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The Deposed King:
I always thought it would be an impossible dream to become an author. But the more I read and then played D&D both as a player and later a game master, the more I wished it were possible.
Then I found Baen's Bar and got to read free exerpts from actual authors and saw people, aspiring writers, putting up free stories in the slush pile. I looked at it and said that isn't too hard, wrote my first couple chapters and promptly fell on my proverbial face.
A decade of doodling around, stopping and starting, later and lo and behold. I sat down and decided it was do or die time. I would either write the novel or give up the dream. A month later out popped my first novel.
2 years later, after the first one was published, and I now have 10 books up for sale on amazon and living as a full time writer/author.
And all this from a guy who in his early days of writing was asked if english was his second language.
keep after it, ToniVA,
The Deposed King
ToniVA:
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keep after it, ToniVA,
The Deposed King
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Thank you! ;D
JasonR77:
Hi all.
I've been writing in some form since I was a teenager. My friend and I came up with some ideas and even though we went our separate ways, I stuck with some of them and began incorporating a few into plans for two different series. I've completed three manuscripts for one such series, and tried self-publishing one of them. Fortunately, that experience led me to give my manuscript to a friend, the very friend that got me into the Dresden Files, and through some harsh but justified criticism, I realized I needed to rethink everything. So three of those manuscripts are flushed, and I've engaged a total rethink for those characters. I'm now writing an urban fantasy series which takes place in Detroit (where I'm from) and features a former Detroit cop (which I'm not) being sucked into the world of the supernatural after taking on a case in which three men have been murdered by a creature that no normal means can identify.
I'm nearing the end of my first draft (much later than expected due to a hard drive crash), and plan to hand it over to my same friend for editing immediately after I'm done. It is called Wings of Death and I hope to link it here soon, probably through Smashwords or something. My only other surviving manuscript, The Liberators, is a sci-fi alternate universe number that probably needs some tweaking for technology since I wrote the original in 1998, but I have hope for it.
The Deposed King:
Keep those original manuscripts and come back to them someday. You'll be able to do a line item edit and revise and expand one day. Even if you have to revamp most of the conversations.
Regardless, great work on your latest effort. I hope it works out for you!
The Deposed King
Paynesgrey:
--- Quote from: The Deposed King on July 03, 2014, 05:56:12 AM ---Keep those original manuscripts and come back to them someday. You'll be able to do a line item edit and revise and expand one day. Even if you have to revamp most of the conversations.
Regardless, great work on your latest effort. I hope it works out for you!
The Deposed King
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What he said. Never throw anything away. Whether it's a story that doesn't work or just a scene that didn't fit, never throw anything away. I've salvaged some good shorts and novellas from things that made for a narrative lump in the primary WiP. Or you can find a way to salvage a broken story's key concept or characters and work them into something better later on.
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