No reason to get violent, Pars. Yes, sometimes it has been easy writing, but it's getting harder and harder with this new mojo I have going. It takes sacrifice of considerable time and thought power to write well, and I can't always make that sacrifice.

 

I was going to say bull shit I've been sick severely sick how much harder can it get? I also got a new mojo you just have to kick it's ass so it works FOR you and not AGAINST you that's all. Hell I did still kicking as a matter of fact lol. (I'm still not that well yet)

 

Maybe this pic will help you towards writing, Pars. She told me to give this to you and to tell you that you should never be discouraged, and never tell yourself that you can't write a certain kind of story. She hopes your seeing her hard at writing will be an inspiration to you. She's also a huge fan of your work on Stories Side and hopes to someday be a great prolific writer such as yourself.

 

Seriously though, I hope you recover fully from your malady. Don't work or think too hard. Take it easy. Don't be pressured by anyone here. Real life comes first.

 

@Norton X please tell this fan of mine that she did help me to write a little darkness ditty, I know you have her addy so tell her that tonight I posted For the Love of Lana 4 and the BLEMS 4 tell her thank you for the pic and no I am not going to beg for her addy just tell her ty.

 

If you don't mind I will abstain from reading till I post my own.

 

That's for the best its super long about a hour and a half for speedy readers so unless u have time to kill plz finish your story ^~^

 

I wasn't hiding anything [^~^]°

 

well then I guess I am out of it I really can't write dark darn!

 

Don't feel bad - the one time Lovecraft tried to write something 'light' he failed miserably. Some can write both sides, others can't.

 

Don't feel bad Pars I read your stories whatever you write you do it well. I may write twisted, demented, taboo, sometimes nonsensical stories. I don't write dark stuff I like happy ending with a murky middle and clear beginning so this was a challenge but I'm glad I did it.

 

I'm still working on filling up the middle of mine. Beginning and ending already done - maybe need a little tweaking but that's all. Definitely NOT a happy ending.

 

Mine wasn't either but oh well it's not my strong suite. I'm always up for a new challenge and trying out different stuff but to honest I still like writing love stories and lust stories more then this dark stuff it made me try to hard. My old stuff just flows out but this was a struggle and boy was it fun ^~^

 

Why not? The theme is darkness, not it must be a dark story. That's the great things about themes, that you can push the envelope in a variety of directions. Aside from darkness, the only thing you need to do to follow the rules is to post, at the top of your story, a copy of the photo or you have to name or otherwise identify the photo. Of the two stories currently posted, one did, and one didn't, a rules violation. So, make sure you do that and you should be good.

 

The one that didn't contacted me because they didn't know how to.

Their photo is at the bottom of their story.

 

Ah, good. Everything is legal.

 

You should just try.

Let your mind go dark. Let your darkest feelings run free.

If not, go dark and save the day.

 

A few options:

• Have your story focus on the bad guy and then kill him off right at the end.
• Write a noir in which everyone is depressed and that's the mood of the entire story. No good triumphing over evil. Just unhappy people.
• Have a lot of good people killed and the bad people left alive to solve the major problem of the story while still being bad and unhappy.
• Describe a dark setting in detail taken from one of the pictures above, then have a bad incident happen to make things worse.

 

thanks Norty all I can say is eh none of those appeal to me I guess got too much of a good guy complex *sigh*

 

Well, there's always KAW 5 and the CAW. I hope you can at least read, comment, and vote in this KAW.

 

Sorry it took me longer than I thought. Things have been a little crazy here.
I did finish Chapters 2 & 3 and here's my opinion.

There is 'back room' intrigue, plots within plots and several very stubborn people coming from different angles. While vampires, mages and even ghosts could possibly qualify the story as 'Gothic Horror', this reads more like a reluctant romance - reluctant only because certain people believe it MUST happen; hence the intrigue.

Supernatural situations alone don't make a story 'Dark'. This is very well written and enticing (when's the next chapter?) but not what I'd consider 'Dark'.

 

@Wilde Wolf just to let you know I posted chap 4 of For the Love of Lana I think you'll like it once it comes out of the holding it and another story I posted are in I love my job has a lot to do now as I think she is the one approving stories at least that's what I got when I pmed her from her answer.