Recent content by Patchwork_Turtle

My downfall, 90% of the time, is a new, shiny story. Here's how the writing process usually works for me: I have an idea hit me like a semi-truck, stew on it for a couple of weeks, and finally start writing it. I get completely engrossed in the story, fall in love with the characters, and...

I generally have the opposite problem. I'm usually hoping not to have great moments of inspiration that start new stories. New stories are how I'm never able to finish the ones I'm working on. :/ I'll have a grand imaginative epiphany, and I'll want so badly to explore the shiny new world and...

Do the stories all come together at some point? In high school, one of the books I was assigned to read was The Joy Luck Club. It had seven main characters, and each one told 2 chapters. Though the characters all knew each other, and some were more interrelated than others, it bothered me that...

My current WIP actually came from the splicing together of 3 different concepts that I never expected would be able to coexist. The first was a twist on the Myst game series. I was thinking one day, "instead of writing places, what if they wrote people..." The second was a dream I had, in...

I promised myself that I would at least try to make my introduction short, because no one wants to hear as much about me as I like to think they do, but I unfortunately do not possess the ability to be concise. :redface: You guys can call me Turtle. I'm a college sophomore from Texas, and...