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Snowleopard:
--- Quote from: 1eyedjack on July 29, 2011, 07:39:17 PM ---Snow,
It is difficult to ask for criticism while at the same time not sounding desperate for attention. I know absolutely no one on the board so I'll try lurking and posting a bit to get to know folks before opening up with content. If interest occurs then swell but I'm not going to shove my work down people's throats. Thanks for the advice on PMs though, I appreciate it. I'd also love to read anything that anyone has even if all I have to offer is a theatrical background and a talent for spelling in terms of criticism. I can also display praise in a modestly acceptable vocabulary. So, Snow, I guess I'm asking if I may read any work you've written or if nothing else a pointed finger at someone whose work you like on the board.
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Very true 1eyedjack. But on this forum a lot of people are trying to write so we're pretty benevolent with beginners and others. But it is a good idea to get to know people first. Glad to be of help. Hey a theatrical background is good and a talent for spelling is real good. Some people, me included, sometimes forget about spell check - which doesn't help if you've spelled it right but it's the wrong word.
As for looking at my work. I have some stuff I am working on but, like you, I'd like to get to know you better first if that's okay?
meg_evonne:
1eyedjack and you have a theatre background? Dang and here I was hoping you were a quarter horse person. LOL. One eyed jack is an old and famous quarter horse....
Snowleopard:
I didn't know that ME. I was really into horses as a kid but oddly enough thoroughbreds.
My background is actually the movie Industry. Miniature maker, carpenter, dresser.
I've had a couple of script writing classes.
Aminar:
My name is Aminar, if you find Aminar somewhere else it;s probably me.
As a kid I never thought about being a write, I'm too practical to bank on a pipe dream. Then I got involved in this thing called DaishoCon, it's a little tiny anime con in the middle of nowhere Wisconsin. My friend from elementary school bullied me into helping. One of our guests was an author from the area that I'd never heard of. He had 1 book that was supposedly pretty damn good, so I picked it up. If you haven't heard of The Name of the Wind then get to a bookstore and find it.
When I met Pat Rothfuss I became an instant fanboy, what he did with his book and his personality were both amazing. Then he told me about The Dresden Files and I wound up reading those.
What Jim does with plot is amazing, the episodic books with the overarching plot is great. Between Jim and Pat I learned that wanted to be a writer. It took me 3 years to find a concept I could stick with and thus the world of Vaicea was born.
What I wanted was to take everything great about High Fantasy(original world creation) and Urban Fantasy(modern setting, grittier feel, and the ability to travel like we do today; and mangle them until I came out with something cool.
All of the magical peoples in my world are based on other things, but by and large they aren't myth. I've instead taken influences from the things that I truly love. Video Games, music(and my synestesia), Dinosaurs, Elementalists, Alice in Wonderland, Comic books, how utterly terrifying ants are when you look at what they can do, and made what amounts to a modern day super hero's with roots in fantasy setting, except that the best part of Urban Fantasy is when it's covert. It's more of a spygame played by the few people gifted with supernatural powers.
One of my favorite decisions was to have the series plot be unified by the antagonist, but the POV characters shift every book, allowing me to have more diverse locations. The POV characters will not always be good guys, nor is the antagonist entirely a bad guy(evil yes, bad no). This idea was spawned by the question, why does everything big that we get to see happen in Chicago?
meg_evonne:
Welcome Aminar!
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