What are you guys writing?

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Thanks! I really do like writing whenever I have the chance to. I also like to do poetry when I'm in the mood. My teachers at college say that writing stuff down helps me to express myself.

Ok, I've been thinking about the story and I have decieded to change it around a bit. I don't want to make it like a copy of anything so the girl now goes to a clinic which helps her to get rid of her powers because she just wants to be a normal person. She is given bottles of her powers, in case she needs them for anything.

does this sound ok?

i begun on #2 of my "space epic", thought i'd kick it off w a little dramatic poop-self anecdote/prologue (quite litterally, my main protagonist poops himself in public, while fainting, due to the distress of holding it back for almost a week (being in a stolen non-humanoid space ship, w no toilets))

poop is a literary tool like no other

i HATE "star wars", but damn, if it contained just ONE scene, where luke runs like a maniac around the death star, desperate to find a place to poop, before he soils his pilot-suit, i'd watch it again and again and again and again

Slowly, but surely working on my science fiction book. I have the main character in a situation where he has no chance at a bright future, but he still gives all ha can to help his friends and allies survive. Many different races -and trying hard to not have anything resemble a human/humanoid at all. Some of the themes I am placing within the pages deal with sacrifice, purpose to living, selfishness, and co-operation.

On the side, I write poems about sunsets, the wind, trees, when the moment hits me.

cool, a fellow sci-fi writer
i dont even like sci-fi, but i like MY sci-fi

one Q tho, how do you make your characters "not resemble humanoids at all"?
i actually add a little narrative 4th wall breach, where i "admit" to not believe in the possibility of humanoid aliens, but that the author (me) uses humanoids for simplicity
(in other words, i readily whimped out, where you didnt)
its of course a satirical work i make, but i like to mix genres, so its not a comedy or anything.

i did include non-humanoids, as the "nemesis" of all the humanoid civilizations. i give very little physical descriptions of the non-humanoids, except that they posess a body and several limbs, and are often covered in a robotic body-suit.

i have not explored these non-humanoids, other than encounters in outer space, or on small and isolated military bases, i havent explored their architecture or anything, since im not sure im "ready" for it. so far, their home world is distant, and not described at all.

I'm writing quite a bit of fan fictions in my spare time as well as some lyrics to instrumentals from various video games. My current fanfic is a Mother 3 fan fiction that takes place after the events in the game.

Lol! Same here.
I like the way you think.

I'm toying with the idea of writing a space epic as well....

I am planning on writing a book about a race of people who were geneticly altered to control a powerful energy that would destroy the body of a normal human trying to control it, and consume his spirit.

cool
one thing i quickly learned was, practice! i had a character vaguely worked out, from long ago, when i was 15 i think, but only used in two unfinished stories.
i decided to just start from 0, and "get to know" my character, his mannerisms, his talk, his thoughts, how his mind works, etc, and create a firm consistency, through i think ten short stories all in all. each one meant as a little "non-canon" "stand allone" thing, just for me. for a giggle, send him on little missions, let him be sadistic or responsible, just test him out, in order to settle on a good character from the start, and decide on my writing style and tone, so that i can kick it off with consistency.

Cool that someone else likes to write sci-fi. For me, it allows me to push my creativity to the limit (i.e. making up starshsip designs, inter-planetary empires, back ground history to characters and nations, species, etc.)

To answer your question, I would like to first explain why I am motivated to have non-humanoids at all.

I love Star Trek and Star Wars. Both are very different, but both have something in common: creatures that walk on two legs, breath a nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere, have digits, need H2O, require sleep, etc., etc., etc. Nothing is wrong with this. I understand they have budget constraints, and if all creatures spoke non-human languages it might be hard to follow if everything was in sub-texts on the screen. They also need an element (i.e. human actors) in one regard to connect with their audience to get the message across. All of that is very understandable.

But creativity beckons...


How do I make non-humanoids? Well, one of the first places I start is with non-humanoids: fish, birds, reptiles, etc. Many examples exist of aliens in movies and shows that have characteristics of a different species (i.e. birds) and added to a human "template." Ok, fine, but I like to take it further.

What if you took characteristics of say a jelly fish and a centipede? Mix and match how you prefer. Obviously the movement aspect needs to be thought out somewhat since they both exist in different environments. Then go from there on say diet, rest patterns, intelligence, etc.

I then ask myself questions to see such a hybrid in motion. How does such a creature operate a starship? How does it even build one? What kind of nutrition does it need? How does it communicate with its on species? And so on.

The possibilities are endless!

It is always interesting to have a race that communicates primarily with light.

EDIT: changed one word...

similar string-of-thought as w me then, except i "copped out" for the majority of my characters, who are all "humanoid". i personally dont see the possibility for such, odds-wise (99,9999999999999999999% of life on earth is non-humanoid. big hint to us.)
for the nemesis non-humanoid aliens, i thought like you, i began to question things we take for granted "why limbs? why head? why eyes? why brain?"
i decided to eliminate head, face, and all sensory organs that we have, replacing them with some undescribed system, for mysterious effect and, well, i had to mention how they do not use toilets ;]
communication is non verbal, but i SO dislike the word "telepathy", but that would be the only word to describe it. just hate the word..
they use pre-recorded combinations for their communication w others, in a few select "interplanetary" languages.

i thought it was vital to _DRESS UP_ the non-humanoid aliens, nudity in space is unhealthy for everyone
even there, in a related short story, i mentioned some curious little beings, who land on a deserted space ship, before they fly on their way, through space

I am trying to write about a writer who is trying to write about a writer who is trying to write about a writer who is illiterate but draws well and is making some sketches showing someone who is learning to draw pictures about a writer who is illiterate but draws well but he cannot afford to buy art materials so he is sketching with a bent nail on the inside of cardboard boxes with ketchup and shoe polish in the dark because he hasn't paid his electric bill and the lights don't work. In a frustrated effort he is drawing by the faint light of a cigarette he is smoking but he found the lit butt in the street and it is very short and his lips are burning from the effort and he is coughing because he is gradually getting lung cancer and the butt has no filter. In addition he cannot see a scorpion in the box he is drawing in and the scorpion, which is irritated by the cigarette smoke, is getting ready to inflict a fatal sting to the artist which is a shame because the picture represents the final solution to understanding the meaning of life. The tension in the story would seem to be about whether the drawing would be finished to revolutionize philosophy or would the scorpion totally frustrate the final understandings of the human race. But actually the underlying theme is about the life of the scorpion and would it be able to make the human into a meal for its young because the scorpion is the first in the possible line of intelligent insects that could take over the world after mankind has destroyed itself and most other life with a world-wide nuclear war.

Unfortunately I have not been able to put together an interesting opening sentence.

of my 9 years of primary school, i remember only "in medias res"
when in doubt how to begin a story, kick it off with some "in medias res"

The beginning is, for me at least, the easiest part to write down, but the hardest part for me to get right.

ignore the last post i made on this thread. The girl has still got all her special powers and has only visited the clinic once. I just had a change of thought but I realised my mistake and have changed it around to make it fit.