The Writing Thread

The solution is obviously to only write about white characters.
It's easier on me if I let the reader fill in the blanks and come to their own conclusions as to how someone looks.
My philosophy has been to write the minimum amount of description for characters not unless it is relevant to the story. A lot of writers learn from hacks and think you need description -worse yet it can be seen as blatant padding and it mostly is.
That's what I do, my characters are default white for the most part. I'll only give you an idea of what they look like by their names, unless it's to establish a connection to another character or if it's relevant to the story. I'm not against having different races and sexualities in my stories, I just don't like that being the focal point of the entire god damn character. They are people, and I write them like people first and I guess that's verboten in the mind of the wokescold catladies.
 
I used to think I wanted to be a novelist one day but the industry is such poo poo and you don't get much return for all the effort or the costs trying to get published. It's a lot better to just do it for your own enjoyment, maybe post it anonymously somewhere for others to find it if they want, and call it a day. It's a lot less pressure and makes the actual writing process more enjoyable.
I stick to character descriptions that say something about who the character is and what their role is in the story: a scary mercenary type with scars, an athletic character being fit, their choice of accessories, what type of clothes they wear, but things that point out race or whatever else rarely get much focus. Most of the stuff I write has characters in settings that are pretty homogeneous, it's just easier that way, and world building racial/cultural politics is needless homework. It's not my cup of tea. World building in general is pretty over hyped. You need far less to make the setting believable than what some people want to think.
 
World building in general is pretty over hyped.

I don't read stuff with a hard fantasy / sci-fi setting because I get bored of the world building. Learning about a fake place seems like a fool's errand unless I'm planning on reading like 20 books in that same universe.

That's not to say it's impossible, All Tomorrows is pretty hard sci-fi but it's grounded in a way I find engaging.
 
World building is hard especially if you're going for the epic novel. Unless you truly believe you are on par with Frank Herbert or Tolkien (men approaching their 50's) then I wouldn't recommend it. But is there a market for a book like that nowadays I guess is a better question?
 
Detailed world building is great if you have the proper characters to put in it and it's in some epic where the background is important to pull all the characters together as opposed to the other way around. However, most people have no business writing epics and constantly reading them is exhausting. To add to that, a lot of world building is just lame and bad and awful. Lots of people's ideas well and truly suck. Just because your setting is a novelty doesn't mean it'll be fun to slog through.

The same with complicated plots. They serve no real purpose for most beyond the author being smug they could shove in as much bullshit as possible. Most every story should be character work first and last and most plots need to be relatively simple to allow for that.

Flashbacks are another thing I hate, if I'm allowed to ramble. They're dogshit. There's never any need for a flashback. I skip them in most stuff I read and don't miss anything. Almost all information and hints you need to understand what's going on in the story are already there. With few exception all flashbacks should be cut out entirely.
 
Wokescolds shoot themselves in the foot all the time. Food related words are some of the only positive sounding descriptions for darker skin. You either are going to end up being awkward about what they look like at best or downright rude.

The solution is obviously to only write about white characters.
I normally do. Usually the only time I include PeeOhCee is when I'm writing for a specific fandom that has these 'people of race'. My belief is that if these wokescolds want to lecture others on things like this, they should self segregate and do it themselves.
The terms dusky/duskies are used as perjoratives, but are apt in describing a certain deserty race in the story. There's also tawny and the classic "dark." You can infer race from evoking a character's homeland.
I once was writing a fan work where the character was Persian. Persians come in a wide range of skin tones, so the term I used was 'sandy', because it suited what I wanted. Ironically, Persians/North Africans/Middle Easterners don't get offended by these terms, but blacks do. They are usually the only ones to get offended.

Speaking of, I found this other piece of advice: accents are bad.
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Which is funny to me, because I've read works where a Scottish character speaks in a full accent and no one complains. I like reading about accents because it adds some pizazz, and sometimes they're sexy. Also, people are going to have accents especially if you live in a multicultural area, so it's perfectly fine to state which one they're using.
 
I write lore of my comic when i'm bored
I made this year ago or something in midnight.
Full history of the planet, felt like to show so we can have a laugh together
I'm not good at writing i do it out of my entertainment
Planet Zayaka


Zayaka is planet of our main heroes of our comic . To many alien nations this planet is nothing more but primal bloodbath of lizards killing eachoher but there is more to it and we will talk about it all starting with the nature of the planet:


Planet Zakaya (nature)

Zakaya is a huge planet 3 times the size of Earth but despite it's size it has one main and biggest megacontinet Pangea while sorrounded by smaller continets and islands but Pangea is biggest and main one. The upper portion of Pangea is filled with ice and cold. Those are usually mountain filled areas or just have tons of ice. The upper part is filled with smaller predators with fur but there were a decent amount of bigger ones in more dense areas as it is not desolate but more so really curel. On the middle it is more of mix between upper and lower portion of continent while having one of special places being the magical caves. This planet has plenty of them and other resources that can be used to forge powerful metals stronger than even our best! Many say magical crystals who give powers were god's work while some say mix of god's and natures work. Some think many of the monster's abilities came from them while some say crystals were seperate from their power evolution and just an alternative. On the south of the continent are 3 types and those are tropical areas, deserts and volcano lands. On these sections live one of main residents and one's who's this planets species that evolved and those are lizards/reptiles. In lizards we include dinosaurs, dragons and other lizards/reptiles (example like flying reptiles like pteranodon) all living on this planet. Some say dragons were result of normal lizards being exposed to crystals powers giving them powers and making it part of their dna and then dragons reproducing and spreading the DNA. But anyways on tropical sections the main dragons are nature dragons who can create nature like plants, trees, ect while on desert are earh dragons, tough shelled earth bending lizards and on volcanic places are mainly fire dragons but they also can be found in deserts too. Outside of continent in the sea there are water dragons and their ecosystems which are on this planet inhabited by prehistoric bugs, ranging from dinosaur era to even as early as cambriode period but with some variation showing a rich ecosystem full of life. Also plants and trees being from pre historic eras too gives it a feeling of alternative reality where Earth was inhabited by dinos instead where they evolved without being victims of meteor but i think that's enough lets talk about…



Zayaka History( First Gods, Alien's arrival, stone ages)


Because of chosen one prophecy aliens came to planet to check on civilization trying to get evolution out of them as fast as possible but seeing their lower intellect in many in general they decided with help of the planets gods to boost their civilization which to them caused the cursed "500 year bloodshed" where from year 200 to 700 and on the dinosaurs have became cavemen to even more advanced than humans in only 500 years which may sound a lot but considering average dino span being from 80-120 , it is basically best case scenario 5 generations and each being extremely different in technological progress starting with their caveman era. In this era dinos have been more like what we would call our earliest ancestors but still mixed with their own culture and instincts. Herbivores and carnivores were still separate where herbivores worked together even as different species except for few who started developing their own complexes seeing themselves as above other herbivores, carnivores worked alone and would start conflict whenever they can with other species. Dragons were less primitive but still even worse at wars constantly fighting eachother for control of the places and which one is superior species which was similar thing for other lizards. These interspecies wars and massacres would come to the boiling point in a herbivore and carnivore war where herbivores would racially profile carnivores as barbaric evil monsters alongside dragons that need to be wiped from planet to help their enhancement of civilization. The wars waged as they both started losing more the more inner conflict both sides had starting interspecies wars in herbivore and carnivore kind until dragons started using this as means to help them wipe them more out easily as they had powers unlike them. At that point both realized dragons were more important threat and decided to make alliance and fight them off and giving carnivores alternative food to keep their hunger off mainly giant bugs or sea life or the otheress developed animals who had meat. They were able to stand up to some of them but they needed more help so they asked other lizards which they joined as they started getting wiped away too making a ultimative lizard alliance against dragons which lasted for good amount until dragons backed down because of the fact that they not only fought against lizard alliance but also their own kind making it a huge mess. Of course dragons teamed up and used other species powers together and started wiping them out quicker using still unstable relations and constant small fights and conflicts between herbivores, carnivores n other lizards to catch them off guard starting final war against dragons and the most brutal one. The dragons using their help from each other were too strong from them as they could bend water, earth, fire and use nature to get more resources. They just werent equipped to deal with that amount of danger especially bc of water dragons which were biggest number wise of all dragon kind having entire flocks of them go to land and cause natrual disasters.

Dinosaurs seeing no other way have found out about crystals and decided to use them to help defeat the dragons giving each other powers but starting more arguments as lizards and dinos feared they would become same as enemy and think highly of themselves which is why they were always checking on super powered individuals making sure none of them goes rouge and if they do to quickly dispatch of them

Aliens took a look at the madness and had to interfere with help of gods stopping war and causing peace not because they were that gullible (to extend) but because they started hating them instead. Aliens of course didn't care and gave some of them inventions to help them boost their technology by mile which they did use to build better civilization but with many holding a grudge and being skeptical of them aliens and gods while some praising them and worshiping them. In the meanwhile more supernatural activities occurred as more demons and angels started appearing mainly angels trying to guide them to fasten up evolution by how aliens said to do which they had to do as galatic federation had their own gods that worked with them that were stronger and even aliens had enough power that they didn't need gods to beat them so they knew they had to do it even if they were not as interested in these chosen one prophecies. This has angered general population separating each other into believers and non belivers one side hating gods and demons blaming them for pinning eachother against in most cases and for reason why world is full of diasters and tragedies wanting gods dead so they can be free alongside demons because they would wreck havoc but not as much due to them being armed with powers and believers who thought gods were right and that everyone should listen to them and guide to better civilization to make the chosen one prophecy real. Of course they didn't care and the lizards united all together as the lizardkind brotherhood of scales having common enemy they hate which are, god worshipers, gods and demons starting war with gods worshipers. While being able to wipe out most of lower class demons, still stronger types from other circles of hell have been too much from them which god worshippers used as an excuse to use gods for help which they did but still many weren't interested in gods helping them seeing it as propaganda trying to find other ways to gain power trying to find other powers they can use or mutations to their advantage. Some have decied to be on gods side mainly because they thought there was nowhere to go and many leaders of dinosaur army would start to become brainwashed by aliens and gods so they can mislead the groups and use them as a vessel to make them create more civilized society and help technology progress, which despite many of rebellions the aliens plans have succeeded and many unwillingly started following instructions from the vessels that were the anti god leaders, some even doing it without need of brainwashing planning to use their friendship as an outlet to find more stronger powers, on the other sides ones who didnt side were usually left to fend for themselves against stronger and stronger armies of demons which were pissed off at them and didnt want to look weak being killed by puny mortals in their mind. In the end demon and hell uprising was mainly purposeful but still sadistic plan of aliens and angels to force them to follow many fake leaders or those forced to become ones if they wanna survive being backed into corner many have started realizing it but they couldn't fight back, they were too strong and all they could do i in anger look forward to new future using every new invention and trying to break free from god's influence.



Zayaka: Industrial Era ( war on superpowers, first superheroes, skinwalker wars)



Since there weren't any enemies on their side now as many angels took it upon themselves to kill demons, dinos have started developing society and getting it all working as they fit , which wasn't as easy as they planned. Many issue for them other than plenty of societal norms from different species opposing each other was also use of powers and crime rates. For one powers were weird subject to the non dragons as many with powers were born from genetic mutation passed from genes or gotten randomly and as species that never had powers, lizards including dinos were really unsure on what to do with them after the wars and how much to restrict them as powers were not as common as today but still plenty enough that they had to build specialized classes for those kids to develop superpowers and use to control them teachers usually being dragons or other lizard who is older and more experienced. On the other side dragons were also part of many arguments on what to do with their powers as all of them are born with natural abilities. In the end they decided that power use is allowed in specific scenarios like if self defense, or needed in some situation or just a common problem as long as it isn't unecessary and doesn't cause property damage. Of course even if issue was fixed partially new powers would come and go and some would stick which would have been much harder to control like super speed and few others like mind control, being able to use things with your mind and other ones which became difficult to control but were still manageable as some with those powers would've been teachers trying to help new generations of kids to work them out and use for good. Despite all the efforts, criminals were still really common and powerful. While guns were still super effective during this period, the enemies or what they call first super villains would become increasingly stronger and more dangerous, needing more special class powers, military support and often gods to get the job done which government wouldn't like as they wanted a solution that is practical and doesn't need always highest tier personel to do it especially when many would start popping out with strong abilities from mutations. Some countries would even put out bounty posters which often would've worked thanks to the first superheroes which first started as usually super powered mercenaries looking for good pay, bounty hunters who had sense of justice or just wanted money too and those who just did it to be vigilante and help others for sake of it. Government would catch an eye on it and start developing their first superhero programs basing their idea on turning soldiers and giving them superpowers even testing it back on those in military who didn't know where to go by injecting them with special oozes serums gotten from crystal which will later one in future become more important while trying to find more materials to build better weapons and equipment just in case. The first superhero program would launch in the biggest country in Pangea known as the Z.O.N.A.S organization.


Many other smaller superhero teams have existed before alongside organizations but starting with first official government organization changed it all. Other countries started making their own but over time they all started adopting Z.O.N.A.S as the main organization for the superhero business working with all governments to train those who want to with powers by applying strict military programming and power training until becoming an official hero as they believed good soldier is first thing a hero must be before anything so they can be ready for anything and operate guns in case they cant use their powers. Soon over time this would start a organization war of Z.O.N.A.S and smaller non profit superhero teams and non government funded organizations as the government wanted superheroes licensed by them specifically which started war with other smaller organizations as they wanted more freedom and ability to choose to be independent from the government's control seeing it as partially broken system that they don't wanna sell themselves too. As the war waged many have died but Z.O.N.A.S have won because of government and the fact they also had angels at disposal using them often from excuse that they needed them wiped so they can progress further as society. While crime has reduced, the next war would be the most brutal war starting it from years of hatred between average citizen and super powered individuals whose powers were so strong that others fear and regressed them. Skinwalkers of shape shifters are individuals whose ability is to shape shift into anything they want including both living and non living organisms ( limitation being on non living organisms is that they can't fully become with their body that object, only can part of body effect with it) by knowing the structure and how it works. Shapeshifters were feared due to their potential power and sheer number of population being born with and and fear being even boosted from many crimes committed by them just because their powers were so good for crime purposes starting many infamous kidnappings, infiltrations into families by pretending to be them so they can kill and kidnap them later on and replace along side being responsible for making many disappear near forests , even stopping vehicles and taking them into forests to do whatever they want with them. Of course any of this did nothing more but rise fear for them and as there weren't any really ways that were effective to combat them as technology and powers did not advance enough for them to do, it became absolute hell to keep them in control especially when they learned that they can also copy others powers but the final nail wasn't it surprisingly but the ideology of skinwalkers/ shapeshifters. Many were just mistreated or not properly taken care of due to their powers causing them to take route of crime while others believed shapeshifters were next evolution of lizard race and should be ones to replace and wipe out inferior versions. This was final nail in coffin and started the skinwalker wars. Those who weren't threat were labeled as shapeshifters though many of them were forced to live in forests before and during war as they were not accepted but war pushed that agenda even further forcing many innocents to live in woods being squashed in middle of two main sides fighting some even fighting for skinwalkers as they had no choice.

Skinwalkers would use their powers to make tunnels and bunkers with other things in trees or other areas and depending on location the different hideouts would be. They would also ambush them by pretending to be animals or using their animal powers to create a blockade and since skinwalker was umbrella term anyone could've been one including dragons which would sometines be born with a bonus power from mutations helping them with building bases. Government tried using both heroes and angels but one interesting thing happened that changed the course of game. One of skinwalkers took on lesser angels and took their powers giving them and dino society boost and motivation later on to fight on angels and aliens and rebel against them but for now this was a huge news for everyone. Some thought they were getting close to true freedom while some skinwalkers saw it as a calling that they are developing into superior species, furthering their quest for genocide. In the end the government has succeeded in killing the skinwalker rebel organizations by murdering their leaders making peace with shapeshifters but still many deciding to live in woods and other areas. At this point they have technologically advanced enough that aliens decided to contact them and discuss more relations with the aliens and possibly starting trades with them as the resources on Zayaka were plenty of strong metals alongside power crystals that they could sell for good money. This has started new era which we may call modern era to present day but despite good promises things were about to get worst for the citizens of Zayaka.


Zayaka : modern day to present day (War on Drugs, heaven and hell takeover, Dinosaur geneocide, alien intervention, supervillian takeover)


After the aliens became ally to dinosaur race, dinosaurs got their own seat at the galactic senate, a group contained of over 100 planets with each having main leaders present each other and discuss politics regarding the galaxy, other planets, and status on their, even asking for help if they may need supplies from more developed planets. Zayaka as a one of new members had a and still has a rough upbringing to present day. It has always been a controversial planet alongside many others. It has been usually seen as super poor, barbaric planet whose only main purpose was to be vesel to produce the chosen ones that are fated 100% success rate on the big bad threat and has good amount of useful resources and weapon manufacturing. At the first Zayaka didn't really do much other than turn Z.O.N.A.S into organization that also branches into galaxy making superheroes officially fit to also fight galaxy level threats and on with other big organizations aiding them on their ways like providing spaceships, weapons and giving more recruits from other planets due to their useful powers . On the planet itself things have been horrible. Since skinwalker wars the planets economy has been destroyed and many buildings, cities, even countries have been damaged really far off forcing governments all around world to rely more so on alien trades to give them a hand into helping as they would get often new and stronger technology helping them with issues though it wasn't enough to fix the gap forcing many into life of crime and spiking the rapid drug usage. Because of the alien trades, criminals were slowly but surely started trading with aliens from black markets mainly exchanging weapons and drugs spiking up drug usage especially from people that have been living hard lives.The government didn't know how to deal with not just their but also the alien drugs and weapons asking the senate for help by getting info and more supplies on combating the issue starting short but extremely violent war on drugs. As the Zayaka's society hasn't truly been able to develop due to constant bloodshed, many concepts to them were not as developed or spent time on to understand and drugs were one of them as their solution to solving drug crisis was extreme violence that went from arrests and brutal beatdowns to straight up execution whether public or not. As issue ramped, governments would start implementing patrols were superheroes or police would have go over homes and search for drugs and drug users and upon finding one committing straight up public execution by shooting or cutting their heads off. While uses have been decreasing, it was by the pure fear and terror but problem was still that as many that die would go to hell causing them to go back as demons and wreck even worse havoc, something that has been common throughout the history which left them with only solution and that is to take over the planet's hell, kill the ruler of it and use it as their own personal prison and torture chamber for all criminals who die. But for that they would need stronger power which is why they went to heaven for help but got declined as they didn't want in their eyes to destroy natural flow of planets life and at this point since aliens left mostly often checking in seeing planet as more independent as they have evolved enough, it has left lizards free to do as they please and they used it to fight angels off and take over the heaven which may have sounded insane in past but with now many super powered individuals rivaling their power and smuggled alien weapons they have sieged the heavens, committed mass slaughter and made gods sign peace with them turing heaven into government owned place where they will themselves judge if civilians will go to hell or no. With the newfound power and angelic support they have raided hell next in 9 circle wars remained victorious with the 3rd biggest amount of casualties in history , 1st being skinwalker war and 2nd being original race wars. After hell takeover, the government turned hell into infinite torture chamber for criminals alike forever being tortured and also forced to work and build for them anything ranging from buildings to hospitals to anything they would've wanted which did spark some grudge from construction workers as they didn't wanna be replaced by criminal sinners because they served as better and cheaper labour. After taking heaven and hell, government had full control over who goes where using it to de escalate drug wars by sending every user to hell making people scared to take any substances under a notion that they can be sent to hell as easy. What didn't help was the fact that gods were capable to watch over almost anyone unless the powers or some form of technology was blocking the vision to spy on them from skies giving government full control on most of civilian lives making it barely possible to not be viewed every single move unless used devices who disable ability to spy on which were only present on more developed alien planets as they had to make them to counter those specific powers meaning citizens would start to lose trust and likeness of government having to rely on smuggled alien technology to not be spied and controlled upon.


This has done nothing more but rise crime levels to the max as many would start to protest against it and rebel against it and with still shit economy many poor countries would be taken over by supervillains which have at this point became fully connected with alien black market selling their weapons, materials and even special syringes that inject superpowers, something created in industrial era as a way to test superpowers on soldiers has now became a new way of getting a superpowers boosting society to 80% of super powered individuals using them to battle the government control. On the other hand some countries have been taken over by the rebels, which weren't mostly the criminals or evil but more so seen as the issue as they would rebel against the system's oppression and rebuild country with their ideals of freedom while supervillains would usually take over countries to rule over it for many years of tyranny and suffering for their own gain. This has led the government to deploy mass amount of military, superheroes and angels to various countries to take back the land and kill any rebels or criminals along the way and while working for other countries, many were just difficult to go by as the rebels had mass usage of powers many being imported from other planets which were hard to counter and supervillains having good weaponry and even getting alien mercenaries and demons from other planets help then with the job of keeping their tyranny under control some even going as far to call for the evil gods offering sacrifices and good price to fight them off which have worked. Knowing there was nothing else they could do Zayaka's representatives plead for help form galactic senate to send over their aliens and gods if needed to kill as many criminals as possible and bring it back to stabilization starting the biggest and the bloodiest war, not even war but whole ass genocide ever made in the history of this planet. What has started off as aliens taking control and working with superheroes and gods to battle the crime has quickly turned into bloodshed as they started murdering more and more of population as at this point 60% of the world were criminals making this a biggest massacre and a open field for many of aliens to abuse power and commit war crimes without any repercussions. It has gotten so bad to the point that even civilians couldn't handle it and everyone rebelled against the government and superheroes seeing them as traitors to their race giving themselves off to alien occupations for money and power uniting themselves even skinwalkers as one brotherhood fighting to save their race and kill all aliens. This is their boiling point and their peak in xenophobia and after this lizard would forever hold grudge after any alien, killing any tourist or alien foreigner and murdering anyone who is in mixed relationship seeing it as destroying their beautiful genes. On the one side there were aliens and supes cleaning over the crime scenes while also taking over good chunk of population and other rebels killing aliens to protect their homeland. As their efforts were futile as lizardkind especially skinwalkers had a good knowledge of their land, they just were mostly from alien side getting killed but still kept alive because of the traitors guiding them. After only 2 years, aliens have wiped 60% of population and killed so many criminals that hell was overcrowded alongside killing many civilians and rebels destroying countries and leaving lizardkind defeated but they didn't let it all go. Lizards started boarding the ships and going on planets where they came from and started suicide bombing and doing terrorism on them. After the many attacks others have picked up and remaining rebels created armies and fleet ships storming multiple alien planets, bombing them and stealing from them while committing war crimes and murdering as many as possible. At this point it has gotten out of hand and alien senate has decided to finish it once for all killing off any terrorists on other planets but in the end many of the quick attacks turned into the full on wars many which lasted years and destroyed good portion of them, one of them being so destroyed to the point that more than half of countries have been conquered. Of course Zakaya while being pitied still had to pay to some extend for the damage dealt and send in superhero units to clean up the mess giving Zayaka a controversial reputation as planet of barbaric dino terrorists that is now.
 
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We all completed our Jackalopes story for june. It is not appropriate to post mine here. Dm me if you are truly interested.

For july our broad prompt is simply to write a story conforming to the traditional heroes journey as formulated by joseph campbell. I will post this in a month.
 
Call me curious; what genres do you guys like to wrIte? Have a preference for Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Action, Comedy, etc.?

I've got a story of my own in the works; main issue is, I know what I want to write, but no idea on that actual main plotline as of yet. It was meant to be something of a science fantasy/urban fantasy setting, focusing on fighting mutants and monsters in a modern world akin to the World of Darkness and similar, but I have no real idea on how to set everything up? I've got some ideas that I want to run, if anyone is willing to give advice.

Anything of you guys ever had that issue, of getting an idea with no clue on actually developing it? Anyone got advice for setting up a science/urban fantasy setting?
In terms of "what" I'm something of an avant garde goon so my main preference is for shitposting with everything else being a secondary consideration. You can come up with just about any retarded idea and spin it into a format that amuses you. I wrote about Ethan Ralph and Andy Warski in a vaguely Thomas Pynchon/William Gaddis-inspired style once. Another thing I wrote had no named characters or any sort of plot and was a hallucinatory out of body experience/meth and crime-themed take on a Naked Lunch type format, etc.

As far as the process goes, I tend to take notes before I start just so I don't forget ideas that seem good when I don't have time to actually write them. Outlines do help with consistency of output too, but these days I generally keep them loose (maybe a paragraph for overall direction, a few bullet points of things to keep in mind, and usually about a sentence or two per chapter, if that) because functionally the idea isn't that you'll necessarily follow them to the letter but that they speed things along once you have them by giving you a skeleton to mold and flesh out as you go along. Years ago I used to write much more elaborate outlines and character notes, but those tend to be a waste of time once you really get into the swing of things. You mostly get over your self-consciousness by practicing and realizing that it's better/a lot faster to have a sloppy first draft that you can fix up or scrap later than agonizing over every little detail while getting it down for the first time.
 
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Call me curious; what genres do you guys like to wrIte? Have a preference for Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Action, Comedy, etc.?
When I was a kid, I wrote a lot of science fiction and fantasy. Then I took a long hiatus, with my writing being predominantly introspective and technical: mathematical proofs, philosophical investigations, dairies - that sort of thing. After I returned to art in general a year or so ago: I have had a strong allure to romanticism and aestheticism. I would say comedy as well, but humor for me is too spontaneous, temperamental to be dependable for scripture. The way I do it, I go sit in nature and really meditate on sensations - such as people, places, things, emotions - and write prose on that. I really love that. In this sense writing for me is a very sensual art. In another, it is also a linguistic art. There is an undercurrent of joy I take in getting the prose to fit just right. In this way it's a lot like music for me. The feeling is the burger. The patterns are the fries.

Anyway, on the subject, I've been working on my French and one way I've gone about this is with poetry. I have this book of poems by Alfred de Musset. I was browsing the library, found it and checked it out upon reading the lines "I met two beautiful women in the park; Oh great thanks to God; Great architect of my joy!" and felt I should read more. I haven't started reading the book yet since I've been swamped with work but I have taken a moment to write some French prose, as best as I can at the moment. Here it is:
Une fumé des mémoires
Une senteur familière.
Un nez. Des yeux.
Le sourire d'une oiselle noire.
Un rire mignon, je l'entends.
Je crois bien... quasiment.

Je pense qu'elle est près.
Je tourne et elle est là!
L'air devien silencieux.

Les mots... mes mots? Où sont-leurs?
Je fouille pour leurs...
Ils me viennent et j'ouvre ma bouche.
Je me réveille...

Soleil et matin. Mes yeux ouvrent.
Mon corp sent chaleureux.
Tristesse vien de mon coeur.
Je suis tombé.
I ironed out the grammar as much as I could. It might still be rough. Let me know what you think!
 
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This one is from months ago. Small writing test of my OCs' personalities
  1. Injigo's personality is over-the-top, tomboyish, talkative, charismatic, energetic and sly. Always looking very positive during daily life, but would not hold back sharing some of the most harshest words scoffed from the quartet, and be serious. Her general weapon his her shapeshiftable indigo diamond shards and her mystic eyes. Her mystic eyes are revealed and get in use once either one of her surface irises starts to crack and shatter. After usage, her mystic eyes will be deactivated via her surface pupils' ability to reshape into the same pair of irises as usual in perfect condition. Does not mind wearing girlish costumes, but nags if someone retardedly assumes she is a boy when she hides her ponytail. The only female of the squad, yet is seen as an older sister figure of her 10 clones.
  2. Seiko's personality is of a sweetheart outside, but extremely formidable and flexible on-battle. To sum: He is a cheerful, confident, nonchalant, kind, gentle, very conceited, charming, helpful, outgoing, energetic and polite if his choker tie is not activated. But once he triggers it, this allows him to alter into any versatile amount of artificial personalities available based on his disguise or battle mood. A master of disguise, but is somehow childish and sulky when things that he did not like was pulled up. He always have 6 energy tachi come with him, as well as a dissolvable cropped jacket. His preferences for costumes are the typically revealing, skintight ones to increase his potency overall. Whilst being the shortest of the squad, he is taller than most females in general. Codename: Irozuki. Lead of his 10 clones, known as his callsign amongst them as BLUE. Loves firearms.
  3. Phantasmagoria has an easily amused temperament, in spite of his grim and scary looks at first glance. Be it be something mundane in life, or something bizarre, he always left an entertained chuckle and smirk. In spite of his rather serious and cold nature, keen eye, almighty intelligence, being a primordial, being so regal and formal at the same time; Phantasmagoria prefers to live along a normal life and slacks with his kinships instead of doing his job. He has multiple weapons in his arsenal: Chainaxes, claymores, swords, scythes, his draconic claws, fists and multiple fighting techniques. Not afraid to pull tricks under his sleeves to exploit his enemies' flaw because of his sly nature or talk back.
  4. Nexus is just Injigo but as equally troublesome as her, but loves to indulge in game shows, causing confusion amongst his enemies, but more brasher, as he gives a shit-eating grin to anyone that literally gets defeated by him. Still is humble regardless the amount of insanity caused by the twins. He has more muscles than his younger twin sister and has a preference for sweet potatoes and shit ton of exercises like all three does, even if Seiko's friends do not want to. A massive gymbro like Phantasmagoria and would not stop talking about it like a parrot. The only thing that pacifies them is to send them their favorite treats and drinks and they would stop talking about their favorite hobbies. His weapon is both an energy greatsword and a futuristic-looking H&K MP7. Back at his pair of denim jeans is a dagger sheath protected by hologram glasses. He does not care how people calls his attire too casual or inconvenient for the battlefield, but he finds it comfortable for him and may resort into changing into a different but comfy uniform for himself on the battlefield. Shown to have the ability to summon multiple firearms, either one will be held by his hands or the others will support him. Always seen with a backward baseball cap, goggles and some caution tapes on his cap. They refer him as the "too overly casual juggernaut" of the two twins. All of them loves a fair and dirty fight, yet prefers a casual lifestyle more than go out and fighting.
 
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I'm not really a writer, but I wrote this last night.
A hundred nine
Pained in the quest for ashes
Open mouth to open mouth
God grants a chance of passions
Then snuffs it out with drops of blood

A sick quartet, His foaming mouth
The heavy stain, Of crack cocaine
Eyes that feast, but never see.
Another broken soliloquy

Forged at cross-roads golden
A match goes up in flame
Sparks ne’er speech unspoken
A shattered window-pane

A hopeless man, His broken home.
The scattered memories behind the glass.
But still a man, he’s still a Man
Sitting in a hundred nine degrees
 
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I'm not really a writer, but I wrote this last night.
A hundred nine
Pained in the quest for ashes
Open mouth to open mouth
God grants a chance of passions
Then snuffs it out with drops of blood

A sick quartet, His foaming mouth
The heavy stain, Of crack cocaine
Eyes that feast, but never see.
Another broken soliloquy

Forged at cross-roads golden
A match goes up in flame
Sparks ne’er speech unspoken
A shattered window-pane

A hopeless man, His broken home.
The scattered memories behind the glass.
But still a man, he’s still a Man
Sitting in a hundred nine degrees
Good shit.
 
I'll sometimes write nonsense poems and forget about them for months at a time. I think this one's from this past winter

Unwind, rewind, and back again
Once seeming solid, it will melt
Poached to perfection, poked but once
A wretched piebald kitten's mane

Sour sensation now must sink
Beneath the passage of these months
The skinless flesh ever so pink
In this dull monochrome nightmare

A solitary strand of hair
Serving now as a single link
Beckons us onward to despair
In steady ticking pantomime

A fatal turn down daylight's lane
Leads to intercourse with a train
Decency long gone down the drain
But were we ever truly sane?

What was it for, this chewed-up belt?
It meant so much, we must've felt
Before the hand so cruel was dealt
Presently cloaked in past self's pelt

Unraveling, sensation hunts
That which is not — merely a tear
Yet lovingly our lacking shunts
Not even smoke but only air
 
Supermarket Sweep

Throngs of walking and talking meat. Not yet at their ending although some are easy enough to foretell. I block out that I am just like them. Imagining the morbidly obese clerk keeling over in the coming months over a macaroni dinner on Christmas and the paralyzed old biddy immolated in their bed from their final cigarette. And I, I would be in front of an audience after conducting an orchestra of convicts playing Carmina Burana with improvised tools and eviscerated hostages. I would bow before an ATF audience to accept the fatal sniper shot. *

A woman leaning against a wall waiting for something or someone casually talks about me as I pass by. I say nothing. Images flash by of slit throats and soprano singers. I can’t stand the people. I go to get my headphones and play some music but realize I left the headphones at home. My smartphone’s speakers aren’t enough to drown out their noise. I pensively continue on in my trek and try to be nice and trying to avoid people. I should add “in vain” because at every turn and every few feet I am blockaded by more and more meat.

From the corner of my eye, I notice the hardware isle where a demonstration is taking place. A little Asian man in a tux presents his wares. I can barely understand what he’s saying and question how this happened in the first place. A tank of gasoline sits by his shoes and a glass tank barely covered by a cheap tarp stands behind him. “Welcome everyone! This is the biggest adventure ever for your garden!” He walks away from the gas tank and shows off an over-designed expensive leaf blower. He gestures like a low budget game show host, it seems there’s going to be money in the tank and they’re going to play a game. I also notice the chainsaws in a nearby aisle and became inspired.

My motto is:

Friendship is Friendship

History is History

The Asian man is distracted for a moment answering a stupid question and I nonchalantly grab the gas tank. I settle on a blue chainsaw approximately double the length of my arm. I am astonished that the chain is on it but as I guessed there’s no gas in it which I am quick to remedy. A child screams in the background. No one notices me filling the tank. I start up the saw and have at the meat.

They finally move out of the way. There’s a sudden startled scream from two women, I swing my righteous blade towards anyone nearby and I no longer hear the crying child and I no longer see an incessant crowd but wood to the fire. Reminding myself of Japanese war time atrocities and how the Japs used the term ‘Maruta’ meaning ‘wood’ to define civilians with which they would rape and split apart in their hundreds of thousands. I don’t think the little Asian man thought of that as I cut off his legs and made him ever-smaller.

I thank you for gun control. Without which this wouldn’t be made possible.

Rivers of blood stain the white tiles and my fiery sword roars like a giant leading a triumphant army into battle. Families. Children. Teenagers. Elderly. The retarded. The homeless. The clerks. I make no note of who I take but show no favoritism in how they are ended. Cleaved in twos and threes. Severing the genitals with pointed thrusts. Execution via chainsaw to the brain -more merciful than a dictatorship that executes prisoners by hanging.

Sirens begin to wail after such short triumph and I am fully aware of my predicament by deciding to end this experience on a high note: I sit down cross-legged, my means of catharsis in my lap, and commit hara-kiri.

*Author’s note: the author endorses public executions.
 
This is a great story. Very vivid.
Thank you. I based it on an anecdote by Tobe Hooper where he was in a Sears or something like that around Christmas time and the crowd was giving him crippling anxiety and he looked by the chainsaw aisle and thought that if he turned one of those things on that the crowd would part like the red sea. And that was the genesis behind Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
 
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