Your writing ambitions

***IronParrot*** · 04-21-2003, 10:25 PM

Is anyone here writing with the ambition of getting published someday? If so, what sort of works are you thinking of?

Myself, I have a full-length novel in the works, though it's moving along very slowly and is at a bit of a standstill right now. I do intend to submit like crazy in the future, though.

Screenwriting is actually the medium I prefer, but I'm not working on any screenplays right now.

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-21-2003, 10:49 PM

I hope to make my living writing. Though of course I don't know how that'll turn out.

Shadowfax · 04-21-2003, 11:24 PM

I plan to write in my spare time (ie: not depend on writing as my source of income) and if it gets published, hey that's great, if not, I'll still love it. I do hope though to publish a bunch of poetry that I've written (maybe into a book), and maybe some essays, etc. I do not have the gift of writing fiction, but I can comment on just about anything. And I write poems.

Elvellyn · 04-21-2003, 11:55 PM

I write mostly just for fun. As a hobby. Sure it would be great if something got published but it wouldn't be the end of the world for me if they didn't.

**crickhollow** · 04-22-2003, 01:10 AM

my goal is to one day be published. Aside from that, I've got a good eye for editing, proof-reading, and other such nit-picky things, that I think it would be fun to work for a publishing company.

Agalayth · 04-22-2003, 03:04 PM

I want to get my books published, but I haven't started writing them yet. I'm only 13, and would like to finish Middle/High School before I start writing. My writing would be better that way. But I have all my ideas written down for the story.

Miranda · 04-22-2003, 04:55 PM

I'd love to be published one day, I had one publication deal in the works but it fell through *cries*

I'm working on something at the moment, a fantasy story based around my real life experiences with my friends in London- its basically about the bohemian lifestyle we live but with touches off egyptian mythology thrown in- but nuff said, I don't want to give my plot away. I've written short stories before and a very long LOTR fan fic- you can ask Elvedans about that, it made her cry at the end! Mx

Coney · 04-22-2003, 04:57 PM

I only write as a hobby..........no real ambition to make it a career

I have been toying with self-publishing some of my finished work on the internet...........maybe after the lump of this years Uni work is out of the way...

Lizra · 04-22-2003, 05:37 PM

I wrote a monthly garden column for our local paper for two years. I enjoyed it, but felt like I had said everything I wanted to say, and quit last fall. I don't like to read stuff that isn't coming from the heart, if you know what I mean.

Maybe I'll start a non fiction thread and put one of columns up for the gardeners! Let me see what the last two April ones wear like....or is this only for fiction?

Hasty Ent · 04-22-2003, 05:44 PM

speaking for myself, I'd love to read your gardening columns! -- maybe a non-fiction thread in this forum? or, you can just pm them to me...

Lizra · 04-22-2003, 05:47 PM

Heh! You're sweet!

Thanks!

elvendrummer87 · 04-22-2003, 06:18 PM

i'd love to make a living writing; 'course i've also wanted to be an elf or a knight since i was eight.......

samwiselvr2008 · 04-22-2003, 08:28 PM

I'd love to read something from someone off the 'moot, that was published. I'd deffently buy a copy and try to promote you (to my friends)!!!

I'm an okay writer, people are sometimes surprised that I write like I do, because I seem to be able to pute my thoughts into writing better then trying to tell someone verbally. I don't think that my storys will ever be published, although I would love them to be, but I don't expect that to happen.

That sounds bad. My head hurts. Bed time. (I write better then that usually).

Gwaimir Windgem · 04-22-2003, 08:55 PM

Published, you say? On my way...

Laurus Nobilis · 04-23-2003, 03:44 PM

I don't want to write for a living -I already chose Biology as my career- but yes, I would love to be published someday.

I'm sort of afraid of sending my novel to an editor when I finish it, though. Is's not rejection what scares me; I know that happens all the time. But what if they say "We'll publish it, if you change this and this and this"?

One thing is if they find plot holes or something of the like, but I've heard some editors tell the authors to change stories in order to make them easier to sell. I don't want to do that to my babies.

Lalaith · 04-23-2003, 03:48 PM

Screen-plays.

I want to write screen-plays. Actually I have written one and it is now waiting to be sent to a publisher.
Maybe my poems will be good enough one day to be published (but they are all so "dark" and very personal, I don't know if I want them to be published)

Ma Uai: Ua Nemti · 04-23-2003, 05:29 PM

I'm a lousy writer, but I try anyway. I'd love to get published some day and become a professional writer, what a life that'd be.

Right now I'm working on a story. I've got the ending down but its the begining and middle I always have trouble with.

elvendrummer87 · 04-23-2003, 06:19 PM

ugh, i know what you mean; i always get the coolest battle/action scenes in my head, write them down, and then can't figure out how to build up to them!

Ninquelote · 04-23-2003, 08:36 PM

I have no real intention of getting published, I just couldn't apply myself to that.
I want to be a computer software designer when I grow up. Maybe web designer. Although I enjoy writing a great deal, I'll probably only be writing code for the rest of my life.
I also don't consider myself good enough to write seriously. Then again, I'm pretty young, and my writing style might change.
I just don't want to end up writing books that no one likes, or books for "young teens struggling with adolescense and depression". (I think teenagers who say they have depression just do it for attention or really don't know what depression is, but that's my opinion.)

***IronParrot*** · 04-23-2003, 08:42 PM

As a current website designer AND software engineering student, let me tell you this: it shouldn't stop you from writing.

Just so you know, I've done websites for pay over three or four summers now, and it gets old really fast... I'm expanding into doing more graphics art and animation, which is a constantly evolving field.

Trust me, by the time you're my age (that makes me sound old, which I'm not), the computer landscape is going to be very different. Writing, on the other hand, will always be there. So keep it in mind, and remember, there's nothing wrong with doing several different things at once.

04-21-2003, 10:25 PM	#1
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	Your writing ambitions Is anyone here writing with the ambition of getting published someday? If so, what sort of works are you thinking of? Myself, I have a full-length novel in the works, though it's moving along very slowly and is at a bit of a standstill right now. I do intend to submit like crazy in the future, though. Screenwriting is actually the medium I prefer, but I'm not working on any screenplays right now. __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

04-21-2003, 10:49 PM	#2
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I hope to make my living writing. Though of course I don't know how that'll turn out. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-21-2003, 11:24 PM	#3
Shadowfax The Fleet-Footed Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: British Columbia Posts: 913	I plan to write in my spare time (ie: not depend on writing as my source of income) and if it gets published, hey that's great, if not, I'll still love it. I do hope though to publish a bunch of poetry that I've written (maybe into a book), and maybe some essays, etc. I do not have the gift of writing fiction, but I can comment on just about anything. And I write poems. __________________ Jesus saved me "To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child" (Cicero, 106-43 B.C.) "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" (Picasso)

04-21-2003, 11:55 PM	#4
Elvellyn The Redneck Elf Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: In a house Posts: 539	I write mostly just for fun. As a hobby. Sure it would be great if something got published but it wouldn't be the end of the world for me if they didn't. __________________ Oliphants make great pets.

04-22-2003, 01:10 AM	#5
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	my goal is to one day be published. Aside from that, I've got a good eye for editing, proof-reading, and other such nit-picky things, that I think it would be fun to work for a publishing company. __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

04-22-2003, 03:04 PM	#6
Agalayth Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 215	I want to get my books published, but I haven't started writing them yet. I'm only 13, and would like to finish Middle/High School before I start writing. My writing would be better that way. But I have all my ideas written down for the story. __________________ Chickens at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Chickens in motion tend to cross the road.

04-22-2003, 04:55 PM	#7
Miranda 'Bohemian princess of Covent Garden Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Mill Posts: 544	I'd love to be published one day, I had one publication deal in the works but it fell through cries I'm working on something at the moment, a fantasy story based around my real life experiences with my friends in London- its basically about the bohemian lifestyle we live but with touches off egyptian mythology thrown in- but nuff said, I don't want to give my plot away. I've written short stories before and a very long LOTR fan fic- you can ask Elvedans about that, it made her cry at the end! Mx __________________ There's only us, there's only this, forget regret or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.

04-22-2003, 04:57 PM	#8
Coney The Buddy Rabbit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Trapped in the headlights.. Posts: 3,372	I only write as a hobby..........no real ambition to make it a career I have been toying with self-publishing some of my finished work on the internet...........maybe after the lump of this years Uni work is out of the way... __________________ Blessed are the cracked, they let the light in Beatallica

04-22-2003, 05:37 PM	#9
Lizra Domesticated Swing Babe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Reality Posts: 5,340	I wrote a monthly garden column for our local paper for two years. I enjoyed it, but felt like I had said everything I wanted to say, and quit last fall. I don't like to read stuff that isn't coming from the heart, if you know what I mean. Maybe I'll start a non fiction thread and put one of columns up for the gardeners! Let me see what the last two April ones wear like....or is this only for fiction? __________________ Happy Atheist Go Democrats!

04-22-2003, 05:44 PM	#10
Hasty Ent Elf Lord Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 516	speaking for myself, I'd love to read your gardening columns! -- maybe a non-fiction thread in this forum? or, you can just pm them to me... __________________ Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

04-22-2003, 05:47 PM	#11
Lizra Domesticated Swing Babe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Reality Posts: 5,340	Heh! You're sweet! Thanks! __________________ Happy Atheist Go Democrats!

04-22-2003, 06:18 PM	#12
elvendrummer87 Enting Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: new jersey Posts: 80	i'd love to make a living writing; 'course i've also wanted to be an elf or a knight since i was eight.......

04-22-2003, 08:28 PM	#13
samwiselvr2008 Elf Lord Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Hobbiton Posts: 739	I'd love to read something from someone off the 'moot, that was published. I'd deffently buy a copy and try to promote you (to my friends)!!! I'm an okay writer, people are sometimes surprised that I write like I do, because I seem to be able to pute my thoughts into writing better then trying to tell someone verbally. I don't think that my storys will ever be published, although I would love them to be, but I don't expect that to happen. That sounds bad. My head hurts. Bed time. (I write better then that usually). __________________ Jesus loves you! Movie vewing count from the theater: Return of the King:9 Two Towers: 11 Fellowship: 13 FRODO LIVES!

04-22-2003, 08:55 PM	#14
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Published, you say? On my way... __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

04-23-2003, 03:44 PM	#15
Laurus Nobilis Enting Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Posts: 73	I don't want to write for a living -I already chose Biology as my career- but yes, I would love to be published someday. I'm sort of afraid of sending my novel to an editor when I finish it, though. Is's not rejection what scares me; I know that happens all the time. But what if they say "We'll publish it, if you change this and this and this"? One thing is if they find plot holes or something of the like, but I've heard some editors tell the authors to change stories in order to make them easier to sell. I don't want to do that to my babies. __________________ "...So the essential Quest started at once. But I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the corner at the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was than had Frodo. The Mines of Moria had been a mere name; and of Lothlórien no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away I knew there were the Horse-lords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fangorn Forest was an unforeseen adventure." ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

04-23-2003, 03:48 PM	#16
Lalaith The Elvish Temptress Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Vienna, Austria Posts: 3,055	Screen-plays. I want to write screen-plays. Actually I have written one and it is now waiting to be sent to a publisher. Maybe my poems will be good enough one day to be published (but they are all so "dark" and very personal, I don't know if I want them to be published) __________________ What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead.

04-23-2003, 05:29 PM	#17
Ma Uai: Ua Nemti Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: We'd tell you but you're all out to get us. Posts: 215	I'm a lousy writer, but I try anyway. I'd love to get published some day and become a professional writer, what a life that'd be. Right now I'm working on a story. I've got the ending down but its the begining and middle I always have trouble with. __________________ Pharoah "Vires decusque."

04-23-2003, 06:19 PM	#18
elvendrummer87 Enting Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: new jersey Posts: 80	ugh, i know what you mean; i always get the coolest battle/action scenes in my head, write them down, and then can't figure out how to build up to them!

04-23-2003, 08:36 PM	#19
Ninquelote Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Here. For the time being. Posts: 336	I have no real intention of getting published, I just couldn't apply myself to that. I want to be a computer software designer when I grow up. Maybe web designer. Although I enjoy writing a great deal, I'll probably only be writing code for the rest of my life. I also don't consider myself good enough to write seriously. Then again, I'm pretty young, and my writing style might change. I just don't want to end up writing books that no one likes, or books for "young teens struggling with adolescense and depression". (I think teenagers who say they have depression just do it for attention or really don't know what depression is, but that's my opinion.) __________________ XIAN- for hating Wiccans. MURDERER- for hating vegetarians. PREP- for hating Goths. These are a few of my favourite things, the hypocritical stylings of the most "liberal" groups.

04-23-2003, 08:42 PM	#20
*IronParrot* Fowl Administrator Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Calgary or Edmonton, Canada Posts: 53,420	As a current website designer AND software engineering student, let me tell you this: it shouldn't stop you from writing. Just so you know, I've done websites for pay over three or four summers now, and it gets old really fast... I'm expanding into doing more graphics art and animation, which is a constantly evolving field. Trust me, by the time you're my age (that makes me sound old, which I'm not), the computer landscape is going to be very different. Writing, on the other hand, will always be there. So keep it in mind, and remember, there's nothing wrong with doing several different things at once. __________________ All of IronParrot's posts are guaranteed to be 100% intelligent and/or sarcastic, comprising no genetically modified content and tested on no cute furry little animals unless the SPCA is looking elsewhere. If you observe a failure to uphold this warranty, please contact a forum administrator immediately to receive a full refund on your Entmoot registration. Blog: Nick's Café Canadien

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