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Posted on 09/02/2004 2:18:28 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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Psuedo fantasy?
Some form of fantasy, I mean. Probably a realistic world with some fantastic elements.
I dunno. I really don't have a scrap of an idea this time around.
Heh, my world is something like that. I'd call it "magic realism" but that describes a bizzare South American subgenre...
See if you can create a character you'd like to tell a story about, then.
~Sigh~ The Season Premiere of "Corin's World" continues...
- Nobody bothered to tell me that "The Toy Maker of Williamsburg" is no longer there...
- Then the bank says that the proceeds from the sale of the kidney will be held for five days 'cause they're drawn on an out of state bank (It was flippin Bank of America fercryinoutloud)...I did manage to get the manager to override that...
- THEN I went to another department to pick up something I have to send to a meeting tomorrow. Apparently my security card access has been shut off for their office (works for mine). I set off all the alarms...
Can I leave yet?
I'll do that! Thanks for the tips.
My main trouble is that whatever I write tends to be heavily influenced by what I've read recently...which makes me feel hopelessly unoriginal. And then I feel like giving up.
I suppose there's nothing new under the sun, and there's no getting out of writing things that are similar to at least some of what I've read, so I shouldn't let it get to me!
I think we quilled the thread...
LOL!
You do have an interesting life! I guess there's something to be said for that.
On the other hand, there's something to be said for boring lives, too...
I have the same problem! Also what I watch. I have to fight to keep other people's characters out of my stories.
All you have to do is plagiarize from enough sources that no one can really decide who you're plagiarizing.
I should read some very very good books until November, so I have nice characters to steal!
Hm...maybe I should dig out some of the Dickens books I haven't read in awhile. I love his descriptions...
Good plan!
I guess I'm lucky... I can usually spin out a plot easily enough. It's the writing that's hard for me.
I think I was born with a deficient imagination.
No, you're just not as weird and twisted as I am.
But there are ways we can make up for that deficiency ;-) So you want to write something slightly fantastic - like a story about ordinary people who suddenly discover a magic charm? Something along those lines?
Try "writing what you know" just a little bit. How about some of your characters are musicians? Or homeschool graduates? Or techies?
Yeah, I ~could~ say all of this is because I don't have the one shoooooes...
But that would imply things were better when I ~did~ have them.
Something along those lines, yeah.
*sigh* But see, this is where I get depressed, 'cause it's been done sooooo many times! And that shouldn't matter, but it makes me feel like I shouldn't bother.
Just because it's been done doesn't mean you shouldn't try to do it again. Do you know "Robinson Cruseo" spawned dozens of similar stories? There was even a name for them, "Robinsonades". It's been done forever. There is nothing new under the sun - but if you can find a slightly different angle on it...
And it hasn't been done *that* often. Now, if you were trying a Tolkien knock-off... that's been overdone.
Them and the toaster of doooooom.
so... the daily rectal exams just weren't enuff fer yuh, huh?...
headin' out purty quick tuh pick grapes at a neighbors... just found out that we have a neighbor to the North (about 6 miles as the crow flies, 15 miles by dirt road) that is a retired Marine officer... met him the other day, and I took thegirl over fer a visit on Monday... great spread... he's got a couple dozen Hopewell Indian burial mounds on his place..., and a high bluff with a view to the West to die for... he and his wife are real nice folks...
Whatcha gonna do with the grapes?
Congrats on the newly found neighbor!
Hmmm, former Marines, rural hideouts,
Y'all know something yer not sharing?
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