see its suposed to be a continued to the story in my sig
The Nothing War: Pre Nothins
but im not sure if i should, its kinda long and really boring, and kinda seams like a history text book on fast forward, or at least the prologue does
but i'll type up a samle if i can here soon

Anyone ever gotten an urge to write a short story about their daily lives? Say someone wants some ice cream or a sandwich or something. Weird thought, I know. Don't you think that there might be just a fair amount of substantial material there to write something? When it comes to writing for the sake of writing, the possibilities are endless.

At 2/21/10 03:47 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: Anyone ever gotten an urge to write a short story about their daily lives? Say someone wants some ice cream or a sandwich or something. Weird thought, I know. Don't you think that there might be just a fair amount of substantial material there to write something? When it comes to writing for the sake of writing, the possibilities are endless.

now that you sau that, i have that though about twice a month, no lie ^^
i think it would be quite cool to do a short story about your own life and your daily livings ^^

At 2/21/10 02:27 PM, nothingmater wrote: but im not sure if i should, its kinda long and really boring, and kinda seams like a history text book on fast forward, or at least the prologue does
but i'll type up a samle if i can here soon

You can always can what you have and rewrite with the same plot. That's what I do with my old stories if I like the ideas but not the writing.

So I decided to make my latest short story into a couple eBooks. If anyone here uses a reader, or has an eBook application on their phone, can you try these out and let me know how they look? I have .ePub and .mobi formats available.

One Night Soul Mates

I made these, pretty much because I'm still waiting on Dubbi to get a story for our battle :P

But, I was surfing around the art portal, and got in touch with an artist so I could use one of his images as the cover for the book. Since then I've been thinking about the Writer/Artist thread. Since you can have cover art and illustrations in eBooks, maybe this would be a good way to get artists and writers involved with each other? It's pretty much just a bunch of HTML, so putting links to artists/authors webpages is easy as pie, and there would be no reason that a little blurb (with links!) could be put in about other works than have been completed by the creators.

Thoughts? Opinions?

Oh, and I'm getting impatient, anyone want to give me a review on the new short?

yah i guess your right.. but first i need to type up my story and finish the last two chapters :)

So I tried my hand at erotica for the first time in two years. Read the description at the top of the post for more details, but basically, I think it's really awful. I don't know. Has anyone else tried writing in this genre? I find that it's hard to do without making it took much like porn in text.

At 2/21/10 06:16 PM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote: porn in text.

This might be one of the funniest things i have heard today xD

At 2/21/10 06:16 PM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote: So I tried my hand at erotica for the first time in two years. Read the description at the top of the post for more details, but basically, I think it's really awful. I don't know. Has anyone else tried writing in this genre? I find that it's hard to do without making it took much like porn in text.

I haven't officially tried anything in that vein, but I do spend a lot of time at asstr.org reading others' works. Most folk have a difficult time not sounding like a cheap porn, but some do manage. I think people consider it an easy way to write and get internet published... and don't realize that a stroke story is a flash in the pan whereas something with more plot becomes very tricky to pull off with grace. Give me a day or so and I'll take a gander at that work and see if I can help.

At 2/21/10 06:16 PM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote: So I tried my hand at erotica for the first time in two years. Read the description at the top of the post for more details, but basically, I think it's really awful. I don't know. Has anyone else tried writing in this genre? I find that it's hard to do without making it took much like porn in text.

You think you're the only one who has tried to write erotica!? Not sure if you've seen my fic yet, but I am stuck in the hottest scene I have yet. It's when Alexis and I are consummating our relationship. Also, seeing as how linking the chapters of my fic in my thread, I figured I'd just copy/paste them from my news posts instead.

At 2/21/10 06:42 PM, Ravariel wrote: I think people consider it an easy way to write and get internet published... and don't realize that a stroke story is a flash in the pan whereas something with more plot becomes very tricky to pull off with grace.

Yeah, I've discovered that as well. But (and this is what I said in my actual thread), I know what I need to do, but I don't know how to do it. I consider myself well read in erotica (amateur works, anyways), but I can't seem to master the skill myself. I can write explicit sex and I can write something with a unique plot, but I can't merge them effectively. It either comes out like, as I said, porn in text form, or it comes out like a dry rambling via internal monologue.

Sorry for the double post, but posting times got the best of me.

At 2/21/10 07:03 PM, SlntCobra1 wrote: You think you're the only one who has tried to write erotica!?

Oh, no, it's just me trying to phrase the question passively.

Ah, gotcha. Hope to see you posting in my fic thread Ifun.

i think i might do a love story, but i need a plot :x

Sooo... either nobody here has a use for ebooks, or no one has figured out there is a hot blowjob scene in my story...

Damn you people and your sex talk, all distracting everybody and crap!

At 2/22/10 12:06 AM, Version2 wrote: Sooo... either nobody here has a use for ebooks, or no one has figured out there is a hot blowjob scene in my story...

Damn you people and your sex talk, all distracting everybody and crap!

Ew e-books. Mate my eyes kill after reading too much on these forums...any books I read are on trusty trees and hemp...scratch the last one :P

yah by scratch, you mean scratch and sniff :]

At 2/22/10 12:11 AM, TrevorW wrote:
Ew e-books. Mate my eyes kill after reading too much on these forums...any books I read are on trusty trees and hemp...scratch the last one :P

Try a Kindle, they're just as easy on the eyes as paper. Personally I use Wordplayer for Android on my G1, has a nice Day/Night option for turning background black and text white. It's fantastic on the bus, first book I read on my phone was War of the Worlds.

There's also a .pdf version... It's too big to be posted on these forums really, so I've been playing with different formats.

I never have tried proper erotica. I used to write straight up smut a few years back, but as someone said already, it was a flash in the pan, and dissipates quickly.

However, I'm just starting a new story in which I do plan to include sex scenes. While working on it, I'm trying to find a balance of detail to get it across as steamy without stealing from the rest of the story and ruining the character. Hopefully I do well with it. I don't need more smut.

was going to post this earlyer but i wasent able to
so here is what i was going to say

After what you said about writic a erotic story, i started to do a romance... and it sucked....... i feel kinda bad now..... kinda emo..... kinda hungry........ i need a taco.
Any way i started it, and it sounded more like a diary and i wasent sure how to progress from the opening to the moment where they meat to the sexy romance seanes. So more or less i gave up after 2 pages, and threw it away in my history class. I thin kthat also sybolizes its behind me and i will never, most likely, write or attemp another love story.... i only touch the love subject in the poems >.<

At 2/22/10 12:51 PM, sinfulwolf wrote: I never have tried proper erotica. I used to write straight up smut a few years back, but as someone said already, it was a flash in the pan, and dissipates quickly.

However, I'm just starting a new story in which I do plan to include sex scenes. While working on it, I'm trying to find a balance of detail to get it across as steamy without stealing from the rest of the story and ruining the character. Hopefully I do well with it. I don't need more smut.

sorry for double post, but i find it hard to do a story about romance, i can do sex scenes just fine if you ask me, thats no problem. But its much harder then it looks, to get the mood and the feeling

I've only written proper erotica once. I've never needed to use it to progress the plot, and I think outside of that there's not much purpose outside of giving the jollies to the pimply nerds of the internet, which should be reason enough not to do it. What I wrote took place in an unfinished story where the character falls into a coma and dreams about this sensual woman with a rabbit's head. The idea was to be more fucked up than sexy, and no, I wouldn't exactly count it as traditional furry. I'll probably just leave it dead.

At 2/22/10 05:21 PM, WritersBlock wrote: I've only written proper erotica once.

Glad that you've experienced success with it. I just felt weird....

well my story was a romance that was leading up to the point where they took each other verginity. then that would be the end. i love romance and i can depict it very well, when its other works, but when its mine i cant write it. I's show you but im not sure where to put the page i have done.

I find it interesting how people on this forum actually care about tone, ect. For the most part most people here are emotional (makes sense) and it adds a different atmosphere. I have to say I have never been on a forum like this and I am really learning a lot on how to craft a post.

Neat.

lol, i think thats good. Im a nice guy so im hardly ever mean xD
but even if its online, the person on the other side is a person too... in some cases a monkey or a taco, but mostly people

on the topic of texticular sex, i've read a few sex scenes that a female friend of mine showed me and its actualy pretty interesting how they write it. They make "doing the nasty" "romantic" and "envigorating" and very tastfully alude to the act.

from a female point of view.

" i could feel him pushing into me, the slow rocking motion luling me into a gentile euphoria." and so on

i'd write a full scene but not at this time of day. id need to set the mood first
i don't know what book would write sex from a male's point of view thats just sick.

As a student, I've always have had been able to craft intricate plots (while requiring time, of course.) but I've never really had the inspiration nor the work ethic to putting these stories to print. Aside from that, most of my plots have so much material that I really don't think I actually could pull of doing novels.

There was once a time where I actually took the time to attempt such a project, but I stopped on the first day at page 17. I even had the table of contents set out and everything...

Looking at reality my expertise at other subjects has caused me to doubt ever having a career in literature, due to the fact that it is difficult to get published first off and the audience would actually have the money as well as the interest to buy the books.

But, there came a time when I presented this question to my mom, and all she said was, "Whatever you choose to do with your life you will do for the rest of it, so considering that you'd best choose what you enjoy most, not what you'd make the most money out of."

Considering this however, I'm at somewhat of an emotional impasse. I know I'd probably go to a good college or university with my grades, but I don't know which path to take.

Wow,all this and I realize that I just asked newgrounds what I should do with my life...I'm so pathetic.

At 2/22/10 09:16 PM, nothingmater wrote: lol, i think thats good. Im a nice guy so im hardly ever mean xD
but even if its online, the person on the other side is a person too... in some cases a monkey or a taco, but mostly people

That's the thing that a lot of people don't get. Just because you can't see the person doesn't make them any less of a human, but yet people act as if it does. It's a mindset of "it's the internet, who cares?" and I find it immature and ignorant.

Bah, posting times. Sorry for the double post.

At 2/22/10 09:26 PM, funnyhomeboy wrote: Wow,all this and I realize that I just asked newgrounds what I should do with my life...I'm so pathetic.

You're only 16, so don't worry too much about it. 80% of the teenage population is in the same boat as you. If, by the time you finish high school, you don't have a clear image in your mind of what you want to do with your life, then just go for a liberal arts major. That way you get the education under your belt that will put you in a position to chose any direction you want and you get to see what different subjects are like at a college level. In other words, you have a while before you have to decide.