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Paranoid Wizard:
I'm hoping that copy/pasting a brief synopsis doesn't go against the, thou shalt not post your work here, commandment. If it does, I am sincerely sorry, but it honestly isn't that long. Plus, I can't very well link it to my Livejournal, because the entries are protected. (I don't trust the average person on LJ, I do, however, trust the people on this form. We're good people.)
"The family and friends of Elizabeth Marshall are sent into a panic when they receive the news that she, along with hundreds of other people around the world, have been struck with an unknown ailment rendering her in a coma. However, unlike the other victims of this phenomena, Elizabeth does not remain catatonic. Certain aspects of her genetics allowed her to wake up, but also ensured that she would be swept away into a government covered up genocide of all things fantastical.
Set in a world where there are two superpowers: Asia and North America. There are no freedoms, and there are no ways around the word of the government. A small group of young people, however, imbued with abilities from the government itself, stand in the way of the government to right the wrongs of their past and realign their future."
My friends have complained that there are too many repeated words, and I agree. How it stands, though, it is the same amount of words as the synopsis on Storm Front. That happened by accident, and I like to too much to change the count, right now. Of course, I'll fine tune this at some point.
Also, this novel is finished, it is 31 chapters long, and just over 300 pages. I am currently revising it, and posting the results on my Livejournal. If you have a journal, and would like to read what I have posted, my account name is Lovey_fee. If you leave a comment, and tell me where you are from, I would be happy to allow you access to the posts. (Like I said, I trust the people on this site.)
Thanks for taking the time to read this, and good luck with all your endeavors, be they writing related, or otherwise.
(EDIT - This is also my second book, so it is devoid of the mistakes that first novels are rife with.)
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Paranoid Wizard on January 25, 2009, 12:27:48 AM ---(EDIT - This is also my second book, so it is devoid of the mistakes that first novels are rife with.)
--- End quote ---
And your third won't have the mistakes in the 2nd, and on and on. I read somewhere that the typical manuscript that reaches a true hand with interest is the 6th... so hang in there and keep writing! Yes, I'm being snarky...sue me, seriously congrats!
Paranoid Wizard:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on January 26, 2009, 03:55:27 PM ---And your third won't have the mistakes in the 2nd, and on and on. I read somewhere that the typical manuscript that reaches a true hand with interest is the 6th... so hang in there and keep writing! Yes, I'm being snarky...sue me, seriously congrats!
--- End quote ---
Hey, if it only takes me six manuscripts to get someone's attention, I'll consider myself one lucky person. Thanks for the congrats, though.
frankiebgoode:
I'm Frankie. I'm 22. I'm a lurker around these parts with the occasional comment to my name and I decided I'd introduce myself.
I've been writing in some form or another for about as long as I can remember, but I never really considered writing as a career until about 6th or 7th grade. Teachers and all that encouragement, you know, it felt easy for school assignments and such. I didn't really realize it was actual work for quite some time, and by then it was too late for me to try for anything else. And I'm sure if I did, I'd just go insane.
I've been writing Harry Potter fanfiction since the summer of 1998 during the long wait between Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix. The majority of it is complete rubbish, but it's a way to hone my skills if nothing else. I got a poem published through Bemidji State University's New Voices program in 2005.
I'm about 90 pages into my first draft of a story I've had rolling through my head for two and a half years. I'm not exactly sure where it belongs as far as genres go. It's about a sixteen year old girl who begins to develop ESP, Precognition, Psychic Powers, what have you, after her parents are killed in an accident and she goes to live with her brother who's a cop. She begins having dreams about a serial killer and has to deal with the dreams, a dubious brother, overly encouraging friends, and the usual high school melodrama. It's set in Minneapolis and the nearby suburbs since I live in the area.
I have a few other concepts running around, mostly Mystery/Suspense or Fantasy that are still too obscure to really describe to myself let alone on here.
I suppose that's all I have to say.
meg_evonne:
Welcome Frankie! Looking forward to having you add your 2 cents to the conversations in AIP!
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