Writing Passionates discussion
aahhh ... nostalgia ...
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me: hey, i had this good idea that i got really stuck on. I wrote the first few chapters and then stopped because I didn't know what to happen next. okay, so here was the basic story so far: there was this girl, and she was sort of "undead" or something. like, she had died, but was in a sort of weird afterlife. only now she has weird supernatural powers. and she's basically like the Grim Reaper. by that, i mean, when people are about to die, she goes to them and takes their souls. So she's kind of miserable, and she also misses her human life, but she's in denial about it. She keeps telling herself that humans are stupid and she's glad not to be one anymore, but really she is totally depressed. Then this guy starts following her around, and this is strange because humans don't usually notice her (unless they're about to die and she's taking their souls away). That's where I stopped writing. My plan for the rest of it was that the guy would turn out to be her opposite: he saves people's souls. so they hate each other at first but then they fall in love somehow (not really sure how) and that's bad for some reason... there's some sort of punishment for it. see, i haven't really figured it out. but i liked the first few chapters that i wrote. any advice? maybe i'll post some of it...
sella: That sounds really intriguing! Maybe it's bad for the boy and girl to fall in love because then they will combine, and nobody will ever have their souls taken away or saved again.
me: ooh. interesting. i like that...
haha wow. this seems like it was all from soooo long ago
that's so funny. Is that what actually happened? I never read the ending because you TOOK IT OFF!
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me: Another idea I had, though I don't think it will work, is about these creatures (I don't even know what kind, yet) that whenever someone dies, they take their soul and rebirth it to some new person, and that new person will have the same interests and skills as the one who died, but none of the memories or anything- they're supposed to "delete" the memories before putting the soul in a new body. But one creature is just learning, and they forget to "delete" the memories, so some baby gets born with all the memory, knowledge and experiences that the person before them did. I don't know if I like it much; it's too science-fiction for me, and I don't know really what the story would be about. What do you guys think?
brigid: interesting beginning. so...then the baby would be this total genius? Maybe some scientists will want to study him/her, and the creature who messed up might feel bad and want to help the genius kid.
roni: that sounds pretty cool
kenzie: Like Albert Einstein, right?
me: Yeah, kind of. I was thinking more kind of like Artemis Fowl.
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haha!! star soul turned out to be a bit different than that- cindy isn't like albert einstein or anything. haha. XD
oooh, and i founjd the one for tulip's cozy tea!! :D
I don't know if it will work, but I kind of like the story I am working on right now. It is about this young woman who wants to be a writer, but she thinks she's a failure. Everything she's tried to write, it hasn't worked out. Then she gets this idea to write a story about a tea parlor, and she starts to write it. But then, after a few chapters, she is stuck- she doesn't know what to write next. It's another failure. She decides to go out and get some coffee to "calm her nerves." When she is driving, she gets carried away, and ends up farther away from starbucks then she can tell. When she turns a corner, she stops the car abruptly. Because sitting in front of her is the tea parlor that she had just made up. The exact same name, and it looks just like she had described it. I don't want to say anymore right now, but what do you guys think? Does it sound interesting? (and please don't steal my idea)
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lol. XD
and...yet...another!! I found the one for the morte. or, at least, what inspired the morte.
Once I had the idea of this girl who goes on this ship. On the ship are these creatures called Lutes, who are really weird-looking. They act all nice to her, but once they get to their island they imprison her. On the ship, they got her to answer a question with the word "Yes" and they bound her word in a book and then she had to destroy that book...um, it was messed up.
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wow...this is so weird. XD
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"I have a journal, but I don't write in it very often--only when there's something really important on my mind. And when I do write in a journal, I find it hard because I don't feel like I'm writing about myself. I feel like I'm writing from another person's perspective, someone who is trying to put my thoughts into words but miserably failing. I don't know. It's hard to describe."
omg, i wrote everything so FORMALLY. what's w/all the punctuation and capital letters? i've gotten lazier since then. lol
yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuppppppppppppppp. I don't remember my first comment, but then again, *laughs* I DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING! HAHA!
My first comment was a writing post XD
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Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><
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i found my first comment ever written in this group!! XD ::
"Whenever I come up with an idea, it's usually because something around me evokes a spark in my head. Maybe it's something that's just happened or something I've just seen. I usually never get one when I'm looking for them- they just come to me in the middle of nowhere. I'm no trouble with getting ideas. But sometimes, when I have an idea, and start writing, I get stuck; I don't know how to continue on it."
haha. XD proper baloney. XD
apparently i hadn't caught the 'XD' disease back then, not yet. haha. XD
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So do I, I guess it's a bad habit. If I'm trying to type really fast I might not use properness, but I usually try too. It's probably 'cause we were all new, and we all didn't want to seem sloppy, or lazzy. LOL. Now we all know each other fairly well, and it doesn't matter.
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idk... sometimes i capitalize and punctuate on GR. sometimes i don't. either way.
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Lol, I just love how MS Word capitalizes everything for you.
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Sella, ov vey! i haven't checked this group in months. ><
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It depends for me. Every once in a while, I forget to so it has to do it for meh XD
me too, I capitalize stuff just off of instinct.
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But other than when I'm typing realy really really really fast, I tend to capitalize and use punctuation.
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Boy, it's a good thing that open office isn't a person!!!
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i use appleworks. yeah, i know, it's ancient. but it works for me. ^^
Well, Microsoft word is the only thing I can use. I have adobe reader, but idk how to work it.
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And Brigid, you can turn of those squiggly lines. I only know how to do it in word '07 but you can turn it off in any of the versions. I don't know anything about for mac though.
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lolz......how can a computer program be controlling??
hey sella, here's the first comment i made about moon rise XD :
I had this idea that I thought was really good, but I got completely stuck after the first few chapters. It's about three princesses. The youngest one is timid, the middle one is brave, and the oldest one is a little of each and creates a kind of balance. But then the oldest one disappears, and no one knows what has happened to her. Not too long after her disappearance, the youngest sister starts seeing ghosts. A few years go by, and one day the youngest sister sees the oldest sister--but she isn't a ghost. Somehow, she's trapped in the spirit world but she isn't dead. So the youngest sister and the middle sister have to find the oldest sister somehow. But I don't really know how. I've tried to develop the idea in my head for months, but I can't think of anything. Any ideas?