Let's match names to interests: What type(s) of writing have you done? What type(s) of writing are you interested in doing? Non-fiction: Technical, Historical, Scientific, Investigative, Scholarly, Analytical, Educational, Travel, Cook Book, Other Fiction: Science-fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Contemporary, Historical, Comic Book, Horror, Comedy, Fan Fiction, "Adult," Thriller, Other Length: Short story, Novella, Novel, Series. Intended Audience: Children, Teens, Adults Feel free to add more categories and questions!

Screenplays mostly. But I haven't written in English in so long, I don't think I dare... I might start slowly and peek in here once in a while.

Me? Fantasy, Humour (I love Terry Pratchet), Ghost stories and anything else that grabs the imagination. The problem is getting in the right mood to write, the inspiration comes in splurges so to speak. Although I have this novel on the go (doesn't everybody?) I prefer to write short humourous pieces that tickle my fancy at the time. Intended audience? Usually just me and the missus. lol.

I'm interested in writing dark fantasy novels, kinda like Tolkien's LOTR but with a gothic tone. I really like the realism of samauri anime like 'Samauri X' and 'Ninja Scroll'. Difinitely for an adult audience.

I like to write fantasy, mostly. Sword and sorcery, set in a world where the fey still have a strong presence. Short stories, epic tales, any length.

I've been told that my writing techniques are somewhat odd. I rarely compose a story in a linear fashion. Mostly, I write fragments: pieces of a scene, bits of dialogue, sections of descriptive narrative. Eventually I have enough fragments to piece together an entire story. Dozens of files on this computer are occupied by fragments that have yet to be fully assembled, due to missing pieces. Their time will come. Some, sooner than others. It's always a wonderful experience when I have enough pieces to suddenly see the puzzle as a whole.

On one occasion I wrote an entire story backwards, end to beginning. That was interesting. It was a time travel story, by the way; one chapter in an extremely long, unfinished series.

LD, ever read Time's Arrow? Forget who wrote it. Father was famous writer....Darn... I'll get it right after I close the tread...

I like to write mystery stories that have a twist at the end. Right now I am Chapter four of my detective story that will have a surprise at the end. (I hope it will be a surprise) I have a book coming out from 1st Books Library called "How to Happily Survive Marriage to a Russian Woman", but it is a print on demand book. Then I like to write off beat short stories. Bill

In my story (and related fragments), a more apt metaphor might be "time's sword." But I digress, quixote. I haven't read Time's Arrow, although I've heard of it, and have read quite a few fiction and nonfiction works on the subjects of time, time travel, and paradox. I have my own unique interpretation of these concepts.

My turn. Non-fiction: Tutorials and Technical. Fiction: Science-fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Comic Book, and Horror (mostly vampires). Length: Novels, Series (Trilogy, 2/3rd done on rough draft). Intended Audience: Teens and Adults. I realized I forgot to put Poetry in as a category. I'm too literal-minded for it, personally.

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I have dual interests. I'm a poet. I've done some children's poetry and illustrated the poems with Poser. If you're interested, go to my site and look for Obviosity Curiosity. I do "autobiographical poetry," describing emotions, experiences, etc. I also write free computer-related tutorials. Like many people I dream of being paid for my talents. So far one poem has "been published," but sadly, I think that was just a money-making scheme for poetry.com Ron 

Fiction: fantasy and gothic original fiction. I also write fairly dark slash fan fiction (if you don't know, you probably don't want to).

I like writing vampire stories (none published - too scared to) but they lack atmosphere if I am writing off the top of my head. They have a sort of Vampirella feel to them (if you have read the novels you would know what I mean). I also like turning my role playing games into stories and they turn out better in the way of atmosphere because the story teller sets the scene. I have also written two Star Trek short stories. Again not published. I also write (when I'm in the mood for them) a form of peotry that are based from word games.

I've come to the conclusion that short stories or novels are so much harder to write than poetry. You need to construct a virtual universe in which all the characters live and interact. I get lost in the complexity, and no "tools" or suggestions I've seen work for me. Poetry, on the other hand, is so much easier. I try very hard to be concise, yet descriptive with words that convey emotions.

I like to write poems in place of a diary, to capture the ideas, emotions or events which shape me into the person that I am, or at least seem important to me at the time. I use these as a basis for my art. I am also on my second draft of a fantasy novel.

Fantasy with a heavy emphasis on the interaction between the fantasy and mortal worlds. Not published, just write them for family...

Like lemur01, i write Humor (Pratchet man myself;)), Mystery and i've been experimenting with Interactive Storytelling (it helps to quite the programmer side of me) using multimedia software. It's a murder mystery with a humorous twist. I started it because i had a hard time with the stories that let you choose what direction it goes by "turning to this page" or "turning to that page"...
I felt it would work better as a digital book rather than in a traditional book format of flipping pages (kept losing my place, especially when i had to go back instead of forward!). Haven't tried Fantasy yet, i have a hard time pronouncing the names most of the time as it is!

Glad there is this much interest in the forum. i don't think there is another "graphic arts" community out there that covers the "written word" aspect of creativity like Renderosity.

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Some people like myself are Writer and Artists. I believe my writing skills are much stronger than my artistic skills. Thankfully, programs like Poser help overcome weaknesses in art skills.

For me it's all about Horror. Short stories mainly, but I've been working on a longer one about an abbaration in 20th century Kentucky. I also right short plays and monolouges. Not sure if I spelled that right...

Romance and funny stuff....call me strange...oh well...;-)