The only way is to show it to someone who is totally honest (your Granny will probably tell you it's brilliant even if it's not).Quote:
Originally Posted by woeful painter
There are several writers sites that you could post it on to get some feed back.
oh, great idea! thanks!
firstly, zippy's avatar is awesome... :thumbs_up
now on topic:
I have written several short stories, mostly humerous or satiracal, I've only written three which I thought were not complete crap.
I started writing a political - econonimcs book, but I still have not completed it, it is really odd, and feature a sort of blending of marxism, and extreme capitalism, with a modified democratic idea, and forced utopianism, in short, I think I will probably never finish it.
I am currently working on 3 non-fiction books now: one on realigious theory and computer science, an instructional guide for learning/teaching basic computing skills to imigrants and sceniors, and the third is a treatise on political equality in realation to economic well being.
And to top it off I am mulling over the developmental stages of a pseudo-scifi story about the possibilities of another group of beings on this planet.
I enjoy writing non-fiction, to me my fiction always seems like shallow bs.
Maybe oneday I will actually publish something. :D
i am currently writting a (roughfly)450page book called FIRE AND ICE.
i hope it will be published in bout 2 years when al revising is done.
should be fun! :cool:
wow, that sounds so good, avidreader! i thought i was having a bad one when i almost got one of my pieces up to 200 pgs. i guess i'll just try to make it good then. :)
yep, some unfinished novels (around six, or so, but only one is progressing :p) and loads of short story. i knew exactly what the stories were about (which mainly started by events that occured to me and the story grew wider), and i just develop the details. but loads of times i forgot the brilliant (slash complete rubbish) details, so the story didn't make any sense anymore. there goes the point where i call it rubbish :)), Chaw.
Bleh... I have many:
The Murderer... my first... which is also complete rubbish... but hey it's my first... I can't expect it to be perfect
The Snow... that one's a bit better... I've posted both of these on this site... The Murderer being my first post. This one was inspired by the idea of perspectives... how something may be seen differently from a different point of view
Then the other one's A Poem of Virtue: Hope, based on Hope... a sort of... description of what it is or something... you've read it :)
In making... well... I've a lot... of ideas that is... I've started on the Final Dream... but... bleck... meh... I'll probably never finish. I'm just not good at executing ideas because of laziness and stuff... ._. I hate that though... but it's just so hard to go against it. Nevertheless ideas don't stop coming at all, I just don't want to state them because by doing that the fun is spoiled. I can state the title though:
A Poem of Virtue: Reliability
A Poem of Virtue: Friendship
How the Falling of a Petal causes War
All of these are poems... good thing I'm writing these ideas down because sometimes I forget (the title immediately just... "sparks" my memory though). If only I could write stories as quick as I can come up with ideas...
I've always been reading and writing fiction. Recently, I was cleaning through a stack of elementary school papers I was saving for whatever reason, and I found no less than five short stories that I had a good laugh over.
Of course, I've written a lot since then for fun, for English class, and last year's creative writing class. Actually, a short holiday poem I wrote for that class won a school district-wide contest and was published in the teachers' yearly Christmas cards. As a result I got a gift card for Barnes & Noble for $10. It is ironic that that's the only thing I've written that got recognized for anything, since I dislike writing poetry. I love doing short stories, though, and I have plenty of them. About a year and a half ago I started on my first novel, which will probably take me a long time to finish. I'm pretty pleased with the way it's turning out so far, and I may try to publish it when it's all written and revised.
Hey Rodwen, Good luck with them! I hope that you will finish them as soon as possible.
If those are short stories, you can submit any of them to LitNet Town Crier as well. For more details, you need to visit that thread.
I have done some writing, none too long, but then again, I'm your age Pensive. I want to write books, and write all my ideas down. I imagine the stories all the time. It's actually kind of ridiculous, but once I actually finish something I don't think it's rubbish. I have a friend who wrote practically a whole fantasy novel and sent it to me. Someday, I'll write my stories. :D
Hopefully, me too. :banana:Quote:
Originally Posted by RJbibliophil
Hope is the thing with feathers,
That perches in the soul,
Sings the tune without words,
And never stops at all! :D