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Quinzelle wrote:
That's why I doubled it up with Film xP I was scared of looking like I just picked it as an "easy course" (which irritatingly, so many do).
We usually have assignments that have specific criteria like "a 2,000 word piece focused on place" etc. We've also had assignments that work with mixed media such as films or 'hypertext narrative' (making a website that's like a game or something). Other times it's poetry/ a focus on character etc. 
I feel like I'm very bad at explaining this xD

Saame! So many empty but pretty notebooks I'm afraid of ruining xD

MasileinDE wrote:
reminder to write something later this evening
I'm too hot right now to write a full on reply

Limited wrote:
I feel this is just... me

Limited wrote:
me, writer.. I am a writer haha

Limited wrote:
poetry AND fiction 

Limited wrote:
roman

MasileinDE wrote:
Here we go.

I used to write quite a lot. I started with poetry when I was 10 (trying to cope with life, mostly with my grandpa having cancer and being on his death bed). Then at age 14 I slipped into fanfiction. Now don't get me wrong, I knew about it earlier, but that's when I got motivated to try writing some for myself.
Although I kinda see German as close to my mother tongue, when I started, the language still felt a bit strange to me. So I liked using writing to broaden my vocabuary and just getting used to working with words differently. Grammar does come fairly easy to me in German and also a bit in English, but it's not really something I'm concentrating on. As I'm no native speaker, I do make the occasional weird mistakes (like weird phrasings that make you go "I know what she means, but that just isn't quite right", so I never really focussed on getting that fixed too much. I really loved working with the setting, the modd, the emotion. It was something I really had a lot of pride in, people were always complimenting me on my descriptions and how I described emotions on a very raw level.
Now, in case you wonder why past tense, well I kinda stopped writing a couple years ago. Wiriting for me always was a means of escape from my life. I used it, because my life was shit and I had no other ways to cope. But then I found happiness in life and suddenly writing started to feel like a chore. I do write sometimes, small little things (my writing energy mostly gets focussed into blogs or witty short stories I tell my friends, when we are bored). I still use my narrative skills sometimes - just two weeks ago I was telling a friend of mine the story about how Nero burned down Rome and compared him to the Trump of Ancient Rome (because he wanted to make Rome great again). My friend was having a blast and told me, she really learned many new things that day. But it's not really something I'd love to pursue. (My mom told me I should dabble in comedy, like satire and such, but I truly dislike the public part about it and writing for someone else just seems wrong to me.)
So, long story short, I rarely write anymore. I do have some stories I am very proud of, for various reasons even. I mean, there was one time when I managed to write a very gore-centered scene, that was kinda hidden. Like, it started with something akin to sex and ended with the obvious phrase "but now she's dead and I have to find a way to get rid of all the blood", which makes it clear, that it wasn't about two lovers but a murderer and their victim. I also still come up with plots that I'd love to read about and I often talk them through with friends, but I don't have the energy to write them myself.
My inspiration often came from the fandoms I was writing for (though I do have quite a few stand-alone pieces - most of my works aren't finished) and kinda writing about my dreams or what I felt was missing in other fanfictions. There are a few authors that kinda inspired me, though I feel like most of the time, it wasn't really an obvious inspiration, more of a byproduct of reading a lot by that person during a certain time.
When I was writing a lot (so basically between the ages 14 to 17), I did have a file binder with a bunch of notes and segments on the stories I was working on. I would often get ideas in the weirdest places (my math teacher really wasn't impressed with me being more interested in my binder than in the blackboard) and then in the evening or on the weekends, I would type all my handwritten notes into the computer. It actually helped me save quite some time, because I could use that moment as a first revision step and my first drafts could be written on the school bus (which was usually a 50 minute ride, so really worth it).

I haven't written much in english, but I can see if I find my Repo - the genetic opera fanfiction? Though I'd have to send it to people privately, because I doubt I could link to it openly on VP, it's also very gory and messy.

Juniper wrote:
Oooh that class actually sounds pretty fun :’D

and I always pick my “ugliest” notebooks to write in first lol