stories

[baba]

Does anyone here ever write stories?

[tsr_tomas]

nja... poeme´s, things that need to get out of my head. personal stories, for no one else to read things.
but that doesn´t count ey ?

[baba]

yea! that counts very much. I used to write loads of stories all the time but not for the past few months. My story juice has dried up for a while cos I've been doing essays. wish it would come back.

[tsr_tomas]

hope so to... it can be such a relif to let your mind get down on a paper. i know it has helped me alot trew the years.

baba, is there any special reason why you write ?

[Hiro]

Journals are great for getting thoughts; stories; dreams; scribbles; eloquent or mindless drivel out-

Verbal/visual inspiration- Sometimes it is nice to record that sort of thing...

Other times: I leave it to memory (or soon... the hippocampus chip will be my journal) ;)

Music makers are also writing stories.. they just keep a different form.

[decadnids]

I write stories some times.

[baba]

reasons why I write? hmm - I'm an artist who also writes quite a lot about art and film and theory. I think the stories I write always have something to do with these things. Another form of the same thing perhaps. maybe its about trying to put things in context and stories do this really well for me. help me understand my own thoughts????

I was also thinking the other day about music being writing.

[dirtyho]

I started keeping a journal recently. I suddenly realised that although I have many memories I cannot place any of them accurately in time. I don't write stories as such, but I write film scripts with my friends which is stories I guess.

[baba]

i just can't do journals. i start them but after a couple of days I forget and i find them months later and cringe. Has any one got any stories online that i can read before bedtime?

[dirtyho]

but cringing at what you wrote is part of keeping a journal i think ;)

[baba]

ha yea, maybe it is. I just cannot get into the habit though. got any stories about analogue machines?

[DsD]

i don`t write down what i think cause if the police gets that stuff they`ll arest me ;)

[Hiro]

Originally posted by dirtyho
but cringing at what you wrote is part of keeping a journal i think ;)

I totally agree with this...

I don't necessarily read what I write soon after... Moreso as I stumble upon the babble, later on...

I once found an old sketchbook I kept in grade school... Reading through it...Man, I was so full of angst... So full of hilarious sweeping (whilst weeping) statements about the world... Wet behind the ears... but wide-eyed none-the-less... I think it is great to look back on the state of your head- no matter how stuck in the thick, it was.

Lineage man... Same way we might now laugh at how we used to holler "Holiday in Cambodia" and "I know it's over" (in the same breath)-

[grobelaar]

I want to write, but I don't feel ready yet, somethign I want to do when I'm old/older -

I've only just managed to get in the habit of writing shit down in a journal - and even that's fairly random... just shit that occurs in my head. LIke the other day I saw a film in which Jack Nicholson plays someone's father and it occured to me just how fucked up would you be if Jack Nicholson was your Dad!!! Doesn't even bear thinking about... :-)

So I've started to slowly write down all my ideas for stories in the journal too. Thing is as soon as I go to write them down, I tend to forget them - and when I'm a bit trollied, I tend to remember them...

Someone said I should keep a journal, cos then you can get the ideas out of your head - like excorcising demons, but I like it when you remember an old idea - its like an old mate coming 'round... Sometimes you update the idea, or give it a new twist - I'm not sure that process would happen if I just wrote them down and then forget them - but now I'm worried I might just forget them and they'll be lost... Maybe I should just stop rambling and start writing...

[theorie]

Originally posted by grobelaar
I want to write, but I don't feel ready yet, somethign I want to do when I'm old/older -

i have a feeling that time never comes...

Originally posted by grobelaar

So I've started to slowly write down all my ideas for stories in the journal too. Thing is as soon as I go to write them down, I tend to forget them - and when I'm a bit trollied, I tend to remember them...
Someone said I should keep a journal, cos then you can get the ideas out of your head - like excorcising demons, but I like it when you remember an old idea - its like an old mate coming 'round... Sometimes you update the idea, or give it a new twist - I'm not sure that process would happen if I just wrote them down and then forget them - but now I'm worried I might just forget them and they'll be lost... Maybe I should just stop rambling and start writing...

That's what i'm sayin', grobs. i also like to write stuff down.
especially if you just have like a special moment on the crowded bus or something where all of a sudden
you realize that you and this tough looking gangster hoodlum have both been staring at this woman who is knitting furiously
with identical expressions of drooling moronic wonder, as you both snap out of it.
that was great.
also i have nutterly mad fuckin dreams. writing that shit down is good lookin out because your subconscious is trying to tell you something.

[piscaries]

i carry a little notebook around with me in my back pocket. i always have it on me, no matter where i am. i'm not one really for writting stories, but i do write songs and i always have little spurts of lyrics that drip out of my brain. if i don't have my notebook then i forget them. what's fun is piecing all those little blurbs together to make one giant conscious thought. i guess it is a little like writing a story though..

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by theorie



i have a feeling that time never comes...


Nah, nah I reckon writing is an old people's thang - ignore this trend for young authors they all look back at the early stuff and cringe like they've never cringed before...

[maudular]

I used to write... stories for myself, that I barely show to few friends. I 'm unable to keep on a diary though... but like Baba mentionned it, sometimes inspiration just fade... it's been two years since I haven't written anything... now that i'm studying photo, I write about the context of some photos I take... it's a kind of combination of technical datas and descriptions, but I can insert some personnal comments which have got nothing to deal with the photo in question...

[gunjack]

i like to write.

[Daddys Girl]

I still write stories when I get the time in between uni work et al...
Poetry is a great outlet for half the babble and gunk that fills up my mind...

D_G

[CV]

you all have been writing regularly on this message board for over a year now. If you start to do keyword searches through the erutufon message board, it certainly reads like a crazy story sometimes, certainly can trigger off an idea for something else. The erutufon search with the word 'analogue' throws up some very new newness going onside some of the threads ... Some of them read like Hard Sci-Fi short stories based in a near but slightly alternate world , stylised with a modernist dada touch. Also try doing a search for 'unknown thing' , which throws up high tension , gritty tales of corruption , progress and cultural misgivings.

[Hiro]

^ I was thinking of this earlier- The board is very much like a journal... Plotting slivers of the lives of each member, during this particular time.

A very interesting story... Wound around a single theme, held by the inspiration of the board...

Wonderful.

@ Maud: That is an amazing way to keep a "journal"- Photos that catch your eye, paired with a description of how they affect you/ what they mean... - Even what seems to have little to do with the photo- is still something you have chosen to verbally pair with the image.

[thetonewrecker]

"stories" stack high here like floors to a building
leaving thoughts churning like a Michael Jackson toe spin
Impressionable minds recapture others fleeting words only to release them in mid-stride.
Like remixing someone elses track, the piggy-backed tales become something utterly new while retaining just a trace of the originators fragemented thoughts.
cyclic in nature, therapeutic in practice.

[Lady E]

cristian - yes i hadnt thought of it like that. cool idea.

ive kept a diary since i was 12 or 13. the last volume gets written in once a year if im good. its been running since 1996 and is only a quarter full
i used to have more time to write and i used to need to write it more. also once you live with a partner the tempation for them to read it would be too great - i wouldnt be able to resist it myself...nosy bitch that i am.

i had occasion to read 1993's diary the other day as i was trying to remember something and it was horrendously embarassing in places but there's something so cool about spending a bit of time with your past self

[CHIP TRONIC]

my tracks are stories

[decadnids]

Originally posted by baba


I was also thinking the other day about music being writing. [/B]

music is stories, to me, it is a means for me to let out the demons within, just like writing. I mainly do automatic writing, and to some extent the same goes for my musick. its like a form of meditation, where your mantra is the act of creating the word or the sound.
or have i just turned into a hippie?

[Weishaupt]

http://www.tlf.cx/dearpenis.swf

[Weishaupt]

http://www.okorszem.hu/static/program/gimproulette.swf

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by cristian
you all have been writing regularly on this message board for over a year now. If you start to do keyword searches through the erutufon message board, it certainly reads like a crazy story sometimes, certainly can trigger off an idea for something else. The erutufon search with the word 'analogue' throws up some very new newness going onside some of the threads ... Some of them read like Hard Sci-Fi short stories based in a near but slightly alternate world , stylised with a modernist dada touch. Also try doing a search for 'unknown thing' , which throws up high tension , gritty tales of corruption , progress and cultural misgivings.

Wow this searching for keywords is totally cool, its like an instant remix - its quite entertaining... :-)

Its reminded me of an idea I had about forums, well hi-jacking them - not sure if I should say - perhaps another thread...

[Sheridan]

I used to write a lot. I still have most of it. it is packed up in a box. there are many notebooks filled with stuff. poems, short stories, vingettes. all kinds of stuff. but I don't write much anymore. the desire and need to do it has really dissapated. every now and again I try but I just don't feel it in my heart the way I used to. the only type of writing I do now is haiku poetry. I know that myself and tonewrecker have had some haiku slams on this board. I like writting haiku because it is challenging to write with restrcitions of form. and I also can make them much more lighthearted and humorous than the stuff I used to write.

[thetonewrecker]

Sheridan recalls
sparing with text day and night
an epic battle

[invisibleplanet]

I have journals going back to 1990.
I have also kept a dream diary
and a menstrual diary.
I've written many poems.
And gave them all away.
Stories - I have many
But no time to write them :(

Currenly in journal limbo
Overrun with creative ideas for stories and 'making'
Frustrated by ASP and HTML
Erutufon is my journal store
And everyone's a blogger