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⌈ Secret Post #2818 ⌋

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THIS IS THE WRITING THREAD!

[caecilia]

Hello everybody I am standing in for jaybie to do the writing thread! I actually wrote a big self indulgent tl;dr rant on my feelings about writing but I thought it would be better to start this off with some links to helpful things! So here we go.

Here is an article about failure.

Here is an article about rejection.

Here is a photo prompt and just in case that doesn't spark anything, here is another one.

Suggestion: don't describe what's literally in the photo. Make a list of different things that could be happening and pick the one that's most different from what the photographer probably intended.

Ready? Okay! Tell me all your feelings about writing! Share stuff, especially if you used my photo prompts. Especially if it's the second one and you made it really weird. I might post my own rant later but I will be slow to respond and probably won't get to everybody because I actually should be working on a writing assignment right now.

♥

Re: THIS IS THE WRITING THREAD!

[(Anonymous)]

Noah was wrong, she typed. According to the forecast, the rain will abate by tomorrow...

I am taking a quick break

[caecilia]

I like it, keep going.

Re: THIS IS THE WRITING THREAD!

[(Anonymous)]

Both of those pictures are super creepy...

Re: THIS IS THE WRITING THREAD!

[caecilia]

Art is meant to disturb.

What to do when a short story turns into something more?

[jaybie_jarrett]

Lately I've found myself thinking about a story that was meant to be a short for fun story (Cyclone) and turning it into a full-on historical fantasy novel. On the one hand I find it kinda cool but I'm also worried about having too much on my plate.

But the idea I keep thinking of is just soo interesting and tempting. I'm thinking maybe I could do something with it, write it up and save it so I can make a manuscript of it and send it to someone.

Re: What to do when a short story turns into something more?

[caecilia]

Write it anyway dude. Or write what's in your head. I just write all my ideas down until I get tired and that way they're kicking around later when they're good and ready to be used.

Re: THIS IS THE WRITING THREAD!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think I'm going to share anything (sorry) because I'm super self-conscious, but I'm going to use this. Thanks!

Re: THIS IS THE WRITING THREAD!

[caecilia]

Yo, no need to be sorry! This is a no pressure zone. I'm glad you liked my stuff.

Re: THIS IS THE WRITING THREAD!

[feotakahari]

I tried writing a horror story in which a serial killer murders a gravedigger, but the gravedigger turned out so adorably awkward that I keep thinking of ways to keep her alive. Problem is, all of them would make the story stop being scary! I hate to sacrifice a perfectly good character . . .

Re: THIS IS THE WRITING THREAD!

[(Anonymous)]

unsolicited suggestion, so feel free to disregard. Perhaps her death isn't the end of her story, but maybe it could be the beginning? You could add a supernatural element to it. Horror as I was taught was more about a primal uncomfortableness than 'scariness.' (Is there a character to catch this serial killer? Maybe it can be plucky gravedigger?)

CHARAHUB THREAD

[(Anonymous)]

Everyone who has a full or mostly filled charahub, if you want to share a link, here's the place to do it. I want to see other people's characters!

Anti-Depression meds interfering with creativity

[hands4healing]

Love writing, but since I've gotten on anti-depression meds, I haven't been doing nearly as much. I have a chapter for a long fic my beta edited I need to reread and post, I have a big bang I ought to start gathering ideas for, I have a few original stories I want to work on, and nothing's making much sense in my head. Writing anything other than a couple of hundred words is hard work, and I used to write pages and pages a day, and had more ideas running out of my head and characters yammering away in my skull.

Now everything's quiet.

I've heard other writer friends say that when they went on meds, their voices stopped talking, too, but I need those voices to give me the ideas so I can write.

Anyone else have this problem?

And, in regard to the photo prompt:

"That's one big sucker," Nan said, as Barnaby boarded the elevator.

"It's for my granddaughter." He held it up in front of Nan's face. "Do you think she'll like it?"

Nan widened her eyes, wanting to take a step back, but Barnaby was one of those jerks who would consider that as a fear move. So she glanced sideways, saying, "Only if she's really, really oral."

Re: Anti-Depression meds interfering with creativity

[jaybie_jarrett]

I dunno about that exact one...but I remember the first time I took ADHD meds I felt like my brain had slowed down and hated it.

Re: THIS IS THE WRITING THREAD!

[(Anonymous)]

I've been in the mood to write for some time but been too busy. But right now I'm on vacation and have all the time in the world. Still not writing. I think some of that is I really want to finish this one story before going on to anything else but I don't have any enthusiasm for it. Another part is that I can't seem to get comfortable anywhere.

On a different note, I also have a ton of OTPs/fandoms that I want to write short stories for (not PWPs or snapshots, but an actual story). I am shit at writing anything short when I come up with plots on my own. I don't have stories for these characters; I just want to write them. I've been looking at writing prompts and they all seem to be crap. The "imagine your OTP" prompts are awful. I haven't found one that works. I want an actual story but not something so involved that I'll end up writing an epic (which is kind of my default setting). I looked at lists of cliches, and they're a little better, but they're still not a story idea. It's really frustrating. Especially as some of the things I want to write are not romantic but familial and there aren't many prompts for that. AND especially as some of my fandoms are not modern and so many prompts are related to that.

Writing inspiration things do shit for me. I don't like when people just throw a picture or a word and are like: here, write about this with your characters. That holds no appeal for me. It's usually not a picture or word or whatever that appeals to me, and all it ends up being is a snapshot instead of a story. I feel like what I need is so specific that I don't know how to ask for it. I'd just like a long list of story ideas that aren't lame, aren't too specific or too vague (or there's a good mix in the list), would be great for shorter stories, but still have a plot. And of course, it has to click for the characters/fandom, which seems to sink most anything (which really shouldn't because I have SO MANY fandoms I want to write something short for).

/guess I wanted to rant. Sorry.

Re: THIS IS THE WRITING THREAD!

[jaybie_jarrett]

Hey no prob. Feel free to rant all you want. Sometimes writing is frustrating.

Also I get not always being into writing inspiration stuff and being told what to write. I sometimes hate prompts where I don't have enough freedom. When I was in second grade ,I failed a writing test because I didn't write about the prompt.(I was supposed to write about being in a hot air balloon and I wrote about a candy factory somehow hidden in the balloon. Somehow)

Aheh...but anyway sometimes you just have to find an idea that speaks to you personally? I wish I knew exactly how to help. I like looking at types of AUs myself. Or lists of one word topics that are just vague enough to do what I want with them.

..uh hope I helped. Sorry if I was annoying.

Re: THIS IS THE WRITING THREAD!

[(Anonymous)]

Have you tried something like comment-fic? http://www.livejournal.com/users/comment_fic/ Prompts of varying themes and fandoms, with a whole lot of people prompting for "any fandom, any character" with assorted degrees of vagueness or specificity.

FOR THE SECOND PHOTO

[(Anonymous)]

I’m too far into my vodka to apologise for this right now, though I will surely feel more sorry about it tomorrow morning. Also, I have no idea what the fuck this actually is. Damn all grammatical mistakes.

Content tags: sexual boss/employee relationship (though no actual sex in this), suggested sexual use of candy, brief suggestion of age play

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She doesn’t really mind fucking him in his office every Thursday night when everyone else has gone home. It’s not the most pleasant part of her week by far, but so far the perks have been worth it.

She begins to question it, however, when he brings the large lollipop (where did he even get it?) into the office one Thursday and during a break whispers to her about how he wants her to be his little baby girl. It’s about that time she starts to think that it’s about time to report him for sexual harassment.

Still she goes to his office that night, after the last of her colleagues leave. She knocks on his door, more jittery than usual, because what hell is he thinking. She’s a business woman in a suit, for fuck’s sake, she’s nobody’s baby girl. Besides, it seems like so much more work than just rolling up her skirt and letting him rock into her for a couple of minutes.

He calls for her to enter and in she goes. As usual, he sits all prim at the desk in front of the computer, though she has learned by now that it’s way more likely to be porn on that screen rather than an Excel document. He doesn’t look up at her.

“Sir?” she asks after about a minute, as if he doesn’t know she’s there.

“Ah yes, there you are,” he says as if he hadn’t just let her in, “come over her, love.”

He pats at his desk; she resists the urge to roll her eyes. Instead, she does as he says and sits down at his desk, the way she knows he likes judging by the porn he’s been showing her.

“I’ve had this wonderful idea, darling,” he says and leans back in his chair. She can spot his hard-on through his trousers.

“Oh?”

“I’ve been reading this story (porn, she mentally adds) and it gave me this wonderful idea.”

“Oh?” she repeats.

He rolls his chair forward towards the desk and takes out from a drawer that humongous lollipop. (no, really, where the hell did he get it from?)

“You see,” he starts, “In this story…” She drowns him out from there more focused on that giant lollipop. What the fuck could be sexy about a lollipop that big? A little red one, that she can see, sexily swirling her tongue around it, colouring her tongue and lips red. Yes, that could actually be a bit hot. But a lollipop the size of her face?

She realises that he has stopped talking and instead looks at her expectantly. “I’m sorry, what was that last part?”

He actually looks a bit abashed as he repeats himself, “I want to lick this lolly, and stick it to your naked breasts and have it be the only thing you wear as I fuck you.”

It goes downhill from there.

She tries to stifle a laugh, but fails spectacularly and guffaws instead. He looks at her quizzically as if he just can’t figure out whatever it was he said that triggered this reaction in her. She just keeps on laughing until there is no more sound and she starts coughing instead.

“Are you all right?” he asks, still with that dumb look on his face.

She hems and haws, trying to gain her composure back, then lifts herself off his desk. As she stands next to him, actually towering over him where he sits in his chair, she says, “I’m sorry, sir, but I can’t see a way this could work out between us.” The repressed I have some standards hangs unspoken as she feels another fit of laughter coming on and knows she needs to get out of there. Before he gets the time to reply to her, she mutters another sorry and leaves.

She tries to let the sound of her heels click-clacking down the hall be the final sounds he hears from her this evening, and she is actually quite proud of herself for lasting all the way to the lift before releasing another laugh. As she watches the floor count go down she wonders if it’s about time to talk to HR, damn the consequences. She certainly doesn’t think she can look in his eyes again without thinking of a big damn lollipop stuck to her tits.

Re: FOR THE SECOND PHOTO

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god, this is fantastic. I'd read a full story of this in a heartbeat.

Personal issues/experiences that show up in your work

[jaybie_jarrett]

Does anyone else have familiar themes in your work based on life experiences you've had or that you are passionate about?

I've noticed that my works have themes of issues with parents /abusive home situations as well a recurring theme about bullying doing serious damage to the victims' psyche, mainly because of friends' home experiences as well as my own expreinces being bullied (as well as friends' experiences.

And they're never the over the top "ALL BULLIES ARE SOCIOPATHS WITH NO REMORSE" types that I see in some novels, because honestly I think that's stupid and harmful (because then it's easy for someone to go, "of course I'm not a bully, I'm not a complete monster like that") but more just like "you don't realize what your "fun" and "jokes" can do to people".

What about you guys? Any themes that are important to you?

Re: Personal issues/experiences that show up in your work

[(Anonymous)]

I have so many issues with my mum that I would much rather write an absent one than abusive or loving ones. So mums in my stories are often dead or just not there as a strong element.

Dads are more present, though I have a bunch of issues regarding my own dad as well (though totally different from the ones regarding my mum), but as a whole parents are not big elements in my stories.

It's honestly a bit weird as I have never been really abused by either of my parents, but there's just a whole lot of underlying emotional issues there for me stemming back to when they got divorced.

Re: Personal issues/experiences that show up in your work

[lunabee34]

Not so much themes as sense of place. I tend to set things I've written in places I've been before, even fandom stuff.

I do tend to live to write from outsider POV, about characters on the periphery, about mothers, and about soul crushing sadness. LOL

Re: THIS IS THE WRITING THREAD!

[lunabee34]

It is time to start thinking about turning my dissertation into a book. I do not want to do this. LOL It consumed so much of my life that I just want to be done with it for awhile. Like a good long while.