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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
Paynesgrey:
--- Quote from: The Deposed King on April 24, 2012, 02:19:46 AM ---You've got your own process so go for it cenwolfgirl. I just urge you to give yourself the permission to write something less than what you want and move on. Find yourself a good editor (a friend or fellow author who you can return the favor for) and fix it up when you get a completed draft.
By the way guys, as I mention in another thread I just put my first book up on amazon. Put it under my son's name, out of love.
http://www.amazon.com/Admiral-Spineward-Sectors-Novel-ebook/dp/B007WQSY44/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335232665&sr=8-1
I don't have access to word right now, so I have to make a few minor changes in format as soon as I do. But you can read the first 10@ for free on Amazon's Kindle for PC. Or kindle if you have one!
I'm kind of interested in how the first chapter plays out. The original draft had about 20 paragraphs of preamble and I chopped it down.
Always follow the dream,
The Deposed King
--- End quote ---
I just finished Admiral Who? and I loved it. Fine work. Great character driven story, solid world-building, believable tech base. The snark and personalities are in the vein of Lois McMaster-Bujold's Vorkosigan series but without being in any way derivative. I'd file it under "Big Damn Space Opera" because some aspects brought to mind the Lensmen books I read so long ago with maybe a twist of David Drake, but without venturing into Weird Super Science. Can't wait for the next one to come out.
The Deposed King:
Thanks for the kind words PG. I really appreciate it!
Good luck with your own writing.
The Deposed King
cenwolfgirl:
now i rely want to read it it sounds intresting Deposed King
speaking of writing i just did about 300 words witch is the most i have got done in about 2 weeks ;D
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Not a great weekend for me writing-wise.
Glared at the book that comes before the Thing I Am Supposed To Be Working On, which i want to get in shape to be mentioned/sent in with the next draft of that Thing, somewhat less than happily. (The beginning is OK. The second half is OK. One of the viewpoints is good all the way through. But the second quarter or so of this book sucks cold potato soup through a straw by the gallon, and I think I have to basically crush fifteen chapters into nine to make it work, which plays merry hell with the structure. I've figured out a goodly bit of how to do it, but that does not make the actual doing any more appealing.)
Did a polish based on my first couple of beta comments on the Thing I Want To Be Working On, which was pleasingly straightforward. That is fairly close to ready to be out there, I think.
And looked through a very different project I set aside a few years back for not knowing where it was going clearly enough after the first 50kwords. It still seems to have strong points and I still do not see what to do with it next.
cenwolfgirl:
okay so got another 300 words more then i thought on one book (witch i was doing last time i posted in this thread and just realised i wort more then i said i did ;D)
yesterday i started a diffrent book just for fun it proberly wont go any where and i proberly will go back to the other one in a few weeks but i got nearly 400 words it was nice to write with out having to think any thing out just to vent and relax witch i needed
(its exam seson)
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