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Uilos:
1 novella (my first work), an inprogress novel, and I've written two episodes (broken down into about 11 chapters) of shorts stories based on the Matrix Online, so those count as 4. Then I have more short stories based on the novel than I care to think about :D

LizW65:
One here, plus a three-act play (only they're lurking on paper, not my computer, since I wrote them at a time when I didn't have one - the mid-to-late 1980's.)

meg_evonne:
LizW, you are the first to mention a play.  E-mail me and fill me in (or post here) what your play was about.  I've a close family friend that is in charge of the play-writing at Emory, profesional lighting friends on the west coast and a couple professional actors based out of Seattle. I've tried it only once and would be interested in what kind of difficulties you ran into writing.  OR since it was the 80's maybe you don't want to pick it up and be reminded?  My attempt was about 2000 and it absolutely s<<8*s if you get my drift.   

LizW65:

--- Quote from: meg_evonne on August 15, 2007, 09:17:31 PM ---LizW, you are the first to mention a play.  E-mail me and fill me in (or post here) what your play was about.  I've a close family friend that is in charge of the play-writing at Emory, profesional lighting friends on the west coast and a couple professional actors based out of Seattle. I've tried it only once and would be interested in what kind of difficulties you ran into writing.  OR since it was the 80's maybe you don't want to pick it up and be reminded?  My attempt was about 2000 and it absolutely s<<8*s if you get my drift.   

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It is a comedy/murder mystery set in an out-of-the-way inn in the French Pyrenees in the 1930's (on a dark and stormy night, natch.)  At the time I was writing I was heavily influenced by Agatha Christie, and it spoofs a lot of the cliches of the genre.  It's been quite a while, but as I recall I started out by writing a general outline, which gradually got more and more specific until finally it was broken down by French Scenes.  Once I knew where everyone was and what they were doing, it was a matter of filling it in with dialogue.  I remember reading much of the dialogue aloud to myself to see if it "flowed" properly.  I was 16 when I wrote the first draft; about a year later I picked it up again and discovered a glaring hole in the plot that needed to be fixed, and it went through a number of re-writes after that.  It's never been produced, which is probably just as well  :) although I occasionally pick it up and think, "Hmm, I really should make a clean copy of this."

Spectacular Sameth:
Counting all the rough drafts not finished, I have over 16. I've completed about three or four things and only one of them made it to the editing stage.

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