I Write, Therefore, I Live discussion

Is anyone working on any type of writing? If this is a group that is a writing group, someone should at least start talking about writing, share their writing, or something like that. All I've seen for the past three days of my existence in this group is talking about who's "AWESOMER", where you're from, and topics that have nothing to do with writing. Please, please, share your writing. It doesn't matter how, I just want to see everyone's writing.

Awesome! And I'm not trying to snub you; I think you had a legitimate point. There has been little to show why our group exists. Personally I am just getting a feel for the freedom it gives to express personal opinion. Where the amenity is in writing, where it can’t hide or seep through well trained hands.
There really are so many groups that the vastness takes up everybody's time, then then are looking for a group in which they belong with other people then the groups they are in normally.
A specific Goodread group analyses writing, Writers who write its just stuff they are trying to put together. As though writing is an expression, it conveys a free will. When will we become slaves to will? If it were a pen choice where will the final scene come? Blah blah blah, I suggest anyone check it out. Post your stories and get member reviews. There are excellent members in their ever growing group, they have professional critics and writers, just don’t take my word for it and check it out. Become a member.

As for this group, it probably hasn’t a post and review curriculum. It has a get writers interested in writing feel, a if that’s how you feel by all means express a matter de facto writing. I like my personal writing and am expanding on my way of choosing to tell a story. I don’t mind posting stories to be seen. I don’t mind when I lose in the writing contests. I don’t feel suddenly that someone else’s writing was all the way better. And I get to read other writing that I may feel is also good writing. What makes a story good writing? And why did so-and-so write the story they did? Creep into my mind. It’s through envious thoughts, but it’s through curiosity. Curiosity killed the cat, but a cat has nine lives. What was let out that killed the cat? It’s a story.
And check out some of the groups publishing stories as writing contests. There are many now in Goodread.

Here's the first short story I wrote and posted on my profile for Goodread, where there are my other stories. Please enjoy and don't mind my sloppy writing skills, I'm no perfectionist.

Washy Washy
http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/8...

Has too many word/characters to post...

Whoa! It's long! I don't think you have sloppy writing skills! You are extremely intelligent. Your writing is way better than mine. I've only finished one short story. Right now, I am working on a story. So far, I only have the prologue. I'm going to put it on Goodreads sometime. Also, I feel kinda dumb when I read things you say, and your writing. It's just tons of smart stuff! People say I'm smart, but you're so smart you're leaving me speechless......agh!

I'm currently working on a script. And I have a ton of writing up. I like the short stories better than the partially finished longer stories. Here are the ones that I like best:

I killed the Soldiers http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1...
The Mountain http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/3...
The Flames http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/2...
Cutter http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/2...
ABC story http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/2...
Grim http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1...

Just reading the titles looks exciting!

Here's the only finished story of mine:

I Am Lina http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/3...

It's only four extremely short chapters. I could have combined 3 & 4.

I finally started working on Chapter 1 of The Shadow Dreams! I don't know why the Prologue took so long for me to finish.

Here's just a short story I did for school. It's not very good just to warn everyone (oh yeah, and the person telling the story is a boy):
As I was waiting for a car to pass, a man started to talk to me. He looked dangerous. He had a black leather jacket and oily hair. Then, he grabbed the front of my shirt.
"Answer the question, boy!" He growled
He was dangerous, now I knew. I started to bike away, and the man started to chase me. I rode down the pitch-black alley hoping for a shortcut home. I could hear the man running faster than before.
"You get back here!" He shouted at me, frantically waving his arms.
He was about to grab the sleeve of my shirt, when I pedaled passed a bag of garbage. He tripped over it and fell. I had an advantage.
I saw my mother's red car come into view. When I got to my house, I threw my bike onto the driveway and ran tot he door. I fumbled with my keys, and finally thrust the door open. I didn't bother to take my shoes off, and knew mom would be mad when she saw mud on the tiles of the clean floor. I was breathing heavily, and dialed the three familiar numbers.
My mom walked into the room. They told me to describe the way he looked, where I was when he started to talk to me. I had to tell them everything.
"Thank you young man. It seems like the man you met is the criminal that we've been trying to track. We will do all we can to find him."
The line went dead. I didn't get to thank him, to tell him anything.
"What was that about?" My mother asked suspiciously.
I groaned. I had to explain it all over again, and I knew I would have to again. My mom called all the neighbors and all of my friends, warning them about the oily haired man.
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Five months later, I was in the living room with my older sister. She wasn't like normal older sisters. She always wanted to watch the news to see what was happening. We saw the police arresting the man. He had the same black jacket, and it was a bit torn up.
"Wow. It took them so long to find him." I said as I stood up to go to my room.

((I'll finish later. Have to go get ready for the day.))

((we went around the room, each saying a random quote from a book, then we made a story))(((REALLY RANDOM)))

In the advanced hour, the transsexual, purple beef jerky with the pearl earring, was bored. Probably from a lack of imagination. It was being distracted by the Midget, drinking tea. The midget’s father was a magician, but not a very good one. Tis a wonder how anyone would clap, much less a crowd of people, the sound like thunder in the wilderness. Ah, but as nature is indifferent to man, so are men to talent-less hacks. The jerky slide toward sleep, but tried to stay away for it’s friend’s sake. I my day, it though, he would have rocks thrown at him, for this performance.

sry italics got lost

Ooh! I like your writing! I'm going to buy pencil lead for real now. Buh-bye!

X) Twas silly and random.

It's really weird, I just typed up a paragraph, but I feel really protective of my characters. >.> *I AM RULER OF UNIVERSE MWHAHAHAHAHAH*

Just so everyone knows, I bought my lead. I put it in my tiny automatic pencil, and now I'm writing the part of chapter one of my story where she's getting ready for breakfast. I know, not exciting. It will later.

Oh Lauren, btw, is Midget a character or just a midget?

"1900806 Just so everyone knows, I bought my lead. I put it in my tiny automatic pencil, and now I'm writing the part of chapter one of my story where she's getting ready for breakfast. I know, not exciting. It will later. "

Enthralling. X)

And, I am unsure is the midget is a midget. I don't know what quote it was. Small drawback of this exercise. :/ But we might be doing this again, and I was thinking of continuing this story in class instead of creating a new one. :)

Oh. Okay, I do that too to characters.

Enthralling (adj.)-to hold spellbound

spellbound- accio firebolt

lol harry potter

LOL. That just made me think of dragons...

Oh! I'm writing a script for script frenzy! I'll be updating all throughout the month!

http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/3...

Haha. He doesn't really use his......broom thing in the last book does he?
Spellbound (adj)-enchanted, entranced, fascinated

Good luck Veronica! I don't think I'll be able to write a script.
script (noun)-manuscript or document
Whoa! I read the first part of the script. Forgot to read the warning. There is very strong language.

I read the whole thing. :D

I just finished reading it! I LOVE IT! Love the idea of the story, I don't really like that there's so much strong language. But I'm used to that, and it shows how angry Jackie really is. Good job Roni!!

Why did you start writing it?

Yeah, I wonder why she started writing it. There is some kind of weird thing going on in a group to write a script I think. I'm not sure if that is real or if I dreamed that. Maybe it's in Write in 2009. Idk. Things get confusing. Well, gtg I think.

It's really weird, but I really like writing essays. Taking something, and wording it to sound really smart is fun. O.o

Yeah, at school when teacher say to write essays, I'm fine with that. 1.) It gives me an excuse to be on the computer. 2.) Essay help me remember what we learned at school that day OR research more about that topic.

Can anyone share their favorite piece of work of writing? Something like that. I want to learn from all you older kids. I love to write, but I'm not very good at it yet. If you could share ideas of stories, what inspired you to write a story, or something like that. That would really help me!

I have some favorite essays. <3 I'll try to post them

Okay. THANKS :)

XD

Oh, it's not in a goodreads group. Its http://www.scriptfrenzy.org and it's called Script Frenzy. The challenge is to write 100 pages of script in a month. There is something similar in November, where the challenge is to write 50,000 words of a novel in a month.

And sorry about the language... usually my characters don't swear much. (haha, just don't read the screaming matches that are excerpts from Nanowrimo...those are the exception. They're probably worse than the script. But constance doesn't usually swear. She was just REALLY angry...)
And I can't help the swearing in the script... it would diminish the accuracy of the readers' perception of Jackie. That's just who she IS. Except around her Grandma Katrina... (which is scene 8).

Anuhea wrote: "Can anyone share their favorite piece of work of writing? Something like that. I want to learn from all you older kids. I love to write, but I'm not very good at it yet. If you could share ideas of..."

Ah... my favorite piece of writing...

for poetry, A Glass Dove. It's posted in the poetry topic. The poem is a metaphor for one of my friends. :(
My only advice for poetry is to not feel apathetic while writing it. The stronger the emotion (doesn't matter what it is) the better the poem is. Usually. Some poems are just fun. Like the ones that Shel Silverstien writes. :)

Hmmm... stories... Well, I've only ever finished one long story (34 pages) and it's called Roses for June. It isn't on goodreads, though. I don't think it's THAT great, but other people seem to... However, I think it has potential, with some editing.
This one's a good example for ideas; the idea I got was really random. Somebody said something about the different roses have different meanings, and I thought, 'what if there was a girl who mysteriously recieved roses every week?' Then as I wrote the story, more ideas sprung up.
Basically, what you have to do is keep your mind open to ideas. And ask yourself three questions (preferrably in order):
What if...? (gets ideas in the first place)
How? (gives you more of a plot/characters. Can provide answers to who/what (whichever wasn't answered by the whatif) where, and when)
Why? (gives your characters motives, and makes them more realistic)

Short stories... well, I already posted the ones that I like as links. Of those, my best are The Mountain and Cutter. Quite a contrast between the two. Cutter is a bit disturbing...
I think that I like them because of the description. They were both given to me as challenges, and I ended up with stories that I'm proud of that I wouldn't have written otherwise. So, challenges can be really great. They stretch your comfort zone with stories, and expanding the range things you've written helps you become a better writer, because you can find the best style for you.

((btw, I posted my little paragraph here into a Writing on my profile. So, if you, for some reason, like it ;) then you can find it again there))

Lauren wrote: "((btw, I posted my little paragraph here into a Writing on my profile. So, if you, for some reason, like it ;) then you can find it again there))"

Okay. Thanks! Is it the Midget one?

Yep.

It might be more, apparently we're doing this in class once a week now or something.

Coolz. In language arts, we're doing poetry. Which is my weakest spot. Unless you count sports. You can already tell that I'm bad at poetry if you go to that poetry folder!!

We did a poetry unit in 8th. I posted them in my Writing.

*goes to look at yours*

Where are they?

I meant the poetry folder for this group. You know the really lame LOVE haiku I did?

(let alone poetry)

lol

look in meh poetry writings! their in my pro

okay. i shall go look....

Lauren wrote: "lol

look in meh poetry writings! their in my pro"

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Thoughts of a Bookworm!!! (I hope I got the title right)

<3!!

omg!

<333333

I just randomly started posting a ton of crap

I really liked that poem! It was really good!

:)

fnioanfoi;anfmco;daifnovjnoi

AHH! The random letters are haunting me!!

fnoadg;hiarfz

ribbit

WAAAA!!

No one told me they read my writing! It's my worst piece of writing ever!
I never thought anyone would read it...

I'm scared to post more now. Especially my lame prologue for a story.

Oh well, I am going to do it anyway...

I read it. !

It's really bad. Right now, I can't work on the story because I'm working on a book report. It's not due soon, but I'd rather get it over with......