Author Topic: The Writers' Guild
Sanctimoniously 
Registered: Dec '05
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Date Posted: 4/29/06 9:28am Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild - Date Edited: 4/29/06 9:30am (1 edits total) Edited By: Sanctimoniously
I've been working on my entry in the writing contest, as well as a few other stories.

EDIT: PAGE 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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-RebelScum- 
Registered: Feb '04
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Date Posted: 4/29/06 10:00pm Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild
Sorry for my absense, last 6th Weeks and teachers are making the most of it.

-The Scummy-

 

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Sanctimoniously 
Registered: Dec '05
44306_A-Wing Crash into Star Destroyer
Date Posted: 4/29/06 11:56pm Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild
Yeah...I think I'll be on some reduced time for the next two weeks as well...I start drivers' ed Monday.

 

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JediNemesis 
Registered: Mar '03
44157_Darth Vader & Luke Skywalker
Date Posted: 5/1/06 10:55am Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild
Run-up to exams, fun fun fun. Two essays today and another one to do . . . is there no END????

Been working on my contest entry as well. Topped 3000 words today dancing

 

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Andalite-Bandit 
Registered: Apr '05
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Date Posted: 5/2/06 11:18am Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild
I was up to 5:00am last night working on my feature script. I finished the entire first act. Well, a first draft of the first act. 21 pages! yay.

 

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Fenrisulven 
Registered: Nov '04
40719_Ringwraith Sith
Date Posted: 5/4/06 9:04am Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild
Andalite-Bandit posted:
Hey Fenrisulven, that sounds like a pretty neat idea. The only thing I'd suggest is to make sure that there is a good reason that somebody invented cyborgs that have to eat to recharge. As long as it makes sense it should be fine. That concept drawing is pretty cool looking also.


Hey, thanks for the feedback Andalite-Bandit. I do have a reason as to why they eat to recharge, and hopefully it's good. The reason is that normal robots in this story needs ercharging at rechargingstations that are expensive to build and maintain. And since the cyborgs are supposed to be all over town it's cheaper to have someone feed them with hay and stuff instead of having tons of rechargingstations.

 

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droideka27 
Title: Manager Emeritus
Registered: May '02
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Date Posted: 5/4/06 10:47am Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild
Fenrisulven posted:
The idea for the cyborg itself is old and belongs in the longer story. Here's a conceptart of how it looks: http://www.deviantart.com/view/32415235/


Eek, scary looking! I would not want one o those things chasing me

 

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Darth-Kevin-Thomas 
Registered: Sep '02
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Date Posted: 5/8/06 12:45pm Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild
Hey guys, i've been out of it trying to finish up school. I just handed in my Post-Nuke feature script for my senior project.

Good to be done, but i'm going to wait a few weeks then re-write it.

dkt

 

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Sanctimoniously 
Registered: Dec '05
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Date Posted: 5/9/06 10:03am Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild
I've been working on three different possible entries for the writing contest...

 

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droideka27 
Title: Manager Emeritus
Registered: May '02
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Date Posted: 5/13/06 9:12am Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild
15 hours!

 

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JediNemesis 
Registered: Mar '03
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Date Posted: 5/13/06 10:08am Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild
Done, dusted and in like Flynn tongue

That now being done, I can get on with revising for A Levels . . .

 

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Knight_Dilettante 
Registered: Jul '02
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Date Posted: 5/13/06 1:46pm Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild
I'm pulling my hair out. I keep getting little ideas (which is better than not) for all kinds of things but I can't seem to make any of them go anywhere. I feel like Michigan J. Frog's owner.

My contest entry depresses me right now to the point where I probably won't submit it. It just seems too unoriginal or something - not enough plot - I dunno. I think I have Darth Writer's Blahs more than Darth Writer's Block.

Maybe it's time to hit the tub of Rocky Road.

KD

 

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Master-FatBurt 
Registered: Jul '03
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Date Posted: 5/15/06 2:48am Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild
I'm currently starting on the outline of my book again (lucky me)


I'll be posting snippets and idea's I've had up here sporadically for general idea butchery and to let you rabble critique it.


I think it's only fair considering I've judged some of your competition entries.

 

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Twinky_Stryder 
Registered: Nov '03
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Date Posted: 5/23/06 2:17am Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild
My problem with writing is that I get so many ideaa, then abandon what I write as I don't think it's any good.

This is mainly because I'm too scared of ripping things off.

The ideas I'm working on now are:

1) Your typical hero's journey story, as it's the most basic and I figured that it would be the most logical place to start.
2) What I like to call "urban fantasy". It's the basic idea of your typical fantasy realm, but they have all the technological advancements that we have in the 21st century. You've got all the fantasy elements,such as magicians, spells, good vs evil, but you also have modern life.


What can I do to stop feeling so self concious when I write?

 

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Fenrisulven 
Registered: Nov '04
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Date Posted: 5/23/06 9:46am Subject: RE: The Writers' Guild - Date Edited: 5/23/06 9:48am (2 edits total) Edited By: Fenrisulven
Twinky_Stryder posted:
My problem with writing is that I get so many ideaa, then abandon what I write as I don't think it's any good.

This is mainly because I'm too scared of ripping things off.


Same thing with me. It has happened more than once that I come up with a story but can't figure out a good ending, or I only figure out the beginning and the end and can't find a way to connect them good; so I abandon it.


Twinky_Stryder posted:
2) What I like to call "urban fantasy". It's the basic idea of your typical fantasy realm, but they have all the technological advancements that we have in the 21st century. You've got all the fantasy elements,such as magicians, spells, good vs evil, but you also have modern life.



Cool, what's the actual story? One of my stories is set in a similar world. Altough that world has been mostly destroyed in some war, so it's kind of postapocalyptic I suppose.

 

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