[Eminence]

This post has been edited by Eminence on Sunday, Feb 20 2011, 19:07

[El Zilcho]

Good time to lock Writers Ideas, on it's 100th page. I hope this goes well, looks good at the moment. I've recently been in discussion with osric about a Build Up Your Army, it will include location around the world, and be heavily based on the style (and general feeling) of Call of Duty 4. More to come...

[General Goose]

A Build Up Your Army?

A noobish question, but could you explain what that means? Sounds interesting.

[Jacky Fiend]

I was thinking about a topic like a while ago, though the name "The Writer's Block" always came to mind during those daydreams. Good work.

QUOTE (El Zilcho @ May 17 2009, 22:27)

I've recently been in discussion with osric about a Build Up Your Army, it will include location around the world, and be heavily based on the style (and general feeling) of Call of Duty 4. More to come...

Glad to see my idea is being put to good use.

I haven't had any ideas - none worth mentioning. I've been concentrating on improving my writing style at the moment: Reading books, looking up popular grammatical errors, practicing my style etc etc.

[El Zilcho]

QUOTE (General Goose @ May 17 2009, 21:30)

A Build Up Your Army? A noobish question, but could you explain what that means? Sounds interesting.

Well, it would involve a global conflict, mainly concerning a Russian civil war, a European theater (further on in the time line) an Asian front to the conflict, and a South American war too. The player would choose an army to fight for, and through the writing of stories, they would receive money and equipment, and be able to purchase upgrades, and various other army related items to augment the arsenal they already have. It's still in early stages, but me and Osric have developed quite the story, and have a full weapons and factions list almost finished.

[General Goose]

So does that mean everyone can get involved?

On an unrelated note, a few years back, I was playing this game called Tropico. It inspired me to write a novel set in the same time period and location, revolving around a Presidential assassination and the chaos that followed. I got to 40 pages, but looking back, it was quite mediocre. I was younger then, so I might try improving it or starting on another novel.

[Jacky Fiend]

Nice to know people are giving credit where credit is due.

[El Zilcho]

QUOTE (Jacky Fiend @ May 17 2009, 21:54)

Nice to know people are giving credit where credit is due.

Sorry mate, forgot to mention you created the original idea. Osric PMed me to say he wanted to do a BUYG like Jacky Fiends, but with Armies instead of just mercs. And yes, everyone can get involved.

[Ziggy455]

I'm still working on GTA Vice City Undead, when that is done i will be working on 'Chronicles'.

I'm working on something secretive aswell, It's big.

[Face McDougal]

I hope this works out for you, Em.

So... what does everyone think about taffy?

Just kidding.

[Osric]

To El Zilcho, thanks for getting the word out. Maybe we can get this done by the end of next week.

The story will be set in 2018 and these are the factions that I have so far(El Zilcho has other factions, but I will have to check with him to make sure which ones he wants to keep). The basic story is that The United States and China are locked in a Cold War, Russia is falling apart, Japan is occupied by China, the Middle East conflicts are getting worse, and Europe and Latin America are sitting on a powder keg that will set off World War III. More details will come.

The United States
China
Great Britain
France
Russian Federation
Israel
Kenya
Brazil
Argentina
Somalian Pirates
Hamas
Taliban
Chechnyan Liberation Army
Japanese Resistance
Ushi Party(A Russian Monarchist faction)
Zhukov Party(A Russian Communist faction)
Irish Republican Army

And many more.....Hope you guys will join. Me and El Zilcho will work more of this out over the week.

[Jacky Fiend]

Have you ever thought about how you're going to fill each of those factions? There aren't even that many players in Build Up Your Gang IV and that is quite popular. I'm not doubting your idea but it is quite obvious that it is not going to draw as big a crowd as an Grand Theft Auto based game does on a Grand Theft Auto based forum.

[Osric]

I know it will be hard at first, and I may have to trim some of the factions, since the main focus will be on the United States, Russia, China, Israel, Britain, and Japan. I may have to remove the Taliban(Since they are already weakened significantly), and possibly France(They aren't a major world player anymore), and maybe the African factions. I'll discuss some of this with El Zilcho.

[Wanted Assailant]

The 'Build Up Your Army' plan sounds really good. I only hope it will actually swing by, and actually stay and not die out in the following days (collab projects around here don't usually have a good life expectancy). I will definitely be joining if it ever gets created.


I think I'm going to work on more experimental fiction and all that. Want to test myself and stuff. Wanna steer away from the generic layout to creating a story and just wanting to bolt in with randomness, twists, and creativity. I'm focusing really on my twists. I just now noticed that when I read throughout some of my stories that I could totally add in a real good twist or something. Maybe, right now, I bet I could write a whole story revolving around vicious twists (twists that originate because of a character's choice or personality), only that, I would make the heaviness of twists turn subtle enough that you wouldn't eye it, and you would read it as if the story is flowing the right way.

[Warplay3r]

2010. Times are slowly changing for teenager Mikey Myrsine. All of his friends have resorted to drugs or something of the sort. Money has been his desire for a while, and he figured that he might as well make it happen. Making connections with big time dealers, he begins his trade in drug dealing, hoping to find a future, in days like these...



This post has been edited by Warplay3r on Friday, May 22 2009, 03:22

[Oxidizer]

Just when I was about to rant about some ballsack locking the Ideas' thread, I see this.

Only joking. But on a more serious (and tedious) note: I'll give you one guess as to who's got writers' block. Yep; I've been trying to write a chapter all night and what I've managed to churn out (or lack thereof) is absolute sh*t. I'm frightened I've lost whatever skills I had to begin with (though I've got a sneaking suspicion that it's [hopefully] just because I'm putting too much pressure on myself for it to be perfect [kind of like when you can't get it up when wanting to perform stellar sex (please tell me this happens to all the boys?)]).

That aside, awesome topic, dudes.

[The Unvirginiser]

Didn't Craig post something in the rules thread to help out writer's block from that nifty little motivation website? Check it out man, surely such a travesty like your talent being squandered should'nt be aloud to happen.

[Craig]

QUOTE (The Unvirginiser @ May 18 2009, 10:57)

Didn't Craig post something in the rules thread to help out writer's block from that nifty little motivation website? Check it out man, surely such a travesty like your talent being squandered should'nt be aloud to happen.

Yeah, I posted a Dumb Little Man article on boosting creativity, and I'm not sure if I posted a Seventh Sanctum page where name and plot generators could be found to help fill in narratives in need of background characters.

This sounds like a great idea; it's name is classy in itself and holds far more than just mindless chatter. I know we're all guilty of that, though there's nothing wrong with a tad bit of brainstorming. Is this topic going to resume the place of WI as of today or is there still work to be done?

[Pr0xy_fl00d3r]

I wouldn't mind seeing a Build up your gang (real life), using most major American gangs from the five families to bloods & crips.

[Eminence]

QUOTE (Masterkraft @ May 18 2009, 10:31)

This sounds like a great idea; it's name is classy in itself and holds far more than just mindless chatter. I know we're all guilty of that, though there's nothing wrong with a tad bit of brainstorming. Is this topic going to resume the place of WI as of today or is there still work to be done?

Not sure what you mean - still work to be done on what? Yeah, this topic's pretty much taking the place of WI, along with plenty of other things, though.

If people are struggling with writer's block, and it seems like an obvious solution, but google it. You'll find countless activities, exercises, ideas or tips on how to get rolling again.