...Maybe. I'll just carry over from July once I get home from visiting my boyfriend's family, then. :0

- That's what I'm planning on doing after I get back form this vacation :)

Hmm I already described the monsters. I feel like I failed wih one of them I think I'll have him die first the other two be longer lol. Also I have an intriguing idea where its kinda like a choose your own adventure novel but live stead of constantly flipping through pages back and forth lol

- lol. Go watch some Kamen rider, and then look at your monsters/villains again and see if you failed. Some of those enemies are just beyond logic.
Is that the magical girl power. Hrm, we could run from this monster, or try to fight it, run checks page 17 everybody dies Alright, Fight it is!

Lmao ! And I had a magical girl well boy idea but just not exacuted it properly been writing a card captor thing with less magical girl and more pokemon and yugioh XD. Also by failed I mean he's not very detailed the other two would give me nightmares if I saw artwork for em the third is meh..

Well I owe a friend a story that I've been wanting to do for ages now but I've been in a slump. So I've decided to build up to the story by writing shorter and shorter "blurbs" to help me prepare. I managed to write a very short story for her and I feel kinda proud because it's slowly unraveling my cocoon of issues and making me kinda wanna write more. SO YAY! [edit] Wow it's been dead here for over a month....

I've been considering looking into a creative writing class.... Has anyone ever taken one? , ?

- Only in HS, and it was the worst. I don't know about RW writing classes lol, HS put me off them.

Hm I only remember one class in HS with creative writing but it was like a few short lessons. Thanks for your input anyway. I'm considering looking into a course just for the extra help and kick in the ass motivation I so badly need.

Real life hit pretty hard this month. I struggled to even find time for the plot. (September isn't looking much better, at least not yet. Try to get a few things worked out so... Maybe it'll get better.) I haven't gotten nearly as much done with my writing as I would have liked. I've made some progress though.

Anyway, on to your question...

I took one Creative Writing course at college. The professor was the same one I'd had for my two required English courses so I was familiar with his teaching style and that helped me to feel comfortable in the class. He had his list of things he wanted to teach (like the importance of proper grammar), but otherwise he kinda followed our lead. At the time I hadn't really figure out that I wanted to be a novelist (which is why I've kinda wanted to go back and take the class again) and I remember the lessons mostly focusing on short stories and biographical story telling because that was what most of the students were interested in. I also remember the students working together, giving suggestions and such, as well as the generally supportive atmosphere.

In my experience, college courses that are electives, like Creative Writing, have a more laid-back approach. In general, the people taking the class are there because they want to be there and not because they have to be. That tends to make everyone feel more at ease, including the professors. That said, you should go into it with the intention of doing your best, so you can get the most you can out of the class.

I would suggest asking around, especially if you aren't familiar with the professor. See if you can find people who have taken the class or at least have had classes with that professor before. You can even talk to the professor, if you feel comfortable enough. Ask them what the class will be about and/or tell them what you'd like to get out of it. Most of the time, they'll appreciate the active interest.They may even have suggestions (which may or may not apply, but should be accepted graciously -may or may not have been unintentionally rude a few times- -was very impatient at that age-) or resources they can direct you towards.

Thanks for the input. To be honest this would be my first time in an actual college class as I uh have never been to college. -shame- It's the only reason I'm mostly looking into just the one class. But thank you for your input and helping me understand things just that much better, it is appreciated. And good luck with real life!

There is no shame in not having gone to college. I am wishing I would have waited (for, like, ten years) because what I want to do now is so very different from what I thought I wanted to do then. College is something best done when you want, if you want, because it is all about focused study.

Personally I would suggest taking the course, if you can, just for the experience. I went to a local two-year college and I am sure the atmosphere was different from a large university, but I really liked it there.

[edit] Also, thank you for wishing me luck. I appreciate it. :)

I'm... actually considering not doing NaNoWriMo this year. I'm really conflicted over it. Like over the past month I managed to write almost 25k in short fanfics (written at my own pace, often about 1500 words/day but not always, just comfortable and leisurely), but I don't think I feel up to pushing myself into trying to do 50k in a month - especially something original.

Is it bad that for now I'd rather play in someone else's universe? I'll go back to my own eventually, but... I'm just having a huge amount of fun writing fanfic again. And I have so many ideas...

- Nano is not for everyone! And there's no problem with writing in fanfic for nano either. (And even if you don't do Nano, you can still hang out and panic with the rest of us!)

I've done it the past 2 years, though, and the Camps as well. I'm not sure if I'm feeling the big one this year, though?? I just... I dunno. I don't have any big ideas going on that I think I'd be capable of doing a 50k word dump for. And doing it knowing I wouldn't be able to complete it would just feel... wrong.

But part of me still wants to do it :( Even if I end up not participating, I'll still be around to cheer everyone on ^^

- Nothing wrong with doing a bunch of short stories for Nano either, if you write 20 stories that are 2.5k words each, still counts! lol. You can always sign up for it and run it like it's camp and have a different word goal, nowhere does it say you have to sign up with every intention of winning. Winning is fun and all, but I've never cashed in on any of the prizes, mostly I just need nano to kick my butt into writing. It seems to be the only thing that works for me :P

I've actually been doing really well since the July Camp! I've been writing almost every day, and on days that I don't they're really nice little mental breaks. And yeah, I know you don't have to enter NaNo with the intent to win, but I'm far too self-competitive to enter without trying to win... ^^;

- That's great! Good work. It sounds like you've been hard at it! I haven't been. lol. I've written like... once since camp, and I also totally failed Camp, sooooo that was not a success for me this year.

I'm hoping that I will actually write for nano this year. I'm planning on re-working my first ever Nano story this year. I've been thinking a lot about it, and I think I've sort of worked out a lot of the issues I had with it. The new plan is to not even look at the old one, and just totally re-write it, even the conversations etc that I will be keeping in it, otherwise I'll get confused as to what happened in one and not the other. When I went to edit it a while back I found myself not really doing anything but fixing typos, and not actually fixing the problems with the story. I still really like the premise, but I very much lost it in the journey and had to stop.

That's a really good idea! I hope you're able to rework it the way you want it to be ^^ Or at least MORE like the way you want it to be, since being a writer is a constant process of revisions...

I've been writing more and more Dragon Age fanfiction. But I've moved onto my Inquisitor. Actually, that reminds me, I ought to do some revisions so I can start posting it all up on AO3...

I feel you on the fanfic vs. original story thing; I've been trying to write a story for one of my pets and can push myself to work on it every once in awhile once I get a spark of motivation, but for the most part I've been in a bit of a slump with my writing, even in the fanfiction department. :s

I usually keep myself limited to oneshots/short stories/etc. because I don't have the attention span for anything longer, but I actually got it in my mind to try writing a chapter fic -- the first one I've worked on since I was in early high school. And I think it's sort of killed my writing muse because every single time I think "I should write something," my mind is like "oh, you mean that fanfic you still need to work on?" and I cringe. I sometimes work on it, but most of the time I just get too distracted by other things. Dx

I've got an ongoing fic like that... one that I didn't write an outline for, set aside for a little while because it wasn't speaking to me, and then came back to it and had no earthly clue where I was intending to go with it anymore... it sits on my AO3 and mocks me. Every time it gets a hit I cringe and debate on just yanking it down.

Thing is, I'm actually happy writing fanfic, which is a big deal. It's weirdly liberating. That's why I've been thinking I'll just keep out of NaNo this year even though it's a little bit heartbreaking to do so... so I can keep enjoying writing and just do what's comfortable for a little bit longer. If that makes sense? I don't even know what I'm saying anymore... ^^;