I couldn't get into the book. I got a 100 though because I did so well describing the book because I scimmed the pages getting stuff to writeabout to make it seam that I had read the whole thing.

Lief Erikson · 01-05-2003, 02:44 AM

"Winds of Change" is a good title. Does the book stand by itself, or is it part of a series?

By the way, one other question: Should we really post our stories or clips of our stories in this thread, or should we play it sneaky and put these in the Entertainment Forum

. That would probably work only for a little while though

. It might be better in the long run just to ask for a new forum.

Posting clips of stories here would be fine, but to keep them from getting utterly and completely lost, I think we should ask for a new forum if whole stories are going to be posted.

Starr Polish · 01-05-2003, 03:05 AM

No one asked to see bits of my story (I posted the theme idea of it a few pages back), but I'll put up snippets of it anyway. I'm not shy.

Basically in order, though I left a lot of things out.

Quote:

Wind rustled through the dying trees with the sound of dry bones one day in late autumn. An old man stretched his ancient limbs slowly and sniffed the air, smiling. "Perhaps today," he thought, as he did every morning. Perhaps what, he was never sure. Perhaps something that would bring his fortune, though at his age he had little use for riches. The familiar streets that he had walked on most of his life rose before his feet as they always did, and he slowly made his way through the small town.

Quote:

He couldn't see her face at first, for her long dark hair fell over it as she bent her head to read. Something about the shade of her hair and the slope of her posture stirred in him a faint memory. He leaned forward on his cane and rested his elbows on the arthritic knobs that had once been his knees. He tried to let the girl be, but the memory was tugging at his mind, trying to make him recall small details that still lay somewhere amidst his mind.

Quote:

He fell away from his world of pillows and old quilts, and found himself back in the time for which his heart was constantly searching.
"It's you."
"Yes, it's me." She leaned forward and touched her forehead to his, a smile playing on the edge of her lips, but a heavy sadness sat behind her eyes. He traced her jawline with his fingers, which had long ago memorized every curve of her face. "I'm sorry," she whispered, and a single tear fell onto his hand

01-01-2003, 07:47 PM	#222
Lubyla Princess Lubyla Greenleaf of the Stars Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Sitting in a quiet forest, looking at the darkness and the stars... Posts: 1,476	Yes, she is VERY VERY wierd, but I scare her sometimes And i have a friend who is scarier than Faith.coughNcough __________________ ~~~Never trust a wizard~~~ `````````````````````````````` It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter `````````````````````````````

01-01-2003, 07:54 PM	#224
Lubyla Princess Lubyla Greenleaf of the Stars Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Sitting in a quiet forest, looking at the darkness and the stars... Posts: 1,476	I know. hum, anyone know some good facts about Massachuesetts? I need it for my report. grumbles Stupid Mr.Durr, Stupid stupid. __________________ ~~~Never trust a wizard~~~ `````````````````````````````` It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter `````````````````````````````

01-02-2003, 12:14 PM	#225
Elenka The Negative Soul of Entmoot Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Middle Distance Posts: 651	Please, please, please, someone get to work on WrWrInt.com I would myself but I'm terrible with that stuff. __________________ W00T for the M00T!! War doesn't determine who is right - war determines who is left.

01-02-2003, 01:09 PM	#226
Lubyla Princess Lubyla Greenleaf of the Stars Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Sitting in a quiet forest, looking at the darkness and the stars... Posts: 1,476	Ok, um, have we decided where we were housing it? __________________ ~~~Never trust a wizard~~~ `````````````````````````````` It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter `````````````````````````````

01-02-2003, 11:53 PM	#227
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	Hallelujah! I have a printer that works now! This means writing will be far easier. For those of you who don't know (all of you, I guess) I have a fairly unique way of writing. At least, it's the most comfortable way for me to write. I write down the initial ideas, usually with paper and pen/cil, and make a sort of outline for the main ideas of the story and the plot. I may work out some dialogue I may want to use throughout the book, but am not sure where I'll put it. Then I hop on my computer and start writing a couple of pages, and then add notes at the end. I'll print it off and edit it with pen and go back and edit eventually. I haven't had a printer for nearly two years. It'll be nice to write this way again. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

01-01-2003, 07:43 PM	#221
Fred Baggins Belladona Gamgee of the night sky Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: second star to the right and straight on till morning. Posts: 1,783	HAHAHAH! You may be wierd Adrian, but I promise I'm much wierder! Ask Lubyla, or Silverstripe!

01-01-2003, 07:51 PM	#223
Fred Baggins Belladona Gamgee of the night sky Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: second star to the right and straight on till morning. Posts: 1,783	AAAcovers head WHERE! looks around sheepishly o...sorry. But she's not a LOTR fan...well not really, I mean SHE CAN"T EVEN REMEMBER ARWEN"S NAME!

01-03-2003, 03:18 AM	#228
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	That's an interesting method . I'm glad you can get back to it now. When I'm writing a story, I write up only the basic plot and then plunge into it, writing the whole thing freelance. That's if it's ten pages or less. If it's more, I have an utterly and completely different method. Frequently the ideas for the bigger things I write start very small and innocently. Like writing a few lines of interesting sounding dialogue on the edge of a math paper. It's through something tiny like that that my biggest book ever has sprouted from. It's called The Uirlon Cord, and is a fantasy book. It's currently 318 pages long, and when finished will probably be around 500 pages. I was doing a grammar lesson when the first starters to it emerged, and I had to form a sentence using adverbs, or something like that. I basically made my sentence "Athor ran quickly across the catwalk and leapt into the moat, where he swam swiftly to the shore." Then in another sentence, "The demon archers rained arrows down at him as he scrambled up the bank, getting to his horse." I liked the name 'Athor.' So I decided to use him in a few more of my grammar papers. Then I had a project to do, on the back of the papers, which involved doing some writing for classmates to correct. We're homeschooled, so I had my Mom check it. I started writing a story on the back of my grammar pages. Each day I wrote and gave her a new selection. I started write where I'd first begun: "Athor ran quickly across the catwalk and leapt into the moat," and continued going by hand. Mom got really wrapped up in the small story, and at the very end of it, I'd developed the demons a little better, and the enchantress Sihona, who had another name I really liked. The final page of the short story involved a scene where Sihona goes to the Rainbow Castle, which I envisioned as the most important place in the world- a place where wizards and diplomats all went to, and the decisions of which decided the fates of countries. A 'castle in the clouds.' That final page got me interested in going farther with that, and I decided to make a map which showed where the country Arla was. Arla is the location of that short story that I wrote by hand. I made the map, and a lot of history for the different places. I named mountains and decided why they were named that, and what the countries relations to each other were. By then I really wanted to go farther with this, so I decided to launch into the greatest book I'd ever written: "The Last Knight of Iastanva." Sihona was a main character in that one. In that one I introduced a new villain who was called Darkagrin. There I also introduced another somewhat minor character who plays an important role at the end: Thordon Atardii. There were other characters too, of course, who lived in Iastanva. I won't bother with listing them and their relevance to the plot. When I finished "The Last Knight of Iastanva," it was 105 pages long, the biggest book I'd ever written. Those of my family that read it liked it, and I was still locked into that world. But I didn't feel like stopping, so I wrote a sequal called "The Wraith of Fire." That one was a good deal longer, but I didn't like it as much. After that I decided it would be a trilogy, and that the first book would be called "The Uirlon Cord." As I wrote more in The Uirlon Cord, I wanted more character freedom. I was using the same characters as in The Last Knight of Iastanva. Thordon and Darkagrin were important in this one, but their characters had been decided in The Last Knight of Iastanva. So I eventually came to the decision to ignore Last Knight entirely, and The Wraith of Fire, and do The Uirlon Cord as a separate work. That improved my ability to expand or change the characters as I saw fit. So, what books or stories do some of the rest of you write? Last edited by Lief Erikson : 01-03-2003 at 03:19 AM.

01-03-2003, 05:47 AM	#229
Blackboar Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1,086	I've always been a writewight but I have bever posted in this thread before because I wasn't quite sure what one was Ok, I know I'm not that good at rpg's but when I get into mode my stories are a LOT LOT LOT better than them At the moment I'm writing about a creature that lives in the molten rock under the Earth. There are lots of creatures in it and I think it is one of the best stories I have written yet. The creatures name is Savóya. Savoy is a cabbage with very wrinkled leaves in France therefore suiting the creature as that is pretty much what it looks like

01-03-2003, 10:54 AM	#230
Elenka The Negative Soul of Entmoot Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Middle Distance Posts: 651	Ok...You people scare me!!! Have we decided on a site yet?? I know, I'm very impatient. Starr: good luck with your printer. Just wait til it breaks down. They always do so get prepared. __________________ W00T for the M00T!! War doesn't determine who is right - war determines who is left.

01-03-2003, 11:34 AM	#231
gimli-son-of-gloin13 Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Over the river and through the woods. Posts: 193	I can be a writewight if i could actually think of a good story/tpic __________________ http://www.4degreez.com/misc/persona...sorder_test.mv Do you have any personality disorders, click here and see! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://public.findlaw.com/states_new.html Find your rights as a student!

01-03-2003, 05:07 PM	#232
Adrian Baggins Frodo's lil sis HP LotR fan Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: in a tree reading Harry P. and LotR Posts: 585	My tecnique is odd. I just get an I dea and either start writing on paper or hop onto my computer and type the story. I just write and worry about editing later. I bet my history Teacher is editing my fan fic. right now. Hee hee hee! Anyway I just write, I don't know why. __________________ AB Adrian Baggins wizard, elf, mortal, hobbit Owner of the 3 unknown rings I LIKE HIEI!! LOOK AT MY AVITAR IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS!! H. Hysterically cold I. Insanely unhuman E. Effortlessly mocking I. Irresistabely hott "You're a team player, a save-the-day superhero pause I hate people like you." ~Hiei

01-03-2003, 05:34 PM	#233
Blackboar Legolas's beloved sister and Queen of the Wood Elves of Mirkwood Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Under the hill at Bag-end, Hobbiton the Shire Or Rivendell,I can't remember!!!!!!!!!! Posts: 1,086	I'm just browzing round the internet and I see a name a.k.a cabbage and I think " HEY! That'll make a good story!! Something that looks like a cabbage!!" Thats how I came up with my Savóya!

01-03-2003, 07:00 PM	#234
Adrian Baggins Frodo's lil sis HP LotR fan Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: in a tree reading Harry P. and LotR Posts: 585	Man do you need a reality check Blackboar. That has been done before, needless to say that you don't know about it because it was a rotten story and didn't get past the editors.(my school had a contest and the two winning stories were one about your idea and one by me about lotr, mine didn't get published either though it almost did). When will people ever learn that we need to get to know one another better? Sheesh. __________________ AB Adrian Baggins wizard, elf, mortal, hobbit Owner of the 3 unknown rings I LIKE HIEI!! LOOK AT MY AVITAR IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS!! H. Hysterically cold I. Insanely unhuman E. Effortlessly mocking I. Irresistabely hott "You're a team player, a save-the-day superhero pause I hate people like you." ~Hiei

01-04-2003, 12:27 AM	#235
Lubyla Princess Lubyla Greenleaf of the Stars Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Sitting in a quiet forest, looking at the darkness and the stars... Posts: 1,476	does a happy donce I finally got my story started. Who wants to hear it...or at least what I have so far???????? __________________ ~~~Never trust a wizard~~~ `````````````````````````````` It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt. It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills. It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter `````````````````````````````

01-04-2003, 12:33 AM	#236
Fred Baggins Belladona Gamgee of the night sky Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: second star to the right and straight on till morning. Posts: 1,783	I do! even...though...I just read it on IM. I'm gonna be in it! Well, Freida anyway. Have we decided on a site yet?

01-04-2003, 01:20 AM	#237
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	With my short stories I just plunge into them. My long in-depth stories require the other way I write. So far I've written a good amount on a historical fiction based on a girl named Elizabeth (now abandoned), an attempt at a fantasy novel based on elves of my own making, and their war with human kind, another attempt of fantasy in a world I created that dealt with dragons and mythology of the world (both fantasy stories had snippets of their own languages, and this was before I was interested in Tolkien), and am currently working on a slightly philisophical novel that you could say has a fantasy twist, though it's not strictly "fantasy". Bring it on, Lubyla! __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

01-04-2003, 01:13 PM	#238
Adrian Baggins Frodo's lil sis HP LotR fan Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: in a tree reading Harry P. and LotR Posts: 585	I would most definately like to read your story so far Lubyla. When I can I will post short pieces of my story(like real authors do on the back of their books and in the beginning of books to make you read them). I will post something not to revealing to the plot but mysterious and enticing so that when we get the web site up and I put my story on you will go read it, although you probibly will anyway just to be nice. Oh well. All I can tell you now is the title because I don't have the story with me . It is called Winds of Change. I will now admit that I once wrote a book report for history and I only read the first 3-6 chapters because I couldn't get into the book. I got a 100 though because I did so well describing the book because I scimmed the pages getting stuff to writeabout to make it seam that I had read the whole thing. __________________ AB Adrian Baggins wizard, elf, mortal, hobbit Owner of the 3 unknown rings I LIKE HIEI!! LOOK AT MY AVITAR IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS!! H. Hysterically cold I. Insanely unhuman E. Effortlessly mocking I. Irresistabely hott "You're a team player, a save-the-day superhero pause I hate people like you." ~Hiei

01-05-2003, 02:44 AM	#239
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	"Winds of Change" is a good title. Does the book stand by itself, or is it part of a series? By the way, one other question: Should we really post our stories or clips of our stories in this thread, or should we play it sneaky and put these in the Entertainment Forum . That would probably work only for a little while though . It might be better in the long run just to ask for a new forum. Posting clips of stories here would be fine, but to keep them from getting utterly and completely lost, I think we should ask for a new forum if whole stories are going to be posted. Last edited by Lief Erikson : 01-05-2003 at 02:46 AM.