| User | WriterX | | Topic | Fantasy, etc. | | Message | Recently my mother asked me what am I writing. I told her that I am writing a sci-fi story “On the Dark Side”. Immediately she told me to stop writing any stories where mass murdering is taking place. This is not true because I am not a sadist and so even if there is any death it’s given in a normal way. Does this happen to any of you, or am I the only unlucky one?
To add something more. Each time when I tell her that I am writing something she claims that it’s only killing and murder...
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| User | | 2004-07-29 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I guess you could say I write in a fantasy genre. I tend to write more in a comicbook script format because thats what I write. Don’t get me wrong I don’t write your usual superhero type stuff. I tend to write in a why or what if style. I get an idea and research the hell out of it. One example would be the Nephilim. I want to write a limited series about it. What if at least one Nephilim walked among us today and what if he/she didn’t know what he/she actually was. Through a series of events the character discovers what they are and is now the focal point of a divine war. A choice must be made to help save the world we know or help destroy it. |
| User | Maki | 2004-07-26 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I write fantasy, murder, depressed, Little happy, and a lot more. I only show somethings to my mom and dad cause if they read half the stuff i wrote, they’d either freak or not care. My parentes are like that.
I only write what i feel, cause if i write a false poem, i feel like a wannabe and i hate that. It reminds me of my sister and i honestly dont like wannabe’s.
I feel I do get caught up in what i write cause when i start to write, i just can’t stop. Its like having an unfinished piture in front of me and i absolultly have to finish it or it’ll drive me insane!
Anyway, thats my input on it. Just follow what you want to do cause only you know what you want, not ur parents, not any one else... ^^ |
| User | Hethabell_13 | 2004-07-06 | | | Subject | dad thinks i'm nuts | | Message | i have been writing poetry since i was about nine, and being a girly-girl that i am, it has always been sunshine and happiness and love sort of crap. then i started to experience life and started to write from honest emotions instead of just pretty words, and my poems got a lot better. i still think that i write pretty hopeful and happy stuff, but my parents and friends who read it all say that it is "dark" and "depressing". i don’t see this, especially when i read what other people write on this site, but maybe it’s because i project all of my more negative thoughts into my writing and save the happy emotions for people. so even though i feel all my emotions the same, an outsider reading my poems sees a darker side of me than they’re used to. that might be waht happens when your mom reads your stuff, and why you don’t see what she gets all upset about. maybe if you talk to her and tell her that you write from another side of you than the one she’s used to seeing, she might understand that it’s a part of you and you can’t give it up. |
| User | alexianx | 2004-06-26 | | | Subject | Contemplation | | Message | Most of the greatest literary works of all time have a great deal of violence in them. The works that have the most violence and have a dark, foreboding air to them seem to attract the most readers as well. Romanticism is liked by a great deal of people and Romantic-based books have a somewhat large market, but it’s nowhere near the size of the market that a Sci-fi or Fantasy book has access to.
~James "Alexian" Neal
http://www.alexiansaga.com |
| User | SHEslaysME | 2004-06-26 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | my rents dont care if i write (sometimes) violent things, they only care if i write about suicide, tehn they FREAK. so i just stopped sharing with them. |
| User | joeyalphabet | 2004-06-25 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | my wife thinks when i write something depressing that i’m depressed again. maybe you should let your mom read your stuff [or maybe not], or do it in secret. |
| User | RealityTears | 2004-06-25 | | | Subject | Crazy Mum. | | Message | Heh, I feeeeel for you... My mum isn’t worried about me writing about murder, she’s worried about me writing depressive stuff. She’s crazy worried about it. In your case, you mum must be scared you’re going to turn into a killer or something ridiculous like that. All mum’s think alike, so I’m betting if I wrote about "killing and murdering" or w/e you write about, even though there’s nothing wrong with it, she’d prolly freak too. >.<" It sucks, yeah. Mum’s are all crazy anyways. Hopefully I’ll never have kids and be a crazy mum too. *Frowns* Well, good luck dealing with her! You’re prolly gunna need it. Oh, and side-note: Haha, as good as strangling her may sound sometimes, refrain! ~.^ I have to tell myself that lots of times, especially for my stupid step-mother. *Sighs* Java~
<3 Jade |
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