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MiM:
I'm popping in here just to say hi. I've been a lurker for a long time... er.. nearly a year. I've been working on my vampire novel The Bringer of Aten for nearly seven years now. (Yes, very crappy title, but it is only the WIP title, heh)
Am currently gearing myself up to rewriting and reworking the very, very lame first draft. It's in the vein of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with a little of Harry Dresden thrown in (unfortunately, no wizards in it as yet!) and will hopefully spawn at least two other books. I don't wanna give too much away, but if anyone would like to see some of it, I have a couple of the first pages of the rewrite somewhere on my computer :P
I've been writing since I was a teenager, and this novel, though it really shouldn't be, is my baby... mainly because I've lived so long with the characters, they've become very good friends of mine xD
Other than that... I'm 27, hail from the middle-of-nowhere Ireland and am looking forward to hanging out about here a bit more :P
meg_evonne:
Not sure when I became the unofficial welcome party---but welcome! *imagine glitter flying, fireworks in the night sky*
My favorite chick lit is from Ireland, Cecelia Ahern. I'd love to read a Vamp based in Ireland. Will we be so lucky? My great-great-great grandmother immigrated from Ballyvaughn, in fact that's part of the name I use playing Guild Wars. I've only come in to Shannon and headed towards the Cliffs of Mohr and than over to Ballyvaugh and then back down again. My daughter though spent a summer at the Art School there, fell in love with the Barrens (sp), but luckily not with an Irish man who would want her to stay. She returned in 2006 with her live in and they were married during their visit. Saved me a ton of money. They tromped all over those Barrens... :-)
Anyway, welcome!
MiM:
Do you mean the Burren? It's in County Clare, which is a million miles from where I live in the north of the Republic heh.
My novel is set in Ireland, a town called Dunn, in fact, which is a fictional town made up of a load of towns around where I live in real life. The whole novel revolves around what happens when vampires start killing people living in and around it (amongst a lot of more interesting stuff, of course)
Thanks for the unofficial welcome party!! ;D
meg_evonne:
Anytime and it is the Burren! My daughter would think me an idiot. *tossing more glitter and confetti*
K.Love:
K.Love here. (smacks own head. "obviously!")
My real name is Kati. I'm 20 years old and I've been writing fiction since... well, for as long as I can remember really. My teacher's have always encouraged me, but none more so than my HS senior English teacher Wes Reid. That man is as crazy and as insanely talented as they come. Not to mention he's a smart ass. Which is no wonder why he and I got along so well (I normally despised teachers.) He really pushed me when I needed to be pushed (went through some stuff and slacked off really badly) and I produced work that I really enjoyed. Mr. Reid seemed to enjoy my writing as well.
So enough jibber jabber.
Here's the 411:
Name: Kati (smacks head again. "Already stated that ya' moron!")
Published?: No. Never. I'm never had the drive to attempt to get published. That is, until last year.
In progress work: Currently 2. A novel (Urban Fantasy) and a book of poetry and short stories (some with a supernatural-esque feeling to them.)
Completed work: Nothing longer than... oh, say..... 500 words. (Ugh, yes I know, thats horrible. I've never thought my writing was good or even alright for that matter, so I usually just dropped it. But now I'm DETERMINED to finish it! I will finish it.... Damn it!)
Hmm... Seems I'm getting a little too excited. :takes deep breath:
Okay. I think I'm ok now.
I really love reading, and I really love to write. I try to write my novel, how I would want to READ a novel. I think about all of the series I enjoy and then think about how they describe things. And what specifically catches my attention. The words they use, How many times they use a phrase (and yes, poor Harry Dresden says "Hell's Bells" too often for my liking, but it still does not take away from Harry at all. I still find him throughly charming and quite funny) and how often the use their "Tag Lines" (Jim explains them on one of his LiveJournal Posts. The Feb 10th post I do believe. If your too involved to look for it Jim states: TAGS are words you hang upon your character when you describe them. When you're putting things together, for each character, pick a word or two or three to use in describing them. Then, every so often, hit on one of those words in reference to them, and avoid using them elsewhere when possible. By doing this, you'll be creating a psychological link between those words and that strong entry image of your character.
For example; Thomas Raith's tag words are pale, beautiful, dark hair, grey eyes. I use them when I introduce him for the first time in each book, and then whenever he shows up on stage again, I remind the reader of who he is by using one or more of those words.)
I try to enjoy writing, as much as I would reading.
I've had an account with fictionpress.com for years (since I was 13 I think) and I've finally mopped shop so sadly I only have one short story up. But please do comment and let me know what you think.http://www.fictionpress.com/u/193912/ Its under My Stories at the bottom of the page. It's titled "The Mafia Dame" which is something I wrote for my Senior English Class in HS.
I'm just glad I'm not the only aspiring writer here. ;D
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