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Creative writing and publishing Anonymous Fri Oct 14 05:32:05 2011 No.2136909 [Reply] [Original]

Hi /lit/!

Do you have any experience or ideas on the subject of creative writing and publishing?

I have read some articles on the web about this topic but I am always interested in hearing the opinions of the people in general.

Yes, I would like to be a writer. Don't worry I have no romantic delusions on the subject. I know that I'll never be one, but I'm just curious about the subject.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 05:35:05 2011 No.2136912 >creative writing Do screen plays count? I want to be a screen writer someday and hopefully sell a script. But my writing skills are armature and I don't know how to write my ideas down on paper and make them sound as good as they do in my head.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 05:37:05 2011 No.2136913 >>2136912 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 05:40:05 2011 No.2136917 >>2136909 "knowing" that you will 'never' be a writer is just as delusional as knowing you will be.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 05:42:05 2011 No.2136922 I hate writing screen plays because I can plan a whole scenario in my head and it will look and sound awesome. But when I get to the writing part I freeze up and get writer's block. Feels real bad man.

>>	The Creature !M6Yk0kYgaA Fri Oct 14 05:42:05 2011 No.2136923 Never say never, it may not happen over night. But if it is your dream to become a writer keep at it, at least that's what I tell myself about it each day. Its not a well paying job, but it is worth it if you work at it.

>>	Have a book Anonymous Fri Oct 14 05:44:05 2011 No.2136929 File: 107 KB, 285x255, 1318434148280.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2136912 J. Michael Straczynski The Complete Book of Scriptwriting (ISBN 1-85286-882-1)

Anonymous Fri Oct 14 05:45:05 2011 No.2136930

>>2136923

It's my dream to become a screen writer. I have read books on it and watch courses about it online. I have relation to people who are great writers. But my thing is writer's block and freezing up when it comes to the actual writing.

For some reason I can come up with a story in my head and visualize everything as it goes. But i can't for the life of me write it down.

The Creature !M6Yk0kYgaA Fri Oct 14 05:48:05 2011 No.2136933

>>2136930
I have the same problem for my writing as well. I've been working on breaking that stranglehold on my mind by trying things outside of the genres or styles that I am used to as well as letting other people decide the major plot points for me and writing something for it. Have done it here on /lit/ a couple times, works rather well.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 05:49:05 2011 No.2136936 >I would like to be a writer. Everyone with a primary school education is a writer. You like all of us want to be able to write better, want to be able to communicate better.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 05:50:05 2011 No.2136937 >>2136917 You are right.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 05:51:05 2011 No.2136938 >>2136933 I don't know what it is, it's so easy to come up with a story involving conflict in a character's life. But I just can't write it down and if I do write it down it sounds like shit compared to how I saw it in my mind.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 05:53:05 2011 No.2136940 >>2136923 I agree. But I feel that the publishing part is harder than the writing.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 05:55:05 2011 No.2136943 I do believe that SK threw away is first novel because he thought it was no good. Then his wife found it in the trash and forced him to finish it. I guess all great writers are insecure about their own work and have doubts.

>>	The Creature !M6Yk0kYgaA Fri Oct 14 05:55:05 2011 No.2136944 >>2136938 Then write it down anyway, if you get it all down on paper or word program it may not seem so bad. In some complete form.

Anonymous Fri Oct 14 05:57:05 2011 No.2136949

>>2136944

I started to write a story for a screen play that I had in mind about a young man with the dream of becoming a serial killer. I got 50 pages in and stopped then deleted everything.

I just don't think my stories are good enough to be read. ;_;

>>	The Creature !M6Yk0kYgaA Fri Oct 14 05:58:05 2011 No.2136951 >>2136949 Self esteem, low one is a story killer. Kick your own ass and get it done, all it takes is once.

Anonymous Fri Oct 14 06:00:05 2011 No.2136953

>>2136951

I do have low self esteem when it comes to my creative writing. I've handed in my work to a few people non family members and usually I get positive feed back.

I just don't think I am good enough for this and basically gave up on it before it began.

>>	The Creature !M6Yk0kYgaA Fri Oct 14 06:01:05 2011 No.2136957 >>2136953 I stick with my previous statement. We're going around in circles now.

>>	sage sage Fri Oct 14 06:01:05 2011 No.2136956 The day you think you're an okay writer, a good writer, is the day you're a shit writer. Now fuck off with your ponies.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 06:01:05 2011 No.2136954 File: 94 KB, 510x333, 1318378235325.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2136949 I had the same thing too. http://www.musik-therapie.at/PederHill/

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 06:08:05 2011 No.2136961 File: 16 KB, 423x272, reagan22new.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2136953 > Set up goal -> I will write x pages today > Do it, no matter how bad it is > ??? > Profit >>2136956 Okay, okay don't bite me anon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 06:13:05 2011 No.2136966 >>2136953 Take a look at this, ok? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GCm-u_vlaQ&feature=player_embedded

>>	The Creature !M6Yk0kYgaA Fri Oct 14 06:14:05 2011 No.2136967 >>2136956 Its a free world anon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 06:18:05 2011 No.2136970 >>2136967 It really is. I'm a little irritable. Obviously. >>2136961 Post what you will.

Links, because we need always needs them Anonymous Fri Oct 14 06:26:05 2011 No.2136976
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http://www.musik-therapie.at/PederHill/

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 06:49:05 2011 No.2136991 >>2136976 > Links, because we need always needs them What?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 06:54:05 2011 No.2136995 This thread could do with fewer platitudes and less MLP-related autism.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 11:13:05 2011 No.2137141 bump for a lurking pedophile

>>	anonymous Fri Oct 14 11:58:05 2011 No.2137199 Flannery O'Connor: "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them."

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>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 16:57:05 2011 No.2137652 >>2137141 wat.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 17:39:05 2011 No.2137761 >>2136917 If anything it's even worse.

>>	bassetsquirrel Fri Oct 14 17:40:05 2011 No.2137767 >>2137761 >>2137761 WAKE UP

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 17:46:05 2011 No.2137774 bump

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 14 20:47:05 2011 No.2138076 dump.

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