Lack of new threads makes me :(

alainn_chaser · Oct 22, 2007

Going through the boards obsessivly isn't much fun when there are almost no new threads. So...

How often can you write uber (shudders to self at word choice) dark stuff before people look at you funny and you find yourself in a white room with padded walls?

Last night I was extremely bored and down so I tried to cheer myself up by coming up with a new book idea. Which does actually work for me if you're wondering but then I reliezed this is really dark. I then tried to come up with a less dark idea.

It was darker than the one before. WTF?
Does anyone care if a writer only writes really dark shit? :Shrug:

Help please.

Oh and as an after thought my new laptops' internet explorer is in french. I know french so its not that bad but still :Hammer:

III · Oct 22, 2007

I don't think there's any problem with authors who only write dark works, as long as they're well thought out and have realistic characters, rather than just being a self-absorbed exercise in the author delving into their own darkness. Alienation is much more intriguing than angst, imo.

Don't know what to tell ya about the IE being in French. You may want to start another thread in the technical help forum.

OverTheHills&FarAway · Oct 22, 2007

Heh well I worry about that too. I'm a 21 year old girl, living in my parents' basement, and I worry what they're gonna think when they find out I'm writing a novel about a guy on Death Row

But dark is just a variation of light. I mean, life IS dark, at times. Why not reflect that with dark stories? I like to read dark things as long as the characters ring true to me. That's the criteria for ANY story I read. The characters have to be real.

Have they locked up Stephen King yet? Nope. You're good, I think.

MacAllister · Oct 22, 2007

Why don't you post some of it in the brand-spanking-new YA SYW room, and we can talk about it there...?

alainn_chaser · Oct 22, 2007

awesome idea.

(goes and checks sqeeling)

so yeah feel free to comment here but I might talk more in depth there.

Pamster · Oct 22, 2007

I have some YA Fiction I need to edit and repost in SYW in the new shiny subforum. Just not ready yet, haven't been working on it for awhile. But when I'm ready to post it I know where to post. I haven't been writing on much of anything for a couple of weeks, still thinking about revisions to make and whatnot.

Shady Lane · Oct 22, 2007

I cry with the majesty of the YA SYW forum.

Ya basically we all hang around the random musings thread. We talk about anything. So definitely come hang out.

alainn_chaser · Oct 23, 2007

Yup so its up there now. Feel free to look.

Everyone's so happy playing in the SYW section were gonna spend less time playing here for now I think.

One last question. Can SYW be sharing ideas and synopsis? Or is it just your writing and we talk about that here?

Lack of new threads makes me :(

alainn_chaser

Kweh?

III

rockin the suburbs

OverTheHills&FarAway

McNifico

MacAllister

'Twas but a dream of thee

alainn_chaser

Kweh?

Pamster

Summer time Blues

Shady Lane

my name is hannah

alainn_chaser

Kweh?