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Here's my top three stories that I have been into this week. (all follow under catagory of orginal stories)
Infliction of Pain -genre- Drama
The Support Group -genre- Drama
Almost Alive -genre- Dark Fiction
maybe check them out?
What are your's?
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You said you were writing a historical piece. My suggestion is to read novels from that period, to get an understanding of what the societal norms and customs were of the time. It will help you give a little of that era's flavor to your writing. The way men and women acted and interacted, what was considered proper behavior, etc. Nothing bothers me more than reading a fic set one or two hundred years ago where the heroine is decidedly 21st century or the characters use modern speech. Books like "Pride and Prejudice" "A Tale of Two Cities" even "Frankenstein" and "Dracula" are great resources, because of the era in which they were written.
If you're interested in what I'm talking about, feel free to read my fic "Songs of Eros" and see what I mean. You seem to shy away from more graphic depictions of sex, so you have no worries with SoE; I deliberately wrote it as a very mild R.
ooo thats a very lovely idea!
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Yes you did when you registered. Due to a flaw in the code it got lost along with a few other member's birthdays. So you really should up that in your member information.
Don't believe everything that's posted on a website... yes I'm older than 18 but I refuse to put any personal information (such as my real birthday, where I live, etc.) on the web. Its a very dangerous place.
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For some odd reason I have the urge to tell you that before you start researching, plotting and characterizations (which are important) I think you should focus on the basics like grammar and spelling. Having read your fics and reviewed them before, I feel that my 2 cents might have some value, although, of course, you are free to not follow it if that's your choice.
Personally, I think that you have a very long way to go, and frankly, I wouldn't bet on making a living from it if I were you. I'm sorry if this seem harsh, but if you are as old as you say you are, then your Lit teachers ought to be spanked.
yeah those are pretty old...from like three years ago. All the stories are just saved up on my computer, completed and collecting dust...so I decided to post them on here, curious of what other's may think.
Also you talk about making a living of it? Um I have yet to start life and career...Its pretty obvious that I'm very young. And starting young is like the "bread and butter" to a developed writer because I have room to make those improvements and with NEW life experiences, I can have FRESH ideas. Like they say: "Never teach an old dog new tricks."..hopefully by the time I'm your age I'll be developing and publishing stories not posting them on a website.
ETA: and I've never revealed how old I was.
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thank you all...i have descided to continue researching but start making outlines and characterization charts...here's a great site that gives advice and also offers good questions to ask yourself...and it inspires you to kind of ponder more into your story..the meaning, the theme, the twist and turns etc. A good story consist of real, detailed characters, that you grow to know and love..here's the site if anyone else is feeling my pain...
http://users.wirefire.com/tritt/tip8.html
thank you so much for the advice I will do everything you guys said...I can't tell you how much this has help organize all my thoughts! ( i will try outlines, the "legal pad", and more research...also i just found some really great pictures to get me in the mood!!!!)
Thanks Again!
And keep writing!
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men have it so easy
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so at the moment i am working at making a novel....i'm at the research stage and i have so much left to read up on (since the story takes place in another century) but i want to write NOW! i have dreams about the story and have days where the juices are just pumping and i just feel so alive and just want to write! But i kind of think i'm not ready but I want sooooo badly to be...should I start and keep doing the research inbetween or take a long period of time to research?
Also how do I get started? I want the first paragraph to be amazing (as the rest of the book) but how do i get inspired?
How do I organize my ideas?
should I make different drafts of the first paragragh?
Please give a desperate writer your advice!
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this is why i hate politics.
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That's what I'd like for my first time, but I won't know what it's like until I'm actually there. After that, I wouldn't mind casual sex. I'd only draw the line at having sex with a complete stranger. I wouldn't mind having kinky sex either. I like to exercise and express my imagination.
It's something complicated, which is why I'm taking my time with it and making it a long read. It loses a lot if it's too short. Still, it's not what I'd ever envision for myself. However, I do understand why I write it. I do enjoy writing characters that are similar to me. It's putting an aspect of myself on paper. But I also enjoy writing characters that are very different from myself and hold different values. Sometimes their morals are more old-fashioned, sometimes more ambiguous. There's just something to be gained from writing a character that's not like yourself. It truly allows you to step into someone else's shoes and see the world from a different view, because you have to temporarily adopt the different view as your own if you want to write the character effectively.
Wow... I think I became a bit too philosophical. I didn't mean to. I do regard sex as something special, but not that special or important.[/color][/font]
"That's what I'd like for my first time, but I won't know what it's like until I'm actually there. After that, I wouldn't mind casual sex. I'd only draw the line at having sex with a complete stranger. I wouldn't mind having kinky sex either. I like to exercise and express my imagination.
" Amen sister....let's just say whoever i marry, may it be my boyfriend now or someone else (i'm young...i pretty much have all the time in the world) they won't go un saftisfied jk lol!Seriously though, i do agree with some of the stuff you say and i think i will start allowing my characters to be themselves...maybe if it even calls for it they'll have sex
My point was we kind of live in a world today where everyone does what they want, live in the moment, we're all going to die anyway....and though i love impulses (i pierced my own navel two days ago...i wish i thought that one though) people need to think of the real consequences
(sorry for reposting)
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I'm probably too full of advice for my own good, as you well know.
The first piece I will give you is to be patient with yourself.
Understanding comes often with a painful lesson.
What do you know of bitterness unless you have been so disillusioned that the cup Jesus drank was one you realize is the very grail that holds the souls of the damned, that's how bitter it is?
To love greatly after that experience is to love deeply and to understand what love is.
To be hurt badly takes no courage, only stupidity. To stand up after a fall and hold up your head takes a strength that is beyond the comprehension of those who have not experienced hurt.
To apologize when you realize you have done wrong takes real courage. There is where you meet true fear: within yourself, when you weigh within you the things you value and hold precious against the things that are only passing.
Humiliation is only passing. Accepting the consequences of our actions after that, is easy, because you did the right thing.
So, in relationships, and in characters that you build, there are certain things we are all guilty of, and there are certain things we are proud of. To dive into that ocean of human behaviour, we must first understand our own.
do you understand what I'm trying to say?
Maybe just watch One Piece. that says it all (not the dubbed version. The subbed)
yeah that makes a lot of sense! thanks!
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er, did you just read the same post as I did?
I don't get your response.Reika's statement reveals that although she personally has high standards, her characters do not, and she wondered why that is so. did I read that wrong? (Goes to read some of Reika's stories)
oops read it wrong.
but do you have any advice for me? All my characters seem to be the same?
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omg i know exactly what you mean...i can't seem to get any of my characters to have sex! i don't know if its because i vaule it so much but for some reason i just can't.
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adressing this to everyone:
1. i know people's opinions are very different then mine....if you knew me personally one characteristic ofmine would hit you square in the face: i am very outgoing and open minded...i'm a bit of a hippie
..and if i didn't understand that everyone else had different ideas why would i post this forum? i would have no reason to. i like hearing people's ideas and debating with them. its a favorite hobby and i hate when i start a debate, people automatically think i'm attacking them personally...i do not think you're a slut if you have sex...like i've said before: your body do what you want.2. ignorance can be looked at in two different ways: One is the way a lot of you see it: unexperience, sheltered, trying to mask or being unaware of the danger or situation around you. I view it as number 2: believeing...being a kid again...i know it sounds stupid but i kind of miss all the purity all the simple mindedness that came with being a child...i kind of think in a way people are trying to grow up way to fast and don't spend time thinking in that way...beileveing, no questions asked. (i know it sounds stupid)
3. my final thought is this....many people have sex, many of my friends, many of my peers...but i stay the same why? because i don't want to be like them..i've never followed the crowd and i never will....have i ever considered having sex? of course...have i been close? many many times...but through my life i've changed reilgons, altered my whole way of thinking...can't I keep one thing, one vaule I've dreamed about since i knew what sex was, the same? I keep changing and changing everyday and i contradict every thing i say but there's one thing i'm sure of...i vaule my virginity and will remain a virgin till marriage....do what you want...but i choose this.
as one of my teachers said: "if you don't have an opinion in the world, get the hell out!"
(4. and again sorry i keep reposting....forums are new to me)
I love you all and thanks for the response!
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i love to dance and i love techno.
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i love the first person view...it gives fantastic, intimate inside to what the character is thinking and feeling. I just wish there was like a quadroople-view so all my characters could narrate.
i love poetry, short story, romance, fan fiction, and novel (actually i'm writing a very interesting one at the moment)
fun fun
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Er... as forum etiquette goes, double posting is a big no-no. This is not to say that people don't do it occasionally, but every time you post a replies to what people are saying, you post multiple times. Please, please refrain from double (and triple) posting one right after another. It gets annoying to read. It is possible to respond to everything in a single post. And if you want to add anything right after posting, you can always edit the post.
Now, as to the topic of discussion here, just because a person sees things in black and white doesn't mean they aren't open to other's opinions, it just means they don't expect anything but yes and no answers. Though, I DO catch your meaning.
Also, you seem to think that by saying that sex is the ultimate expression of love is an ignorant beliefe means that believing in love is ignorant. What I believe Red was saying is that sex is not made for the expression of feelings and love. Sex is made for procreation. And, as observing dolphines will tell you, recreation. It is my beliefe that sex for pleasure was only developed because the mind developed and living conditions for humans had improved so much. As the mind developed, humans needed new reasons for having sex since they didn't know where babies come from that means they also didn't have any real reason for wanting to have sex. Therefore, whatever the fuck decides these things, be it nature or some supreme creater or whatnot, humans started liking sex. Liking it to the point that it became a favored passtime, especially for those in the prime child rearing years. There's a reason for all those raging hormones in the mid-teen to mid-20's years, folks.
And, yeah, ignorance is bliss? Ignorance kills. And THAT folks is why abstinence only classes DON'T WORK! Kids who were never given any specifics on sex besides "don't!" never get the facts, have sex ANYWAY and don't use condoms because, according to GW Bush, condoms and other forms of birth control don't work. Kids, I've been on Birth control for over 6 months, am EXTREMLY fertile, and viola! Not pregant! I also don't have any form of STD. Why? Because I was smart enough to know who and who not to trust with my life. I've only ever slept with one person in my entire life, and I know for a fact that he's only slept with one person in his entire life. And while, yes, we were sure we were (and are) in love when we started having sex, it's not the reason we started (for the most part). We started having sex because we wanted to, because it felt good, and we found eachother "OMG so HAWT!" That, and I had known him for a while before we started dating, and even then, we waited a good 6 1/2 months before then to actually start having actual full blown sex (cause fooling around is the love<3).
And really, I don't think much of what you say is very valid until you actually have a sexual relationship, because I used to have many of the same feelings toward sex that you did until I actually started spending time with other people and got their takes on the whole thing and after having dated a bit. This, of course, was followed by a lot of introspection. I'm not shallow or stupid enough to just eat everything that everyone gives me.
I do, however, wonder where your views on the whole thing came from. It would help me understand a bit of what you're talking about.
lol now that i read this over its in a new tone....i thought it was a little "bitchy" at first but its actually pretty funny...you seem to have a fabulous sense of humor
thank you all for your opinions
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and as for you not being pregant or getting STDs let's hope your luck doesn't fade.
this might sound bitchy but i just came home from work and i am so friggin tired!
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please stop critizing the way i post things....if i want to post a few different points i will and one person telling me their opinion won't change that.
just like my beilefs...i do what i want and i really couldn't care less about what you or anyone else thinks of my opinions or me.
you also said that you can't take me seriously because i haven't had a sexual relationship....honey, you do not know what you're talking about .
and fine don't take me seriously i really do not care...i just told you what i think..take it or leave it
another point you brought up was i said red-whoever said love was faulse...to me sex is love... hence "making love"! so ummm.....yeah that's where i was getting at..... ingornance can be a bliss in a way.
"the trials of my youth are gone but the chemicals remain"....keep your mind pure...it doen't mean your not knowledgable...it can mean that the knowledge is good/pure knowledge.....
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what i'm trying to get at is this: so i believe in something that you define as "faulse bonding"...so what.....i beileve in intimacy and share your body with one person...think of how great of a gift that would be if someone gave you the very thing they vauled of themselves....its pretty special... and though for me and my boyfriend its hard because i pretty much love him but i'm not "in love" i'll be "in love" with whoever i marry and though you think its "ignorance" my response is: tough....I beileve in love because i know for a fact it exsist
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I apologise for assuming that your views were based on your religion. (assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups after all.) However my point is that you're making a choice based on secondary information. I'm not encouraging you to go out and jump someone's bones at random, I'm suggesting that the opinion you formed that casual sex comes with a loss of pride and/or value and that sex is meant for two people to share some "perfect bond" is both childish and uninformed.
But I guess, the important thing is to make decisions you will remember well or at least not regret.
Oh and keep on masturbating for those organisms!
what's wrong with being childish..since the topic of reilgion came up in the bible it says you should be more like a child....innocent of mind and body....
and they do say: Ignorance is bliss
that's my kind of bliss
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I have a few issues with this. One would be that you're looking at this in a very black and white matter. Second, you're running on the assumption that if a person sleeps around, they have no sense of pride or respect for themselves or their bodies. Well, jeeze. Sex is one of the many ways people express theirselves. Are you saying that expressing one's self is degrading to them?
if i was looking at this subject as black and white then I wouldn't except yours or anyone else's around me (basically I'm out numbered) opinion...your body do what you want.
secondly I don't assume....you know it makes an ASS- our of U and ME (assume) I just wanted to put a yes answer and a no...i realize there's an inbetween.
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If its turned black, that could be necropsy. You should probably let your doctor look at it.
okay now i washed it really good and disinfected it, so now its just a scab...whew...that was a close one...
Also to everyone...lol...beileve me I am aware of my stupidity...lol
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sorry mispelling "Christanity"..... lol masterbation is the key to those of you who say "act on desire"...i prefer that then sleeping with someone I barely know for the time being.
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I respect your decision to be a virgin, in truth I find it admirable, but it comes with its own form of ignorance. Your opinions on sex have been formed on second hand information, from a source, which I suspect is Christianity, that is not known for encouraging learning in the first place.
i'm actually not christen or any reilgion for that matter...i view sex that way because i don't allow the media to influence my ideas...i have self respect and why risk everything (getting pregant, regretting it, STDs, not being ready etc) for a short organism I can easily give myself
What's your fav story on AFF?
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here's my top three stories that I have been into this week. (all follow under catagory of orginal stories)
Infliction of Pain -genre- Drama
The Support Group -genre- Drama
Almost Alive -genre- Dark Fiction
maybe check them out?what are your's?