Chubbs Authors

[Mal Nova]

How many guys here, actually are thinking, or have started writing a book?

I ask this after Becky's question, because I know a few of us have.

I can honestly say that I have started on the epilogue of a book that's been in the making for six years in my head. I could make a long story about it, but I realize I had to adjust a lot of things since then, but not as much. I've asked a certain person to be my editor and such already.

On my notes in My Face book is the peice of the epilogue. I can post here if you want but I'm not sure if its the edited version or not. And remember it's only a piece.

I honestly think I can make the first novel, but where to end and begin chapters will bug me. Any tips would be helpful.


I can post the piece of my epilogue here if you guys dont have my FB....

But who else in writing a book or thinking of writing a book?

[Kayne]

I've wanted to, but I am so damned ADD that I can't keep focus long enough to work on one. I've been shifting between writing either fiction, or doing something based on historical events. I think it would be an interesting thing to write some short stories (or maybe a series of them) that focused on a person or persons and place them in time periods starting from say, Hellenistic Greece maybe, or Mesopotamia and just cover certain periods of time, mixing a nice bit of fiction/romance and getting some history lessons built into it.

[Orion]

I'm writing a fantasy trilogy. I've already done the vast majority of word building and the story line and I've started writing. I'm only about 5k words in because I'm easily distracted. I intend to put gaming to the side more often to focus on it.

I've also got plans for two other books but they will be looked at when I get this first one sorted.

[Kaden]

I'm in a similar place as Orion, actually. Done some writing, but keep getting distracted by shit (read: LoL). I know how the story is going to play out and what the characters are like and what the setting's like, but I need to actually write it. Boo.

[Sigfried Hunin]

Me and Piper are going to co-author something. While we're waiting for him to finish graduate school, we're putting a lot of effort into world building.

This isn't a "we're gonna try," type shit. We're gonna fuckin write it.

[Piper Juunanagou]

I've got one proto-novel where I got about 15,000 words into it, stalled out, and then I got lost in the nuances of world design.

Then I have another project that I've been slowly hacking away at for a few years now (dafuq). The pace has picked up in the last few months, so I'm hoping to finish it sometime eventually after I graduate.

[King B]

I've semi-started on my book. It goes along the lines of historic fiction, and falls somewhere between fantasy and Wuxia (Chinese martial arts fiction). I already have most of my title character fleshed out and some of the supporting cast. The brainstorming isn't really complete, and I've been putting it on hiatus to work on screenwriting.

My current writing projects are centered around screenwriting, including skits and spec scripts. This is where I've found my interest lies in the last year or so and so I've been trying to learn as much as I can from a screenwriting perspective.

I've also been working on stand-up comedy material, but this is just more or less a hobby/pipedream. Maybe one day when I'm not a self-conscious fuck, I'll perform it.

[Mal Nova]

...Im sure I know... but define this 'world building' a bit for me? If it's the lay of the land... then OK, I got that in my head for the most part. If its something else then.... I'm lost. I don't want to be so hard a\on names incase I can get lucky enough to fit in the wizard series of the Lost Realms or something.... *High hopes*? lol

[Sigfried Hunin]

World building, in the way most people use it, is like fleshing out the specifics of a specific fantasy world. That can be like, how the planet works, how magic or technology works, specific historical events, etc. It's pretty much anything that would make it different than the real world.

[Victoria]

What I wrote as Victoria, was, basically, a novel. Since most of what I wrote was by myself it ended up becoming just that. However, I have to cut it into a series of books, and edit it. It's something I'd like to get published.

In the meantime I'm going to write some romance lol.

[Super Buu]

For about 10 years now (since I was 14) I've been worldbuilding for a story that I've written many parts of over the years. The whole thing keeps changing, but slowly and steadily it's getting closer to what I want it to be. Right now I'm taking some writing advice from Irvine Welsh that you can consider bullshit, or not, which is "go out and live. THEN write. Young people have nothing to write about." paraphrasing (this interview, interesting read. He's the guy who wrote Trainspotting btw), and I used to think "well, not for fantasy writers", but now I think there's an element of truth to it. So it could be another 10 years. Or just a few. On one hand, I know it's what I want to ultimately do, it's my dream, so I think I should start now. And every time I see someone I know who's had success with writing a book, I get a little stab of jealousy and that fire to succeed myself rises up a bit.

But on the other hand, I don't want to rush this. I want to write these books until I'm 80. It's going to be a big world, and hopefully, many books. So I want to get it right.. And I know that the world gets better constantly, as I discard old ideas that I once thought were amazing in place of new ones. If I'd have started back when I was 14, or 20, it would be much less rich than had I started now. I think there's a certain value to letting things simmer. Often writers and film-makers do their best books first, because those are the ideas that were forming for decades without the pressure of "have to make something for my publisher". Right now I really like what I've got, but I don't think I'm quite ready to start yet.

Uhh ... short answer: yes.

[Jonathan Meer]

I've pretty much lost all interest in writing page-prose. If I ever get off my ass and commit to it, I have a couple narrative ideas I'd like to display in a game.

[Blue]

I've pretty much lost all interest in writing page-prose. If I ever get off my ass and commit to it, I have a couple narrative ideas I'd like to display in a game.

I'm actually looking into college now, for programming, for that exact reason.

[Jonathan Meer]

I highly recommend programming as a profession (it's lucrative, creatively fulfilling, and in high-demand).

Make sure you don't pigeonhole yourself into 'game programming' at college, though. Get a true programming degree.

Really though, anyone can get a game going on Construct 2 with a rudimentary understanding of programming. My former roommate made an Asteroids clone on Construct 2 in a weekend, and he's never taken any programming classes. He had about seven months of casual study (a weekend of reading and programming here and there).

[Blue]

BSIT-SE is what I'm looking at. And I know. There's videos and articles and all sorts of free resources online for making games. I'd just like to have some traditional schooling to go along with it.

[Ander]

Yes, several. I often wonder if my best creative efforts were spent writing fanfiction rather than original works. For the most part, I do feel like even my "fanfiction" could qualify as an original piece of literature, if you trim off the obvious battle mechanics.

I honestly doubt I'd ever get published even if I did finish something, but it's on my bucket list. I have numerous ideas, and basically bounce back and forth between them based on wherever my interest most lies. It would be really fun if I turned Ander's story into a book, but then I really can't do that, since it revolves around characters not of my creation and the contribution of authors who had just as much influence on my story as I did.

I think we should all take a page from Sig and Piper and do a collaborative effort. That is, after all, the only way most of us have ever been able to write consistently, is it not?

[Orion]

It would be really fun if I turned Ander's story into a book, but then I really can't do that, since it revolves around characters not of my creation and the contribution of authors who had just as much influence on my story as I did.

I have plans of incorporating Orion's history (some is posted here, a lot of it is not) into a future book, with obvious tweaks.

[Sigfried Hunin]

I love the concept of Sigfried but I've always struggled trying to think of a way to really nail him down into a plot or consistant storyline.

[Piper Juunanagou]

I wholly plan to gut a lot of the ideas I had/have for Seventeen and Piper and incorporate them into some science-fiction world/story.

In a sense, I think I'm already doing this.

[Victoria]

I always liked the Sig/Vic spinoff we had. That whole Earth Invasion story was pretty great.