"I think computer stuff and internets and games are like, all I care about."
See, I thought this way when I was maybe 12, 13. Then I decided that my life would be a waste unless I actually achieved something I could be proud of.
So I began writing, and here I am....still writing.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
squid: I will admit, I am a bit of an escapist myself. But I feel like having a good circle of friends at school helps me with everything, at least. Would it be possible for you to arrange something like that?
Well, I always made sure to delete everything before disposing of a computer...
Anyway, I don't know if my story "means" anything. It just has to have everything in it that I want to have in it. It's the summation of everything I have known and loved in this world.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
The closest things to a story that I've actually written so far are high school English and French assignments. Those were about as carefully and diligently written as you'd expect.
As I've said many times before, I do kind of want to turn my daydreams into a coherent story. But I think I'd need a lot of help to do that.
One's called Mahereliene, I wrote it when I was twelve or so and it's....bizarre, to say the least. Think Narnia on acid. Lots of acid.
The second was a love story called Bells of the Tower. A poem that was in that book actually got published in a local magazine. I sincerely hope no one ever finds it.
You wrote it when you were eight, squid? That's just juvenilia. Nobody expects you to write something good at that age.
My fantasy novel was about some young kids (as in video game RPGs, the heroes were all teenagers because only they can save the world) and their adventures, fighting bad guys, traveling across cliche fantasy worlds and seeing the occasional boob.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Imi: Sounds entertaining enough. And hey, it's about the same as my daydreams, except with significantly fewer talking reptiles.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Once again, if it makes you feel better, I'd probably need an editor who has a better frame of reference for how normal people converse if I were to try and write a story.
"a trippy sci-fi fable about an underwater war involving fish that blow each other up a lot and escape a lot of predicaments that are deadly in ways that are hilariously detailed and flawed and I think they went through space and played a video game and had a prison break"
I'm not sure the part of me that wants to do something creative for a living will ever really die, despite the fact that I'm studying law and imagine myself as a lawyer a lot.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Idler: Replace "lawyer" with "some kind of biologist" and "career in doing something creative" with "write things on the side" it's sort of the same here. I'll probably always have weird ideas that I want to mutate into stories.
Though I wonder if I'll ever actually develop that instinct where I can easily spot minor inaccuracies with current scientific theory. To be honest, my best bet is no.
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See, I thought this way when I was maybe 12, 13. Then I decided that my life would be a waste unless I actually achieved something I could be proud of.
So I began writing, and here I am....still writing.
Do you see the Internet as a sort of escape from life?
@Morbid_Forest
Stop trying to kill yourself and seek help. Honestly you come off like you crave attention.
^ I'm sorry...I am really depressed.
Just contribute a little something to the world of culture in general.
In addition: write that one Perfect Book I have in my head and which no one else can write.
It is a bit generic, but is sure sounds like the real thing!!!!
I have written dozens and dozens of stories.
They are all quite terrible. :D
Anyway, I don't know if my story "means" anything. It just has to have everything in it that I want to have in it. It's the summation of everything I have known and loved in this world.
/not very deep
There might be NSFW ads or something
I know the physical copy has been destroyed. But does a digital copy still exist somewhere around here? It is possible.
I've written two novels. Neither very good.
One's called Mahereliene, I wrote it when I was twelve or so and it's....bizarre, to say the least. Think Narnia on acid. Lots of acid.
The second was a love story called Bells of the Tower. A poem that was in that book actually got published in a local magazine. I sincerely hope no one ever finds it.
My fantasy novel was about some young kids (as in video game RPGs, the heroes were all teenagers because only they can save the world) and their adventures, fighting bad guys, traveling across cliche fantasy worlds and seeing the occasional boob.
...wait, that sounded dirty.
I also started writing a book about a detective who time travelled against his will who was trying to meet his son.
I got about....three pages written? Before I stopped.
I am better at keeping up with my webcomics. And I'm not very good at keeping up with those.
And I don't think there was ever a time I didn't like boobs, but that's another subject entirely
each other up a lot and escape a lot of predicaments that are deadly in
ways that are hilariously detailed and flawed and I think they went
through space and played a video game and had a prison break"
...that sounds better than what I wrote
goddammit TMA, stay and talk for once.
*drags TMA back into the thread by his collar*
HI.
HOW ARE YOU.
I would read the fuck out of this.
*sigh*
If I honestly thought that I was good enough, I'd try to sell my art.
But, I know I'm not, and even if I were, I wouldn't feel comfortable doing it.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis