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Tasmin21:
New to the boards, but I've been lurking a bit and thought I'd throw my two cents' in. Call me Tas. It's an online name from a million years ago, and I've never managed to shake it.
I was reading by age 3, and I'm fairly certain I started writing shortly thereafter. The first "grown up" book I remember reading was The Hobbit...at age five. And I've been in love with fantasy ever since.
I wrote my first complete novel in highschool. It's total drivel. Someday, when I think I can do it without wanting to gouge my own eyes out, I'll revisit it and make it palatable.
In the meantime, I am currently working on a trilogy (working title for the first one: The Avarice). Standard fantasy adventure/political intrigue whodunit kinda thing. I have been lucky enough to find a friend online who has turned out to be an unbelievably good editor, and I am more hopeful and confident now than I have ever been. My goal had been to have the first one finished and ready for submission by this Christmas, but an unexpected battle with cancer this summer has put me behind schedule.
I also have two different urban fantasy stories percolating in my head (darn them, don't they know I'm trying to write something ELSE right now?), one of which I intend to write as a form of therapy for my own zombie phobia. (don't ask)
I think I will always write, whether I get published or not. It's not what I do. It's who I am.
Tex:
Howdy, I'm Tex, dangit, already a stereotype.
anyway, I'm simply a wannabe writer, currently engaged in spinning out a story that encompasses a lot of my favorite genres. I've got about a thousand pages of attempts and failures, under a hundred pages of back story and just general ideas and theories. I'm just all out for something that's been boiling in the back of my mind. Well, thanks for listening, er, um, reading. Take it easy.
prime_spirit:
Ooo… aspiring inspirers. I’m humbled. :)
My name is Liza and I too am a fantasy reader. Writer is a vague sense because I made a promised that I get myself a job and grounded before I embark on a magical journey.
But I've made my homework on the future of any books I may be able to publish and it's not looking good. Fiction reading is not a large market here (most of us Asian are business driven and no time for a book and a cup of tea). Majority of English fiction are imported, thus it's all way out of the local price range at the age range I've targeted. I myself sneak into bookstores and stay there for hours; Borders, MPH, Times, Popular, Kinokunya, all the security guards there know me by face and nods at 'that girl who never buys anything'.
But hey, all that doesn't mean I can easily ignore my dreams. Nothing bestseller, just a hardcover with my name and story title on it. I've even looked into self-publishing. I don't have anything I've wrote with me at the moment. It's high-fantasy so I'm currently making an outline of the world I'm working on (characters, species, secret of magic, specific locations, that sort of thing). The Dresden Files really helps me in choosing a particular writing style. Maybe one of these days I'll start on the Codex Alera.
Here's what I got so far. It's five book series but I'm thinking of making it longer as soon as I see how the first set turns out. It's plot driven, in third person and I've even invented two different languages for it (my style though, nothing like the Tolkien's or Forgotten Realms'). I haven't got a title for the books but the series is called Suvon Story, even though it's more of Kia's story.
--- Quote ---Book One:
A sequence of actions led a young Malaysian girl into an alternate world called Suvon. Kia's wish to return back to Earth lies in the hands of a baby boy who she calls Niq. Together, they must travel across a war-torn country as refugees to Niq's homeland, where in the capital, Niq's true origins were revealed.
Book Two:
Kia knew that her actions was not without ramifications and she was feeling the pain of its effects as Earth's magic contradicted with her Suvon energies. She returns to Suvon to find a cure and found that years had passed in her absence but none of the wizards or sages could help her foreign condition. It was with Niq, now a student caster on the verge of manhood, who's misadventures led her to a forgotten and very forbidden secret.
Book Three:
Kia had vowed that she would never go back to Suvon and was ready to travel to London permanently to receive her long-lost mother's legacy. But dark creatures attacked her world as a major shift had aligned Suvon's and Earth's timelines together. Kia and her half-brother, Salil, had to walk a fine line through the secrets and deceits of the Nobility Circle, of which Niq, a grown man, was once again at the centre of it.
Book Four:
The secret of Kia's magic branded her as both a traitor and a freak. After being rescued by the leader of the Unshackled rebellion, Kia instead turned toward her enemies' stronghold on a flying island in Suvon, to find Salil and Niq, despite questions regarding their true loyalty. On top of all that, Kia's pain of her magic returned and she wonders if she could even survive long enough to secure the safe passage for the outcasts to Earth.
Final Book:
It was final battle of an event that happened 1200 years ago on Suvon and 170 years ago on Earth and Kia's the catalyst. A painful incident was her final cure but the price she paid with was her faith. She isolates her emotions from her family and friends, keeping focus on saving the future of both her worlds and a possible dark ending. Especially when the man Kia loves was ready to kill himself to protect her and her cause.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, ambitious for a possible self-publisher. I'm writing the books for me and duly hope to get it distributed. There's just something about browsing for your favorite titles and suddenly seeing your name on the same shelf as theirs. But for now, I have to keep my essentials. Study first, job next, and the dream will come true. ;)
Aerhen:
As I said in the previous blog... I am an aspiring writer... but i have done a great deal of fantasy rpg.. and sci fi rpg..
I have many ideas that i want to convert into books eventually.
One is an alternate reality time line where the civil war was not about blacks being slaves.. but about the emancipation of the Demons who were being used as slaves.. and what h appened when Lincoln attempted to free the demons..
Another .. demon oriented.. is the world is invaded by demons from 7 gates... about how our world changes.. how we might fight them... and how they were defeated in the past..
but the one i am currently working on .. is an epic saga..
an evil theocracy is trying to conquer the last group of nations that have escaped its grasp. 5 great heroes are bound to save the young man who is destined become an emperor and begin a war to hopefully overthrough the theocracy for good. but they soon discover that there is more than just the theocracy at work.. a deeper darker threat eventually emerges and challenges their understanding of the world they know.. and they begin to see that their world has become the last stand for an evil which refuses to forgo its existence
Aethon:
I coulda/shoulda posted in this thread a while ago, but I'm kinda lazy and yeah...
My name's Jake and I'm sixteen. Most of my experience as a writer comes from one or two dedicated role-play sites, including the number two site in the RPG-Directory. I've got two or three ideas for books, but I want to try them out as an RP site first. Once I get a reaction from the members there, I hope to make them into something more. Also, I've got the first few chapters of another book that's been greatly inspired by Mr. Butcher and a few others.
I hope to get it finished by the middle of next year.
I used to take photographs like crazy and be okay at it, but then my friend dragged me to an RP site the middle of '05 and I've been hooked since.
Writing isn't about making money. It's about the stories.
For me at least,
~ Jake
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