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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: The Deposed King on September 17, 2012, 01:44:32 AM ---Personally I don't worry too much about totally new and original. If you're having trouble my advice? Make your plot some strange compilation between Excalibur/Starwars/X-Men.
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And steal everything you can from Shakespeare, who stole almost everything from somewhere else plotwise anyway.
(Well, except Measure for Measure. Don't steal from that because it's on the bad crack. I sometimes suspect that the entire genre of Jacobean revenge drama derives from people trying to imagine what sort of characters could plausibly behave like the Duke in Measure for Measure.)
The Deposed King:
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A little prework writting storm. The Big Reveal!
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There he goes, there he goes again!
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THE_ANGRY_GAMER:
I'm writing a set of - well, they're a little long to be short stories, and a little short to be novellas... stories in the same UF story-world. Some follow Lasin Qandi, a Seeker (think Dresden without the magic, crossed with Geralt of Rivia), in London, and some follow Lauren Holter, an unkowingly magically-talented FBI agent who has a run-in with a vampire and gets reassigned to an FBI version of SI in LA.
I eventually intend to write a novel with the characters, but for now, I'm refining my craft and doing worldbuilding in these short peices, and I'm enjoying myself tremendously.
Anyway, the first one, entitled The Seeker, which can be basically summarised 'Demon-posession in a Council Estate', runs to 9,068 words. The next, which is currently untitled, deals with the ghosts of all those who were ever executed in the Tower of London getting riled up, a la Grave Peril. The first Lauren one will probably involve a vampire feeding off people at Hollywood teenagers' Christmas parties.
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Admiral In Spite of Himself
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ssss-push it... push it real good!
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