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DrTrommashere:
Okay, I figured I should intro myself...again (I introed myself almost a year ago here)
My name is Shao, I'm a 22 y/o Fire Fighter/Paramedic. I didn't always want to be a writer, but you can blame that on my seventh grade English teacher who made us write a short story. We got the assignment on the first day of school and we had to write at least a page a day for every day of school, 185 pages to be exact. It was pretty non-structured, the only rules being we had to have at minimum 4 characters, a plot twist, and it had to be something that if we wanted to, we could go back and start writing a second story.
Needless to say, I wrote 300 pages of what I would now think to be a pretty bad story. I thought it was phenominal then, and my teacher thought it was great, but being as if I was trying to write in a "non-fiction" kind of way, (Having nom-fictional ideas wrapped into one truly fictional story) it flowed pretty well, but to read it now, I cringe at every page...
Anywho, I was bit by the bug and I haven't stopped since. I've now stuck with mostly fiction/fantasy/romance/sci-fi, but I'm also working on a book called, "Life Through a pair of Pink-Handled Trauma Shears" which is a non-fiction story about my life so far as an EMT/FF/Medic. I have another story that is based upon a Star Trek RPG that I'm co-writing with a friend of mine...it's pretty jumbled right now, and I'm hoping to sort it out soon.
I might post links to portions of the stories soon, but I have to get up the cajones to actually do it.
Thanks for reading!
~K~
myquasilatinphrase:
--- Quote from: DrTrommashere on November 18, 2008, 11:04:39 AM ---Okay, I figured I should intro myself...again (I introed myself almost a year ago here)
My name is Shao, I'm a 22 y/o Fire Fighter/Paramedic. I didn't always want to be a writer, but you can blame that on my seventh grade English teacher who made us write a short story. We got the assignment on the first day of school and we had to write at least a page a day for every day of school, 185 pages to be exact. It was pretty non-structured, the only rules being we had to have at minimum 4 characters, a plot twist, and it had to be something that if we wanted to, we could go back and start writing a second story.
Needless to say, I wrote 300 pages of what I would now think to be a pretty bad story. I thought it was phenominal then, and my teacher thought it was great, but being as if I was trying to write in a "non-fiction" kind of way, (Having nom-fictional ideas wrapped into one truly fictional story) it flowed pretty well, but to read it now, I cringe at every page...
Anywho, I was bit by the bug and I haven't stopped since. I've now stuck with mostly fiction/fantasy/romance/sci-fi, but I'm also working on a book called, "Life Through a pair of Pink-Handled Trauma Shears" which is a non-fiction story about my life so far as an EMT/FF/Medic. I have another story that is based upon a Star Trek RPG that I'm co-writing with a friend of mine...it's pretty jumbled right now, and I'm hoping to sort it out soon.
I might post links to portions of the stories soon, but I have to get up the cajones to actually do it.
Thanks for reading!
~K~
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I'd say welcome, but you said you've been here for a while now, so you already know the drill. ;)
I'd actually be interested in reading your memoirs when you get them finished. I'm the child of an ER physician on the night shift, and he always had some great stories, I can only imagine the paramedics must see some interesting things as well.
But belated welcomes and all...
crihavoc:
My name is Robert, or crihavoc.
I have a great life. Family, home, career - check, check, check. I'm a lucky sonfagun, and no mistake.
My muse, poor girl, is suffering from a wasting disease.
Once upon a time: every SNIKT of razor sharp adamantium, every POOM from the gauntlets of Baron Karza, each diagonal carom of Daredevil's baton, every moan from the bloody length of rune-etched Stormbringer, each fish-scaled shadow at Innsmouth, every heart-busting push through the pattern of Amber, the thunderous cyan volleys from squads of fan-skirted, mercenary tanks, and the click-clock death-knell sound of a run-down pair of cowboy boots on the cracked asphalt trail of virus-wracked American damnation...
... once apon a time, my muse gorged herself silly. And, I wrote and wrote and wrote. Junior high creative writing, high school literary magazines, college literary magazines, post-matriculation rejection letters galore.
I have a great life, and no mistake. But, every project charter and spend justification and statement of work and Return on Net Assets evaluation graph and knowledge article and training document... they grow like nightmare stop-motion anemones in the marble-carved catacombs of my imagination and clamp spear-tipped extrusions on to her stringy limbs and rubbery torso and drink deep, deep, deep...
I have a plan, to save her life. I can't rescue my stringy muse yet, but I can keep her on life support. So, I join websites where stories are told. And, I force her to eat and eat and then I write! Nothing huge - short stories, vignettes, descriptive paragraphs, some world-building input - whatever she and I can craft between the 2 AM feeding and the 6 AM alarm.
I have a plan. It proceeds slowly. But, each story is another rod removed from the reactor core, another fragment of dilithium crystal added, another glyph locked in on the Stargate. I have a plan.
My name is Robert, or crihavoc.
Mikolicious:
Hi guys! I just found this site today and was like, omg, I'm gonna sign up for here!
I read all the (most of the) previous posts and am like, "wow! C'mon people! start writing! I wanna read!"
I have . . . written . . . and I've posted my stuff on this site called Mibba.com and, I gotta tell ya, some of the people on there are GOOD!!!!
My works include
1) A fanfiction on Pride and Prejudice called "Night at Pemberley." My sister put me up to the challenge and I took it. She loved it and I had the most fun time writing it. It's pretty short, only nine short chapters, but I like it. Don't want it published though, and can you even publish fanfiction?
anyhoo, here's the link: http://www.mibba.com/story/mikolicious/Night-at-Pemberly/
2) I also wrote a story about a girl, Jaymine, and a guy, Troy, who practically hate each other who are forced to get married to avoid a scandal and Jaymine's dad being put out of business. Along the way, they find some disturbing things about themselves, called "Love Remains the Same." I based some of it on the song by the same title by Gavin Rossdale. I really enjoyed writing this one, especially the last few chapters! It made me cry, though.
anyhoo, here's the link: http://www.mibba.com/story/mikolicious/Love-Remains-the-Same/
3) I am in the middle of writing a series. It's about this assassin who finds out she's connected to winter while trying to pull the job of assassinating a Prince. It's on hold though so i can write number 4
again, the link: http://www.mibba.com/story/mikolicious/Vixen-Creed/
4) And the last story is about this girl who learns piano, but, becuase of the way her teacher taught, has lost her spirit and passion. Can she ever get them back? This one is in progress as well, and I really have only written three chapter's worth of it.
But, here's the link: http://www.mibba.com/story/mikolicious/My-Spirit-Buried-My-Chords-Broken/
Lisa™:
--- Quote from: Mythcantor on October 20, 2008, 07:52:03 PM ---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.
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Sounds to me like your views on the stuff you write are a lot like mine, Myth. No interest in getting published, personally - it would be an enormous pain and, honestly, more trouble than I want to go to for something I've only ever done for fun.
But fun it is. Oh yes. ;D
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