I returned from the writing club about seven hours ago. I was the only teenager... one person was probably in his mid-to-late 20s, but everybody else was over 30 years old... That sort of things embarrassed me, but writing knows no boundaries, right? I didn't bring anything to share, because this was my first time so I didn't know what to do, but seven others shared their own excerpt from their own story/memoir, or from something else... Lets see if I can remember them...
Duo Mundi
Expressed Kidnapping
KOBOLDS
Secret Sword of Keldonypt
Poems: Black Light of Peace
Psychekrixi
White Darkness
Memoirs: Child Rage Grows Thickly Kind
Creatures of My Childhood
I planned to have at least 15 stories, but that's just eleven. I'll write at least a sentence-summary of each.
- Was a 1000-words-or-less story, about the future with something about the ice caps, but their were animatrons.
- Excerpt from midway into one of someone's story, based on the experiences of his friend in either the Vietnam War, or World War II. The main character's a pilot, and his aircraft landed on a silent island.
- Someone's father's memoirs of World War II or the Vietnam War condensed into a ten-minute play, where the setting was at a campfire.
- Someone's stretched memoir of their past, when social phobia wasn't considered a mental illness and wasn't known by even the professors, but the girl had it and went through a lot to get it fixed with no avail.
- Something in the middle of a fairy tale. Too far in to tell what happened, but everyone was there already in previous meetings, so they knew what happened... That, or I was too busy nagging myself since I got a text message yet I was being polite not to look at it until later, but that ended up making me worry... I worry for small things...
- Beginning of a short story where a mother just got news there was an office shooting where her husband works. Caught his son his friend wrestling, told them everything's okay, and she went off to the office, where she found out the perpetrators where people whom had a meeting with her husband this day.
- Prologue of a story where a professor thinks back to his college years where he and his friends could link dreams to each other and actually be in them (spending their time sleeping in class rather than studying). But one time his friend was too into his dream so he couldn't get out, and coma time for his life.
And onto my progress of the collection of short stories. I got a listing and sorted them out onto a bit like a table of contents in my notepad. But the stories with title changes are:
Truth of Darkness -> Black Light of Peace
Lies of Light -> White Darkness
Questions from a Madman -> Child Rage Grows Thickly Kind
Creature of My Childhood -> Creatures of my Childhood
"I Don't Talk to Myself" -> An Abrupt End to Peace
Memory of Flame -> KOBOLDS
Norway Beast -> Beast of Norway
I've also added three new pieces into the list:
Secret Sword of Keldonypt
Psychekrixi
Duo Mundi
And now I shall organize them...:
Short Stories: An Abrupt End to Peace
Beast of NorwayDuo Mundi
Expressed Kidnapping
KOBOLDS
Secret Sword of Keldonypt
Poems: Black Light of Peace
Psychekrixi
White Darkness
Memoirs: Child Rage Grows Thickly Kind
Creatures of My Childhood
I planned to have at least 15 stories, but that's just eleven. I'll write at least a sentence-summary of each.
- An Abrupt End to Peace- A teenager's darkest moment in life where he encounters deception.
- Beast of Norway- A boy's life in Norway with a strange calling to pets.
- Expressed Kidnapping- (Isn't obvious?) A kid's experience through a form of kidnappings done to his family.
- KOBOLDS- A very young boy's new life on the country side of Germany to escape from Hitler Youth.
- Secret Sword of Keldonypt- A gamer's party decided to take on a quest they received in a personal email, yet find there journey to be unexpected from previous missions.
- Black Light of Peace- A poem about darkness itself.
- Psychekrixi- A poem about headaches...
- White Darkness- A poem about light itself.
- Child Rage Grows Thickly Kind- A strange man appeared in a boy's dream and follows him to the real world.
- Creatures of My Childhood- A listing and description of encounters of monsters that revealed themselves to a boy in both out and in of the dream world.
I get so tense at writerly meetings. I haven't been to a lot, but when I do go, I'm quiet and people have to cajole me into speaking.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever read The Perks of Being a Wallflower? I think you'd really like it.
I was pretty silent at the meeting... I heard of "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," but mainly after seeing a trailer of the movie. It's been on my list of books I long to read.
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