Who On Here Writes

[CatherineM]

I've got an article coming out in the next Western Catholic Reporter, the magazine of the Alberta Licensed Practical Nurses Association, and a speech for the Alberta Teacher's Association annual meeting.

[OraProMe]

I write but alot of it has swear words and sexual innuendo so I don't think it's appropriate for phatmass ):

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='little_miss_late' date='05 October 2009 - 09:33 PM' timestamp='1254792817' post='1978732']
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.
[/quote]

I would guess that writing is writing. And it is important to write something, anything, every day. But I am going to ask anyway: does writing instruction manuals, and the like, help or harm your personal (and fun) writing?

[pat22]

[quote name='OraProMe' date='05 October 2009 - 09:52 PM' timestamp='1254793934' post='1978750']
I write but alot of it has swear words and sexual innuendo so I don't think it's appropriate for phatmass ):
[/quote]

[Guest]

[i]my scientific mad mind keep my rhymes out of this world all the time come n hop in my spaceship
greyish blue exterior nothen really erier when you see it flyen nighttime in amazement
this is ancient mixed with some famous catholic hiphop this is hot like the flames
coming from the sun here it come like the rain when it's pouren on down thunderen in the basement
you better be when you see the thunderstrom comen
this flow like'a twista send everybody runnen
this that back against the wall spit hall of fame music
if rhymen is'a drug I O.D. I abuse it
no use for rehab im sick but im few n far in between the stuff you see'n on the tube
in the middle of the night no light just lies
got the remedy for that i'm not blind i'm baptised
i'm the child with the name of the King change the game
put the fame to the side got the eyes on the change
that's coming in the morning when we finally wake up
from this dream called life open your eyes n wake up
see it's not really real the ego just'a fiscad
and it edge God out becaue it wanna be God
it's the spirit vs the flesh its the devil vs Christ
it's the battle for our souls it's the dreaded antichrist
with the mark of the beast trying to put it in our forehead
or in our right hand after it the world whoren
babylon the harlot my witness i'm recorden
my voice go unheard but my legacy the story in the
book that you read that make the lifes last forever
this that revleation rap in'a poem in'a letter[/i]
[i]in'a dream that I drempt while we were all here together
before God woke us up and everyting was all better[/i]

[little_miss_late]

[quote name='Lounge Daddy' date='05 October 2009 - 09:52 PM' timestamp='1254793935' post='1978751']
I would guess that writing is writing. And it is important to write something, anything, every day. But I am going to ask anyway: does writing instruction manuals, and the like, help or harm your personal (and fun) writing?
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I had to think about this for a minute. Actually, yes, it helps. It doesn't make it easier to write the fun stuff every day, but I get a lot of practice at communicating, in general, and in sticking to the point. It is good discipline to have deadlines all the time, and to have to keep things short.

[rhetoricfemme]

I like to call myself a writer. I used to be a journalism major, worked for a newspaper for a few years, and am going to look for more writing gigs once I get this mommyhood thing situated. I'm also am hoping to partake in NaNoWriMo this year!

Once I go back to school, if it'll be for Theology and/or a concentration in writing.

[scardella]

I write code.

About 90% of it these days is not compiled... (SQL mostly, but also php)
The rest is VB6 and soon C# .NET

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='scardella' date='06 October 2009 - 11:29 AM' timestamp='1254842980' post='1979133']VB6[/quote]

[Laudate_Dominum]

[quote name='scardella' date='06 October 2009 - 11:29 AM' timestamp='1254842980' post='1979133']VB6[/quote]
Sorry, I had a job doing that one time and I don't think upon it with fondness to say the least. haha.

[Winchester]

I am supposed to be writing right now.

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='Winchester' date='06 October 2009 - 12:52 PM' timestamp='1254847927' post='1979180']
I am supposed to be writing right now.
[/quote]

What are you working on?

[goldenchild17]

[quote name='Winchester' date='05 October 2009 - 02:17 PM' timestamp='1254773823' post='1978367']
Who on here writes?
[/quote]

I do, though not particularly good at it. I'm working on a novel now based on traditional Irish/Celtic mythology with an emphasis on symbology and "story within the story." (ie. weak C.S. Lewis imitation). The idea and parallels I've come up with are pretty genius if I may say so myself and in the hands of a more competent writer would likely become a success. But being pretty selfish I would rather try and see if I can put it all together myself before sharing the details with someone more able than I. It will quite likely turn into a series of at least two books, though likely three since that seems to be the cooler number

Also writing a second story, just a present-day social-commentary type, though that's probably just a stand-alone piece.

Edited October 7, 2009 by goldenchild17

[Winchester]

[quote name='Lounge Daddy' date='06 October 2009 - 11:53 PM' timestamp='1254887601' post='1979650']
What are you working on?
[/quote]
Getting interested in one of a few ideas enough to pursue them. Yesterday it was about a divorced debt collector.

[Era Might]

[quote name='Winchester' date='07 October 2009 - 09:54 AM' timestamp='1254923669' post='1979809']Yesterday it was about a divorced debt collector.
[/quote]
I guess you take seriously the old phrase "write what you know."