Did you ever write a novel or a short story? What was its name? It does not matter if it is still incomplete.
I started "Pensive" two weeks ago and I have only only completed two chapters and I daresay that I don't think that I will be able to complete it.
The only completed story of mine is "Mina, My Savior" which was totally rubbish.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
Rubbish? Rubbish I can present you with.
I once wrote a novel which had about a 100 pages and was rubbish too.
Right now, I've got two or three (or four) stories that I'm writing on.
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”- Robert McCloskey
I've completed over 20 short stories (95% rubbish) and have about another five which I've not finished yet and may never go back to.
I've never written a novel although I've got an idea and hope to start this year.
3 short stories in production (1 nearly finished, 2 about halfway) - all in need of major re-working - I try and finish before I begin rewrites, but some nights I do nothing but rework the bits I've done already.
1 children's fairy-story - about 1/3 done - my oldest niece is just about the right age for it now, so I may have to hurry.
1 novel - synopsis & numerous notes/character sketches - most of chapter 2 and bits of other chapters more-or-less written. No title yet! Xamonas Chegwé is a central character though, in case anyone wondered where my name came from.
Dozens of other novels & short-stories abandonned over the years. With good reason in the main!
OH, several over the years, starting when I was about 8. I think they are completely unpublishable but it's fun to read them after it's been a while. I have one started right now, about an old man who keels over in a stranger's yard, by doing so starts a friendship between the old man's son and the woman whose yard it was....it's going nowhere I fear.
I wrote a couple of short screen-plays in college. That was fun.
"Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house, they are company and don't let me catch you remarking on their ways like you were so high and mighty."
When in grade school I used to write stories that involved big spacebattles. I took several pages just to describe the opposing fleets, and even more pages to descirbe the actuall battle. The story often got lost along the way. But in the end it was all rubish.
Apart from those big spacebattles, which only had a really thin story, I've written a few short stories, as in really short, only one or two pages. The best one had a shifting persective, starting with the writer's perspective, and ending up with the main character forgetting himself. Unfortunatelly it got lost in the biggest hard drive crash of the century. At least for me it was the biggest crash of the century, only one too.
There is no darkness, there is no light, there is only Lasagne!
i Wrote hmm... one short story which i like a lot but is in hebrew so... i can't show it here... and.. i tried writing a fantasy story.. got to chapter two and quit.....
so.. nop... no storys here...
Finished a novelette of which I'm very proud and am constantly revising. Several short stories over the years, of varying degrees of mediocrity. A movie script in the works that, in retrospect, is in need of a MAJOR overhaul. A handful of short scripts for various projects here and there. And a comic book in very early stages.
"Now I did a job. I ain't got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regards to my character, so let me make this abundantly clear: I do the job. And then I get paid."
- Capt. Malcolm Reynolds
I am working on a novel I suppose you could say. I ask all persons who receive emails from me to save them and eventually when I think I have screwed up my life enough I will ask them to be emailed back, I'll go through and organize them as they got alot of bizarre stuff in them, not to mention the ones written intoxicated. Most of them are filled with tangents and tirades, but also friends and conflicts and lust and whatnot, so you got all the major elements of a plot in my own life, I'll just add some fiction to jazz it up and boom a novel of the new age.
Not a novel, but I have been working on a poem for nearly 8months now - it has been written, torn up, re-written, burned & currently sits in my head mocking me.
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
Wow, you guys are really fast at writing. Along with "Pensive" I have also started a novel whose name I have not decided yet but it is a time-travel fiction. I am not getting whether to use time machine or magic and so I have written only one chapter of this novel yet. Like "Pensive" I don't think so that I will ever be able to complete it. When I start to write something, I start having so many ideas but I become unable to express them. Even if I am able to translate them accurately, they do not show my real emotions and it hurts a lot. *confused*
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
I'v been through that enough times to have a personal anthology of poems that were a pain to write. Once in a while its a littl rewarding though. I'v written one short story ... it was good when I wrote it but since then I have taken a course on "The short story" and suddenly its terrible.Originally Posted by kilted exile
Irish poets, learn your trade!
-Yeats
yep, I've always wondered about thatwhat language/cultural background is the name from? is the X pronounced like 'ks' or like 'z'?
I'm working on a novel (well, not working on it right now, really). it's got 4 chapter so far and it's (working-) title is "Making Sense". dunno if it's rubbish, i tend to think so but my best friend seems to like most of it so far.
got another one up my sleeve but it'll take for ever to write them because I've got so many other (stupid) things to do
For the benefit of Sleepy Witch and anyone else that is interested in how to pronounce a made up name!yep, I've always wondered about that
The 'X' is pronounced like the 'ch' in 'loch'.
The stress in the first word is on the second syllable, which has a hard 'o', like in 'don'.
Both 'a's are also hard, as in 'cat'.
Chegwé rhymes with segué and the 'ch' is sounded like the one in 'chess'.
So now you know.
how does one really tell if his/her work is rubbish? Coz i'm working on something, a graphical novel to be exact, still on the script though, was thinking of publishing it (how courageous) so can i say to myself now that i'm working on rubbish and stop? or continue on and wait for reviews to bash me
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