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Title: Writing Stories?
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on May 12, 2004, 08:32:48 pm
Has anyone here ever made a story before? Just for fun, not for a school assignment or anything. I mean, I enjoy it a whole bunch but I find that people who actually write are few. Here is a cover art for my story...

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Title: Writing Stories?
Post by: mikhael on May 12, 2004, 08:48:55 pm
Yes. Its a part of being an RPG player. ;)
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Post by: Axem on May 12, 2004, 08:50:41 pm
Sort of, I'm a terrible writer (I can either write nothing but dialogue, or no dialogue, but not both), so instead of have a giant plot line detailing different events within the story.

One example of a dialogue filled story was about a news broadcast gone horribly wrong, it went on for 24 pages. I also wrote 2 other 24 page ones, which now that I look at them, nonsense. To which after I started on a real sequel to the first one, and got stuck at page 13 (or something). I may one day finish it!
Title: Writing Stories?
Post by: Singh on May 12, 2004, 11:54:58 pm
Yup, written before, still am too....just tend to get stuck here and there once in a while (which is proven by the number of incomplete works I have......;)) :D
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Post by: WMCoolmon on May 13, 2004, 02:07:59 am
I wrote a story for my 7th-grade English class that's 28 kb as a plaintext file. IIRC, it was over 13 pages long double-spaced.

The assignment was a 3-page story. I wrote a cheesy sci-fi thriller with time travel and wormholes. :D

I also found this amusing short:

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A desperate battle is fought at the Interplay-Volition jump node. Fighters fly escort for the larger capital vessels as they duke it out with other warships of the GIF. Already, the VVD Parnusin is breaking up, shredded by internal explosions.

   "Weapons, target that Rakshasha!" shouted Captain Transtin, "Communications, signal Vasutrin and Pride of Deneb our attack. Helm, full speed toward that cruiser!"
   The Rakshasa, racing ahead to reach the node, was the target of the beam cannons fired by the three Destroyers making up the backbone of the VTF forces. Already by the battle, the hull of the dark vessel was ripped apart by the immense energy of the beam cannons.
   On the bridge of the Gemini, Transtin watched apprehensively as the entire GIF Fleet began to accelerate towards the node. The vessels continued directly towards the node, as if pulled to it by a large magnet.
   A Leviathan-class Cruiser happened to be between the node and a Interplay Destroyer heading towards the node. The Demon-class Destroyer seemed to be oblivious to the vessel. It slammed into the cruiser without even decelerating. The outer hull of the Destroyer began to bend inward, then fire ripped it's way free of the Interplay vessel's hull, quickly being extinguished by a lack of oxygen. The lights on the Demon flickered out, a clear sign of the Destroyer's loss in the fight.
   Interplay fighters rammed capital ships; Captain Transtin watched in horror as a Fenris was slammed into by a Moloch, then bounced off the Moloch and hit an Aeolus, snapping the ship in half.
   Then a Cain class cruiser that had been making a course correction towards the node flashed red, and a line was drawn from it to the node-but through the Eisenhower II.
   "Helm, get us out of the way of that cruiser! Weapons, aim to disable but do not hesitate to destroy. Sensors, what's the hull integrity of that vessel?" said Captain Transtin.
   "83, sir."
   "Comm, can the Vasutrin or Pride of Deneb Assist?"
   "Negative, Captain. The Vasutrin is dealing with a Ravana, and the Deneb is losing hull integrity due to fighers."
   "Sir! A Demon class Destroyer has gotten past our lines, and is only five kilometers to the jump node!"
   Transtin knew that if the Destroyer reached the node and jumped, it could very like destroy or severely damage shipyards and refueling stations. However, as he watched the Demon burn hard for the node, a sensor contact appeared, larger than any destroyer. Larger even than the Colossus. Then the comm unit crackled.
   "All vessels, this is the GTVF Furcifer. Interplay vessels, you are ordered to power down your weapons and engines
Title: Writing Stories?
Post by: Rictor on May 13, 2004, 02:50:16 am
Man, I really should force myself to sit down an write, cause I got some pretty cool stuff flying around in my head. But its always a wierd feeling, like doing a voice recording for something. I just can't get over the fact that I, yes I, am writing/speaking something which apparently is meant to be taken seriously by people, most of all by myself.
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Post by: Nico on May 13, 2004, 03:19:40 am
My head s full of stories :p
I could make a living out of it, I'd be rich :p
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Post by: TheCelestialOne on May 13, 2004, 03:38:51 am
I've written a B5/ST fanfic but never finished it... I even posted it here on this board :p (See my sig. You can still reply and I might even continue it :p)
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Post by: Killfrenzy on May 13, 2004, 05:30:19 am
I'm in the very slow process of writing a novel. It's hard work! :D
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Post by: Black Wolf on May 13, 2004, 05:50:13 am
I write all the time, including a novel in work, though whether it'll ever get published is, of course, questionable
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Post by: Unknown Target on May 13, 2004, 06:37:06 am
I have!

(check the sig ;))
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Post by: Setekh on May 13, 2004, 07:23:39 am
Every time I make a render, I write a story. ;)
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Post by: Nico on May 13, 2004, 07:24:37 am
which means nothing recently :p
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Post by: Setekh on May 13, 2004, 07:31:37 am
I also write a story every time I take a photo. :p
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Post by: ARothers on May 13, 2004, 07:45:00 am
I am, it's nearly finish just a few more pages left and I'm done.  It based slightly on FreeSpace and Star Trek etc.
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Post by: Nico on May 13, 2004, 07:59:42 am
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Originally posted by Setekh
I also write a story every time I take a photo. :p


I don't believe you :p
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Post by: J3Vr6 on May 13, 2004, 08:10:57 am
I used to write like mad... mostly horror short-stories.  This was back in highschool and college... Out in the real world, though, I haven't had the heart to write again :(
Title: Writing Stories?
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on May 13, 2004, 10:33:01 am
I fnd writing stories to be a big part of what I do for enjoyment. Sometimes I write like mad and just continue to pummel Microsoft Word with text. Other times I can only write a paragraph before I become tired of it and just leave. But other then that, I've writen about 10 short stories, all of them sucked, one 50 pager in 8th grade, and now another 50 pager for 9th grade. I've just been making them increasingly long as of late.
Title: Re: Writing Stories?
Post by: Turnsky on May 13, 2004, 11:36:05 am
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Originally posted by .::Tin Can::.
Has anyone here ever made a story before? Just for fun, not for a school assignment or anything. I mean, I enjoy it a whole bunch but I find that people who actually write are few. Here is a cover art for my story...
 


not only i write a story, i draw, ink, and color it too ;)
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Post by: kasperl on May 13, 2004, 12:13:31 pm
I used to play NW, and I did some **** for TerranFrontier. I have written one thingy for the Warpstorm contest, but only because Eish was begging, generally, the results are crap when I write. I do sometimes enjoy it though.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on May 13, 2004, 03:32:26 pm
I've written some stuff set in the two Warhammer universes. Pretty pants, really, and hopefully long deleted.
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Post by: Gortef on May 14, 2004, 12:44:15 am
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Originally posted by Nico
My head s full of stories :p
 


Welcome to the club ;)
Title: Writing Stories?
Post by: Gortef on May 14, 2004, 12:53:18 am
bloody weblag, sorry for the double