What are you guys writing?

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So foar doing writing exercises and trying to write a story about an African-American slave girl in the 1800's finding acceptance with her fellow slaves and master.

I have these chronicles about an entire race, the Kryans, who are beings who possess the "ultimate knowledge" split in 8 areas of knowledge, those 8 areas, are the 8 "basic elements" of existence, the kryans co-exist with humans in the planet but through the time, humans have known them to exist, or merely acknowledged them as a myth.

There will be several stories at different times, most of them times when the kryans are forced to intervene with human affairs, either to perserve the planet's balance, to survive, or just because one of them strayed out

My main issue writing this, is if I'll write it in portuguese (my native language) or english, i have the first 2 pages of 2 different books, in both languages they were supposed to be the same, but in only 2 pages they turned out so different already that it scares me.

For characters, Drakshin (my forum name) is one of them, I have 21 characters, or names, that i use myself, some of these characters have their own personalities and traits. Also my brother is writing a novel as well, for which he used my chars, and i will add things to it later in order to make it coherent with my world.

I have this idea about a laboratory rat that was genetically modified with a human brain. He is quite bright and almost made president of his high school class but discovers that there is a prejudice against rats in a small but effective clique and their rants about the black plague etc. have more or less discouraged his campaign. Also he has great difficulty getting a girlfriend for the high school prom. Normal female rats are not permitted in the prom because they are emotionally immature and tend to bite. The rat himself has distinguished himself as a poet and I have written a couple of poems in his name. He has great difficulties with the religious adviser to the students as he is not considered to have a soul which troubles him as his poetry is quite soulful. His favorite film is the animated cartoon "Ratatouille" as the hero comes out on top but all his attempts at cooking come out rather badly so he is frustrated here too. He suspects he has Asperger's Syndrome.
The plot revolves around one of the rat haters in his class who try to force him into helping them rob a bank since he can get into all sorts of odd places unobserved and can get the combination to the bank vault and control the time lock. I am not sure how to resolve the quandary of his escape from his evil classmates.

And then there's the idea about this twelve year old kid whose mother is a Yale graduate and a very active sports woman who, at one time, thought to try for Olympic competition. She still runs quite a bit and exercises regularly. The boy, named Yale Bradley, has no interest in sports whatsoever and is fascinated by comic books. His father, Sam Bradley was a cop with an extraordinary sense of smell. He could tell the emotional attitude of anybody by sniffing the pheromones emitted and his sidekick, Snorty, was a short but very acrobatic character who could surprise a criminal with quick somersaults and wild leaps to snap handcuffs on a criminal. But Yale's mother had divorced him because she couldn't stand the nervous pressure of living with a man in danger all the time. Yale's mother, Goldie Lux (her maiden name) is upset with Yale's inactive ways and since he is slightly overweight, keeps pestering him to lose weight. But Yale spends his free time feeding a flock of wild ducks in the nearby woods and trying to earn money by selling off his father's old comic book collection. He has the first editions of Action Comics with Superman and is trying to get a good price over the internet and thereby meets Telemachus Gelooni, he son of an atomic scientist who works on the Large Hadron Collider which is attempting to create artificial black holes. The scientist, Selono Galooni, has done some independent research on Higgs Bosons and has collected a vacuum flask full of them and keeps it in his home refrigerator in a vacuum flask. When Yale is dickering with Telemachus over the price of an antique comic book they go to Telemachus' house and stop in the kitchen for something to drink. Yale goes to the refrigerator and curious as to what is in the vacuum flask, takes a sip to see what it might be. He swallows a few million bosons thinking they are some exotic drink but they are rather sour so he replaces the flask in the refrigerator and says nothing about it. He cannot get his price on the comic book and so goes back home.
What he doesn't know is that the bosons are the basis of mass in all matter and by getting some permanently lodged in his system he has started a process that slowly eliminates a good percentage of his weight as it moves through his body. He realizes something strange is occurring the next morning when he awakes to find himself stuck on the ceiling of his bedroom looking down on his room.

That's as far as the idea has gone so far.

I'm interested in a story about a detective pursuing a maniacal character in a society in the relatively near future where cell phones have been miniaturized down to nano size and are implanted in babies at birth so that everybody is in continuous communication with each other. But the surprising result is that total human personalities then have the freedom to migrate from one body to the next and no body is permanently any one person. The problem of the detective is to discover which body the killer maniac inhabits and destroy the embedded cell phone so that personality cannot move away and hide. He gets involved with a beautiful girl and discovers that the maniac is trying to take over her body and succeeds at times. There is a pursuit through multiple bodies until the detective finally nails the killer.

I have an idea for a story about an electronic engineer named Anton Westberling who is working in the field of robotics on a humanoid machine that has the potential to be an independent intelligence. He has the mechanics of the body worked out with the cooperation of a team from a university but the controlling artificial intelligence is extremely difficult. Anton is also an amateur mountain climber and when things get too difficult at work he practices his mountain climbing in a nearby mountain range. The artificial brain finally is so frustrating that he takes off for a week in the mountains with a small tent and supplies and a manual of linguistics to entertain himself. He has a hard climb halfway up a mountain and finally reaches a small plateau dog tired as the sun goes down. He pitches his tent, warms a can of beans and glances through his language text with charts as he eats. He falls asleep as he sits and the book falls from his lap. He finally rouses himself enough to crawl to his tent for the night. As the sun rises he wakes and steps outside. He is intrigued that all traces of his food on the plate he left unwashed have disappeared as has any food in the opened can of beans or the pot he warmed them in. Hs book lies opened at the page he was reading with its language chart.
As he turns to clean up and fold his tent he faces the blank white chalk wall of the mountain and is astounded to see the open pages of his book reproduced enlarged on the wall. He looks closer and discovers that the chart and text has been recreated in the bodies of small ants on the wall. The rest of the story concerns his study of the ant colony and his gradual realization that the colony has an intelligent mind. Over a period of months he learns to communicate with the ant colony and manages to utilize his understanding of robotics to install the colony in a humanoid robot that the colony can control. That's as far as I've got.

Wow, you're a veritable factory of unique and creative plot pitches. I particularly like the one with the linked society in which consciousness is independent of body; the classic detective chase has a profound twist and takes place across not locations, but people. If you decide to drop the idea, I might actually be interested in writing that one myself. You've got a lot of good ideas; now the next step is to pick one and really run with it.

Currently, I'm working in adapting an online storyline I've been running in the Warcraft universe into a full blown fanfiction (I put some of my existing writing into a thread here called Warcraft: Redemptions if you're interested) which I actually hope to pitch to Blizzard Entertainment to be made into an official work. It deals heavily with the exploration of moral themes and the interplay between Light and darkness; good and evil, and their subjective definitions as well as the idea of balance existing between the two in a cyclical nature. The themes of deception and manipulation also run strong.

It's about the resurgence of an ancient and powerful demon lord who learned how to corrupt the essence of Light itself and turn it to his own evil purposes. The 'protagonist' is an Ancient Paladin sworn to defend the universe against this particular form of evil, and the early chapters detail his fights against an emerging and cunning evil that he find himself extremely troubled by due to its peculiar nature as well as a familiarity he cannot place his finger on. It eventually comes out in a series of twists that the Paladin *himself* is actually the demon lord, the result of his 'predecessor', a being so devoted to the defense of justice that it sacrificed its very soul to defeat the demon lord (whose evil was so great that his consciousness could not simply be destroyed) some twenty thousand years into the past, creating a composite consciousness that is our 'hero'. Ever since then, the essence of the demon lord has been slowly corrupting the otherwise incorruptible hero from the inside, pulling the strings 'behind the scenes' and causing him to experience memory lapses and slowly descend into madness until his consciousness is eventually completely replaced by that of the demon. The story will follow his journey and examine the way he influences and teaches lessons of compassion, benevolence and justice to those around him even while making the transition from the story's protagonist to actually be revealed as the main *antagonist*, after which the story will shift to the efforts of his friends who, partially due to his own influences while still 'good', vow to pursue and defeat him for his own past self's sake. All the while, the notion of what is good and what is evil will be tested even through his exploits as an ambitious demon lord, as well as the ideas of salvation, redemption, and at what point one becomes a lost cause beyond saving and must simply be eliminated for the greater good.

Right now I'm experiencing a severe case of writer's block, though, due to some personal issues in my life (mainly severe loneliness). I'm really looking for the right inspiration, but so far haven't been able to find it. I'm optimistic I'll come up with something soon, though.

Im right now writing/drawing a comic booc called "Eternal Saber".

I have already posted a thread but unfortunatly I cant post the link because if the Anti-spam filter.

The only way I can post the links is to post so many posts and topics, and be a member of theis site for at least 5 days.

I have recieved good reviews so far and I have 2 fans who are celebraties. ^_^

At the moment I am formulating a cookbook on baking with a slightly different approach. Most cookbooks have different recipes in a few categories and each recipe calls for more or less precise quantities of ingredients mixed in a specific manner to result in the dough or batter to be baked at a precise time. I have been baking regularly for years and finally got tired of looking up each different recipe (I do not have an eidetic memory) whenever I wanted to bake a specific cake. So I figured out that all the different recipes were based on a reasonably simple basic collection of quantities assembled in a standard manner. Once this occurred t me I made up what I call a universal basic recipe fpr cakes and another for pastries (which produces a completely different type of dough) and these two basics were committed very easily to memory. After that it was just a matter of adding extra ingredients to the basic recipes to get a chocolate cake or a lemon cake or a nut cake or a spice cake etc. And the same cake batter can be used for cookies or tart bases with the proper cake pans (which I have). The same variations can be used for the pastry dough. I have already used this method for about a year and I know it is somewhat limited but very successful for easy baking.

Since I live in Finland I will try to translate the book into Finnish also and have the same content in both Finnish and English on facing pages so it might be useful as an unusual teaching text. I am a native English speaker and my Finnish is still rather primitive so this might take a while. The separate English recipes will be measured in cups and ounces and tablespoons and teaspoons. The Finnish recipes will be measured in liters (and deciliters) and grams and tablespoons and teaspoons.

Since I am also a graphic artist I can illustrate the book myself.

I've written little short pieces based on real stories from my life. But, rarely do I end up saving these drafts because it feels a little stupid to write about my own life, which is seemingly uninteresting until I take a little dramatic license.

I also worked as a sports writer for a year and I loved it! But its hard for me to talk to players even though I know all about the subject matter.