Just wondering for whom I'll say "I knew that person when they posted an a backwater forum. Man the things they said are embarrassing in hindsight..."

I have ideas, but they wouldn't bring in money so they're pretty much doomed to stay unfinished.
Not expecting myself to write any because of this.

What's your story about if you're working on one?

I was, but it's pretty much scrapped. I came up with the idea when I was younger, and as I got older, I realized that the story just wouldn't have panned out. I have many ideas for stories floating around in my ahead right now--a couple of which are dystopian futures where 1.) earth gets taken over by a race of organisms much stronger than us, and they form a civilization almost identical to ours--except they eat human flesh, which I would use to put the whole meat-eating thing into perspective in support of veganism, and 2.) a land of gods, all of whom are designated to reign over and control their own universe, which is represented by a small microcosm that they can enter and exit at will, kind of like a holodeck--except they're all evil and sadistic. They create sentient life and torture it for fun--and one god (maybe at least two gods) begin to snap out of their conditioning and discover that the other gods are evil and must be killed somehow.

The latter being a newer idea which I'm still trying to shape up before I write about it. I don't see a point in writing a story that isn't obviously philosophically charged in favor of something that I believe. Maybe I should just write nonfiction--a philosophical treatise, perhaps.

I wrote an erotic fiction once

You share yours and I'll share mine... again.

Longface

he hasn't been around

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Why wouldn't your story have panned out?

Well, it was mainly about a troubled kid who, after delving in obscure philosophical concepts for awhile, becomes a solipsist--an extreme form of nihilism where you believe you are the only thing that exists, and everything else is virtual or illusory. He disconnects from his friends and family as a result, and the story would've jumped back and forth from the kid's perspective and a family member's perspective (the mother, perhaps).

The trouble with that plot is that there's no argument against solipsism--so there would be no way to resolve the conflict in an interesting way. It would have to be a different kind of ending, and one that I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with writing and sharing with the world. Maybe with a different story, but not this one.

There's material there, but it wouldn't have panned out because the conflict is so centralized on the theme of solipsism.

Do you share any of your stuff here?

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Quote from: Jim on February 10, 2016, 08:20:46 PM

I wrote an erotic fiction once

You share yours and I'll share mine... again.

I actually still have it

We should do a PM swap

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Do you share any of your stuff here?

I'd love to share some stuff I've written here, but I'd have to make sure it's in tip-top shape first.

How much editing do you do before you typically share with other people?

Obviously, it varies, and I'm never usually satisfied. Normally, I come to a point where I share it with a couple friends who I can trust to give me some criticism, do a final revision, and then share it publicly.

My friends don't give me criticism really. For the things I'm really interested in I just revise it until I'm thoroughly sick of looking at it. maybe not the best approach.

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Quote from: Fun Timer on February 10, 2016, 08:29:16 PM

Quote from: Jim on February 10, 2016, 08:20:46 PM

I wrote an erotic fiction once

You share yours and I'll share mine... again.

I actually still have it

We should do a PM swap

Unless you like momcest it wont be your thing.

I kinda wanna rewrite it now and polish it up.

Doesn't matter to me man, I'm on the nofap watch anyway.
Gettin some dirty shit in is part of my daily quota.

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Quote from: Fun Timer on February 10, 2016, 09:26:16 PM

Quote from: Jim on February 10, 2016, 09:24:03 PM

Quote from: Fun Timer on February 10, 2016, 08:29:16 PM

Quote from: Jim on February 10, 2016, 08:20:46 PM

I wrote an erotic fiction once

You share yours and I'll share mine... again.

I actually still have it

We should do a PM swap

Unless you like momcest it wont be your thing.

I kinda wanna rewrite it now and polish it up.

Doesn't matter to me man, I'm on the nofap watch anyway.
Gettin some dirty shit in is part of my daily quota.

If you want it I'll PM it. It's pretty degenerate.

Yes, I am a degenerate.

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Quote from: Jocephalopod on February 10, 2016, 09:39:29 PM

ye, it centered around an industrial age type alien civilization whose members are infected by a virus with implied hive mind sentience.

The story grappled with which being was really in control of the world around them, it was kind of like a mystery sci fi deal with a grounded plot that would ultimately funnel into a broader narrative.

I basically wanted the reader to create a parallel perspective while reading... but it kinda went to shit.

trying to establish stuff like that is pretty hard to plan around too, in conjunction with everything already happening in a plot. Messy work man, messy work.

yup, I think I can still do something with it if I put the time in tbh, I just need to get the core story down in order to mold it around the world I've envisioned.

For the longest time I had no way to process the themes I wanted, the world I was making, and the personal insight I wanted to elaborate on. That struggle of having a world before the story and asking "how the hell does it fit in this universe?"
 After like two years of aimless writing, scrapping, and conceptualizing I know I probably have to go from Themes>Essays>Characters>World>Plot>Scenes>Writing>Revision