Have you ever written a piece of literature

Have you ever tried to write a book or any other form of literature? What was it about and what made you want to write it down?

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  • SangoNyappy

    Do fanfictions count? If yes then I have plenty of them but if not I've tried to write a book once and still haven't finished~

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    • Avant-Garde

      I don't see why they wouldn't:)

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  • JesusAnswers

    Yeah the bible :D I hope y'all liked it XOXO

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  • DreamSpider

    I've started several and have written several short stories.

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  • Eighthtrytoremembermypassword

    I might write a short story about a coach that hurt a dozen kids and mentally abused them and got them to lie. One of the kids she hurt she subluxated her arm. She couldn't get this kid to lie. The superintendent sticks up for the coach and doesn't allow the parents of the kid to go the the school board. They went to court they accuse the kids of contriving the whole thing. The judges believe the kids so they say one of the witnesses is too bad at the sport to play another is a lier and the third, "concerns them and is an animal that shouldn't be allowed in society" I don't know how the story will end.

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  • Lynxikat

    I wrote a few one-shot fanfics, and two one-act plays for my theatre class... but those are just the ones I've FINISHED. I mostly NEVER finish anything that I try to write :(

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  • Chefpenguin11

    I'm a poet and I write short stories :) working on a novel with the little time I have but writing is my talent. I write about anything my mind and soul tell me too!

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  • NormalIsOverratedBeANinja

    Tried, yes. I recently tried writing a novel for National Novel Writing Month (November), but I never finished, and even if I had, the plot was pretty lame. Currently though, I'm working on a fan fiction that I'm really liking so far. :)

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  • thezetsulover

    yep i wrote a book called dishearten about a guy who took children and raped them even his own son and then he cut artwork in there skin.....

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  • MaryPoppins04

    i was 10 when i made my first book with 10 chapters in 3 days :]

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  • theaverageatheist

    have written 2 novels, writing my 3°, plus wrote a searies of short pieces about diffrent people during an interrogation pieced together to make one story unfortunatly my lap-top was stolen so i lost thet last one ç_c but at least it gives me the chance to re write a better version.

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  • Immune2BS&way2Illuminated

    I've....always since younger aspired to be a writer.

    I write Science-Fiction and Fantasy novels.

    Each time I wrote laboriously, and completed more than 10 pages...I lost my work. Which in saying has sufficiently reined in, and dampened my enthusiasm to emerge other works for quite some time. Those stories I wrote were all in late middle school, and high school.

    Glad to say though, I have started my new novel. It is a Dark Fantasy and will be based with many historic comparisons. I am leaving the technicalities aside this time, as it won't be Science-Fiction. I have infused my old main character, but I am starting fresh with everyone else. I have brainstormed my ideas and am finishing characterization and my plots as of now. I am very excited about it, as I intend to look for published authentication when finished.

    I call it "The Black Shining"

    This will be my supreme effort and focus this time, with no lost stories going to Never-Land like aforementioned.

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  • kelili

    I wrote a short story for a competition and it was about the first time a woman tasted ice-cream. Then I started to write one about a young woman who had a realtionship with a married man, got an abortion. I was feeling inspired until my computer crashed and I lost everything. Rrrr

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    • Millie_the_evil_saint

      Use a notebook ;-) the paper variety

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      • kelili

        Good advice. Thanks:)

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        • Millie_the_evil_saint

          You're welcome!

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  • Anime7

    For the past two summers I've been trying to write a novel. However, I never really got much going (roughly 30 pages). If I could I would've put in much more effort. The working tittle is down below.

    The Kingdom of Apathy:
    The general plot of the story was about a cynical kid who meets a mysterious girl that takes him to Hell and Heaven in order to show him how humanity is not as bad it would seem, also to show him that perfection equates to boredom. When he goes to Heaven, this seemingly perfect place, he finds that it is incredibly boring, safe but it lacks any excitement. Hell on the other hand is much more interesting, by that I mean that things happen there. The demons aren't stick in muds like the Angels, if anything they act more human than the Angels. In the end though he finds out that he has been dead the whole time and the girl makes him decide which place he'd like to rest in for eternity. I couldn't decide though what the ending should be; whether it should be romantic (which I kinda don't want since that would make the girl a wish-fulfillment character), making the boy chose Limbo ( a place he's never been to before) or Hell ( Heaven is not an option since the boy does not like people who act pure and innocent when he himself is not).

    That's the story I want to write. I wish I could draw a plot map and really focus but writing a novel was much more difficult than I thought. But I still want to get something published one day.

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    • Millie_the_evil_saint

      I have a good book for you to read: have you ever heard of 'The Master and Margarita', by Bulgakov?<BR><BR>It's about how we can never say something is "good" or "evil", we can only say it's good by comparison. The whole idea is that things only get value when there is contrast. When there are opposing forces.<BR><BR>I dunno...reading this might help write the story you described.

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      • Anime7

        Is it a narrative, cause I don't really like non-fiction books.

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        • Millie_the_evil_saint

          It's definitely fiction. With some touches of fantasy...if I might add... But it still manages to stay pretty realistic.

          The frame story is about the writer's (Master) love for a woman named Margarita. But then there are so many surreal things going on in the main story. It's been considered as a classic as far as I know.

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          • Anime7

            Alright I'll check it out. Thank you for the recommendation.

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            • Millie_the_evil_saint

              you're welcome! hope you like it :-)

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    • Avant-Garde

      It sounds good! I'm sure they sell books on how to write novels, maybe that would help?

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      • Anime7

        Thanks I appreciate that :)

        I'll look into those books when I have the free time. But right now I'm too busy with school to write.

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  • KeddersPrincess

    Yes; too many to describe them all, but I plan on being a writer and getting published. At the moment, I am writing a vampire novel that is the prequel to a movie I am also developing, and I, not too long ago, started a new favorite series of mine called "Alchemic" which is a collection of dark fairy-tales. This series hold some of my favorite characters I've ever written (hence: the name Kedder in my username). I aspire to publish something that makes it big some day, but if that doesn't happen, I will be very glad to have just published something, and hopefully, sell a lot of copies.

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    • Avant-Garde

      If you're having a hard time finding a publisher, you could try making your story into a e-book first. I hope it does get published:D

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      • KeddersPrincess

        Thank you! But I'd rather go the traditional way. I don't really fancy the whole ebook thing. And thank you, I hope I get published too. :)

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  • When I was trying out for the art school, yes. I'll just list them and give brief descriptions to be as succinct as possible.

    "The Tragedy of Adraath" (short story)- The recounting of a 1000 year old Finnish vampire and how he lost his humanity. The narrative was meant to tell the story through the eyes of someone who was once human, but is no longer.

    Perhaps an ill comparison, but sort of like the lament of someone who became mentally handicapped but once wasn't. The re-countenance of the rage, and the sorrow of what's lost and can't be regained.

    "The Healer" (short story)- In ancient Wallachia (Romania) a man of extraordinary violence has come to bring death to a healer that has lived for over 300 years.

    The irony of the story is that the man of death is the hero and the healer is the destroyer. As the reader moves along, you quickly discover the insidious masquerade that the Healer has put on and the "villain" is in fact the hero.

    It's an examination of destruction and creation and how the appearance of something is not the actuality of it.

    A Game at Dinner
    Ar! A Pirate's Tale
    Cruelty's Derision
    The Pale Black Gates

    ^And a few others I wrote besides. I stopped writing a couple of years ago. I don't imagine I ever will again.

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    • Avant-Garde

      They all sound so good! Now I want to read them!

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    • Anime7

      "The Healer" sounds like a really interesting book.

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  • myboyfriendsbitch

    I was very interested in writing books when i was younger, never finished any though. Around age 7 I wrote a children's book about magical flowers that grew back after being mowed.

    10 years later I wrote a short story about a man in a manhole...those are my only finished pieces of literature, aside from school assignments. Maybe I'll post the manhole story on here one day.

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    • kelili

      Man in a manhole- this reminds me of a short story written by Stephen King but I can remember the title.

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    • DannyKanes

      I used to work in manholes :/

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      • myboyfriendsbitch

        I have two questions for you.. Were you ever sent into a manhole and then have the lid put over your entrance while you were down under? And... Do you have any experience with sewer cats?

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        • DannyKanes

          Not quite, but I did see a rat once swimming in the water when I was down in a storm water man hole. Scared the shit out of me lol :P

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  • I wrote a screenplay in school. That's the closest I've ever gotten. I dont really want to say what it was about because it was a silly concept.

    I started on a few ideas but never really pursued them. Maybe I'll try again.

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  • DannyKanes

    I write novels :)

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    • Anime7

      Please tell me how you do it! How do you sit in front of a computer for hours? Do you make plot maps before you write? What was it like writing your first novel? Sorry for the questions but I aspire to be a writer one day and you seem like you really know your stuff.

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      • DannyKanes

        First I get a story in my head, and then I right a rough plot of key events in the story. Characters, setting etc etc. and then brain storm what I want to put across to the reader per chapter and then once I've got my key events, a rough plot, start and ending, I fill the rest in with details. I'll pm you a part of a chapter as an example :)

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        • Anime7

          Thank you so much, for the advice. I'm looking forward to reading the chapter.

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  • dappled

    I've tried, yeah. I admire someone like Zadie Smith who had a well-publicised novel aged 22, but I tried aged between 18 and 21 and I didn't have the life experience; I don't think many of us do.

    My whole first chapter was about a train pulling into a station and two people catching each other's eye. I went for a heavily descriptive style and, apart from being a bit boring, it wasn't too bad. But then I wrote myself into a corner. The guy was still on the train in the second chapter (yeah, really) and desperate for something interesting to happen, I introduced (prepare to suspend all disbelief) a vagrant who sleeps on train station benches and who can disappear at will. I think I had just about enough self-awareness to know that this was poppycock and I gave up soon after.

    I want to come back to writing, but I get caught up in self-doubt and that I don't know much about the method of it. I think I'm going to try, though. Even if I write it and it gets rejected by a chain of publishers, at least I can say I once wrote a book.

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    • Millie_the_evil_saint

      So take writing courses. Good writing can be learned. How do you think Zadie got so good at such a young age? I doubt she didn't study the craft of the trade.

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