Help! I'm lost.
So I'm in a sort of creative writing class for my college edumacation thingy, and I haven't exactly written more than 5 pages for the better half of the semester. Worse, I need to start showing off what I've written to the class for a discussion. O_O;; MEEP!
Anyways.. there's a lot of good writers in that class and I guess you can say that the few stuff I've written is okay, but it's really plot based. I wanna stay away from that but to do that I need to write about something that I'm very emotionally attached to. Still, plot-based stuff (the stuff the Stephen King and other mainstream writers write about) is really all I can do... cuz it's easy. I'm afraid of being ridiculed or WORSE! Having my story disappear into the nether from lack of interest... I'm pretty sure I can write something better than that, but I'm stuck.
Not too stuck though.. I've got something. It's a historical fiction based on World War I and the events leading up to it. Actually... let me rephrase that... it's a satire I think. Yeah. It's set in a very high end, multi-cultured day care in an anthropomorphic universe. The plot (x_x)is that everything is all fine and dandy until the children of leaders from other countries show up at the day care. The thing of it is... the country where this place is situated is all multi-specied.. like I said before, and everyone gets along. The kids from the other countries are the sons and daughters of kings and dictators and stuff who are in charge of a country of one species. The racism of their fathers and such has trickled down to the foreign kids and they pretty much put all the cubs at odds with each other. This is supposed to be "nationalism" at work. Later on, conflict breaks out, I was thinking of killing one of the kids ala "Lord of the Flies." To make it semi unique, the entire story is told from the eyes of a two-year old fox kit.
And there's where things get hairy. I'm going to be treading a fine line between a "real" story, and a babyfur one. I kind of wanna take this one to the end (actual novel length) as I've written a notable amount already. But can I show this to the class? I've stayed away from describing diaper changes and stuff, but I have dropped hints for the readers using cubbie stuff like that to ascertain the approximate ages of the characters without actually telling them. I know if it's bugging me that much I could always grow em up a bit, but I thought making them that young would be appropriate considering how young and naive modern western civilization was at the time, and how immature and eager the leaders of those countries were. I'll probably post a bit in a little bit and if anyone has any comments or advice you can make it known.
OR I could write another more appropriate story, but I'm suffering from uber-writers block right now.
Anyways.. there's a lot of good writers in that class and I guess you can say that the few stuff I've written is okay, but it's really plot based. I wanna stay away from that but to do that I need to write about something that I'm very emotionally attached to. Still, plot-based stuff (the stuff the Stephen King and other mainstream writers write about) is really all I can do... cuz it's easy. I'm afraid of being ridiculed or WORSE! Having my story disappear into the nether from lack of interest... I'm pretty sure I can write something better than that, but I'm stuck.
Not too stuck though.. I've got something. It's a historical fiction based on World War I and the events leading up to it. Actually... let me rephrase that... it's a satire I think. Yeah. It's set in a very high end, multi-cultured day care in an anthropomorphic universe. The plot (x_x)is that everything is all fine and dandy until the children of leaders from other countries show up at the day care. The thing of it is... the country where this place is situated is all multi-specied.. like I said before, and everyone gets along. The kids from the other countries are the sons and daughters of kings and dictators and stuff who are in charge of a country of one species. The racism of their fathers and such has trickled down to the foreign kids and they pretty much put all the cubs at odds with each other. This is supposed to be "nationalism" at work. Later on, conflict breaks out, I was thinking of killing one of the kids ala "Lord of the Flies." To make it semi unique, the entire story is told from the eyes of a two-year old fox kit.
And there's where things get hairy. I'm going to be treading a fine line between a "real" story, and a babyfur one. I kind of wanna take this one to the end (actual novel length) as I've written a notable amount already. But can I show this to the class? I've stayed away from describing diaper changes and stuff, but I have dropped hints for the readers using cubbie stuff like that to ascertain the approximate ages of the characters without actually telling them. I know if it's bugging me that much I could always grow em up a bit, but I thought making them that young would be appropriate considering how young and naive modern western civilization was at the time, and how immature and eager the leaders of those countries were. I'll probably post a bit in a little bit and if anyone has any comments or advice you can make it known.
OR I could write another more appropriate story, but I'm suffering from uber-writers block right now.