Writer's Block Daily

Sure you can't just lump the one-liners together for proper paragraphs?

I imagine you'll sound like James Ellroy this way.

As A Game Of Chance RP has shown, my one liners seem to be more like thoughts. I dunno, maybe that's just more my style.

And when I do write fight scenes, they seem to play out more like a Curb-Stomp Battle than anything else.

A snippet from A Game of Chance, for reference, which is definitely more of a psychological thriller than anything else...

edited 4th Apr '11 8:04:41 PM by CrystalGlacia

My writing style involves lots of one-liners too, along with quirky narration.

You're right about shonen-influenced. I'm a manga fan. As you know, Justin Peterson is from a Death Note fan-fic. And I guess shonen bleed towards influencing some of my other characters, along with some other tibits.

Also, a trend I noticed among my stories is that a lot of them are primarily influenced by at least one work. There's a swushbucker story that ended up borrowing some themes from One Piece, a mecha story that leaned towards D Gray Man, a superhero-like character that ended up receiving elements from Spiderman due to him being a teen, Justin from the obvious...

Thinking about it, most of my protagonists are pale, handsome sixteen year old males. Must be Author Appeal.

It doesn't look like one-liners. But you tend towards one sentence paragraphs. It's nice if you want to keep a fast pace.

Right now I'm working on a deconstruction of heroism and superhuman tropes. It's still in the brainstorming stage, but only till I clear up a few details.

Currently thinking about writing my first short(-ish) story, about a cop who gets lost in a closet.

Must be a pretty big closet there.

Trying to plan out my current story.

Low Fantasy in a High Fantasy world- very difficult to pull off. At least, without having the normal protagonists come in and kill mine when they help the antagonists.

In a High Fantasy world, all the big heroes are off Saving The World — which leaves all the stuff they consider not epic enough to bother with. Plenty of room for some more down-to-earth protagonists, i think.

Indeed.

But there's other factors to consider- like, the armies they raise likely have the same view of morality as them (usually black and white).

They may, but on the other hand, they're generally all about Saving The World too, so they're kinda busy.

Also, even in a High Fantasy world, people are still people; the everyday populace are not superhuman paragons of virtue. It would be really tedious if they were not, anyway.

Today I wrote absolutely nothing.

But I thought about it.

I keep getting distracted from my writing in order to compile a reference document about the world it takes place in. I'm not sure if I should give in.

I do what I always do instead of writing — draw, and dance around like an idiot, as I mime fight scenes.

Whoot.

I found that working too hard on documenting the world is basically a procrastination from actually getting stuff written. Document your world after you've hit your quota for the day (or more if it's flowing) — definitely go through what you wrote every day and update your world notes for consistency, though, if you keep documentation.

I tend to do both. They're different quotas for me. But I always, always do the proper writing first, and work on it after when inspiration hits, too.

Currently failing at doing Script Frenzy, due to lack of consistent laptop access.

World War Two fought with modern tech, follows a battalion equipped with extremely hi-tech equipment. Problem is, they're all weirdos, aside from the occasional straight man.

...It's getting a bit silly, even for something purposefully animesque.

Yeah, forget Script Frenzy; it turns out that I will be much too busy to do anything new until summer.

I just had my thread title changed so it actually has my current handle in it; I hope that makes it a little more visible despite knowing full well that I am not writing for views, but for enrichment of the self or the skill or something, and vigorously denying that I ever worry about the thread dying. Also, outlined a bunch of things in an attempt to overcome a bunch of worries by force. I condensed a couple of scenes so that they happen at the same time, and I have no excuse to stop and focus on something periphery again while important things are going on. But I didn't actually write anything today.

I'm still trying to catch up!

I'm on Page 6 now ^_^

-Considers posting "Beware of Chapter Eight"-

-remembers that I haven't labeled the chapters since 6-

-goes and does that-

Believe me, SPACE, I've read weirder.

@Glacia: I understand what you mean with fights — well, at least as far as the "can't quite do them" part. I can't avoid them in my current story, though, so I guess I'm going to have to figure them out somehow…

Today's been meh. I finished my 750 words this morning, and I don't even remember what I wrote. No pages for Script Frenzy.

I'm starting to get sick, which kinda sucks — it makes everything I write sound vaguely cranky, and its hard not to get disproportionately irritated at every little thing. Still internally debating on weather that's a good enough reason to take the rest of the night off.

I'd advise against it- you can always edit later, and keeping up with it every night is a good idea.

Aww, but I always get a naughty pleasure out of not doing my work! *pouts*

I hear ya, though. I think I'll go make some coffee and see if that lifts my mood a bit, and then attack those script pages.

edited 5th Apr '11 9:11:37 PM by Dec