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trboturtle:
I suppose I should toss in my two cents.....
My name's Craig, and I've been writing for nearly 35 years, on and off. The usual sort of stuff -- a Star Wars Novel that didn't go too far, same with a fantasy novel. It wasn't until I bought a computer that I found that I was actually finishing stories.
I got involved in Fanfiction back in the early 90's. Mostly in the anime field, several long stories that have received a favorable responce from people. Back in the early 90's, I had a story I co-wrote published in Battletechnology, an offical magazine devoted to the Battletech gaming universe. In addition, I did submit to the approprate publishers, a Doctopr Who and two Stargate novels (All three rejected, of course)
I have finally decided to start trying my hand at original fiction. Top priority is the first in what I hope will be a series of novels. the first one, called Merlin's Legacy, is about a nomal guy who suddenly finds that he is the direct decendent of the wizard Merlin. Now, with the help of a talking cat, a smart-ass dragon, and a magic-based AI, he has to solve the murder of the previous holder of the title, prevent a demon invasion, and try to keep himself from making an idiot of himself in front of the girl of his dreams. Well, two out of three isn't bad. . . . ;D
Craig
Grogtard:
Many years ago it I decided that I wanted to be a writer. And I tried pretty hard for a couple of years. Just some stores and an article or two. I got lots of rejection letters which I still have. The best was one that an editor actually took the time to hand write some notes and suggestions on the back. Trust me folks this is encouraging.
I got lucky a couple of times for some very small pieces. A short article for a small newsletter (I actually got paid for it!) and some little humor bits for a novelty company. So in that sense, I guess you could say I got "published". But day job and life got in the way and all that fell to the side.
I jumped on to the blogging bandwagon for a chance to write whatever, whenever I wanted. I've being doing that for a couple years now.
Last year, a friend of mine mentioned NaNoWriMo and well I got interested. Also over this past year, I've been lucky enough to hear quite few good writers speak (including Jim). I decided to get back into the biz. My first test is to complete this years NaNoWriMo. If I can do that I know I'm ready to rehone those skills and start banging on the old keyboard again.
Lady Geektastic:
I wrote my first short story when I was 5, since then I have started several...and finished two. I've got a few solid ideas for novels/book series, but I'm not very diciplined. I plan to write professionally, since I really have no taste for anything else.
Jack_of_Names:
Hello, my name isn't Jack, nor anywhere close to being Jack, but that's what most people call me now... and you should never tell anyone your real name, right? ;)
I've been doing "fantasy" in my head for as long as I can remember, but only started butting finger-to-keyboard when I was maybe 12. My first effort, was, I admit, such utter garbage that the first time I read it thorugh I also deleted it. My second attempt, which actually had a title (*Pauses for gasp*) Was called Runeweaver, and the concept wasn't bad. But, unfortunatley, the Reading It Back To Myself fairy deleted it into submission. I wrote a couple of starting chapters after that, well, I say couple, but I mean probably quite alot, with titles such as Chronomancer, a book about an introvert who ws born 3000 years after he died.
In the last 9 months or so, I've gotten more serious (9/10 years after writing that dreadful thing I called a story when I was 12...) and currently have 4 major projects in the works, including NaNoWriMo, which I intend to flesh out just a tad when I'm done. I tend to think in fantasy, as I mentioned earlier, but what I seam to write most is a kind of parallel reality urban sci-fantasy. I don't quite know why.
My titles this year are:
Jack Avalon and the New SuitLost TommorowBlades Twilightand for NaNoWriMo,
A Break in the Mists.
I seem to have a problem making my characters into Supermen, far to tough to make a decent story, but I'm working on that by letting them get beat up in my head before I write.
Although my writing has deffinatley come on since I was 12 (I sould hope so too!), and I'm actually at the point where I can read my own work, and not immediatley delete it, I still tend to just set off writing with little or no idea where I'm going, letting my fingers do the thinking, which is why somtimes I really have to think, "Why did he just DO that??" when looking at my characters.
And again, although I've improved, I still believe my best description of a story ever came early on, in a story called "To What The Hell, And Back." when I was maybe 14. This was that description.
James DeNicé has gone to hell and he dressed for the heat. But Hell has frozen over and things are starting to slip down there. Only James and his unique brand of running away and hiding can possibly return hell to its former glory...But does he really want to?I just love it :D
Anyway, thats me, I'd really like to be an auther, but I get distracted easily (Less so these days, gladly!) and I still consider mys work a little... well, "crap", to be published quite yet, but if you ever spot an auther on the shelves called Nathan Paige, I hope that'll be me ;)
Jack out.
JDuncan:
Hello everyone. My name is Jim, and like everyone else here, I'm an aspiring writer too. I've been writing off and on, mostly on for the past 3 or 4 years, for the past 25 years. Fantasy was my first love as far as writing went, and I have the rough on the first book in a trilogy, the epic sort with a fairly large cast of characters being drawn together to avert a war that occurs every millenia thanks to a goddess who has a panic attack anytime a culture gets advanced enough to threaten the belief system.
Currently I am editing a paranormal suspense involving a troubled fbi agent who gets caught in the middle between two vampires, one who is exacting a century long scheme of vengeance upon the other. I am editing like mad at the moment because I have an agent who wishes me to send the whole ms to him.
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