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traycon3:
Hi...I'm t3, who might (if I ever finish anything) be published under the name A. LeIon or Ana Leion or something similar. I am also a worshiper of the great Spell-Check.
I have written a bunch of poetry and short stories this year for classes. Because, yes, I almost need a deadline to be inspired to write. Also, I've written a few fanfiction short stories, which are pretty ok, if I do say so myself.
However, I do co-write with my best friend. We're working on a story involving magical organizations. Um...*Pulls out notebook she has been working in for over three years* Yes, it did sit for over a year in my friend's dorm collecting DUST!!! *Glowers*
...I had a point. Story.
The story is about organizations, particularly one called The Organization of Sword and Sorcery, an organization intent on keeping the peace. Dean-Walter Houdini, Vinny Malone, Sereno Davis, and Dymphna (Dee) Goldman are the prominent members of this organization.
Dee meets a woman named Zalika Aldram, who finds anything that has to do with magic illogical, despite the fact that she is a Magi herself. Dee enjoys dragging Zalika on random missions with no rhyme or reason, except that Zalika is almost a security blanket when Dee is around her partner Sereno Davis.
On one of the missions, Zalika meets Donovan, a "sleezy hit man", to quote Dee's description.
Um...it hasn't gotten too far into the actual plot, though we do have (had?) a story arch. Somewhere...over the rainbow...with my luck...
Beyond that, I've started a few ideas, but they haven't gotten off the ground. I've been busy, lazy, lazier, reading, lazy again, dealing with writer's block, lazy, and generally just plain lazy. I do hope to actually complete something by the end of college, which doesn't technically start 'till '08. Well, I figure I'd better stop rambling on and on about the fact that I have no social life, let alone a personal life.
redneckwitch18:
Hi, I plan to write under the name Caroline Peters.
I began writing in middle school and haven't stopped since. W/ at least 6 started ( and each one well over 50 pages), I am always carrying around a small notebook to jot down new ideas.
Writing mostly sci-fi and romance dramas, I tend to get pretty attached to mine.
For instance, I am writing about a female vampire named Sage. She is the head of a so-called "association" of vampires, yet she doesn't know her past. Her Werewolf lover was assassinated, so she goes on a international investigation with a native American ("Indian") shifter/ bounty hunter to track down all the things her dead man had been doing. Uncovering gov. secrets, she also digs up her Otherworld past involving a Fae male and lost brothers and sisters.
Eventually, she defeats a supernatural entity who was controlling a fairly influential man and finds happiness with her new life, leaving her destructive lonely one in the past.
I know it kind of reeks of un-originality, but hey, it's the stuff that is packed in my head so much that it oozes out of my ears ;)
Pippin:
Hi
I don't clase myself as anything but I enjoy creating stories and working out plots, making worlds and taking the journey with my characters - I guess I write for myself not with the aim of other reading or enjoying them.
I've had about three concepts on the go for the last 7 years but each time I have run in to block and started anew with a different story. One I'm very passionate about but I worry that on paper the idea isn't as good as it seems in my head. Now I have recently found the Dresden Files and this forum I feel a renewed inspiration to have a go.
I'll keep reading your posts and see how things go
Evergrey:
Hey, all.
It's my dream to write novels for a living, though thus far I've only written a few short stories and poems. I'm not published, though some of my writing is on Writing.com. This is my portfolio, here: http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/user_id/ledzep. I have a novel outlined in a notebook and I started typing the actual thing up, but haven't worked on it as much as I'd like. Hopefully I can get a lot done this summer. The novel is in a fantasy setting, and I hope to write in mostly that genre as well as horror.
If I do get published, or maybe I should say when I get published, hehe, I'm not sure if I'll use my real name or not. I know I'll use my first name and middle initial, Christopher M.
I guess I can give the basic plot of the novel, hopefully it hasn't really been done yet and I'm not making a fool of myself. The title is Ancestors' Blood, and it's about an evil lord named Damos Medraut who discovers an unknown magic called the Hidden Arcane. The magic was kept hidden for centuries when a family discovered it, when they realized the immense power behind the Hidden Arcane, they kept it secret. In order to keep it from being found, they wrote it in their bloodline rather than on parchment or in a tome. Damos discovers the current bearer of the Hidden Arcane, a girl named Justinia Sioddonel, and creates an army from creatures called malgogs in order to abduct the girl and use her hidden power.
The malgog army, led by Damos' right-hand lizardman, Kar'as Bral, attack the town Justinia is in. She escapes with the help of the hero, Althane Holm, and two visitors to their town, a bard named Thallion Steed, who is half-elven, and a mysterious fighter named Razul Nightfall. Thallion knows of a ghost city named Nazlamath, a place where no magic can enter. They hope to go there to try and hide from Damos' magic while fleeing from the remnants of malgogs chasing them.
That probably sounds really cliche, but I feel my plans for it are original enough.
Valkryst:
--- Quote from: Mickey Finn on August 17, 2006, 02:00:20 PM ---Are you learning to become an author, but haven't yet published professionally?
Tell us about yourself and your work here. (Please don't post samples directly to the board. Links ok.)
--- End quote ---
Hello everyone, I am indeed an unpublished author...what those who spend far too much time in front of a computer might call a newbie or if their ability to spell without numbers involved is limited, a n00b. I have been writing for myself since I was in first grade, and have recently decided to try my hand at getting published. Honestly I still write for myself, I have no preconceptions about being published or read or even really liked but I figure that if I can share the enjoyment I get out of it then why not?
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