The Writing (and Artistic) Ranting Thread

[V's patron]

I think i have a cool world/premise for my tv pilot but i don't think i have a handle of what his arc is.

I have the next two acts of the episode to finish so maybe i should write that out next. I have an outline for the episode and that might force me to really think about Khalid's goals (or lack of )

 

[Xeroxis]

Man that was one long writers block. It turns out the scene needed to be rewritten entirely, it just felt somewhat cliched no matter how I arranged it.

Now that's over with, I can finally get back into it

 

[V's patron]

I wrote out another act for my tv pilot. A tv episode has 4 to 6 acts and this pilot has 4 0r 5. I've done 2 acts and started on the third.

The second act is mainly the main character and his girlfriend talking. I thought it was going to be hard but it was surprisingly fun. It's a little expositionary but I tried to be not as on the nose as i could. They are an interracial couple so i wanted to allude to that without saying. She think he's comically missing the point when she brings it up...he's actually not wanting to deal with it comically.

hopefully my mentor likes it.

 

[Dante's Stalker]

This novel that my family has been pushing me to finish was so painfully cliché.
I think that's why it's taken me so long to write it. It is just SO MUCH WORK. I've redrafted it so many times, and at last (after what, 13 years and 8 rewrites?) there's finally some pretty gems appearing under the surface that makes it different from the slushpile.
Pretty gems that I'm going to mine out in Nanowrimo this year.


Watching this TV series?

This was my novel two drafts ago. Ice versus....well not fire, but still way way way too much like mine.
To think I spent the better part of two years just researching and world building, to have it thrown back in my face from the screen. All the notes on zodiacs and cultures and royalty and symbolism! And then to find that hey, your story and plot is actually cliché.

At least I've done the groundwork and now I can be a bit more creative with what I've got. If anything all this shows me is where I can improve and what I need to change to really own it. But still if I'd seen this show before now, I probably would have burnt my novel and all my notes with it.

I'm also 160% certain that this will be my first and last fantasy novel.
Writing this genre is hard. I mean harder than the normal hardships of writing anything. I wouldn't write another one even if they paid me.

 

[Shadow]

I saw someone complaining today about how they refuse to write fluff with a villain because it was "woobifying" them and making them pathetic and less than themselves and I just...if your villain is going to be ruined by a single moment of fluff with someone they love or when no one's around, then you haven't written your villain properly. If a protagonist can survive moments of weakness and doing bad things and not being a "good person" and still be called the hero, then your villain should be able to survive not being an evil dude all the time. Your job, as a writer, isn't to make 2d trope cut outs. Your job is to make convincing characters that are believable as living beings. And living beings are multifaceted and complex, not just one stuck in one mode all the time. If you can't write something, practice until you're better at it; don't try to make other people look bad for your bad writing.

 

[Dante's Stalker]

^ This is the reason why Julian will forever and always be The Villain.
Even Voldemort pales in comparison.

 

[Rebel Dynasty]

Oh, crap. Do I really have to do an About the Author? I legit have no idea what to do, here. My life is comprised of two extremes: uninteresting, or too dark to casually share with anyone, much less potential readers. >.>

Edit: Okay, so opinions?

About the Author

Born in Toronto, Ontario and then raised in Barrie from the age of 8 and up, Shannon currently makes her home on the Canadian Forces Base of Petawawa, Ontario with her military husband and school-aged daughter. Having developed a taste for storytelling at an early age, Shannon hasn’t been able to escape its clutches since, and spends as much of her time feeding her literary appetite as possible. When she isn’t writing fantastical tales saturated in mythology and folklore, she can either be found reading, gaming, or enjoying the company of close family and friends.

 

[Shadow]

Things they never tell writers #...idk, I stopped counting:

What to do when a fan has sought you out and you're both chatting casually and they say something inappropriate/demeaning/demoralizing about a growth you're proud of making in your writing...and you aren't able to tell them to go f*** themselves without losing a reader.

 

[V's patron]

I think i have writer's block over the last act of my tv pilot. It's the setup for the season and the epilogue to the events in the episode.

I have an idea on what has to happened but no idea on how to start.

@Shadow
That reminds me of issue 23 of Deadly class. It's a comic done by Rick Remender and Wesley Craig. It's set in 1984 and focuses on King's dominion a school for assasins. It has a counter culture vibe but it was announced to be getting a tv adaptation. Fans were disgruntled because of the usual issues but one fan accused the creative team of selling out.

Remender answered him in the letter's page and took him to school.

point is you did the work and you overcome alot to get there. Unless said fan has made equal effort he/she is just an arrogant poser bragging online.

You don't have to answer it but just don't forget it.

 

[Shadow]

Idk if anyone's interested in reading a three thousand word rant, but I did one on my writing pet peeves and you can find it here. I'm not reposting it here cuz...3k words. And I'm very foul-mouthed. So...yeah.

 

[Rebel Dynasty]

Idk if anyone's interested in reading a three thousand word rant, but I did one on my writing pet peeves and you can find it here. I'm not reposting it here cuz...3k words. And I'm very foul-mouthed. So...yeah.

There wasn't a single part I didn't agree with, and bonus points for posting that "Moral Bankruptcy" vid by Francina Simone.

Also, I'm sorry people have been such dinguses to you. :/ It's irksome that you've had to deal with the, "When are you going to write something original?" crowd, and the people that like to think they have a right to tell you what to write, and have the gall to be affronted when you make it known they aren't the gods gift to creators.

Don't even get me started on the people who think they can do better than the original franchise...ugh. The people I'd punch through the computer screen if I could...

 

[V's patron]

I think depression and writer's block go hand in hand and I had a rough two weeks with both. I'm on the last act but i had to delete the first page i wrote and try again.

Taking so long to start got me antsy but if i finish it it would the first script i would not have abandoned in a long time so i'm hoping to get over this funk and just hit the end.

 

[lorddemolatron]

Propably never told this before but one story i have as concept i think i make it short original one than fanfiction now, since i seen or readen some of fiction works what been on topic and i think i can make mine own story too,

 

[Rebel Dynasty]

"...with disingenuous sincerity."

I...what? Does she not know what disingenuous means, or was she attempting to use it ironically? And if that's the case, how the hell would it sound? If someone sounds sincere, how would you be able to tell they meant it disingenuously?

That's...just some odd word usage, there. :/

Edit: It also boggles the mind how many people think commercialism is the only measure of success for a writer. I could go on a tangent about that, but I won't.

 

[V's patron]

I finally finished Act 5 and it was 10-11 pages long. I actually have a finished first draft of a TV pilot (YATTA!!!!!!!).

My mentor is digging the hell out of it and now i gotta write a series bible for the show.

I'm not expecting this thing to get made anytime soon (the creators of Once Upon a time took a decade or so to get it on the air) but I'm on the right track.

I am a writer now (before i was just aspiring)

 

[Rebel Dynasty]

When you're switching from one spelling variant to another, the word Coliseum/Colosseum starts to look like complete gibberish. @_@

Which...kind of applies to most words, but hey. This was the one for me today. ^^;

 

[EA9Sol]

Bleh. I can't seem to write anything. Been too tired and busy. >.> Might put some time aside to do so. So many ideas. @_@

 

[Shadow]

That feel when a muse you've not used in years only speaks to you again to tell you not to wake them up because you'll never finish the project you want to use them on. I...okay. Thanks for the callout, brain. :'(

 

[V's patron]

I'm rewriting my first draft and converting from a word doc to Final Draft which is official screenwriting software.

I am being lazy and getting distracted tho. I find myself thinking about the writing process and what makes a writer differently than when i was just a fan.

 

[V]

Uni tutor doesn't like my formal writing style for fiction class. She was like, "this is a semi-autobiographical account? Would a person relate this in real life in this way?"

And I'm like, "yes. I just did. It happened to me and this is how I'm telling it."

What do you want, for me to fill it with references to Facebook and "basic bitches"?