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meg_evonne:
Just write cenwolfgirl. It's good for the soul. And let your mind fly on other stories too! Welcome to our humble writing space.
Snowleopard:
Hey cenwolfgirl, you've already done more than a lot of would be writers.
You've got your first draft. Some only talk about their story for years and never get pen to
paper. So congratulations. Keep up the good work.
Just to let you know - JR Tolkein worked on The Hobbit for ten years and would have kept
working on it, except as I understand it, his editor or a friend came to lunch, and stole the
manuscript and took it off to be read/published.
cenwolfgirl:
thanks knowing my frinds they may actualy do that but its not compleatly finnished yet after the holidays they are going to give me feed back so i can inprove it then if i work up the curage i might try to publidsh it but
well i am kind of shy so i don't know yet
but to day i am trying to finish the second chapter of another bookl with the same carictors i thinki have just got an idea how to get started Thanks!!!
JeredMayer:
I just finished and published my first novel, Waypoint, on the Amazon Kindle. The description I have is as follows:
Salem, a young orphan searching for his destiny, is faced with tremendous obstacles and staggering tragedies as he sets out for the northern city of Tsebb.
Con man Donovan Swan and his stoic friend, the monk Cale Farari, move to bustling Sandaria in search of fortune and adventure. They soon find themselves thrust in the middle of a power struggle between a corrupt political council, a brutal constabulary and an organization of killers and spies.
Basker is a retired soldier who has taken up handyman jobs in an effort to escape his violent past. But when his sister is brutally murdered, he embarks on a furious journey in an effort to track down the one person who knows who's responsible.
The lives of these four characters are set on a collision course with each other full of high risks, betrayals, assassinations, psycopaths, revelry, pit fights, gun fights, riots, dangerous women, and daring escapes. In the end, the decisions they make have far- reaching ramifications. Find out all of the explosive details in WAYPOINT by K. Jered Mayer.
It's 186,000+ words at only $6. Well worth your money!
Anyway, you can find it here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006PBBKIY/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1324855892&sr=8-1
Writing it was a blast most of the time and a nightmare some of the time. It started out as a very basic idea and a slim outline. I ended up crafting a story that almost didn't resemble the original plan at all: some events didn't happen, some happened differently, some characters fate to die lived (and a few of those have become crucial characters), some who were supposed to live died. And chronology and consistency were a whole other story.
In the end, though, I'm satisfied with the finished product and so far I've had nothing but positive reviews from those who've read it. I sold 45 copies on .PDF form before it was published and another 19 since it hit the Kindle four days ago. I'm currently working on the sequel which has a much tighter outline and allows me to explore different sides of some of the characters and further fleshing out some ancillary figures from the first novel.
At least read the free sample. If you like it, give it a shot. And if you like THAT, tell your friends.
Sir Aeon:
Hello all
I'm attempting to write a 20 chapter novel (each chapter around 2500 words) , Abjuration of Catacombs. Anyways the story is about a rag tag group of heros(yes I know this has been done many times) are trying to stop a necromancer from releasing six arch devils.
I have the first two chapters done. The story original was going to be first person veiw from the necromancer's veiw but I ended up as a third person with the heros. The necromancer I based off of cowl at first but it soon jumped off of the train tracks and he became something else. He is a creature from another plane of reality who wants to cause chaos in the world just for the fun of it and he does not have a concrete plan
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