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Wallace:
Hello. I'm a struggling writer desperate to get noticed but not so motivated as to actually try and mail out cover letters. Please read my work and give me a job with your company based solely on two paragraphs yanked from a short story I wrote six years ago but think it will earn me brownie points because it's just. That. Good.
Psyche!
I've actually been writing for most of my life, but my C-Type personality (I think that's the quiet religious one who ends up going insane) makes me perpetually unhappy with what I write and too bloody scared to show it to anyone but my cat. Okay, I don't have a cat. But if he did, he would hate my unbelievable literary slop.
My main ambition right now is becoming a chef, and perhaps owning my own business. Between work and college, that doesn't leave me a lot of creative time, but why let the talent slowly die of isolation? And they talk about The Dresden Files on this forum, too, so maybe I'll get to see two geeks duke it out over whether the sparkly vampires of Twilight could beat the sparkly vampires of the White Court.
We both know the answer, and that's why I'm here, and not on the Twilight forum. *Nods*
It's good to meet other writers though. I guess this is where you are all hiding, instead of playing World of Warcraft. I'd shame you, but it would be ironic.
Raestlin:
I have just recently started to make forays into writing and am currently a little stymied as to how I should proceed in my book. It is written from the perspective of a person who has witnessed the tale, but I'm having troulbe in figuring otu how much the other characters should notice him....if anyone has any advice I would much appreciate. If you would just shoot me an IM instead of posting on here because I don't want to accidentally post somethign on here that the Master was planning on using in a book......
oh, by the way, the book is called The Original Five.
Philliph:
--- Quote from: Wallace on September 15, 2009, 01:38:17 AM ---I've actually been writing for most of my life, but my C-Type personality (I think that's the quiet religious one who ends up going insane) makes me perpetually unhappy with what I write and too bloody scared to show it to anyone but my cat. Okay, I don't have a cat. But if he did, he would hate my unbelievable literary slop.
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HAH! You sounded like Marvin from The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy series. Silly robot, he takes emotion too seriously. ;)
I wonder what life would be like at the ocean floor...
Miss Witch:
Hi! My name is Murielle and I guess you could call me a writer in progress. I write and I dream of seeing my name on the cover of a paperback. I have had an active imagination since I can remember and started writing things down when I was thirteen. My first story was about a unicorn. Since then I have been writing on and off. I wanted to be a writer when I finished school but my grade nine teacher said that writing for a living wasn't easy and perhaps I should find something more stable to do as a job. So I went to university and got so sick I landed myself in the hospital and the recepient of a double lung transplant. While I was recovering I started writing again after years of not even touching a pen. A little later on I decided to start taking my writing more seriously and just last month started taking a creative writing course to re-learn the structure of story. When I move to a bigger city I plan on taking more courses and learn to write a novel and then maybe get the nerve to actually send something to get published. My biggest problem is fear. I'm scared that I'll never get anything published and therefore leads to my second biggest problem which is procrastination. I always find something else to do that has to get done to avoid my fear of failure. I read Jim's story and that boosted my spirits a little. Even the most successful authors started out rough...I just have to work my ass off and use my stubborness for good instead of evil...hahaha. Thankfully the muses have been kinder to me and I've kind of hammered out a character named Jax. It's not much but it's a start!
meg_evonne:
Welcome Miss Witch, I've the opposite problem. I live in fear that someone would actually want to publish something that I've written. I write to write, because there is no controlling that writer's mind.
Welcome to our corner of the dresden verse, where you are free to let the muse free. We don't post manuscripts, but you can use the group consciousness to get your character out a corner if you need help. Or concerned with how your writing is progressing etc.
And we'll hope to see you around her, giving us your thoughts as well. Did you find Jim's writing blog? Is that the book you meant or his actual novels?
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