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Thoughts, story excerpts,
Thoughts, story excerpts, poems, art, photography, ideas, complaints and so many other things. They come to our minds daily, shining stars falling down from the vast skies of imagination. So, we create new threads to share them. However, while individual threads are good for sharing a story, or creating a contest it would be good to just place all these bits and pieces in one place. So, this thread is for you to share those random things that you've made or thought of. No rules or limitations for what you can put (other than the basic CB rules of course), just enjoy!
submitted by Neko Openleaf
(May 27, 2018 - 3:35 pm)
(May 27, 2018 - 3:35 pm)
This is a quote from a character in this book series called Ranger's Apprentice, in the second book that I find very satisfying.
"Some people deserve to be thrown into moats."
(June 19, 2018 - 3:42 pm)
I liked the first one and the second one best. If you really like the narrator one you could always make it where the prologue was told sort of in that style and then the rest of the book was in 3rd person personal. It wouldn’t sound weird if the whole chapter was sort of told like a narrative. The last one also could work
(July 7, 2018 - 10:37 am)
A list:
Eating hot noodle dishes while I watch it rain.
Sleeping in the summer with the blankets off.
Drawing after the evening activities.
Taking a bath.
Writing poems in inspiring places to inspire their thoughts.
Cooking and making food.
Writing songs in quiet places.
Singing them and making those places alive and happy.
The echoes of empty, old buildings.
Drawing those buildings.
(June 19, 2018 - 8:16 pm)
I like to believe that every individual's eyes reveal something unique about that individual. I'm not certain precisely what. Fortunately, there exists a varied selection for study: Eyes like shallow, shady pools, all too easy to wade in; aventurescent eyes feral-flecked like a cat's; sun-sphere eyes inexplicably strewn with stars; moody eyes like oceans, changing from blue to green to grey; eyes small and bright and deep-set like hidden jewels; eyes you can hardly glimpse through a made-up haze of shadow and lashes; eyes downcast, colored like shattered stained-glass windows; eyes wind-swept like the cloudy, tangled strands of a baby's hair. Eyes of joy, full and fleeting; hostile eyes, sharp like shining river-reeds. Many, many eyes disturbed like the surface of a wayside pond-drain that has never once been really still. I'm on the lookout for a special kind: rainshine eyes, shimmering like watercolor skies of silver prisms. A paintbox of colors. I wonder what they'll mean.
(June 20, 2018 - 6:06 pm)
Wow, Esthell. That is very poetic.
I too, love to look at eyes.
It's like.... those threads of colour remind me of a spider's web. Like, a tapestry, all the colours are just threads.
People's eyes are beautiful.
If you take the time to look.
I also like the thing about how eyes revealing something about oneself. I think someone once said something like; "Eyes are the window to the soul" Which is slightly menacing coming from Medusa trying to lure you into opening your eyes. Obviously she must have one killer soul, then.
I was thinking, every time someone uses magic, their eyes turn the colour of their magic. Everyone's magic is different, like a fingerprint. We all have different colors, I was thinking.
So if someone uses too much magic in their lifetime, over and over and over again, their eyes will permanently change to that colour. So, if your magic is purple, then... uh..... just don't use too much magic in your lifetime, or everyone who glances at your eyes will know you're a magic-user.
Or maybe they'll just assume you wear contact lenses.
(June 21, 2018 - 2:49 pm)
I wanted to quick write something for a character. She's in my plans for a NaNo story, and this is a moment of hers. I decided to describe it through small detail, since I can't write the actual scene yet. (Warning: there is a bit of blood. Admins, I hope it isn't too much) See if you can guess what the scene is about.
The flicker of torchlight. There were so many lit normally. Dancing, terrifying shadows. Regrets rose and fell. Footsteps on stone. A moan. A struggle to ignore the others suffering--maybe even watching.
The clatter of chains. Assassins could have hidden knives, they said. No ropes.
Glancing side to side. Would anybody see? Fixing a gaze down. Light flickered and a crimson stain was revealed. A lock welcomed a key. A door slid open. Chains clinked. Eyes met hers. Kneeling on the stone and reaching for the metal.
(June 20, 2018 - 4:55 pm)
A story excerpt;
“She didn’t smile often, but when she did, it lit up the whole forest. Maybe even the town sitting on the edge of the woods. But I know it didn’t reach whatever-whoever- was keeping her away from me, because one day she didn’t come back.” Did I mention how much I like tragic backstories?
(June 21, 2018 - 11:13 pm)
Ooh, tragic backstories are awesome! What's the story called?
(June 23, 2018 - 12:09 pm)
The story is... well, actually I’m not sure. I’m rubbish at titles. I’m thinking of calling it Might Only Have One Match, but I’ve been referring to it as “the Ferals project” so I think I’ll call it that for this thread. It’s about nine kids who have found themselves out on the streets, for one reason or another. They want to make sure no one has to go through what they have. I’m experimenting with media, making the backstories and diary pages prose and the main action collage-based graphic novel form.
Thank you for being interested! Here, have some Quinn Willowsi(also from my story):
“I didn’t talk for years. I still don’t. I’m just worried that if I speak, all the things I’ve been trying to keep bottled up inside me will tumble out, out of control, and I’ll have to feel that sadness all over again.”
(June 25, 2018 - 3:39 pm)
That's really beautifully written, Blue Moon. Perhaps 'sadness' was too mild a word? It just doesn't seem to fit with the sentence too well...... perhaps it's just me nitpicking?
(June 25, 2018 - 6:44 pm)
Chinchilla has a point. How about using the word pain instead? To me, it sounds better then sadness, which is a pretty simple emotion and doesn’t seem complex enough for me.
(June 26, 2018 - 8:22 am)
Thanks for the advice! I tried substituting the word sadness with pain, like Neko suggested, and you’re right- it reads better now. Quinn is a very complex character, and I enjoy writing from his point of view, but it’s tricky sometimes.
(June 26, 2018 - 2:42 pm)
Mweh Mweh Mweh. Hey, that's my new favourate word today! Mweh! That and 'Filay Minyo'! Yeah, I didn't spell that right. Whatever.
So, have you guys ever had it where you were thinking on something (Tragic and AWESOME backstories for villains in my case) and suddenly you make an argument against it? I just did that a few weeks ago. Technically saying 'I just did that' is sort of an oxymoron because a few weeks ago isn't really 'I just did that'..... so.....
So that's what I did! It's basically someone ranting at the villain right after the villain just told him his TRAGIC and MISUNDERSTOOD backstory. Sit back and enjoy the show.
"So.. why... did you bring me here...?"
"Oh - well, I thought you could write it down. Just so... so everyone would know about it."
"W..... why...?"
"Because people need to know! Know how misundertsood |I am!"
"Look..... I..... it seems to me that you learned a very pointed lesson about how your actions affect others, and consequences and stuff, and, and you've just ignored it. You've just gone on, hurting people more, and more and more, and never thinking about the consequences. People died when you were a kid for you mistakes. And now you're just making more people die, just because you have some, some heroic guilty conscience or something! "
" .......... What?"
"You've been mooning around whilst KILLING peopl! You've been destroying people's lives for no reason and, and you've been feeling PITY FOR YOURSELF?"
"......."
"You know what, maybe, maybe you should be pitying youself, because only a sick, sick person would ever do all these things, tell some stupid sob story, and suddenly expect everything to be all right! Because, nothing, nothing that has ever happened to you makes up for what you've done."
"You know what, I will write your story. But it's not going to be a story about a hero. It's not even going to be a story about a monster, or a villain. It's just going to be a story about a sad little boy who never learned from his mistakes."
"That's all you are."
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Apologies for the dramatics but I thought it would be necessary. Please give conthtructive critithithm. *Constructive criticism.*
(June 28, 2018 - 3:55 pm)
That's great! And very hilarious and true.
(June 30, 2018 - 4:02 pm)
Wow! Doing prose backstories and graphic novel for the rest is a really cool idea. Can you post more of the story here?
(July 7, 2018 - 10:45 am)