How much writing do you make public?

ALynnPowers · Post by **ALynnPowers** » 05 Sep 2014, 06:28

I don't share way more than I share. I am actually writing a "book" at the moment that I don't plan on anyone ever seeing. It's insane, and I don't think I want anyone to know this side of me. But scenes have been playing themselves in my head nonstop for the past few weeks, and I just have to write them down to get them out.
There will be no going public with these thoughts...

DATo · Post by **DATo** » 06 Sep 2014, 10:29

I make it all public and I don't care if anyone steals it and publishes it either. Most are short and end with a twist so if you are into twists you might like them.

Werewolf
online-literature.com/forums/showthread ... 4-Werewolf

The Dreamer
online-literature.com/forums/showthread ... he-Dreamer

Crossroads (True Story)
online-literature.com/forums/showthread ... Crossroads

iL Sindaco
online-literature.com/forums/showthread ... iL-Sindaco

The Kiss (True Story)
http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewto ... ilit=+Kiss

The Wisdom Of Herr Hoffmann (Long but the one I am most proud of)
online-literature.com/forums/showthread ... two-parts)

Acceptance
online-literature.com/forums/showthread ... hort-Story

Carla Hurst-Chandler · Post by **Carla Hurst-Chandler** » 06 Sep 2014, 11:29

DATo wrote:I make it all public and I don't care if anyone steals it and publishes it either. Most are short and end with a twist so if you are into twists you might like them.

Werewolf
online-literature.com/forums/showthread ... 4-Werewolf

The Dreamer
online-literature.com/forums/showthread ... he-Dreamer

Crossroads (True Story)
online-literature.com/forums/showthread ... Crossroads

iL Sindaco
online-literature.com/forums/showthread ... iL-Sindaco

The Kiss (True Story)
http://forums.onlinebookclub.org/viewto ... ilit=+Kiss

The Wisdom Of Herr Hoffmann (Long but the one I am most proud of)
online-literature.com/forums/showthread ... two-parts)

Acceptance
online-literature.com/forums/showthread ... hort-Story

Tony!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're BACK!

We were worried about you.

DATo · Post by **DATo** » 06 Sep 2014, 23:00

HOWDY CARLA !!!!

I've been on walkabout for a spell. Quite happy to find that many of the old faces are still here. Hope you and everyone else have been well and HaPpY !!!!

Carla Hurst-Chandler · Post by **Carla Hurst-Chandler** » 07 Sep 2014, 07:01

We were so worried about you...last we heard you were ill...then *poof* you disappeared!

Glad you are okay!

Sooooooooooooooo....just finished Christopher Moore's latest (sequel to Fool) Serpent of Venice. Laugh out loud funny!

DATo · Post by **DATo** » 07 Sep 2014, 15:58

Carla Hurst-Chandler wrote:We were so worried about you...last we heard you were ill...then *poof* you disappeared! :D Glad you are okay!

Sooooooooooooooo....just finished Christopher Moore's latest (sequel to Fool) Serpent of Venice. Laugh out loud funny!

Nope, I've been fine. I was having some technical issues with this site which seem to have cleared up.
I just got done reading Guy de Maupassant's entire oeuvre of short stories and am now reading Greek mythology. CALL A DOCTOR !!!! *LOL*

ALynnPowers · Post by **ALynnPowers** » 20 Oct 2014, 06:27

I used to post everything I wrote on fictionpress, but now I don't. Someone stole something and it bothered me.

Gravy · Post by **Gravy** » 20 Oct 2014, 06:33

ALynnPowers wrote:I used to post everything I wrote on fictionpress, but now I don't. Someone stole something and it bothered me.

I've seen this happen.
On (a sight for creative minds) I saw someone who copied one of my favorite artists and claimed it was theirs.

(Don't want to say the sight^)

mellysw · Post by **mellysw** » 20 Oct 2014, 08:25

Up till very recently, none at all. My work was hoarded closely, I didn't even allow friends or family to know I was writing much less let them read it.
Recently I have been letting loose of a little bit here and there. I joined Scribophile and have released the rough draft of one chapter of a novel I am working on. I have littered another website with a few short stories. Very, very gradually I am opening myself up to the world. And I can see a dramatic difference that is making in improving my writing.

Skillian · Post by **Skillian** » 19 Nov 2014, 21:35

Most of my writing I never show to anyone. When I do open up a bit its just to my husband and parents. Mostly I just enjoy writing and I am pretty scared that by putting it out there to get published it might get tarnished for me through rejection (even though I know rejection is pretty normal). I have had an article published before that was pretty well received (non-fiction), but especially with my fiction writing I tend to be the most insecure. In the end though, I'm pretty OK if no one ever sees it. haha.

khudecek · Post by **khudecek** » 19 Nov 2014, 21:59

I rarely show my work to anybody. I might quote something I've written in one of my novels but to actually let somebody read them? Not going to happen.

I've got one short story that I let people read if they get insistent and I did let people read one after I submitted it to a writing contest.

I've got three series done and ready for editing and working on the fourth and I've never let a soul see them. When someone comes into my office, I immediately minimize the screen and I never leave it up on the screen when I leave the room.

Skillian · Post by **Skillian** » 19 Nov 2014, 23:07

Khudecek you're going to be one of those super awesome authors that isn't famous until after they die. haha When who ever you leave your stuff to inherits it.... that is if they can guess your password. haha.

khudecek · Post by **khudecek** » 20 Nov 2014, 06:29

I don't know if I'll be famous or not and as lame as this is going to sound, I don't really care. I write because I love it.

My kids are going to have a great time going through my computer after I die. They're going to find out that Mom had some passion in her, lol.

Carla Hurst-Chandler · Post by **Carla Hurst-Chandler** » 20 Nov 2014, 09:19

khudecek wrote:I don't know if I'll be famous or not and as lame as this is going to sound, I don't really care. I write because I love it.

My kids are going to have a great time going through my computer after I die. They're going to find out that Mom had some passion in her, lol.

Not lame at all. Understand completely

Not everything is about fame or money. My first book was written for my kids (and now my grandkids.) I am thrilled that others bought it, but I would have been just as happy if no one had ever read it except them.

Indhira_Me · Post by **Indhira_Me** » 20 Nov 2014, 11:05

I have written a nice story - just bits and pieces but never showed it to anyone else than my little sister. She said it was very imaginative, but I still don't know whether she said it out of love for me or if she really meant it.