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LoVeBoOkS:

--- Quote from: fjeastman on September 19, 2006, 04:55:09 AM ---
"When a young woman disrupts his life and then disappears, a man with no memory tries to track her down.  Will he succeed where a black cult, organized crime, old gods, and his own past want him to fail?"

It may end up being garbage.  I believe now, where I didn't before, that I CAN write fiction that will sell ... it may not be a break-out run-away best seller, but if the prose is solid and the story is exciting ... it'll get picked up.  Maybe not this book, but perhaps the next, or the one after that will be where I reach the point. 

Then, after that, it's just a matter of continuing to write solid, exciting fiction that people enjoy reading.

--fje

--- End quote ---

That part that you put in quotes was brilliant. I'm interested in hearing something about that.

--Amber

storytellersjem:
Just call me SJEM.  Those are my initials.  :)

I'm on leave from work for a few years and I am working on a mega fantasy novel in the spirit of George R.R. Martin as well as a much smaller children's fantasy book.

I'm based in the Bay Area, male, thirty something and very appreciative of mythology, archetypes of fairy tales.

Best,

SJEM

casualimp:
Hi, my name's Paul and I'm not an aspiring procrastinator -- I've mastered that trade. I'm not sure if I should be writing childrens books because my writing is quite unpolished and reads as though it's written by a young writer even though I'm in my 30's. Growing up I always wanted to be a comic book writer/artist, the artist half wasn't good enough for the industry, so I consintrated mostly on poetry. I don't have a lot of them in the span of 12 years (maybe around 150) but a lot of them are conceptual in nature that could be fleshed out into prose if I just jumped in to give it a shot. I'm still a little apprenhensive, the last story I wrote was from the perspective of an orange.

The Corvidian:
My name is Clifford, yeah make with the dog jokes, and I have been attempting to write since I was in seventh grade. Currently, I am working three ideas, and they are just that ideas.

The first one deals with a world where many of the creatures of myth are real, but they hide themselves amoungst humanity, original, I know. The main characters are a husband and wife team who enforce the laws of this hidden society. He is a wizard and she is a Naga, the mythical creature, not the tribe from Southern India.

The second one deals with a small Midwestern town, and a large house that sets on the outskirts. The house and and the land it sits upon exist on more then one world, and if you walk through the woods on the property, you might also find yourself traveling in backwards or forwards in time.

The third one grew out fo the fact that I have never come across a ganster novel mixed with magic. This one takes place on a parallel earth that just happens to be much larger the our own. The main character is really a place, its a neighborhood in a large city, and a nightclub run by a group of people who are not what they play at being.

Corina:
My name is Corina Noble and I am a werewolf, no really, ohh ok I'm a writer. But I would play one on tv if... Naw just joking. I have written stuff ever since I was in Junior High. I've always had stories running through my head. I am glad to see that so many different people have the same symptoms as I do. I can't wait to play pretend with you guys.

Oh I guess I forgot to mention my stuff, the story I'm working on is kinda like Sopranos meet Mansfield Park. But in a galaxy far far away lol. I’m still thinking on it got half of it written down. The other half is still spinning in my head.

Another story playing in my head is about Vampires, werepeople, and their idea of police. Starting off with a 12 step program for werewolves and eating humans.

Another, one with dragons...

TTFN

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