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pintle · Post by **pintle** » 03 Nov 2006, 21:35

Voice recognition ftl. My sister types super slow and i got her some software, it constantly made mistakes, didnt recognize her voice, and didnt have words she used in its database

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 03 Nov 2006, 21:46

But that wouldn't be fair...

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 04 Nov 2006, 00:55

Zoombie wrote:For some reason the hard part, for some people, is the easy part for me. Creativity...pish posh. I just think and BAM, I get ideas. The hard part is the grammer, spelling and such. Weird, huh?

Oh, the creativity is no problem, but the interesting stuff behind a good creative writing piece isn't there unless you put thought into it. I have no problem making generic character templates go around doing things to no real end result, but it makes for a dry read at the end of the day, even with masterful descriptive language.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 04 Nov 2006, 01:02

I have no creativity

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 04 Nov 2006, 02:02

But generic anything is not very creative. Creativity is ______ people doing ______ things in ________ places. Fill two of those in with normals and one with weird, and thats cool. Normal people doing normal things in strange places could be any number of interesting stories. Whats off the top of my head?

Space colony, bizzare office complex, Hell, and so on.

How about strange people in normal places doing normal things

Office complex with weirdos, any marching band on the planet, Hell, and so on

You get what I mean?

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 04 Nov 2006, 11:25

Zoombie wrote:But generic anything is not very creative. Creativity is ______ people doing ______ things in ________ places. Fill two of those in with normals and one with weird, and thats cool. Normal people doing normal things in strange places could be any number of interesting stories. Whats off the top of my head?

Space colony, bizzare office complex, Hell, and so on.

How about strange people in normal places doing normal things

Office complex with weirdos, any marching band on the planet, Hell, and so on

You get what I mean?

I'd have to disagree. I've read some pretty interesting stories about normal people in normal life situations doing relatively normal things that were interesting because they were well written, that is to say what the story as a whole said was beyond normal writing. There really isn't any way you can make a character in a template that has never been seen before and still have it believable, and it doesn't really matter what that character does or how he does it, it matters most what those actions mean and how they are described.

You can have an interesting character in an interesting environment doing cool things and thoughtless writing will still make the overall story boring to read and lacking depth.

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 04 Nov 2006, 12:17

Ah, but I tend to find that intesting chaicters are weird. And I dont mean that I only find books about weird people intresting, I mean that books about normal people are only intresting because there IS somthing weird about the characters. Infact, the very fact that someone was compleatly normal in a normal world and doing normal things would infact be weird in itself...

Stories are made of thing NOT being everyday. Personly Im quite weird so any storie about normal people is a very weird thing to me. The only way you could have a storie about normal people in normal life situations doing relatively normal things would be to be reading your own autobiography (and even then I bet that some things would strick you as weird and intesting, cause ther'd be things you forgot you did...)

I chalange anyone to find a book about compleatly normal people in normal situations, doing normal things. (That everyone can agree is noraml that is, being normal just from your point a view is useless)

aGorm

aGorm

BlackLiger · Post by **BlackLiger** » 07 Nov 2006, 00:53

I'm gonna sticky this till the end of the month, just on the basis we could do with more good writers involved with spring :) (MODS NEED COOL BACKSTORIES, YA-KNOW?!)

http://z10.invisionfree.com/Warhawk_Stu ... owtopic=10 theres mine, by the way. I'll update the webtopic when I can.

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 07 Nov 2006, 01:09

I type quickly (100wpm when I'm on a roll), but I find that in writing fiction it's the thinking that isn't very quick. I'd like to think that I have a way with words, a gift for crafting phrases and sentences that flow like warm butter over bread, caressing the reader and lifting him out of the pages of the book and into a whole new world. Or perhaps I'm simply conceited. Regardless, it takes thinking time for me to write well.

I've been thinking of writing a novel - well, I'd like to. My big trouble is figuring out beginnings. I already know what I want the middle and end of the plot to be, I just can't effectively introduce it. I can't craft a plausible beginning event, or even a good beginning paragraph! Hmm. I might write it on the forum like Zoombie et al. do, but I'm not sure you guys would like it... it's about a depressed closeted gay teen and how pretty much everyone fucks him over. Not exactly a sci-fi thriller

... but I've written sci-fi and fantasy short stories before... with some interesting plot lines. One of my sci-fi/fantasy short stories (combining elements of both) was about a group of people who discover the secrets of time travel and immortality, travel back to ancient times (2000BC or so) to see what it's like, and when they try to go back to modern times their time travel device explodes. They then go live on a mountain and attempt to recreate technology so that they can go back home... and hence the Greek gods are born.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 07 Nov 2006, 01:29

I and chris have a good storyline, I am actually making a story kinda revolving around it...

Forgotten Chronicles (Off-topic, not in the mods section)

Candleman · Post by **Candleman** » 07 Nov 2006, 03:26

I can write events and happenings just fine, I just have trouble linking them, as in putting stuff in between the events. I don't want to just have the character "wake up" in different situations.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 07 Nov 2006, 04:10

You could have your charicter be unstuck in time.

Oh wait, Kurt Vonnagat already did that...nevermind.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 07 Nov 2006, 05:02

*Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 07 Nov 2006, 05:04

If I took the time to spell check everything, then I woulden't write so much!

BlackLiger · Post by **BlackLiger** » 02 Dec 2006, 18:35

Well, the month is up. Didn't complete mien

Unstickied.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 03 Dec 2006, 02:22

Two writers I used to work with finished.

Spring RTS Engine

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