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swalizer:
--- Quote from: CynDe on February 16, 2007, 08:59:31 PM ---Hey! My name is Cyndy and I am proud to join this group of aspiring novelists. *waves*
My current project is agent shopping for my paranormal urban fantasy. I am proud to announce that I have two rejction e-mails (but one directed me to try a specific other agent) and one agent who is reading my first 50 pages and summary. My goal is to send to several more agents and collect 25 rejection letters by Summer vacation, unless someone accepts the book first!
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Good luck! Hopefully someone takes you on before you get your full collection :)
SaraCollins:
Hey, I'm Melody, and I'm an addicted writer. I've been writing since I hit puberty (I'm 17 now), and I have sorta an OCD-type thingy going on with my writing. Usually I just write a few chapters, and then I put it away indefinitely, maybe come back to it again. It's kinda hard writing when you've got high school falling around your head but I try to deal with it. I started off with Star Trek Voyager fanfiction and now it's sorta half fanfiction and half original. I really am obsessed with vampires, magic and werewolves, so the Dresden Files really connects with me.
I'm a big fan of alternate history-esque things, and the current project I have on now is called The American Empire which is basically "what if America became a constitutional monarchy instead of a democracy?" It's a huge challenge since politics isn't my strong point and it's a tough job creating new political situations in a AU world. The other project I want to start is a companion fanfiction to the (axed) TV show Vanished.
Good luck to all of you guys!
Maiafay:
Hey all,
I have a slightly different story...about the writing bug at least. I had written my first story I believe in the third grade, but the only one I can really remember is the tale my '4th' grade teacher read aloud (in which I had hid in the coat room until he had finished...), about the epic events of me, my best friend, a boat, and some weird alternate world complete with running and screaming from beasties every time we came across them. The tag line of my 'novel' was "and we screamed and screamed." Best seller...yeah.
Anyway, I was a big horror nut and my best friend (no, not the one from my little 4th grade novel; she had moved away by then and I never saw her again), and I traded 'dreams" back and forth through junior high (ah...middle school now is it? LOL) about Freddy Kruger and all the people we hated. Though, when I think about that now, if one of those 'dreams' had been intercepted (especially nowadays)--our butts would have been expelled. We were nasty...and descriptive.
Then came high school and my first Creative Writing class (which I found out the next year you could only take once since the teacher merely regurgitated the lesson over and over again), and I did pretty well in that. The teacher (whom I can't spell his last name to save my life...it starts with M), could choose one student to go to some seminar, and he chose me to go. Yes, whoo hoo, but by then I had other ideas that consisted of artwork and illustrating professionally--and figured writing would get me no where. So, I didn't go.
Now I'm kicking myself in the rear for not going, since I have finally, after 12-13 years of not writing a thing--decided to start up again. Been back on the wheel for two years now, and yes, it has been cutting into my drawing. Yet, I strangely don't mind.
I carry two jobs on top of artwork--and writing, so I'm a pretty busy person. I normally cannot write small scale things...they must be epic and complex...LOL. And also, to hone my skills a bit, I write fanfic. Yes, I will admit I write fanfic. Not of the Dresden Files...I know better than that ;)--but of other fandoms not book orientated. Either way, I have many fandom readers nudging me toward publishing my original stuff, but right now, I'm concentrating on my 'practice until I square things with my style.
That said however, I do have something in the works...a new take on Vampires...and elves, and magic, etc. and will share a little excerpt. I've been told it's a bit heavy-handed, but hey, it's a dream sequence, I'm allowed some surreal, flowy descriptions.
The figure levitated as he drew near, bare feet several inches from the ground, toes curled inward and gnarled. He was clothed in black robes that billowed around him, frayed tendrils reaching for the sky. His skin was gray as ash, hands wizened like his feet. A dark aura churned and rolled behind, lagging like a moldering wedding train. Long white hair snaked from his back like ivory weeds--floating, as if this being approached from beneath the sea. Moths, huge and gray silently fluttered around the head of this creature, their dust settling onto the shoulders of his black robes. There were about three dozen of the insects, flying possessively close as if this being was their only source of light and heat.
Even as the man hovered, the ground that he passed rotted away, white sand dissolving and falling into darkness, bodies that he floated over crumbling into dust--and then the dust into wind. Even the mighty pillars dissolved in his presence, faces screaming no more. The earth opened beneath his feet, a yawning chasm of darkness that spread wider with each step forward. Nathan could not move, could not draw breath into his lungs as he stood mute and transfixed in horror. The space twisted around them, between him and this being--energy crackling with a cold hiss. Nathan sucked in a lungful of tainted air, gathering the courage to peer into the creature’s face--
Ahem...will go back to lurking now...
esper:
Hi! I'm new here. My name is Callan Souza, and I'm an aspiring author. I have two fantasy books published by an extremely small house that I don't tend to count as really being published. I have a horror-based RPG in production by Silven Publishing and a first-person cyberpunk adventure game in production by Mythopoea Studios. I write short stories, novels, and screenplays, and I wouldn't mind getting into comic book/graphic novel scripting. My single greatest desire in life has been, since time immemorial (to me anyways) to be a full-time author. My two preferred genres are fantasy and horror. Right now, I'm revising my completed horror/mystery/romance novel "Dark Hearts." I tend to write a lot of supernatural/occult material, and when I first saw a patron at the hotel where I work with a copy of one of Mr. Butcher's novels I was intrigued. I went to the library and looked it up, and alas!!! My main character, Ian McDermott, seems to be the result of John Constantine and Harry Dresden raising a kid together.
Nemo:
I'm Johnnie, 36 yrs old and been writing since I can remember. I had a few things published back when I was in highshcool but got fed up with unconstructive criticism when I tried college the first time. Now that I'm back in school, most of the writing I do is class related stuff. I have an article that I will be writing for an internation magazine within the next few months.
As far as fiction goes, my inspirations are Lovecraft, Lumley, Howard (Solomon Kane rocks!), Dan Brown (though many of my Masonic Brothers would frown on it), and now local-boy Jim Butcher. I'm thinking of starting a new Dresdenesque project centered on Frankenstein's Monster.
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