[Silent Dan Speaks]

I intend to at some point, but I don't feel I'm old and wise enough at the moment.

[Bertrand]

I've been trying to.
Short stories. It takes so much time doing something you'd like to read.

I wrote twice for theatre.
Been played less than 20 times. Biggest audience 600. A great reward.
I've been stuck with another play for nearly two years now. It's completed but there's a twist that doesn't really work.

Two persons I know have written & been published.

It's a bit like in Capote, when you hear someone you've known has just finished, you can't help feeling hurt.

[Iain]

Originally Posted by pbradley

Well of course it's weird for weird sake (you wouldn't call it bizarro if it weren't) but the virtue is in the fact that it recognizes its own nature. You know, not acting like some tortured genius but more like a comic book love for the thrill.

Yeah, most of it perhaps but the Kenji Siratori stuff seemed pretty pretentious for want of a better word. I take it he is 'unique' in the field in that he seems to dole out acres of sub Burroughs cut up/nonsense type stuff and most of the bizzaro stuff it at least narrative based rather than stream of (tedious) conciousness stuff. Don't get me wrong, stram of conciousness type stuff or cut up type stuff can be nice but the Siratori stuff I read was just really awkward and bad.

[Toilet & Bowels]

no, but i intend to try my hand at comics sooner or later, maybe by myself or maybe in collaboration with my brother or one of my friends.

[Iain]

That sounds like a good idea. What will your comics be about? Superheros or mundane stuff? Or somewhere in between?

[the ikara cult]

what is beat writing?
seriously i dont know

[evollove]

Originally Posted by the ikara cult

what is beat writing?
seriously i dont know

I guess I meant Jack Keuroak mostly. He didn't edit, just typed. It's pretty easy to remember some cool incident and just type away and say "Done." It's a bit harder to make up everything and get every word just right. How he managed to actually be readible is a literary miracle.

Hasn't everyone at some point read a book (good or bad) and said "I could do that?" I'm sure everyone would like to write a book. No, that's not right. Everyone would like to HAVE written a book. Actually writing... only someone who's never done it before would say "I want to write."

I'd rather masterbate with coarse sandpaper than write, but I'm in too deep to quit.

[the ikara cult]

Originally Posted by evollove

I guess I meant Jack Keuroak mostly. He didn't edit, just typed. It's pretty easy to remember some cool incident and just type away and say "Done." It's a bit harder to make up everything and get every word just right. How he managed to actually be readible is a literary miracle.

Oh i do that all the time. I never consider it as something anyone else would want to read though, probably rightfully so. But if i could attach a famous name to it i imagine it would become some kind of gospel.

[auto-aim]

I'm another intending to author... It is a really tough thing to write and im definatly not a very good writer at all, but that wouldn't stop me. I'd need a couple of years of years alone... but i will do it eventually.

[gmku]

I wrote several novellas when I was 10 or 11 based on The Man from UNCLE tv series. I was doing fan fiction before that term was coined. They were full of car chases and gun fights and bombs, and Napoleon Solo saying witty things to pretty women. I wish I still had them!

[Rob Instigator]

I have promised to myself to write a book by the start of football season. I am a storyteller and I have a way with words and it will be vulgar as all hell and maybe I can make some money. yeah.

[LifeDistortion]

That's pretty awesome of you Kegmama.

[Toilet & Bowels]

Originally Posted by Iain

That sounds like a good idea. What will your comics be about? Superheros or mundane stuff? Or somewhere in between?

i want to write a comic about the life of keiji haino, it will be a largely fictional account that plays up to his mysterious, spectral and shamanic persona. so you could say it will be a superhero comic.
the thing i want to do with my friend to describe it in cliched but succinct terms would be as a cross between roy of the rovers and south park, which is to say a football comic with lots of surreal, juvenile and borderline offensive humour.

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by Kegmama

No, but I wrote a children's book complete with pictures for my kids.

if yr kids like it you should make several copies and give it to other mommies out there and then send it to some publishers. they LOVE children's books.

[finding nobody]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

I have promised to myself to write a book by the start of football season. I am a storyteller and I have a way with words and it will be vulgar as all hell and maybe I can make some money. yeah.

I'd read your book dude!

[Rob Instigator]

let's see what I can do.

[Iain]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

the thing i want to do with my friend to describe it in cliched but succinct terms would be as a cross between roy of the rovers and south park, which is to say a football comic with lots of surreal, juvenile and borderline offensive humour.

What, like Billy the Fish from Viz?

[Toilet & Bowels]

not really, besides, billy the fish is shit. there's only about a 5% chance of it ever getting made though because my friend is too scared to make stuff and put it out incase people think it's shit (seriously) even though his writing isn't shit.

[luxinterior]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

i want to write a comic about the life of keiji haino, it will be a largely fictional account that plays up to his mysterious, spectral and shamanic persona. so you could say it will be a superhero comic.

So it's like real person fanfiction, but in comic form? If so, I totally support this.

[Toilet & Bowels]

Originally Posted by luxinterior

So it's like real person fanfiction, but in comic form?

yep