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KarlTenBrew:
Sorry to hear it mighty, but glad you're on the writer's track! The energy you're talking about is a good thing, and I hope it carries you far.
On a personal note, I've updated status to 'working student' and have an entire book nearly up to 'first complete edited draft'. It even has a complete prequel stewing. At first I tried the 'pre-plot' method, but it just didn't work for me. The story always ended up shucking my plans, because the plan was either too detailed or too broad. What I ended up with was a bunch of disconnected, sequential but not time-specific scenes.
So I worked with that. I started focusing on the scene, not bothering to analyze what I was writing until it was down. I also mixed in writing completely unrelated during the time: fan-fiction, writing exercises, essays. This what a lot better than brain-storming a plot first, because as I was writing pieces fell together unconsciously. Taking the sequences I was forming unintentionally, I worked scenes formerly with no relation into the thread of a cohesive story. So now I've got a complete book and prequel [or I guess a dulogy if I do them both] with an undefined future for if things work out.
I've already have some pre-readers to help me out and am reseraching publishing. So in the words of Dogbert, I WOULD wish you all luck..."but wouldn't that leave less luck for me?" ;) Hope all the rest of you are doing well in your aspirations!
mightyutuvan:
So I mailed off my first short story to a magazine today, no doubt triggering my first rejection letter.
Jaeh:
So hi, I'm Jaeh....er, so I'm a college student living in the Philippines hoping to publish a novel-in-progress if its... you know, publishable. If not, I'd live with it. If I get around to actually finding a place to publish it and get it around in this country, I would be really, really happy. And if gets published, I doubt almost anyone here would get to see it, lol.
It sounds really juvenile-ish, and would probably end up as a young adult book if it goes down that road (I still have to fix stuff, if that happens, haha), but the novel is about some author who got sucked into her own book. It sounds so... fanfictiony, but the "twist" with this one is she doesn't know hat's happen in her own book and.. stuff. So... yeah. I just hope it would work out. :D
Kali:
--- Quote from: mightyutuvan on December 08, 2009, 02:31:34 AM ---So I mailed off my first short story to a magazine today, no doubt triggering my first rejection letter.
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Save it. :D I have my four or five saved, including the personal one from Gordon Van Gelder that's tacked up above my desk. Some rejection letters are the next best thing to an acceptance letter!
mightyutuvan:
--- Quote from: Kali on December 08, 2009, 06:16:44 PM ---Save it. :D I have my four or five saved, including the personal one from Gordon Van Gelder that's tacked up above my desk. Some rejection letters are the next best thing to an acceptance letter!
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Yep, that was the very name on the envelope. Actually completing, editing, formatting and mailing off the short story felt like an accomplishment itself. Dang I hope mine's personal! ;)
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