Writer’s Block Café

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Hi, I'm an author suffering from writer's block.

-sounds similar to yourself, then this thread is for you.

- Here you can write whatever you want, a scene that you wanted to write, or a writing prompt for others, or just chill and tell about yourself, like hobbies, talents, why you started writing, etc.

-This thread will allow others that are burnouts like me to get to the track. (I don't know how, but it will.)

-Well, don't be a jerk here. And enjoy.
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Here is a scene I wrote after I saw an AI image on my feed-

Practice Scene Writing, No. 8--

Arkam stood three feet away from the cylindrical container filled to the brim with a liquid-like substance. Several wide tubes were attached to a small body inside, almost making it seem like the boy was levitating.

The boy was unconscious, and as Arkam looked at him, his eyes widened. His head spun as if he had just been kicked repeatedly.

He slowly approached the container.

*thud-thud.* His footsteps disturbed the silence of the chamber.

He gazed at the boy, who was in a fetal position, with many tubes attached to his back and his face nearly covered by a breathing mask.

Arkam gently placed his hands on the glass of the container, as though he were touching the boy's face.

Suddenly— the whole chamber began to flicker. Machines whirred to life in the background as the lights began to fail—he was enveloped in darkness.

"You are finally here, Arkam!" a voice echoed throughout the chamber. It was deep yet mechanical.

Arkam turned around, but no one was there. Then, a spotlight illuminated him, as if he were performing on stage.

A television-like screen emerged from above, accompanied by many mechanical arms.

"My name is... well, this may sound arrogant, but my name is GOD," the black screen began to speak. An eye appeared on the display. "And I am your creator."

Arkam felt a jolt of realization as he processed what it meant by your creator— the boy he saw was him, but nine years younger.

The shock transformed his calm demeanor into rage. He pulled out his gun and shot the screen.

The thunderous sounds. The sparks. And the rage felt in Arkam filled the silent chamber, destroying its hushed calm.

In the spotlight, Arkam screamed. No No NO... It's lying, a flying box telling me, it is my creator...it's fucking insane if I believed it— but then why am I not stopping? Why am I screaming? Why am I feeling this rage and emptiness in me?

Bullets pierced the TV like a box, causing sparks to fly as multiple holes were penetrated in it. Despite the gunfire drowning out the voice, it still seemed to laugh.

...it laughed, and he shot more— the sparks erupted, bigger than before, and it exploded. The small beam of light created by the explosion got consumed by the abyss; only Arkam was there, bathed by the spotlight.

Arkam lowered his guns. The sound. The sparks. The rage was consumed by silence. His eyes twitched, lips curled, eyebrows tilted. He laughed, but this could be heard; it was loud and echoed.

"Well, I thought you had calmed down..." the same mechanical and cold voice came, "...This kind of change is insane." The box came down slowly, like it was drifting through an abyss, as the same eye with a white pupil and black sclera was projected on its screen.

The lights came back on, destroying the darkness in the chamber. The TV-like box was attached to a long rod from the ceiling, and two mechanical arms attached back of the box.
Then Arkam looked all over the chamber, and there were fifty or more boxes that surrounded Arkam in a circle. Looking down at him.
"I thought it wouldn't be that easy, and yeah, I am calm now. So let's talk," he holstered his guns under the black coat.

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end of the scene, well wrote this as a writing practice. And this stuff is non-canon
 
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Do we have to write by an image? If so here's my take on my wallpaper (they change daily).

A crow sang in the silence of dusk. The boy though timid and afraid listened.

A leaf rustled. The wind shifted, shuffling through the trees like an unseen hunter. His bowstring stretched taut in his steady grip, unmoving for hours. Still as stone, he gazed into the distance, senses stretched as far as they would go.

From afar, he could see the faint glow of [Atrion] a glimmer on the horizon, unreachable yet present.

He was blessed. The elders had whispered their wills upon him, marked him as one chosen to walk between silence and death.

His search, patient and alert, for prey in the heart of the forest — a place so dark it might stain the sky itself. Here lay the dead and the dreams of those who never returned.

Then he saw it.

A deer? No... not quite. That was a Fèœra, subtle and swift, cloaked in illusion.

He exhaled.

The string sang.

A whisper of force. A flash of motion. The creature collapsed, red blooming into the mossy ground.

And the night... was peaceful.
 
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Do we have to write by an image? If so here's my take on my wallpaper (they change daily).

A crow sang in the silence of dusk. The boy though timid and afraid listened.

A leaf rustled. The wind shifted, shuffling through the trees like an unseen hunter. His bowstring stretched taut in his steady grip, unmoving for hours. Still as stone, he gazed into the distance, senses stretched as far as they would go.

From afar, he could see the faint glow of [Atrion] a glimmer on the horizon, unreachable yet present.

He was blessed. The elders had whispered their wills upon him, marked him as one chosen to walk between silence and death.

His search, patient and alert, for prey in the heart of the forest — a place so dark it might stain the sky itself. Here lay the dead and the dreams of those who never returned.

Then he saw it.

A deer? No... not quite. That was a Fèœra, subtle and swift, cloaked in illusion.

He exhaled.

The string sang.

A whisper of force. A flash of motion. The creature collapsed, red blooming into the mossy ground.

And the night... was peaceful.
Sorry for asking, can you share the image that made you write this
 

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I'll go too, since I'm anxious about a scholarship exam and can't write anything:



Again, he saw the woman of his life's head detached from her body. Once, it was his mother, and now it was his lover. Hoshoku was able to kill the enemy, yet at the expense of Dolly's life.

"See, I told you, delaying the Inevetable will only make it more painful."

A voice was heard, pity enlaces the woman's voice, yet what the woman received is a glare.

"Inevitable?"

Hoshoku slowly stood up, glaring at his lady, the one who gave him a chance to fight the strings that ascertained the end of anything that existed. His patron, the goddess of creation.

"Is it Inevitable for such an innocent woman who has watched her whole family die in front of her eyes, powerless as she escapes to die like this?"

With a step, Hoshoku asked, no respect, no reverence, only irrational grief from a man who thought already found the woman he will grow with.

"Is it Inevetable for me to see the love of my life kill herself just for the sake of your test for me?"
Hoshoku finally arrived at the goddess' front, his tired arms placing themselves heavily in the slender, yet firm shoulders of the goddess.

"Do you think I want strength from this!? A strength that I got after I saw the first woman to look at me as a person, not as her son, or friend die just so that I can pierce the skull of that stupid priest !?"

In the goddess vision, the eyes of her warrior trickled down with tears, yet still, she didn't reply, trying to hear what he have to say and vent his anger.

Yet, right now, what Hoshoku is feeling is grief, and grief, overtook his heart. His gripping arms buckled and his crying intensefied, giving his questions that he bottled up all this while the the highest being that he knew, and the only one he can think of that can answer them.

"WHY ME!? I JUST WANTED TO LIVE! I DON'T EVEN WANT TO A LIFE OF RICHES! I JUST WANT TO LIVE! LIVE WITH DOLLY! LIVE WITH MY MOTHER! WHY!? WHY ARE YOU GODS SO REPULSED WITH MY IDEA!? WHY!?"

The goddess of creation, Sophia didn't answer, instead let her shoulders be free of the grip of Hoshoku's hands before hugging him tight.

"As to why, that's because of me, you already knew me as a mortal--- deceptive, manipulator and a compulsive liar that uses everyone and everything at my command. All of what I'm doing is for the universe, for it to get put of the shackles of fate. However, I shall still apologize... for the grief you felt is all according to my plan."

Sophia hugged him tighter.

"Don't worry, I assure you, we will succeed."

Finally Sophia let go of Hoshoku, his eyes still crying, but now looking at his goddess, the woman he once thought estranged from mortality be honest about jer intentions.

"This honesty... Is all I can give you for now."
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This is a spoiler for the sequel of my novel, though it's just technically a hastily made up draft, so the grammar is shaky and the scene is not that polished.
 
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