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Paynesgrey:
Yeah, they usually take 2 to 6 months to decide on submissions. This was same day. Granted, I submitted first thing in the morning, on the first day of this quarter's submission week... but yeah, I reckon it's got to be good to be accepted by Abyss & Apex, and to make it past their entire editor posse in one day. Whompety-BOOM, as Shaifennen would say.
Blaise Corvin:
I'm finally writing a novel and sticking to it. I don't regret doing so until this point though because I have a lot more life experiences to draw from now. The attempts I made before were all horrible too and I was able to learn something from all of them.
Paynesgrey:
Biggest thing to remember is always keep writing. You'll learn from the process of just hammering words out, even if they suck. (Granted, you have to go back and look them over with a critical eye, figure out what doesn't work and why, etc.) But it's about exercising those neural thingees as much as it is anything else. Set a daily minimum for yourself, even if it's just a couple hundred words. (I go by weekly, myself, but I've been spending so much time editing and revising multiple stories I've had little chance to hammer out fresh, new words. Gotta see to that.) In any case, keep it up!
DeskOwl:
Hi, I'm Mary, and it's been about five minutes since I last waffled on what to write. ;)
I have basically three main stories:
The Nameless - One of the Fae who was born into magical slavery sells his name in order to buy his freedom. In doing so, he gets caught up in ancient prophecies, conspiricies, and eventually fights to free his people from their millennia old contract.
Strange Aeons - Basically Lovecraft as Urban Fantasy. The main character was kicked out of Miskatonic University years before and has settled in to a more normal life far away from all that craziness. She gets dragged back in again when good old Misk U loses a copy of the Necronomicon, believes it was taken to her new city, and asks her for help finding it.
The Nowhere Project - This is what I am about to start for NaNoWriMo. Imagine what would happen if a Star Gate/Star Trek type team went on an expedition to explore the Nevernever. The rest is still in the early stages of planning for NaNoWriMo.
FalcoDude:
Hey there! ;)
When I started picking this up (writing that is) as a hobby I somehow really got into it.
Now I'm still very much uncertain on how to go on about it, only thing I know is I love writing! (No idea how writing feels about the matter, we shall see, she has yet to reply)
That's why it was like a giant weight got lifted off me when I found this forum, looks to be chock full of decent people!
I'm gonna try to stick around for a while , even though I don't usually do forums, the idea of authors (both wannabes and pros) talking about their works just seems so cool and appealing to me.Plus, maybe some skill will rub off eventually.
Anywho, enough with the sappy stuff. ::)
Thus far I'v only begun writing one "novel", just trying to get into the motions (trying to follow the words per week advice).
It's a fanfic, really.Technically.
Nothing I could potentially monetize (If for some miraculous reason it happened to be good,unlikely) or anything but ...I guess it's a pet project of sorts.
Set in the Dresden files universe (love you Jim!) but not in quite the same time, or timeline.
Tentatively named "Chi non muore".
Sect of Kemmlerites (bad spooks necromancers) opens shop in an Italian city, gathers all sorts of troubled adolescents into a sick little family of would be necromancers, doing some reeally sick stuff in the process.
Eventually the Council wipes them out.
A couple kids survive the purge, one of them is saved by a Warden and tries to walk the straight and narrow.
Some years down the line his past catches up with him : old and new faces crawl out from under their dark holes in search of the word of Kemmler.
Something along these lines.All set in Italy.
Am I allowed to post this? I think so? I mean, it's clearly a Dresden Fanfic and.... well, I'm sure somebody will let me now. :-X
Thanks Y'all!
P.S.:I hate your verification thing.
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