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Dom:
Just curious...how dark of a writer do you consider yourself to be?

I just re-read a draft of something of mine, and it just hit me how...subversive it is.  It surprised me, and I generally consider myself a fairly dark writer.

So naturally I'm wondering how others rate themselves on the spectrum.  :)

terioncalling:
It varies.  There is a poem I wrote recently for my poetry class that's sort of dark and monochromatic and switches from mental to physical according to the people in my class.  That's the only recent dark thing I can think of besides a fanfic I'm writing on and off on.


Enshadowed thoughts, enshadowed minds,
enshadowed chains, holds, and bindings.

A shadowy room with a darkened lamp,
filled with figures with shadowy hands.
Shadowed blade cuts deep, so deep;
blood - black blood - pools at the shadows feet.

Enshadowed hands clench and shake,
trying vainly to find a shadowed escape.
"Why? WHY?" cries the enshadowed soul,
quaking in confusion and pain in the dark;
but the shadows don't answer, they just close in,
a suffocating presence, oh death-dealing fiends.

Cries in the shadows fail and fade,
only echoes remain and disappear in shame.

Shadowy figures slip away,
leaving behind only a shadowy space.
Black blood dries and cracks at the base
of a shadowy table with an enshadowed frame.

Enshadowed hands hang, limp and useless;
a shadowed form lies still, broken and forgotten.

Belial:
It all depends on what I'm writing.

A lot of the time, i write comedic fantasy, why? Because I like to laugh.

But when I'm not doing that, it's not unknown for me to write dark fantasy (by "not unknown" I mean, if it's not comedic, it's usually dark), where I get to feel nice and sick as I write things.

It's always an interesting experience making yourself feel sick from what you're writing. I do it more than not actually, I suppose it doesn't say much for the state of my being, but it's good stuff, even if it is a little bit scary that I come up with it :P

Tersa:
I don't think I'm really that dark aside from my sense of humor. I just have a taste for angsty, broody men.  :P

I always end up writing for the darkest male character I can find.  I don't try to, it's just who ends up fitting the best.  For example, the character I've been writing for the past few days is one of those people that a lot of days gets up and wonders why he heck he doesn't just climb to the top of a tall building and jump.  There's plenty of other characters I could be writing for but he's just the most interesting. *shrug*   

Lord Arioch:
I'm told that my stuff tends to be VERY dark.

I even had someone put it down after the first page and tell me they were to scared to go on. ;D

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