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- brutalbabe91
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What do you like to write about?
I mean I don't just write poems, I enjoy writing all around, but the challenge is where it's at and if you have never given it a go then you should.
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That said, there's generally a positive side, and I've been making a deliberate effort to swing more in the positive direction lately. I only have a few pieces where the bottom line is, "this situation just sucks, doesn't it?" and I don't really like them. I much prefer stories that are about finding some complicated kind of hope or love in a dark situation.
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Smaller stuff is more varied and far less fantasy, only because I haven't managed to work out how to write a fantasy short that's short but self-contained and yet still good quality. Mix of horror, ya, spiritual/introspective and slice of life stuff.
And then poetry, which is mostly slice of life or spiritual with the rare horror or science-fiction. So a big mixing pot, but skewered in all aspects.
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This is also my dream!lily_kh87 wrote:My dream was to write a crime novel. I have tried to write short stories for my school and my teachers loved them but I always dreamt of having my name on a series of crime novels. Unfortunately my day job, my baby, my house took all my time and there's not enough time to accomplish that dream.
Just remember: many, many famous authors don't become published until after they retire and their kids are grown. Your dream will happen some day, you just have to believe in yourself!
- earthheart
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But I also love fantasy. LOVE. I can write about anything and everything that is not of this world, but I do often struggling with mapping a story/bringing it all together, I tend to get a character or several and 'scene' in my head and hear what they are saying to one another or how they are acting within it, then write it down. Sometimes it does build around itself as I type but often I fall into a stalemate.
I've just joined and I'm so glad there's support for writers and also contests, it may be the nudge I need to get constructive.