Are you writing original science fiction of fantasy?

[cynical dreamer]

Question for you all.

I dabble in writing original fiction, strictly for personal interest rather than career aspirations. I was just wondering (and fairly curious) to see if others on the forum were also writing/dabbling in original science fiction or fantasy literature whether for personal or career interests.

I'd be interested to hear your experiences with it and in hearing your goals/aspirations for it.

I'm only interested in original fiction rather than fan fiction or adaptations. Not to belittle the latter, rather to focus on what I'm interested in.

Either way it makes for the best hobby I can think of.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Yes i've been writing for as long as I can remember

 

[S. Gomez]

Yeah, my goal is to become a professional writer. Really I'm trying not to limit myself to fantasy and science-fiction (either grouped together or one-or-the-other), but I find that the vast majority of the ideas I like fall into either category. I just finished a story that definitely falls into the fairy tale genre, and though there are other stories I'm planning to write in a similar vein it's not the only kind of story I want to write.

 

[Broccoli]

I am the drama director at my high school and my principal allows me to write our fall shows. I wrote an original play last year that dealt with a bumbling superhero with self-esteem issues. It was well-received (at least people said it was good to my face; they could have been lying, but I choose not to think they were ).

 

[auntiehill]

Yes, every time I have to turn in a resumé.

I used to write when I was in college, but gave it up, as it was all crap. I even dabble in (*blush*) fan fic when I was unemployed and lonely. Those days are long gone, and I haven't written a work since.

 

[T'Baio]

I've been working on a science fiction screenplay for years. It's still not what I want it to be.

 

[Trent Roman]

I've written short stories, novelettes and (short) novellas in science-fiction, horror and occasionally fantasy, as well as some proximate genres. I've sold some of the shorts; anyone who is interested can go to my website, the Crystal Prism, to see where and what I've published. I'm still far below what SFWA would consider professional grade, however; it's usually token payments and/or split royalties that barely amount to anything. My best influx so far was a magical realist novelette that picked up a 700$ creative writing prize at my university a few months ago. I'd love to summon the willpower to get a full novel written, but consider I sell just under one out of every five pieces I send out, I don't think you'll be seeing my name on a cover any time soon even if I do get the thing written...

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Broccoli]

I've been working on a science fiction screenplay for years. It's still not what I want it to be.

Add robots and ninjas. It is scientifically proven that robots and ninjas make any work 95% more awesome.

 

[Maurice]

Yeah. I've written scripts for video games (cut scenes, adventures, etc.), and written three short films that are floating around out on the interwebs, etc. etc.

 

[captcalhoun]

yes, i am currently writing a short-story anthology of my own stuff as well as having written one short-story for someone else's antho i'm hoping to hear by the end of the month how that went...

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

I made a series of scripts for a (never-made) science fiction-comedy home movie. It involved the crew of a deep-space starship of the Galactic Confederation's Interstellar Guard, which actually just consisted of one ship and 4 guys, being one big interstellar bluff. The story took place on said ship, the CSV Grand Liberty. They had to defend and uphold the frontiers of the Galactic Confederation, which was basically held together by propaganda and a few crossed fingers.

 

[Bishbot]

Occasionaly. I have four or five book ideas that swim around in my head and sometimes demand to be told, or combine themselves into a new version. Three of them are definitely fantasy (or steampunk) and one or two are scifi. I never get much past a few thousand words however. Its really annoying how your writing will look great while you are enthusiastic, but when you get to the stage where you think "I'd better reread that and write a bit more." Its never exactly how you hoped it would be. Not in my experience, anyway.

 

[JNG]

I write professionally, but would never do it as a hobby. It is hard work.

 

[DRMidnite]

I write professionally, but would never do it as a hobby. It is hard work.

Amen!

 

[Faldor]

I've written / made a few short films.

 

[SeerSGB]

I'm working on a couple of sci-fi and fantasy novels, a short-story collection set in the aforementioned sci-fi universe. Not actively searching for a publisher at the moment-- though that is the ultimate goal-- just getting content together and getting my world-building done. Been thinking about branching out into plain dramatic fiction and/or maybe

Writing is part hobby, part therapy, and part long-term career goal for me. Started in fiction writing (never got published, but made some wonderful contacts and got a lot of positive and harsh feedback that helped me a lot); then to writing op-eds and journalistic for the local papers. Now, after a few years off, I'm back to were I started.

 

[Pilot Ace]

I made a series of scripts for a (never-made) science fiction-comedy home movie. It involved the crew of a deep-space starship of the Galactic Confederation's Interstellar Guard, which actually just consisted of one ship and 4 guys, being one big interstellar bluff. The story took place on said ship, the CSV Grand Liberty. They had to defend and uphold the frontiers of the Galactic Confederation, which was basically held together by propaganda and a few crossed fingers.

This sounds like potentially delicious fun.

 

[Mr Light]

I wrote an epic fantasy novel a couple years ago, and it might-possibly-maybe be getting published from a startup company of a friend of a friend. We'll see!

 

[Lindley]

I've been working on a science fiction screenplay for years. It's still not what I want it to be.

Add robots and ninjas. It is scientifically proven that robots and ninjas make any work 95% more awesome.

The first story I ever wrote (in third grade) centered around ninjas. And it was a damned good story for my age, if I may say. So I agree.

My EVN Firefly mod is obviously fanfic in a sense, but it's heavily based around original characters, with Mal, Zoe, and a few of the FF guest stars being the only familiar faces so far. So I'd say that sort of walks the line.

 

[T'Baio]

I've been working on a science fiction screenplay for years. It's still not what I want it to be.

Add robots and ninjas. It is scientifically proven that robots and ninjas make any work 95% more awesome.

Hmm...what about robotic ninjas?