Who On Here Writes

[Winchester]

You can do both.

[Sojourner]

[quote name='CatherineM' date='05 October 2009 - 06:49 PM' timestamp='1254782967' post='1978532']
It is if you don't mind the PR side of it.
[/quote]
First I'd have to write a novel people would want me to do PR for. We're not quite to that bridge yet ...

[Secuutus]

I write scripts with my friend. He goes a an art school for directing and we are always shooting a short film. But we recently have written a full length film and have started writing a new television series idea.

[Winchester]

If you're always shooting it, it can't be all that short, anymore.

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='Laudate_Dominum' date='05 October 2009 - 06:17 PM' timestamp='1254781028' post='1978482']
I've been writing code all day with phatmass as a compile break.
[/quote]
So, then, would that be non-fiction writing?

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='Winchester' date='05 October 2009 - 04:17 PM' timestamp='1254773823' post='1978367']
Who on here writes?
[/quote]

Me! I do! Currently fiction, novel-length stuff. Thrillers. Also, I dabble in the occasional short story.
Additionally I have been writing an occasional article for a monthly parish magazine.

A decade ago some friends of mine and I wrote, and performed, radio plays. In high school I messed around with lyrical poetry, and comic book stories -- mostly characterization exercises.

[Winchester]

Have you revised any manuscripts to the point of submitting them?

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='Winchester' date='05 October 2009 - 08:27 PM' timestamp='1254788829' post='1978630']
Have you revised any manuscripts to the point of submitting them?
[/quote]

Actually, I am working on a full re-write right now. And then I'll revise, with the help of my wife. She'll proofread when I feel it's ready. And she'll offer corrections and suggestions and encouragement in the form of romantic intimacies. (I'm pretty sure that's part of the process, isn't it?)

[pat22]

[quote name='Winchester' date='05 October 2009 - 04:17 PM' timestamp='1254773823' post='1978367']
Who on here writes?
[/quote]
im a high school student so i dont have much of a choice. i just finished a two page analysis on shakepreare's Macbeth, act 1 scene 7 beginning speech. no idea what i would do without auto correct.

[Winchester]

You do have a choice. You could drop out. Stop whining.

[pat22]

anyone care to critique? its due wendsday. know whats cool? three of my teachers have a PHD





Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 7, lines: 1-28 analysis


Macbeth
“If it were done when ‘tis done, then twere well it were done quickly.” Macbeth tells

himself that if he is to kill Duncan, then he had better do it soon. “If the assassination

could trammel up the consequence, and catch with his surcease success; that but this

blow might be the be-all and end-all here, but here, upon this bank and shoal of time,

we’d jump the life to come.” Macbeth feels that if the murder could be guaranteed a

success and he would not have to deal with the consequences, then he would promptly

put his soul at risk to accomplish the evil deed. This is a principal point in the play, here

is where Macbeth confesses his moral consent to what he knows to be, a very immoral

act. “But in these cases we still have judgment here, that we but teach bloody

instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor: this even-handed justice

commends the ingredients of our poison chalice to our own lips.” Now Macbeth seems to

consider the repercussions of his plans more deeply. He ponders that when you do

commit a bloody act you are in turn teaching others to do the same. When those who

were exposed to the act eventually inflict the same upon the original doer, then he is, in a

sense, his own undoing. These lines also seem to reflect Macbeth’s character as a decent

leader, always considering the effects of his actions upon those under his rule. “He’s here

in double trust: first, as I am his kinsman and his subject, strong both against the deed;

then, as his host, who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife

myself.” Macbeth begins to consider his own relationship with Duncan, whom currently

has his personal safety placed in Macbeth for two reasons. First, as his kinsman and

subject, Macbeth is dutifully obligated to guard and serve him. And secondly as his host,

Macbeth is fully aware it is his job to protect Duncan against attempting murderers, and

certainly not to slay his guest himself. “Besides, this Duncan hath born his faculties so

meek, hath been so clearing his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels,

trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of his taking-off;” Macbeth contemplates

what a good king Duncan is. How free of corruption he is and how his virtue and purity

would be remembered in the event of his death. “And pity, like a newborn babe, striding

the blast, or heaven’s cherubim, horsed upon the sightless couriers of the air, shall blow

the horrid deed in every eye, that tears shall drown the wind.” Using an analogy,

Macbeth predicts how the news of the horrible murder of Duncan would quickly spread,

and how the Scottish people would utterly mourn their king’s death. “I have no spur to

prick the sides of me intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on

th’ other.” Macbeth decides that he cannot kill Duncan, that the only thing that urges him

to do so is his mass ambition. He also reveals that he is aware that he can get carried-

away with his ambition, and how it can lead to disaster. In this oration Macbeth reveals

much about himself and the extent of his intelligence and consciousness, which he cannot

justify; he is an overly ambitious man who has his mind set on assassinating the king and

taking the throne for himself. But he considers his plans more deeply and at the end

decides not to pursue them for a number of reasons.

[Winchester]

[quote name='pat22' date='05 October 2009 - 09:24 PM' timestamp='1254792243' post='1978714']
anyone care to critique? its due wendsday. know whats cool? three of my teachers have a PHD

[/quote]
They share it?

[Kitty]

I write dark/suspense fiction, historical fiction, and romantic fiction. Most of my stories are set in the Civil War or the late 19th century.

Sadly, I don't have much time to write anymore, with work and college. Writing is one of my favorite escapes.

Edited October 6, 2009 by Kitty

[pat22]

i love historical fiction

[little_miss_late]

I went to school for creative writing. I have a full time job as a writer, but I don't do creative writing at work, I write boring stuff like instruction manuals. I still write poetry and fiction in my spare time. Probably when the kids are older I will go back to trying to get it published.