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I'm very slowly coming back around to having a desire to write more. Procrastination gets the best of me at times, my ADHD other times, and my Depression has its moments. But I keep a desire to write a few stories of my own nevertheless.

Right now, I'm working on my first novella that feels like it's gonna become a novel. But we shall see. Especially since I'm thinking most of this up in the moments I have and haven't gotten the things I like written down hardly enough. That being said, I'm learning continually to allow myself to have this Zero Draft and come back weeks later and declutter the passages, spruce it up, and expand on it in my First Rough Draft.


It's taken me quite some time to pin down the bigger elements of the story, but this is what I've got as a WIP summary.

What if plants were weaponized by a group of people that wanted to 'restart' civilization and bring a better balance of nature and humanoids? Would these people be considered bio-terrorists? Are they all bad people? Why go to such great lengths of destruction and elimination of a large group of people? Was there a better way to approach this 'rebalancing '?

Some Moral Reasoning for the 'deranged' bio-scientist and those who follow him.

He sees the nation (and perhaps the world) full of corruption, deceit, separation from nature, and sterilization of what once was in regards of living side by side with nature. Discontentment with the benefits of nature and the animals that live within it. And so he has reasoned that his cursing or mutation of the plants and animals to do his bidding more or less, as a way of cleansing the world. A cleansing of the horrific, (….))) . With the hopes that this will bring nature back to a higher or equal positioning of power of domain that of its counterpart, the humanoid.

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[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I just wrote this poem. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/53549551 Never been happier with a poem I wrote. (Not a medium I'm very knowledgeable about)

I'm also trying to formulate a concept about identity politics leading to fascism as a dialectic evolution. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54011437

Also just discovered what a krasue is and tried to write a story based on it but I see it as a visual story unfortunately, dont think I can turn it into a satisfying written story. Issue is ive been obsessed with film history and now I'm seeing stories visually and far too many of my ideas come to me as movies, smth I can't really make. Annoys the living hell out of me that I can't scratch that creative itch.

Also a story written in 2 halves, the first being tragedy, the second as farce.

Inspiration from: Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. Zizek even wrote a book titled, first as tragedy then as farce.

Here I know my themes, ideas and philosophies. I know the structure and understand the motifs to use.

Only issue is I dont know the plot. One idea is for part one to be the construction of the taj mahal and the second the making of a film.

[–] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your poem reminds me of something Chuck Palahniuk spoke about, writing a story with

spoilerfags
in the title, using F's and similar "ah" sounds for an interesting flow. F alliteration is underused.

Lmao yep. I'm just an alliteration fan. I remember a poem where the f sound resembled the flickering of fire now that you mention it. Its one of my favourite sounds for poems