Palamon
Silence is Purple
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First off, what got you interested in writing? And how did you get to where you are today? Everyone's writing journeys are different.
I'll briefly start with explaining mine.
I can remember wanting to write from a very young age. Seeing fonts for I guess the first time in books, I remember, at six wanting to copy that book font I saw. By well...handwriting it. I guess, lol. I was a silly kid.
Obviously, at five or six years old, I wouldn't be writing a whole lot. I didn't really start trying to write outside of school/for fun until I was in third grade. I tried writing a book inside a marble notebook. As a kid, though, all my characters were named after people I knew irl at the time, except... the main character, I think her name was Amy. It was some silly book about the main character's family all becoming monsters, or something.
Sadly, this notebook got lost many years ago. So, even if I wanted to, I can't go find it anymore. Probably lost in a toy box, or something and then thrown out by my parents. What a shame.
From that point on, I definitely kept my interest in writing. I didn't really write much, though. Then, I got into Pokemon at around 2007, and started going online. Joined Serebii and learned of the world of Pokemon Fanfiction. I was inspired by someone named Harryheart (sorry to name drop you but you'll probably never read this) who wrote a Fanfiction known as Max's Pokemon Journey. 11 year old me wanted to write Pokemon Fanfiction, too.
So, I did. I wrote something called "The Pokemon Adventures of Allison Birch". Serebiiforums hated it, so I stopped posting it there. The fanfiction lived on a now dead forum known as Pokemon Nightmare. I recall a lot of people hating it there, too. In fact, I remember someone even rewriting an ENTIRE chapter for me because they hated it so much. Honestly, it was your typical bad Pokemon Anime re imagined fanfiction. Allison was hella marry sue. This was back in 2008, by the way. And probably partially in 2009. I don't have this one archived anywhere online.
Despite all the haters, though, I did keep trying to write. I believe that particular fanfiction got pretty far before I quit (or got banned or something lmfao). Even wrote some fanfictions I posted on Fanficiton.net of all places. None that I ever finished, of course. Some place called Ficwad, also.
I think I wrote various fanfictions throughout 2009 to 2011 on various websites, probably even here, if I'm being honest. Some notable ones that sit in my memory are a Pokemon Fanficiton about an Ice Age called "Cold Life". I think I got really far into this one but the website it was hosted on was getting shut down so I couldn't continue it. I had it archived on that other website I mentioned above (Pokemon Nightmare) but I was never able to repost the whole thing there. I recall that one being eh, though, people didn't like Cold Life, but some people did. Not many, though.
I also tried doing an rp with it on this said forum Cold Life was originally posted on. There were like three people. But in late 2009 my computer got taken away, so those people continued entirely without me. They outright said it was better without me writing in there! The assholes, wow.
I also tried writing my own original work about a moon baby around this time that started out as an idea for a video game. I never got far into writing that one. Definitely do not remember anything about it from beyond this small thought regarding it.
Then, I guess in late 2009/early 2010, I wanted to write Pokemon Mystery Dungeon fanfictions. I wrote multiple, actually. The one I got the farthest with was one called Team Pure Silver which is archived on my bad Ficwad account. I wrote forty whole chapters of this one! Forty is quite a lot, if I'm being honest. Sadly, rereading this one recently, it came to my attention it was mostly just dialogue and isn't very good.
I also remember writing a fanficiton about a Team Rocket Admin named Akari who left Team Rocket and is trying to become a normal Pokemon trainer. This one was pretty bad, though, I was in my "I use Japanese names without thinking about them!" phase so, all my characters had random ass Japanese names with no thought put into them. I didn't get extremely far with this fanfiction, either, but I had ideas for it.
From this point onward, a lot of what I did was mixed. I wrote original works and some fanfictions here and there.
In 2011, I got super into magical girl. I was still trying Pokemon fanfictions. But, for the first time, I wrote something that wasn't a Pokemon fanfic. I wrote an Sailor Moon oc fanfiction. I didn't get far with it, but I recall my descriptions were starting to be a thing. From here, I also quit a lot of fanfics I was writing, too, because reveiwers were a thing and I felt discouraged.
Then, in 2012, I wrote some original ideas. I wrote something along the lines of turning the internet into a world where people live. I only wrote two chapters, and I don't think I have it archived. Descriptions were starting to get a little better, though, but a lot of people said they couldn't imagine some of the stuff I wrote, so... I wasn't quite there yet, sadly. Despite that, I know I kept writing, and not just Pokemon. I wrote some My Little Pony Fanfictions as well that never really got far, but I tried it. I might have posted some of them here, but I don't remember. I feel like I was starting to improve a lot from this point onward.
However, I stopped writing Pokemon fanfiction around this time. I felt discouraged. It was just something I no longer enjoyed doing.
My magical girl phase at the time was in full swing, though, because I had recently watched a lot of dark magical girls. This was mostly the 2013 time frame when I was writing stuff like that. I wanted to make my very own. I attempted many, many times to make an original dark magical girl. Many times. Most were... well, involved cosmic horror or were just straight up edgy. I never finished or got far with any of my original magical girl ideas. Some didn't even leave the planning stages. There was only one that I actually wrote that made it to even chapter 1. I posted it on here and a dead Pokemon forum.
I also picked up poetry and wrote...quite a lot of it. With a lot of people saying some of it was good and some of it was bad. I don't know how much of my poetry is archived, but I definitely wrote a lot of it for many years. Some of these poems are on here, too, but barely any.
For awhile, mostly all I did was poetry until around the tail end of 2013 where I tried making an RP in a magic school called Standing Creation. A lot of people participated in this and it was my second of time being a game master for an RP. But, it died quickly and was very cliquey. But, I wanted to expand upon this rp and make a separate story still using the Standing Creation name.
At the time, I was a very depressed teenager, though, so I made it a horror novel. I took everything I was feeling at the time and wrote it into a novel. Around this time, I was still riding the Madoka Magica high, so I was inspired by that in many ways to do a story about "it's about magic, but it quickly becomes horrifying". I feel like when writing this, this story was what solidified my writing style to the way it was today. I wrote this novel starting in late 2013, and actually finished it. It was 26 chapters. I wanted to get it published, but I never ended up doing that. I finished it in July of 2014 before going into my last year of High School.
I was also in creative writing at that time, too, when I was writing this novel. So, every day, I got to write in school, also. People were impressed with my writing, I recall.
From there, after finishing this one, I remember writing some side stories for that original work. Some poems for awhile, too. I wrote a little in 2015, but not much.Tried writing more Standing Creation things after this, but I never got past the prelude or chapter one for anything other than the 26 chapter one I wrote and finished.
After writing my novel, I tried coming up with ideas for another novel that involves magic and horror a couple years later, but I never started it. I had ideas of the narration in my head, but that's it. Nothing ever came of it.
I had writers block for...awhile after that. 2016 was pretty much an empty year for writing. I went to some day program, and I suppose I had no time to actually write. I probably did here and there, though, but nothing seriously.
From this point onward, I barely wrote anything for maybe five years. 2017 to 2020, all I attempted was RP with my close friend of various idol series. None of them were serious attempts at writing, though, just stuff on Twitter. That's all I really did throughout 2017 to 2020.
I didn't really write much in 2021, but then well Genshin Impact happened. I got inspired by various people in Genshin Impact rp Twitter to make some Genshin Impact ocs and try my hand at writing my own "Genshin RP solos" (because this was the point in my life I hated the word fanficiton). In May of 2021, I wrote prose for the first time in a really long time. I also picked up poetry again, but only acrostic. I write a lot of acrostic right now. But, I didn't really like the direction that "rp solo" went into. Around this time, people making ocs on Picrew was also pretty common, so I tried my hand at making some.
There was one picrew I made that I felt particularly attached to and something about this particular one made me want to write a story for him. So, I made him a carrd (again inspired by genshin rp twitter, I guess) and wrote a simple information about him. I didn't think I'd want to actually write prose for him, but I did. I started prototyping stuff for this character throughout all of August until I finally made that Carrd for him in early September. From there, I actually began writing some prose for him. I've written about 5 parts so far, and plan to write a sixth one tomorrow or Monday. Reading through it, I know I've definitely improved and am a great writer now.
However, whenever I finish this, and whether I post it here, I don't know what'll be next. You never know, I might get writer's block again immediately after.
Also, I didn't mention this, but irl, I tried writing a lot of "manga" in marble notebooks. I only ever finished one, though. It was four books. Pretty bad, and embarrassing though. I wrote these mostly in middle school and haven't drawn comics since. They weren't very good, if I'm being honest and I have since buried them deep into a chest underneath my brother's bed. I refuse to go look and dig them out.
Anyway, I've basically gone from writing all the time to only writing if I feel inspired. I miss the days when I can write almost anything. I am writing a lot again now, though, and I'm happy I have some writing spark again. I mostly blame the fact that many of my older computers were slow or clunky and had keyboard problems. This one even has some keyboard problems, too, in fact, so I barely wrote anything during those times because my keyboards were just...bad, or my computer froze a lot. So, that killed motivation entirely. I guess being at work program did, too, hence why I didn't write much for awhile.
I will say that I fulfilled my goal of writing an original horror story involving magic, though, and I feel complete in that regard. I'm happy I was finally able to write a novel and finish it. I'm never going to get it published, though, because the idea of getting public recognition scares me, but I did toss it onto Wattpad a long time ago.
But, going from being a little kid who wanted to copy book fonts to actually writing on and off for years is still quite the journey. I definitely feel like I'm, at least, a decent writer now. I went from having literally no descriptions to a lot of body language in my writing, even in the dialogue. Writing as much as I did is what got me here, for sure. I have people who encouraged me and liked my writing to thank for this. Also, me, for not giving up, I guess? But maybe I'm bragging at this point.
Well, anyway, that's my writing journey. I hope people post in here and tell me theirs.
I'll briefly start with explaining mine.
I can remember wanting to write from a very young age. Seeing fonts for I guess the first time in books, I remember, at six wanting to copy that book font I saw. By well...handwriting it. I guess, lol. I was a silly kid.
Obviously, at five or six years old, I wouldn't be writing a whole lot. I didn't really start trying to write outside of school/for fun until I was in third grade. I tried writing a book inside a marble notebook. As a kid, though, all my characters were named after people I knew irl at the time, except... the main character, I think her name was Amy. It was some silly book about the main character's family all becoming monsters, or something.
Sadly, this notebook got lost many years ago. So, even if I wanted to, I can't go find it anymore. Probably lost in a toy box, or something and then thrown out by my parents. What a shame.
From that point on, I definitely kept my interest in writing. I didn't really write much, though. Then, I got into Pokemon at around 2007, and started going online. Joined Serebii and learned of the world of Pokemon Fanfiction. I was inspired by someone named Harryheart (sorry to name drop you but you'll probably never read this) who wrote a Fanfiction known as Max's Pokemon Journey. 11 year old me wanted to write Pokemon Fanfiction, too.
So, I did. I wrote something called "The Pokemon Adventures of Allison Birch". Serebiiforums hated it, so I stopped posting it there. The fanfiction lived on a now dead forum known as Pokemon Nightmare. I recall a lot of people hating it there, too. In fact, I remember someone even rewriting an ENTIRE chapter for me because they hated it so much. Honestly, it was your typical bad Pokemon Anime re imagined fanfiction. Allison was hella marry sue. This was back in 2008, by the way. And probably partially in 2009. I don't have this one archived anywhere online.
Despite all the haters, though, I did keep trying to write. I believe that particular fanfiction got pretty far before I quit (or got banned or something lmfao). Even wrote some fanfictions I posted on Fanficiton.net of all places. None that I ever finished, of course. Some place called Ficwad, also.
I think I wrote various fanfictions throughout 2009 to 2011 on various websites, probably even here, if I'm being honest. Some notable ones that sit in my memory are a Pokemon Fanficiton about an Ice Age called "Cold Life". I think I got really far into this one but the website it was hosted on was getting shut down so I couldn't continue it. I had it archived on that other website I mentioned above (Pokemon Nightmare) but I was never able to repost the whole thing there. I recall that one being eh, though, people didn't like Cold Life, but some people did. Not many, though.
I also tried doing an rp with it on this said forum Cold Life was originally posted on. There were like three people. But in late 2009 my computer got taken away, so those people continued entirely without me. They outright said it was better without me writing in there! The assholes, wow.
I also tried writing my own original work about a moon baby around this time that started out as an idea for a video game. I never got far into writing that one. Definitely do not remember anything about it from beyond this small thought regarding it.
Then, I guess in late 2009/early 2010, I wanted to write Pokemon Mystery Dungeon fanfictions. I wrote multiple, actually. The one I got the farthest with was one called Team Pure Silver which is archived on my bad Ficwad account. I wrote forty whole chapters of this one! Forty is quite a lot, if I'm being honest. Sadly, rereading this one recently, it came to my attention it was mostly just dialogue and isn't very good.
I also remember writing a fanficiton about a Team Rocket Admin named Akari who left Team Rocket and is trying to become a normal Pokemon trainer. This one was pretty bad, though, I was in my "I use Japanese names without thinking about them!" phase so, all my characters had random ass Japanese names with no thought put into them. I didn't get extremely far with this fanfiction, either, but I had ideas for it.
From this point onward, a lot of what I did was mixed. I wrote original works and some fanfictions here and there.
In 2011, I got super into magical girl. I was still trying Pokemon fanfictions. But, for the first time, I wrote something that wasn't a Pokemon fanfic. I wrote an Sailor Moon oc fanfiction. I didn't get far with it, but I recall my descriptions were starting to be a thing. From here, I also quit a lot of fanfics I was writing, too, because reveiwers were a thing and I felt discouraged.
Then, in 2012, I wrote some original ideas. I wrote something along the lines of turning the internet into a world where people live. I only wrote two chapters, and I don't think I have it archived. Descriptions were starting to get a little better, though, but a lot of people said they couldn't imagine some of the stuff I wrote, so... I wasn't quite there yet, sadly. Despite that, I know I kept writing, and not just Pokemon. I wrote some My Little Pony Fanfictions as well that never really got far, but I tried it. I might have posted some of them here, but I don't remember. I feel like I was starting to improve a lot from this point onward.
However, I stopped writing Pokemon fanfiction around this time. I felt discouraged. It was just something I no longer enjoyed doing.
My magical girl phase at the time was in full swing, though, because I had recently watched a lot of dark magical girls. This was mostly the 2013 time frame when I was writing stuff like that. I wanted to make my very own. I attempted many, many times to make an original dark magical girl. Many times. Most were... well, involved cosmic horror or were just straight up edgy. I never finished or got far with any of my original magical girl ideas. Some didn't even leave the planning stages. There was only one that I actually wrote that made it to even chapter 1. I posted it on here and a dead Pokemon forum.
I also picked up poetry and wrote...quite a lot of it. With a lot of people saying some of it was good and some of it was bad. I don't know how much of my poetry is archived, but I definitely wrote a lot of it for many years. Some of these poems are on here, too, but barely any.
For awhile, mostly all I did was poetry until around the tail end of 2013 where I tried making an RP in a magic school called Standing Creation. A lot of people participated in this and it was my second of time being a game master for an RP. But, it died quickly and was very cliquey. But, I wanted to expand upon this rp and make a separate story still using the Standing Creation name.
At the time, I was a very depressed teenager, though, so I made it a horror novel. I took everything I was feeling at the time and wrote it into a novel. Around this time, I was still riding the Madoka Magica high, so I was inspired by that in many ways to do a story about "it's about magic, but it quickly becomes horrifying". I feel like when writing this, this story was what solidified my writing style to the way it was today. I wrote this novel starting in late 2013, and actually finished it. It was 26 chapters. I wanted to get it published, but I never ended up doing that. I finished it in July of 2014 before going into my last year of High School.
I was also in creative writing at that time, too, when I was writing this novel. So, every day, I got to write in school, also. People were impressed with my writing, I recall.
From there, after finishing this one, I remember writing some side stories for that original work. Some poems for awhile, too. I wrote a little in 2015, but not much.Tried writing more Standing Creation things after this, but I never got past the prelude or chapter one for anything other than the 26 chapter one I wrote and finished.
After writing my novel, I tried coming up with ideas for another novel that involves magic and horror a couple years later, but I never started it. I had ideas of the narration in my head, but that's it. Nothing ever came of it.
I had writers block for...awhile after that. 2016 was pretty much an empty year for writing. I went to some day program, and I suppose I had no time to actually write. I probably did here and there, though, but nothing seriously.
From this point onward, I barely wrote anything for maybe five years. 2017 to 2020, all I attempted was RP with my close friend of various idol series. None of them were serious attempts at writing, though, just stuff on Twitter. That's all I really did throughout 2017 to 2020.
I didn't really write much in 2021, but then well Genshin Impact happened. I got inspired by various people in Genshin Impact rp Twitter to make some Genshin Impact ocs and try my hand at writing my own "Genshin RP solos" (because this was the point in my life I hated the word fanficiton). In May of 2021, I wrote prose for the first time in a really long time. I also picked up poetry again, but only acrostic. I write a lot of acrostic right now. But, I didn't really like the direction that "rp solo" went into. Around this time, people making ocs on Picrew was also pretty common, so I tried my hand at making some.
There was one picrew I made that I felt particularly attached to and something about this particular one made me want to write a story for him. So, I made him a carrd (again inspired by genshin rp twitter, I guess) and wrote a simple information about him. I didn't think I'd want to actually write prose for him, but I did. I started prototyping stuff for this character throughout all of August until I finally made that Carrd for him in early September. From there, I actually began writing some prose for him. I've written about 5 parts so far, and plan to write a sixth one tomorrow or Monday. Reading through it, I know I've definitely improved and am a great writer now.
However, whenever I finish this, and whether I post it here, I don't know what'll be next. You never know, I might get writer's block again immediately after.
Also, I didn't mention this, but irl, I tried writing a lot of "manga" in marble notebooks. I only ever finished one, though. It was four books. Pretty bad, and embarrassing though. I wrote these mostly in middle school and haven't drawn comics since. They weren't very good, if I'm being honest and I have since buried them deep into a chest underneath my brother's bed. I refuse to go look and dig them out.
Anyway, I've basically gone from writing all the time to only writing if I feel inspired. I miss the days when I can write almost anything. I am writing a lot again now, though, and I'm happy I have some writing spark again. I mostly blame the fact that many of my older computers were slow or clunky and had keyboard problems. This one even has some keyboard problems, too, in fact, so I barely wrote anything during those times because my keyboards were just...bad, or my computer froze a lot. So, that killed motivation entirely. I guess being at work program did, too, hence why I didn't write much for awhile.
I will say that I fulfilled my goal of writing an original horror story involving magic, though, and I feel complete in that regard. I'm happy I was finally able to write a novel and finish it. I'm never going to get it published, though, because the idea of getting public recognition scares me, but I did toss it onto Wattpad a long time ago.
But, going from being a little kid who wanted to copy book fonts to actually writing on and off for years is still quite the journey. I definitely feel like I'm, at least, a decent writer now. I went from having literally no descriptions to a lot of body language in my writing, even in the dialogue. Writing as much as I did is what got me here, for sure. I have people who encouraged me and liked my writing to thank for this. Also, me, for not giving up, I guess? But maybe I'm bragging at this point.
Well, anyway, that's my writing journey. I hope people post in here and tell me theirs.
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