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Saliath:
lol now you all are probibaly gonna laugh at me. (Right now I am thinking "Oh S*** what the hell am I doing." And for the record hell is not a curse word.) Anyway.... where was I..... Oh yea. Name is Sam. I have 3 Books unpublished and still in the works. One is called The Solder. It is basically about a solder who first starts out in the military academy and works his way to D-Day (WW2). As I said still in the making.
My second is not that great. I don't even have a title for it. I was just thinking about quitting on that.
Now my third one (Sorry Jim. I'm a big fan of Dresden files, but I can't do your kinda magik.... yet.) Its actually based off of star wars and am proud to say there is a lot of lightsaber action and takes place in the clone war era. (thats why i was thinking "Oh S***"} anyway I am 16 Sophmore. and hoping to live the...... whoever the hell wrote the eragon series and is hooked for life. But that seems a little far away since i lost my inspiration spark that makes you wanna write. so might just fall back on computer networking. lol
Uilos:
I've asked a couple of questions on this board already, but I haven't fully introduced myself. My name's Craig. I'm currently a senior up at a college in Albany NY. I wrote my first novella when I was in HS, it was drek, but it was mine. I started taking my writing seriously in college because it was the only real way I could express myself. Now I'm the new Editor and Chief of my college's literary magazine (though I still go unpublished).
I'm currently working on the first of a contemporary fantasy trilogy (I plan on writing an essay on the subject of Trilogies) set in New York City (where I live and love). The Backstory is about how a sub-set of humanity, more cousins than mutants as they've been around as long as we have. They are the basis for all the legends we've heard about Oracle's, Shamans, Witches, Giants, Werewolves, Vampires and nearly everything else. They all live their lives like we do, but they also have this other social world that they all live in. They've lived with us, protected us, tormented us, since time imemorial, until 1945, when humans decided to forge a power they were not ready for. After the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagsaki, the ones who were legends (known by each other as Alts), were weakend, any of their children born after that were born as any normal human would be.
This lead to what was known as the Blackout, the Alts had never before experience. The world had turned itself on it's head. the gods were no longer in power, and the humans were give more power thean they knew what to deal with. To compound problems, the generation after the blank alts were not born blank. So now these new alts, children just coming into their own powers are haunted by the might of beens of their parents and the long since dormant expectations of their grandparents. They're powerful and confused...but then again, aren't all of the young?
I've been reading the Dresden Files (and watching the show), The Dune Series, American Gods, The Dark Tower series. I've also been watching Heroes, which is perfect in blending powers with real life.
I look forward to talking to some of you and getting/giving feedback.
Take Care,
C
Evergrey:
--- Quote from: Evergrey on May 28, 2007, 08:54:35 PM ---I guess I can give the basic plot of the novel,
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As of now I've made a couple changes to the plot, added in and changed some character and hopefully made the whole thing stronger. I've been typing up the outline and making it a lot more detailed, so I still haven't really written much of the actual story. I'm ashamed because I wasted the whole summer when I could've been taking care of the outline and now school has started again and I just keep denying my writing attention it needs.
SunPhoenix:
Names Curt. I've been a reader of lots of various books which the latest of which is the Dresden Files with Proven Guilty. I'm 17 in my senior year of high school and haven't really written anything longer than little snips of stories at most 3 or so pages long. I know some of my teachers have agreed that some of my written essays for some of the classes has been intriguing to read. While some of them as I've been told have seemed to be (plajurised?). I know it doesn't really amount to the tact needed to write a whole book but I know with some recent ideas that I really have spurred me to atleast atempt to write a book. I have a 3 page outline of what I want in 3 possible books that are kinda in a series but seperate unique events. So far haven't tried doing character boards or anything along those lines.
I just found this website and have been looking through the forums to find good sources of inspiration and hopefully get some good information also.
Mightybri:
Hey all-
Long time reader, first time poster.
I have a bit of an eccentric life that has led me in several directions.
I recently started a job that unfortunately closed off my time to write, but before that I was a storm chaser, photographer, ordained minister, and worked medicine for 13 years.
Here’s some chase logs and photos: http://belzeebub.deviantart.com/ and http://members.cox.net/mightybri
I became interested in writing after a wonderful teacher suggested that I try it for a contest. I didn’t place, but my teacher loved my writing. My academic career took forever because I always forced a couple writing or lit courses to fuel my imagination while taking chemistry and biology classes.
Anyhow, I finished my first novel, a young adult adventure, back in 2002 and have not revisited it since. My next novel was described as a detective novel meets Clive Barker, “Hell to Pay”.
“A man who thinks he lost his soul, meets a man who has.”
I’ve had several agents show interest and have been shopping it around. I’m still waiting for that call though. At least being a full time writer would allow me more chasing time in the spring while doing book tours.
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