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mythcantor:
--- Quote from: Ambassador of Odd on October 19, 2008, 03:51:34 PM ---No, actually. I think it's because I'm a gamer, and am used to accepting that a character is gone, or at least on hold indefinitely. Playing RPGA in the Bandit Kingdoms does that. My first character died in 3 minutes to the first damage roll of the session. Since then, I've retired dozens, maybe a hundred characters. Not many of them have actually died, but there were some I wanted to.
But no, I don't make outlines. I tried with my post-apocalyptic book, but I ended up jumping the tracks pretty quick. Mostly, I write because I feel like it, so when I don't, I don't.
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That's kinda how I write. I haven't written in months, but I make notes for story ideas all the time, due to my gaming. What I do write is mostly just for the consumption of my friends and family.
xXMemorieXx:
I think i should post here, yeah~ i should. o.o
Anyways, i've been writing since 2007. Not very long :/
I've written several stories, yet, i never seem to have finished them. (they make it to the thrid chapter and end up dieing after that)
Two stories that im currently writing though, will not do that (im not going to allow it) and so far the first one is 3 chapters long :3.
The second one i just began to write so there's not much. Here's a lil bit of the prologue of it:
You know how, when you die, the people who miraculously come back always say there's a light at the end of a tunnel? That tunnel doesn't exist, it's mainly there just to make you think that's how death would look like when you actually die. How do I know this? Well, let's just skip those wonderful details and get straight to the point, I'm death. Well, in a sense, I'm a grm_reaper, a person who works for death for all eternity, sounds harsh right? Not really, I can't officially age, so I'm stuck as a 19 year old forever, though if that's a good thing or a bad thing you can decide yourself. Let me tell you though, this isn't the nicest job out there, carrying souls to the after-life and everything else related to death isn't fun, in any sense. Plus there is all the other jobs that come with it, course it was either this or be wiped off the face of the earth by forced fade away. Those aren't nice either.
annnnddd.... thats where im leaving it :o.
maybe ill make a lil thread eventually and type it all up :p if i like it.
I tend to write supernatural stuff ( vampires and the like) so that's mainly what my stories will be about o.o
myquasilatinphrase:
So I've decided to go ahead and post here. My name's Liz, but WHEN I'm published it'll be under my full name. No worries, when it happens(if it takes a decade) I'll be sure to post here to let everyone know.
I tell the same basic story... Blah blah blah, I always read books, I always dreamed up stories, I got my first rejection letter at 15, but it was my own fault, I was trying to publish fanfic.
I basically decided that actually getting published required more backbone and strength of will than I had... Then my best friend ruined that for me by coming to me with an utterly brilliant plot idea, and the promise to co-write the whole thing... as long as I don't quit. We work well off each other, and so far I rely on him to prevent me from giving up... And vice versa.
Writing is a definite form of madness, and doing it in tandem has it's good and bad points. The good news is that when you feel like screaming at the computer, instead you can scream at a PERSON. The bad news is that it triples the amount of editing that must be done to make it all flow.
But we're 85% done with the first book, and we've got an outline for the next six. It's a unique sci-fi, in that it's THIS world, and everything was perfectly normal until literally EVERYTHING was destroyed over night by an invading race of otherworldly beings. The invading race have killed 99% of all humanity, and taken most of the rest prisoner. Our hero, as well as a small percentage of those he rescues find themselves developing otherworldly abilities as a side-effect of being around the Invaders. (think elemental powers for the most part)
I am hell-bent to get published, and my husband is very supportive. He wants me to succeed so he can live off of me for a change. I'd love to get some BETA feedback once the MS is finished. I need guinea pigs before I start flinging it at Agents.
Though I have to say right now, my favorite part of writing is taking beloved well known landmarks... And having them utterly destroyed by epic battles.
Uilos:
--- Quote from: myquasilatinphrase on October 29, 2008, 08:56:07 AM ---
Though I have to say right now, my favorite part of writing is taking beloved well known landmarks... And having them utterly destroyed by epic battles.
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You'll be right at home here :)
myquasilatinphrase:
--- Quote from: Uilos on October 29, 2008, 02:24:40 PM ---
You'll be right at home here :)
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Thanks! I like to hope so... Being at MileHiCon let me discover a few things I have in common with Jim... (He's so awesome!) Now I'm even more hell-bent to succeed.
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