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Frau Anonyme
Planetoid
- Joined
- Feb 10, 2019
- Location
- USA
Hi!
For now, you can call me Frau Anonyme, and I would like to welcome you to my thread. I will do my best to cover most of the things you'll need to know about me as a partner, as well as my plot idea!
I am 27 years old and have been writing fairly consistently for about 10 years. I work from home and on my own schedule, so that does give me the freedom sometimes to respond more than once in a day, but work is work, and there may be days when I cannot post but once, if at all. If I am going to be longer than expected with a response, I do my best to let my partners know. I know this is not any of our main priorities in life, so I do not expect completely constant and/or immediate replies to my posts every time I write. I do ask, though, that you generally be able to respond at least once every 1-2 days simply to keep interest alive in our story. Life happens and there are always exceptions, of course, but I think you know what I'm getting at.
I am fine writing in first-person or third-person, but I do have a slight preference for third-person. I like past tense for third-person and present tense for first-person. I am a teeny bit of a grammar freak. Don't get me wrong, we're all human, everyone has slip-ups, I know that I certainly do (I will proofread this post and there is still likely to be a mistake here or there), so I am not talking about the occasional mess-up. I'm talking about those who never use capital letters, commas, periods, and quotation marks, or the folks that still don't know the differences between the most basic homophones (there, there, their, wear, where, weigh, way, whole, hole, too, to, two, etc.) It just immediately takes me out of the story, and I can't focus on what you wrote, but how badly you wrote it. I'm sorry!
I enjoy world-building for my stories! It's something that I used to hate; I thought it was tedious and annoying, and I would do as little as possible before jumping into a story that my partner and I would mostly make up as we went, but I've come to really love coming up with and discussing the details of the setting that the story takes place in. I don't think that everything has to be talked over. I do think that there needs to be a certain level of "winging it" in this form of writing so that you're looking forward to whatever your partner is going to type next rather than knowing for certain what's coming. If I wanted to know everything already, I'd write on my own!
When it comes to the length of my replies, I can crank out 3-10 paragraphs, but my average post is usually 3-6. For those of you who are able to type out novella-like messages every time, I just don't have that in me. I always do my best to write out my character's thoughts and emotions, and describe the scene while trying to match my partner's efforts, but to give 15+ paragraph replies every single time is just not something I have the brain capacity to do. When we really get into the heart of the story, my replies can get a bit shorter just because something I struggle with is one of us typing out a wall of text where our character does things A-F, setting it in stone and forcing the other one of us into a corner where we can't properly react to thing B like we want to because it might ruin thing D. I hope that makes sense! Basically, I do my best with my responses and I ask for you to do the same!
I'm no longer into the easy and simple lovey-dovey stories. I'm not anti-romance, I'm all for it, but adding conflict and drama or bringing darker themes into the mix makes it all the more interesting. I don't want cliche and sappy. I want dark and twisty, drama and conflict.
I enjoy smut as much as the next person, and it will always have a place in the stories that I take part in. With that said, I like to make it clear that I'm not looking for stories that are just sex. Too much sex and it gets boring, repetitive, and leaves no room for other interesting plot points. I think that smut is important to the stories I like to write that have couples of various sorts in them, but the platonic interactions and the adventures they go on or that go on around them are just as important. I don't like to give a plot-to-story ratio because not every writer or every story needs the same parameters; I think that with a fellow mature writer, we can come together and create a good story with the right balance for us and our plot.
Years ago, the king of a powerful nation left on a diplomatic mission and never returned. People went searching for any signs or stories of the king or the party he traveled with, but always returned empty-handed. As time stretched on, many began to assume that the king was long dead, but the most vocal advocate for the possibility of his return was the mourning wife he left behind, who ruled as queen in his absence. Weeks became months, months turned to years, and the longer there was no news of the lost ruler, the more unstable the kingdom and those around it became. Those with money, power, and status schemed for the throne while leaders of other nations began to whisper of invasions. Tensions swelled and patience dwindled as the queen attempted to handle it all while navigating the maze of who she could and could not trust. Just as everything felt as if it were going to be set ablaze, the king returned.
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The beginning of this plot is based on the end of The Odyssey, a story that I have been mildly obsessed with as of late. I have a few ideas that we can discuss, but for the most part, I don't have anything particular in mind at this point other than what is written above. This is a plot that is going to require some brainstorming and world-building between the two of us so that we can make a story that is something we both enjoy. I welcome any ideas that you may have!
For now, you can call me Frau Anonyme, and I would like to welcome you to my thread. I will do my best to cover most of the things you'll need to know about me as a partner, as well as my plot idea!
About Me:
I am 27 years old and have been writing fairly consistently for about 10 years. I work from home and on my own schedule, so that does give me the freedom sometimes to respond more than once in a day, but work is work, and there may be days when I cannot post but once, if at all. If I am going to be longer than expected with a response, I do my best to let my partners know. I know this is not any of our main priorities in life, so I do not expect completely constant and/or immediate replies to my posts every time I write. I do ask, though, that you generally be able to respond at least once every 1-2 days simply to keep interest alive in our story. Life happens and there are always exceptions, of course, but I think you know what I'm getting at.
Writing Style:
I am fine writing in first-person or third-person, but I do have a slight preference for third-person. I like past tense for third-person and present tense for first-person. I am a teeny bit of a grammar freak. Don't get me wrong, we're all human, everyone has slip-ups, I know that I certainly do (I will proofread this post and there is still likely to be a mistake here or there), so I am not talking about the occasional mess-up. I'm talking about those who never use capital letters, commas, periods, and quotation marks, or the folks that still don't know the differences between the most basic homophones (there, there, their, wear, where, weigh, way, whole, hole, too, to, two, etc.) It just immediately takes me out of the story, and I can't focus on what you wrote, but how badly you wrote it. I'm sorry!
I enjoy world-building for my stories! It's something that I used to hate; I thought it was tedious and annoying, and I would do as little as possible before jumping into a story that my partner and I would mostly make up as we went, but I've come to really love coming up with and discussing the details of the setting that the story takes place in. I don't think that everything has to be talked over. I do think that there needs to be a certain level of "winging it" in this form of writing so that you're looking forward to whatever your partner is going to type next rather than knowing for certain what's coming. If I wanted to know everything already, I'd write on my own!
When it comes to the length of my replies, I can crank out 3-10 paragraphs, but my average post is usually 3-6. For those of you who are able to type out novella-like messages every time, I just don't have that in me. I always do my best to write out my character's thoughts and emotions, and describe the scene while trying to match my partner's efforts, but to give 15+ paragraph replies every single time is just not something I have the brain capacity to do. When we really get into the heart of the story, my replies can get a bit shorter just because something I struggle with is one of us typing out a wall of text where our character does things A-F, setting it in stone and forcing the other one of us into a corner where we can't properly react to thing B like we want to because it might ruin thing D. I hope that makes sense! Basically, I do my best with my responses and I ask for you to do the same!
I'm no longer into the easy and simple lovey-dovey stories. I'm not anti-romance, I'm all for it, but adding conflict and drama or bringing darker themes into the mix makes it all the more interesting. I don't want cliche and sappy. I want dark and twisty, drama and conflict.
I enjoy smut as much as the next person, and it will always have a place in the stories that I take part in. With that said, I like to make it clear that I'm not looking for stories that are just sex. Too much sex and it gets boring, repetitive, and leaves no room for other interesting plot points. I think that smut is important to the stories I like to write that have couples of various sorts in them, but the platonic interactions and the adventures they go on or that go on around them are just as important. I don't like to give a plot-to-story ratio because not every writer or every story needs the same parameters; I think that with a fellow mature writer, we can come together and create a good story with the right balance for us and our plot.
Plot: The King Returns
Years ago, the king of a powerful nation left on a diplomatic mission and never returned. People went searching for any signs or stories of the king or the party he traveled with, but always returned empty-handed. As time stretched on, many began to assume that the king was long dead, but the most vocal advocate for the possibility of his return was the mourning wife he left behind, who ruled as queen in his absence. Weeks became months, months turned to years, and the longer there was no news of the lost ruler, the more unstable the kingdom and those around it became. Those with money, power, and status schemed for the throne while leaders of other nations began to whisper of invasions. Tensions swelled and patience dwindled as the queen attempted to handle it all while navigating the maze of who she could and could not trust. Just as everything felt as if it were going to be set ablaze, the king returned.
--------------------
The beginning of this plot is based on the end of The Odyssey, a story that I have been mildly obsessed with as of late. I have a few ideas that we can discuss, but for the most part, I don't have anything particular in mind at this point other than what is written above. This is a plot that is going to require some brainstorming and world-building between the two of us so that we can make a story that is something we both enjoy. I welcome any ideas that you may have!
If you're interested, please reach out! Thanks for reading!
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