Katzaniel

Two nights, and therefore we come to be. On and around, I saw you sleeping, but then you slept. Do not be aware! It won't know.

Oooh.

Patrick writes poetry.

And it's good.

I really like this last one. Well, it's pretty grim imagery (not necessarily a bad thing, true), but I love the sounds of the words!

I think she means when you go into one of the forums, say the Conservatory, and change how many threads to see. It used, I believe, to be a simple drop-down list, but now you must click "Custom" (in the bar under the "Start New Topic button that's on the right-hand side of the page) and then alter the drop-down box.

I, however, seem to be able to click into old threads, in both KTan (apparently the one I was using) and Mighty Pen Tan, so this might be tricky to track down.

Just to let everyone know, if things are looking a little weird or anything, some of us have been playing around with skins. I made a yellow version, but it's pretty incomplete. Degorram has been looking into free pre-mades, and of course Snypiuer is always playing with skins. If the default goes funky, you should be able to set it by going to the bottom of the main page - or possibly any page - and pressing "Change Theme".

Sicily... Cecilia, don't be a sissy,

It's simply a city, you see.

Heh, nice. I don't check into the Banquet Room too often (poetry isn't really my thing) but I enjoyed this.

This thread... is not at all what I assumed it was based on the title. Oops.

Iocaine powder:

Quite a classic blunder, if

Death is on the line.

National Novel Writing Month is coming up! Where you try to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.

I wrote 30,000 words on a novel one year, and then the next I added 20,000 (even though you're supposed to use a brand new book). I would like to add another 20,000 and bring it to about the size of a typical first manuscript, but this is going to be made harder by my decision earlier this year to re-start it with some changes in perspective, so I'll need to update chapters here and there on my way to starting the new part. Maybe I can do that before November begins... yeah, right...

((For anyone who remembers, this is still me working on my Distant Soil idea. Heh. Probably I should post the other 20 chapters I have in my first version, and then I guess create yet another topic for my re-write if I seem to be making any progress...))

Anyhow, I was mostly wondering if anyone else planning on participating in this?

We've done this sort of thing before. If you're looking to write something short to stretch your writing muscles, or you want to write something longer but don't know where to begin... it can help to take some random but juicy items and try to fit them together somehow.

If you use up one of these, please post it in its own thread wherever it belongs (probably the Assembly Room), please put up a link here, and make an attempt to come up with other items for someone else to use. If you use an already-used collection, or you only use 3 items, or you just pop in and add a collection without writing... whatever!

Collection #1: a light bulb, an interestingly-shaped cloud, a wet shoe, and a missing cell phone

Collection #2: a empty or mostly empty notebook, an echo, a rusty wrench, and a water bottle

Collection #3 (Probably-Fantasy Edition): a skeleton, a faded coin, a campfire song and a shield as big as a person

Collection #4 (Sci-Fi Edition): gravity boots, a mostly empty phaser, a bitter cop, and a very thin rope

Collection #5: a hedgehog, a yellow coat, a secret passageway and a handlebar mustache

Bonus points if you write a story for every single one of these (by which I meant 5 stories, but 1 is even more impressive).

He shook his head, trying not to think about that. Instead, he wondered how he had gotten here. Not just in the last few days, but what life events had conspired to really bring him to this? A long story, that. A story best told, perhaps, with flashbacks...

Hi!

It seems to me that many of us desire something to do with writing to practice the art, and stretch our writing muscles before we actually get writing - but in our busy lives, it's sometimes difficult to spend the time necessary to fully catch up with what others have written, and by the time you've done that, you're out of time to actually write.

So my idea with this thread is that we all write something together - without actually reading what the people before us wrote.

1. Excepting this first post, you are strongly encouraged not to read anything in this thread except for the single paragraph of the person before you.

2. Write whatever you wish, using the last paragraph for inspiration when you like. I'm kind of hoping for a continuing, albeit probably non-cohesive story, but it's much better just to get writing than to worry about that, so if you'd rather write something unrelated to anything, go ahead. (Although if it's not at least loosely inspired by this thread, you might consider posting it in its own thread).

3. Put everything but your last paragraph in spoiler tags. (See "Other styles" above). Andp lease make your last paragraph short - one to three moderately-sized sentences, if you need a guideline - as a favour to the person after you. (If the person before you failed to do this, feel free to ignore them completely. You're not here to read, you're here to write!)

4. If you really wish to read the whole thread, please do so only after you've posted.

Now, give me a moment to get us started in the next post. (Remember, unless you're the first person replying to this, you're supposed to skip ahead now!)

Nice, Xaious. Now I will see if I can come up with something (later this weekend, perhaps).

You could also just allow Bruce to figure out how to control himself, which might still allow Mynx to write, but only in thought, not actually ever controlling Bruce's actions?

Medication?

I'm looking at this again with an eye toward adding to it, and/or revising it. I would like to get writing again; I haven't really done it in so long. But re-reading what I've written, I find I don't really like the style I used. It's too terse and to the point, rushing to describe important events and push the story forward - I think this makes it less interesting than it might be. I don't like that we can't feel anything for Anthony, that his parent's death is so disconnected (to use Wyvern's apt description) from the reader, that we don't know what the business he runs is, we don't hear about his parents until they're gone, and we know barely anything about the second most important character in the story, Angela. For example, when Anthony finds out that Angela is her real name - well, it shouldn't exactly be a surprise, it's pretty obvious - but it should be a moment. The reader should get to cherish it with him.

On the other hand, I don't have enough planned to happen in this story to be very long, and making it too long might bring about an anticlimactic ending. I'm a little torn in that maybe I should actually be making it shorter, and try to do this as a short story. Or maybe pigeonholing it and forcing it into either short story or novella or something else is a bad idea, and I should just do whatever I want to.

I'm not sure if I need to hear opinions on this or I just wanted to vent and/or brainstorm aloud. Opinions will not be dismissed, but I think since I'm the one who knows where I'm going with this (roughly, anyway) then I'd better just do some serious thinking...

(It occurs to me that what story I have could probably fit alright into a movie... but I just don't think I have a sufficiently satisfying ending for a written work...)

Making up words doesn't annoy me in the least.

Ooh, there's a lot to appreciate here, especially the last few lines. Good choice of words gives a good feel to it, and the topic is interesting.

I hope you don't mind my saying, though, you need to watch your "it's" and "its". The apostrophe is needed in this word only as a contraction to it is. If you're talking about possessing something, use "its":

My mind has packed it's napsack -> My mind has packed its napsack

A trap in it's own regard. -> A trap in its own regard.

it's time to travel home. -> This one is right.

I mention it because it's such a little thing, but very jarring to some to see it wrong.

Cheers!

Ooh, that sounds kind of neat. I don't really think I could do it, but if we get a list here of people willing to let their characters be used this way, I might give it a go.

Any of my characters could be used, really, though I suspect the only one people know well enough is Katzaniel, pre-AVG mission. Aniel has only appeared in one story so far, and Inbi is pretty vanilla in personality. Most of my others are one-shot deals.

Loretta backed up, not looking away from the gun. She tripped over her chair, then kept skittering back on her hands and feet until she bumped against the far wall of her cell. "Don't hurt me! Who are you? Where am I?!?"

"Get back!" Bruce shouted irrationally, and Loretta tried to shrink into the wall. Donovan put his face right into hers. "All you need to remember in that tiny brain of yours is that you are not to ask questions!" he growled.

Loretta squirmed, and Donovan revelled in it. But then she looked away. Her eyes focussed on a spot on the wall. Her back straightened, and she began to stand up, with the obvious intention of wandering to the other side of the cell...

OOC: Hjolnai, I don't think we're allowed to vote for NPCs. If so, though, I'll second that. We should definitely lynch this guy! If not, I'm not sure that at this point I can really justify voting for anyone other than Bruce or Tony. Hrm. Tony it is.

I like this.

Well, yes. That's why I said at the end of posts. I always figured that saying it only IC could lead to confusion though, and make it harder for the Were-Wolf Master to count up. Anyway, I hadn't played for a while and wasn't sure if things had changed.

Back in her cell, Loretta paced. "I know I'm here for a reason," she told herself, "I just can't remember what that reason is..." She looked around the small cell. It wasn't quite a prison cell, but the bars on one side made it impossible to mistake for much of anything else.

"Hey," she said loudly. "Hello? Who else is here?"

Okay, that's cool. This is day phase then, right? Do we still put our votes in OOC comments at the end of posts?

Awesome. (Especially re: the chaos role).

If the wolf dies, won't people stop being dead every morning? You intend to keep us lynching when the murder stops? Well, if there's an IC reason to do that, I don't mind, but it seems a little odd, is all.

EDIT: When does this phase end, precisely?

Oh, good. I've been away from my internet and hoping I wasn't missing things.

I'll take 'em whenever they come. Can we get a player list in the first post at some point, too? Whenever you've got a moment. Thanks!