Do you feel you may have a book/screenplay in you?

I tried writing a novel once. I've been told I have a bit of talent for writing but i'm absoluetly disgusted with anything I create and I can't stand to let anyone see it. I would have to publish under an alias.

Hahaha, I've had 'stories' in my head since I was child and still 'write' them, but have never actually sent out anything. I think about it. In younger days it was mostly because one bad comment would have killed me.

Yeah, writing about an avoidant would be great to raise awareness and maybe make some acceptance towards it and possibly other mental illnesses. I'd want to story and character to be realistic though. Something that could really happen.


And yes, I do believe and avoidant and their life could be interesting to read/watch. Dysfuntion is easy to make entertaining. Lol....

CriminallyVulgar wrote:I tried writing a novel once. I've been told I have a bit of talent for writing but i'm absoluetly disgusted with anything I create and I can't stand to let anyone see it. I would have to publish under an alias.

I'd rather have my hand cut off over anyone I know (not just real life people, but even you guys) reading any work of mine. I too would have go under a fake identity.

I've tried writing about avoidant characters before but I always feel like its based too much on myself and I'm being self indulgent or whatever. But the way you put it inspires me to try again, not to write about myself but to fill a gaping hole where there should be characters like us!

Another_Shinji wrote:

CriminallyVulgar wrote:I tried writing a novel once. I've been told I have a bit of talent for writing but i'm absoluetly disgusted with anything I create and I can't stand to let anyone see it. I would have to publish under an alias.

Im not just saying this but you seem like a really creative and a pretty intelligent guy. Would you have an avoidant charachter as the main lead and would it be semi auto biographical?

I don't know. I would be torn between making somebody like my self the main character and making a main character that is everything I'm not.

And if it was me, it wouldn't be autobiographical. It would be about an avoidant having adventures and $#%^. Of course some ridiculous circumstances would be required to make any avoidant go on an adventure, but I could get creative with it.

Maybe I could write an autobiography though. I have enough ridiculous stories to tell that I could probably fill a book. Most of them are about drugs and crime.

Damnit this makes me wanna start writing again. I know I am atleast a decent writer, I'm the one all my friends come to when they need something written. People have bribed me with drugs to write their term papers before. My one friend got me to write something as important as his appeal to not get expelled from college.


Idea maybe I'll write some erotica....

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I dont write novels or screenplays but i write lyrics for songs. Even though im not in a band or havent put them to music yet, i play them over and over in my head. Most of the lyrics deal with anger or alienation, as well as personal and physical deterioration.