I’m always curious to hear from other writers about their work, but I feel like I rarely ever get to. This is a thread for people who are writing something and would like to gush about it!
I myself am working on my next novel, which is a sort-of metatextual recursion on an unfinished novel from when I was a teenager. It’s largely an episodic narrative about paranormal investigations vis-a-vis ghosts being exorcised via their unfinished stories being finished, which of course leads to the ghosts of the original narrative I never finished haunting the work eventually.
It’s making me want to get back into fiction again more broadly after taking a long hiatus from it for many years…
Working on a novel is always a fascinating thing, hope yours works out. Seems like a labyrinthine one, and it sounds amazing!
I’m working on a novel (?) as well, which has been floating on my head since I finished my first one, and I’ve been doing a poetry zine a month! Mostly in Portuguese, but the last one has both a portuguese and english version!
Mostly I write for myself, though. The fact that people seem to like it is just a wonderful bonus :)
Again, that one is written in Portuguese. I’ve began a translation attempt, but I don’t tend to write very plainly or linearly, which makes a translation quite a complex effort. But if I ever do finish that up I’ll let you know! Thank you!
This sounds great - I’m always a sucker for that sort of conflict of human VS supernatural spirit with some strong attachment to the normal world. Let us know how writing it is going!
I like writing and I’ve written most of my life, but I stopped sharing it in my teenage years and never continued. I get really excited about a story idea and write it, then I look at it afterword and feel like it would just be embarassing to share. Trying to work on that.
Last year I took time to write every day for 100 days (some days not much at all, but I did keep the habit for that whole streak). It was hard and I kind of hated it, and I have since then not really written (though I have done revising/editing, which is writing, just not the sort of fresh on the page stuff I was doing for those 100 days). By the end of it, I had the first arc of a serialized story I wanted to tell. I’ve been wanting to write some kind of serialized adventure story for a while now because I’ve enjoyed reading them all my life. I have a rough draft about 50% edited and once that’s done I want to share it with some writer friends… and then maybe post it online chapter by chapter? I was thinking of sharing it here.
I have enormous amounts of respect for people who write consistently and share their stuff. I can be consistent if I put my mind to it, but the sharing is still terrifying.
Whew. I got into writing a good while ago. It feels weird, but I like this expanding out novel. I legit meant to write a novella; only to get really focused on the story.
But yeah, i got high and really into epistolary books. So now I’m making one with a dark fantasy. Least, I intended it to be dark, before I kept making a lot of weird jokes in it. Whoops.
I realized how interesting it was that holy books tended to have implied varied narrators. So less of a holy book and more of a scrapbook story with fantasy world characters. One person is legit just a housewife. And another is my main character, a guy with a cerebral palsy and a cane.
I did a serialized narrative for about half a decade when I was a teenager. It’s tough work posting every week! But if you think you can do it, I’d be curious to end up reading it.
Progress is steady on the novel! It’s currently at 58k words, almost done with the fifth chapter. Three chapters remain afterward… just finished writing a very long sequence that is entirely told in the form of a play script. Had a lot of fun with that.
Basically a short story I’ve written up (needs cleaning up) that is my pitch to write a much longer novel. This was my idea of an opening chapter, short but hopefully with enough of a grip to get someone to read more.
I made an original character a while back and gave them a little backstory, and then I made another and another and another, and I created this whole world that has its own magic system sort of.
I’ve been developing these OCs stories trying to make it into a visual novel of sorts, maybe animated shorts. I wanna get most of the writing/story boarding done before I decide what it actually is.
It’s about a college student studying an increase in “spirits” which are special beings that use faith as energy, she goes around meeting and learning about them.
I managed to make my entry into the underscore jam 2 fit into my story as well, which was fun
Interesting process there, speeris! I feel like when I’m writing something I usually come up with the general structure of what it is first before I come up with any characters or worldbuilding stuff. I think that maybe I just think about narratives differently than most people do, though.
Interesting takes for sure. Usually my process goes Theme → Character → Structure → Plot, but that’s just my take indeed.
I did my first novel as a serialization too. Very fanfic-like in that aspect, which is pretty interesting since I’ve never even touched the stuff myself!
I try not to think too much on theme in the early stages of writing anymore, though I definitely used to. I think it’s an easy way to end up making something really didactic, which I usually can’t really stand… obviously, my narratives end up having some kind of rhetorical throughline by the end, but I prefer to have it emerge naturally as opposed to designing the narrative around that rhetoric.
Interesting! For me the theme is always central! Which doesn’t mean it becomes a rhetoric or preachy, since I always like to throw in a bunch of different points of view. My first novel actually includes a big bunch of chapters that work more as short stories with faint connections to the main story, but big thematic connections. Different takes for different novels, I guess!
I’m in the process of restarting my efforts on two stories, mainly based off a mark left on me by a game of Lancer that went awry. I tend to use a lot of dark or heavy fuel for my creativity, but I’ve been running dry lately.
Outsider of Inferno is a crossover between Lancer and Helluva/Hazbin. As a crackfic, it toes my line of low-mid standards and I’ve gotten massively stuck on deciding the ending so far. It follows my character, Evan Norris, post-mortem following his quiet exit from the mortal coil. He is forced into the fold of IMP to help rescue a Goetia after years of self-negligence and loathing, and this story tries to explore how he could be redeemed through further sacrifice despite the influence of a certain hotel.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/69623586/chapters/180605731
This one is more of a Gundam-type affair, focused entirely on Lancer and a timeline where my character manages to live further. His home is besieged and attacked by pirates, leaving him almost suffocated in space before he is rescued by a hardcore black-operations group aboard a stealth frigate and therefore recruited for dirty assassinations and other plots.
I’ve also been stuck on the ending for this one, too.
All in all, writing’s been hard in general lately. I’m at points that are boring and I’ve already made comprehensive summaries that I don’t want to risk messing up too badly.
