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Author Topic: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___  (Read 313951 times)

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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #1035 on: October 15, 2014, 01:40:06 pm »

So, sorry if you guys wanted a happy story.

Spoiler: Prompts 1&2 (click to show/hide)

Using the second prompt with the first prompt added a bit more constraint, which made writing this much easier. Didn't mean to steal anyone's shtick.

Not really happy with much of how this turned out, but writing something terrible is much better than not writing.
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #1036 on: October 15, 2014, 11:59:52 pm »

I don't think I'll be able to write anything.

Stupid depression...
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #1037 on: October 16, 2014, 12:16:17 am »

Write about depression?
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« Reply #1038 on: October 16, 2014, 12:28:21 am »

That's cliche and nobody cares about that.
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« Reply #1039 on: October 16, 2014, 12:48:08 am »

That's cliche and nobody cares about that.
I think Hugo meant writing longer than a sentence about showing it. :P

But seriously--what is cliche is on how it is done and not that the theme is being used.
And people still care about it. Generalizing isn't a good thing when talking about cliches. :V
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #1040 on: October 16, 2014, 04:00:04 am »

Oh well, my writing doesn't get graded anyways so I'll write something up later after I grade everyone tomorrow.
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #1041 on: October 17, 2014, 11:47:38 am »

I think I'm going to make a NaNoWriMo thread. Anyone interested?

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« Reply #1042 on: October 17, 2014, 11:48:39 am »

NaNoWriMo?
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #1044 on: October 17, 2014, 11:57:03 am »

Isn't it a bit early? Well, I guess we could prepare.
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #1045 on: October 17, 2014, 11:58:10 am »

Well, the last topic was started on October 20th.

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« Reply #1046 on: October 17, 2014, 12:06:04 pm »

Sounds good to me. Looking forward to it.
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« Reply #1047 on: October 17, 2014, 07:42:39 pm »

The big short story for my creative writing class is slowly coming and I have no idea what to write.

Well that's not true, I have ideas.

The two main ideas in my head are:

The first human being to develop higher awareness drifts through the outskirts of his "community" of nonsapient fellow hominids, feeling estranged not just from them but from the natural world and even himself, with no books or companions or even language to help him process his nascent thoughts.  I guess sort of a meditation on consciousness and suffering, unlike his fellows he's fully aware of his mortality and terrified of it, he's afraid to sleep because he doesn't know what happens to his consciousness in the gap.  He sees ghosts and vaguely suspects that the events of his life are being orchestrated by someone or something he can't see.  At some point he gets an infection and in the fever he's convinced that he's being punished for something he did and throws his food into the night, trying to appease whatever is doing this to him.

He has no language so he can't process things symbolically.  He has the same fears and ideas we do but he has no way of dealing with them, just constantly beset by vague and incomprehensible terrors. 

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The other one I think would work best in a drama format to ensure the reader is just as in the dark about what's going on as the main character.  I got this idea when a friend said the CDC should quarantine anybody suspected of ebola in a closed-off hotel until they're confirmed clean.  A man wakes up in a hotel with only a vague idea of why he's there and finds that he can't leave (I imagine the opening scene going something like:  Dude walks into the lobby and asks to check out, is told he still has X more days reserved and can't check out, and when he exits stage left to leave he enters stage right and asks the same questions as if he doesn't remember what just happened.)

The story continues in that kind of vein, the guy trying to get out of the hotel, the plot becomes increasingly disturbing and disorienting and it's not clear what's real and what's the guy's imagination (This part sounds kind of silly to me so I'll throw it out:  Near the end he kills the receptionist and they turn out to be a robot, but at some point in the past he had some very lucid but bizarre conversation with the receptionist that no robot could've made.  You don't know if the conversation was in his imagination or if the robot scene is his imagination or neither or both).  Sequences repeat themselves, growing more bizarre and dreamlike each time, and he doesn't seem to remember that he's asked the receptionist to leave many times before.

Eventually he escapes to find the world in ruins.  The CDC, now long defunct, was using the hotel as a quarantine for some unknown brain-destroying plague and left its occupants to rot as the disease spread out of control.  He's been wandering the hotel for months or years as his memory fails him and he grows increasingly deranged.

This one's more surreal sort of Kafka-esque horror
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Re: ___/The Writer's Apprenticeship\___
« Reply #1048 on: October 18, 2014, 07:09:09 pm »

I think I'm going to make a NaNoWriMo thread. Anyone interested?

Still planning on throwing that up?

I personally love NaNoWriMo. I've been writing ~2k daily on short fiction for a little while already thanks to the discipline I picked up from last year's NaNo. I suppose I'll be switching over to a novel again for November. I have a few short fics that I can give the second draft treatment midway through the month, so at least my short fiction production won't come to a total standstill or drain me too much to write for NaNo.
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« Reply #1049 on: October 18, 2014, 07:16:27 pm »

I think I'm going to make a NaNoWriMo thread. Anyone interested?

Still planning on throwing that up?

I personally love NaNoWriMo. I've been writing ~2k daily on short fiction for a little while already thanks to the discipline I picked up from last year's NaNo. I suppose I'll be switching over to a novel again for November. I have a few short fics that I can give the second draft treatment midway through the month, so at least my short fiction production won't come to a total standstill or drain me too much to write for NaNo.
I might be a little distracted but I'll definitely make an OP tomorrow. This'll be my first at NaNo.
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