Do you like to write?

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By late 2018, there may be a writing program that applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) that helps (not replaces) the writing process! Again, great writing is more of an art (human efforts) than an (AI-orientated) science.

UC Berkeley Professor Invents Word Processor to Catch Plot Holes in Writing:
http://www.dailycal.org/2017/10/04/uc-b ... g-process/

Hell yeah, it's my best talent. Although recently I joined a writing forum and everything suddenly seems no fun - everyone seems better and superior to me, and they keep insisting that writing has rules. Like, I know, we gotta punctuate right and try to spell right but they make a fuss about the weirdest things - writing is an art, why do you have to include all these confusing words and phrases I've never heard of and poke holes into my work?

I don't mean big words when writing, fyi. They're like "oh, no, you can't use that, that's an imperative verb" what the heck is that? Why should it matter? I write what comes to me, and I'm not writing to please you anyway.

I write, I like to put in my personal feelings and write about my fantasies. Sometimes I find myself doing research which is also the fun part.

I think I know the forum blackpaladin is speaking about. It's called Absolute Write and, although I think the critics there have the best of intentions, sometimes it seems to me like they're just trying to sway people to the way they write.

To wit: the phenomenal success of Pulp Fiction. It's a movie where the structure is not like any other Hollywood film. They use dialog that doesn't necessarily further the story, or the acts are presented like this - Act II, then Act III-b, Then Act I, then Act III-a, then Act II-B, etc. Something crazy like that.

Had that film been brought to a site like Absolute Write for a critique, they would've sent a hit squad over to Tarantino's house and execute him once and for all.

In other words, grammar is grammar. That's what Strunk & White, and English teachers, are for. The craft itself? Well, no one has it mastered. Not Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, Ernest Hemingway, nobody.

As a matter of fact, guess what? I believe if you did write a story where all the T's were crossed, all the I's were dotted, and there were no red or blue squiggly lines in your text in Word, then you might just have a drop dead boring example of a story in your hands. I know that that's not what I want to present to the world.

But, I digress. Yes. I like to write.

I have a great imagination would love to be able to write a book or something but I just cannot put my thoughts on paper.

Oh yeah, I love writing! I mostly write fan fiction and publish those in a site meant for stories like that, but am also working on some fictional stories that are entirely mine and I hope to publish at least one of them as a book some day. Being a novelist would probably be nice and I suppose I could say that I'm aiming for it, among other things in my life.

Any interest in the metafiction genre?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafiction

Used to. But now I'm out of practice and I can't keep focused or interested in one idea so I opt to waste my life doing other things.

I write everywhere. Writing helps me to overcome my problems, arrange my thoughts and reveal my feelings.

Yes, absolutely! In fact, I am working on one right now.

Title:

Pieces of Truth

Genre:

Thriller

Plot:

Childhood lovers Brian and Alice drifted apart after witnessing the murder of two friends. Fifteen years later, they unexpectedly reunite in college only to have their renewed relationship interrupted when they begin receiving messages from two people who claim to be their murdered friends.