Writers_Block
a 25-year-old chap from Canada
I'm an up and coming writer. I often experience bland dry spells in my writing though so a place like this is good to keep the spice in my so called 'sex life' with my writing. I'm hoping to get published as soon as I finish the door. I also have a love child with my computer called Trooper, although that will not be published here because its my holy grail and the reason I write. Its my alpha and omega and if I ever finish it the Earth will explode from an excess of imagination and cynicism.
I am currently looking to attend college for Hotel and Restaurant management, I want to open my own restaurant in about 6 years or so. But writing has always been first and foremost my ultimate passion, from the time I started writing letters with squiggle lines after them for the words I didn't know how to spell, to the ultimate story about a girl, a guy and the universe in their hands.
I'm not sure what the future holds for me but I'm sure its good otherwise my writing would suck. Maybe it does and I live in an egotistical world created by my own sense of self satisfaction. Or maybe none of this is real. Whatever the case, check out my stories and tell me how much you hate them
Cheers,
Jim
Zapp: "Rock crushes scissors! But paper covers rock. And scissors cuts paper! Kif...we have a conundrum."
Kif: *sigh*
Zapp: "Search them for paper! And ... bring me a rock!"
Currently Reading:
The Elves Of Cintra by Terry Brooks
Blaze by Stephen King Writing as Richard Bachman
See You Later by Christopher Pike
Anyway, look what happens: you get the the love and I am now the pantomime villain, so who wins?!
I stand by the essence of what I said though, I'm not going to completely retract my opinions because it's caused a stink. What I do regret is sounding aggresive and being overly negative, it was and is unneccesary and I take it back. Whether this is constructive or not is entirely up to you... come back fighting, man! I will be the first to praise also, I hope you get the chance to see that.
Much respect. Shantih Kx"
You have a lot of creativity and spontaneity, which I wish I had a fraction of. There may be scope for improvement in the writing, but doesn't that apply to all of us here? So keep writing with the purpose of doing it better.
Like Rachel and Jillian said, you've brought a lot of fun to the site! We need people like you around to keep it lively! And to be honest, I think we need people like Pinch too to point out what we can do better (although I think he was harsh in his criticism on you).
All right, get back to writing Villains, Heroes and Molemullians!
PS: BTW, what's with you and Fridays? You freaked out last Friday too! Take care! :)"
No I don't want my 'whining' to make anyone think I can't take criticism, but there's constructive criticism and then there's knock down negativity.
Now I'm not going to start pointing fingers and bashing other people, that's not what I'm about. I'm sure I've given out my fair share of negative criticism, but I try to make it constructive. If it wasn't I take responsibility for the fact that I'm probably being a hypocrite.
But I'm almost completely sure that's not true. As for this site, I will stick around, but I'm going to take a few days to review my own work, and see how its doing. I need to really think things over. So I'll be back in a few days."
And anyway, the more we write, the better we get; just like anything so take a break if you need to but come back to us soon!!!
Love ♥"
love you ;)"
Can you really not see that there are, quite literally, dozens of basic mistakes in your work? If you can't then as "an up and coming writer" you will have problems getting published, or even read. I don't want to take the fun out of it, but I also don't want to be patronising, or hold back my honest opinion.
I don't want you to feel I'm attacking you, that's not the point. The point is that we should criticize each other properly and directly or we will never improve. My own style leaves a lot to be desired - but if all anyone ever does on here is pat one another on the back and say "good job", when it is clearly far from it, then why are we bothering?
I think I'm making an issue out of this because I like your ideas and energy and think there is a lot of potential, and I've read a lot of your stuff because of that, but consistantly your sentence construction and basic grasp of grammar sucks. Eventually because of this I will stop reading your work - and so, I think, will your audience...
Please tell me I'm full of it if you want, I'm not one to back out of an awkward corner. I realise it's harsh to rip someone apart like that, but, honestly, I will be this direct with everyone in due course and I hope they will be with me too - the aim is to improve, right?
So, in saying I hope you take it right, I'm really saying that I trust you won't take it badly, because I sense you enjoy writing and want to be as good at it as you can be...?
Apologies for taking this to Heavytown!! I'm in that mood...
Shantih K"
To hell with it.
LOL!!
(caps lock on even)"
Don't we all live in an egotistical world created by our own sense of self satisfaction?
I do. And they all like me here. Really."
Banana Fana fo Fim
Me My Mo Mim
Ji-im!
...I am so falling behind on my reading around here. Is it just me, or has there been way more activity lately than usual?"
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WritersBlock!"
Good luck with your project. Have you been published before?"
The Wonderful World of US - well done! It's very tongue-in-cheek while at the same time it demonstrates how our neighbours below have really screwed up the image they've so carefully tried to portray to the rest of the world.
That's definately a story that I can appreciate, and I think that many "informed" canadians would as well.
Everland- If I can be completely honest, I have an issue with it. Not with the style or with the subject, but rather I think, with the flow. The beginning in the middle is brilliant, it's not something that's done too often so it immediately intrigues me to want to know the history of the characters. The characters themselves seem "smart", if you get what I mean. The flow... I don't know exactly, it may need some refinement and more details. There are a few places where the story seems to skip like a CD, and I felt that there was an important part of the song that I missed. The storyline itself however shows promise. A quest...
And finally, Epic. I liked it enough to post to it. 'Nuff said.
As for my own work, you will have to wait a while to get to critique it. I'm leaving for a holiday abroad in a few weeks and the planning for that is taking up most of my free time at the moment. I have nothing really "worthy" of being posted here yet. I do have a lot of good stuff, in my own opinion, but it still needs to be cleaned up before I'll post it."
However, I do agree that it's rude to rate without reason, so I apologise and will try not to do that in future. Not rating unless you have something constructive to say is a good general rule, I think.
Your low marks from me were because I was reading the Epic Nursery Rhyme thing you've been batting back and forth with Rac7hel. And maybe poetry is not your thing, but compared to her your meter and rhythm were all over the place and your rhymes were often poorly chosen - the ideas were good and it was fun, don't get me wrong, but every time I read one of your entries after one of hers it just jarred, didn't flow, too many syllables, hard to digest. Now, I know it isn't meant to be War and Peace, but it just seemed a bit weak... sorry.
Saying that, I now feel rotten, so am gonna read some of your prose. I'm sure I'll like that much better. But, hey, I can take as well as I give, so don't be shy ripping me to shreds if you want to.
Happy writing!"
Creativity and diligent expression. Those words sound almost ominous. I think I can handle it though (ooooh the pressure!).
Going on tangents and letting ones hands go on unplanned expeditions, as dirty as that sounds, is sometimes where the best writing comes from. I find great unhampered flow that way...
I AM going to make a point of reading some more of your work also. I want to know what I'm up against.
;-)""
I'm kind of ticked off at people who rate my work but never comment, so I never know why I got a low rating.
I always comment on stories I rated, and if I don't like the story I probably just won't rate. I feel bad giving anyone less than a five."
The four lines per paragraph thing, yeah. I tried to get the program to do that, over and over in fact, but when I posted it, it just kept coming up as one big 8-lined paragraph. As for the prose, I'll work on it a bit harder (or maybe not work on it as hard is what I need to do!). Thanks again though, I appreciate the constructive critisism... :D"
It's called fresh, clean air."
I'm about to upload a patch to require at least 140 characters (stolen from Twitter's character maximum per post) to post a branch or story. Hopefully this won't #*@^ anyone off, but I think that's about 3 lines of text, not a big deal.
I'm going to change your post to be a one paragraph adventure. That'll still keep it interesting and not break the system too badly."
I realize it's amusing to watch me scramble to try and deal with one problem after another, but I assure you it's not exactly fun at my end right now, trying to enjoy my Sunday afternoon.
I'm going to have to put in a character count and step in here.. it's too obviously an attempt to boost your post count. And you realize one-word branches are gonna spam everyone on the site a million times with notifications, too, and I'll get angry emails left and right.
Now, I don't want to have to be Mr. Evil Moderator all the time, but I keep getting pushed into that spot, particularly in the last week. My options here are to either change the rules to prevent this kind of thing, or to drop the entire format for tracking hot stories, top authors, etc. Where does that leave me?"
You'll have a pretty little '2' before you know it : )"
Bane is cool. Go for it! We should just go all out and bring all of the villains in at some point."
But if someone does I'll tell you and you will know that I had the idea first at least!"
You must go find as much mayonaise as humanly possible and spread the mayo-ie goodness around in rectification for depriving all of those dream customers.
C'mon, hop to."
Should make any kind of ballot stuffing (be it good or bad) less noticeable."
I only deleted the one you posted twice. :)
Yeah my inbox is like "you have 18 unread messages since 5 minutes ago""
Those notifications are optional (edit profile -> notifications), but I think I'm going to turn the profile comment after-your-comment notifications off for everyone by default because I don't want everyone complaining about the spam."
Good grief, I just got about 25 emails from these. I'm gonna have to turn off notifications soon!"