Browsing the threads, I saw a couple of scattered ones sharing personal works, but I couldn't find a dedicated thread. I guess I'll just make one.

I encourage any and all to share their own works of literature, whether they are books, poems, short stories, or anything of the sort! I'll start with mine, a book and likely a series that has not yet been named. It takes place roughly 500 years after a cataclysmic event that wiped 90% of humanity off of the earth. It follows a man who's goal is to find a natural death, but cannot because what remains of humanity is immortal. It's still in it's extremely early stages, only having one roughly written chapter that will likely be changed in the future.

I am interested to see what works of literature the dollars have produced!

Oooh, that sounds like such an interesting novel I want to read it already :00 Be sure to update if you get a publisher :>

Also in some kind of stage regarding longer prose, have a series semi-planned (ie at least a trilogy but sometimes I doubt three will be enough for the way threads tie together to make sense so -shrug-) around an urban fantasy setting (admittedly standard fare there, vampires, mages and shifters of various types), with a violent disease tearing through a hidden society beneath our own and forcing it into public knowledge - half my problem has been cutting The Lore down, started on it when I was a teenager and now it's like... Well, this needs to be burned and rewritten from scratch.

I thought about sharing a poem I had displayed at an exhibit last year but it turns out my feelings towards this particular worl have changed in that time (ts is so personal why did I allow it into public ;-;) so it's only my fave lines

I never found the way my body fit around me to be a burden / until I realised I was living in a haunted house / and I tore the ghosts from my body into snarled words, sharp mirror shards hurled at the world / if they cannot see me without the ghosts I would rather they not look at all

That's the fun of writing a book though, isn't it? Having some grand epiphany about your own lore, almost as if you are the reader and not the writer, then going back and rebuilding it with your newfound knowledge. It is a riveting process, at least for me.

Ah see but that can also be considered a good thing. It's something that you can look back on to examine your growth not just as a poet, but as a person.

Though I know nothing about poetry myself, I think that you are quite good at it based on those lines.