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Author Craft / Re: writing habits of Dresdenarians
« on: April 27, 2008, 02:18:01 PM »
1. Depends. If at home, the computer is used. If elsewhere, pen and paper are used.
2. I try to set aside time every day to write at least something.
3. I do force at least a couple paragraphs to a page out. If I get more, that's great.
4. Part outline, part general idea. I know where I'm going but I'm also letting the characters flow as they will. They have some set things that I'm guiding them towards but mostly they roam free. I do have some things that are completely outlined, though.
5. I have an entire corner of the basement that is mine. I write there as it contains both my computer and my binder of hand written stuff.
6. I play very loud music while I write as sometimes the music inspires things.
7. Sometimes I start with characters and sometimes I start with plots. I write a lot...
8. I constantly edit and re-write and 'tweak'.
9. I show my rough drafts to a few people.
10. It really depends on what I'm writing, but in general I find battle scenes the hardest to write.
11. Constantly. My big complaint right now (ha!) is that a novel that has gone from 99, 267 words has exploded up to over 105,000 over the course of one rewrite. And that's with deleting large sections of text. Tells you how much I've been adding in to fill the gaps...

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Author Craft / Re: Need an impartial Opinion
« on: April 26, 2008, 01:44:22 AM »
Another option for you might be to check out Critters at
http://www.critters.org/

It's not the fastest way of getting critiqued, but there are a lot of people there and they're all really good at giving critiques. I'm there as well.

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DF TV Series / Re: TV Series Timeline
« on: April 26, 2008, 01:37:26 AM »
Quote from: Darkling
  I found Power of the Night on a Terrence Mann message board in Mp3 format and I burned that to disc.
Now I want Bob to sing!

OO I've been looking for that track for ages. I don't suppose you'd feel much like sharing?

Edit: never mind. I found it.

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Author Craft / Re: Fanfiction - Good or Evil?
« on: April 01, 2008, 09:52:30 PM »
I find fanfiction to be a useful tool in fleshing out and even in generating characters. My 'Angels of the Night' characters all have their roots in some fanfic I was planning out but never wrote. I use fic as a tool to help me work on my writing in a familiar, preexisting setting. I take what I've learned writing that and apply it to my original works.

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Author Craft / Re: Author In Progress
« on: April 01, 2008, 09:45:14 PM »
Hi all!
So I write. I write a lot. I've finished a few small things while others are still works in progress. While I do indulge in the writing of fanfiction, I do write original stuff. Here's a rundown of what I'm working on.

Sword and Sorcery
My main project. if all goes well, this will be a trilogy. It's the story of ten college students who find themselves accidentally transported to a new world. They become caught in the middle of a conflict that has been going on for hundreds of years. Sword is pitted against sorcery in a struggle for dominance of the the world of Keverynn. Their arrival is the trigger to an ancient prophecy. Will sword or sorcery triumph? Will Keverynn be returned to a peaceful state or will it be forever plunged into darkness?
Book 1 ('Path if the Warrior') has been completed and sits at 100, 532. It still needs some work, but a friend of mine is an editor and she's already agreed to look at it for me when I can afford it.
Book 2 ('Path of the Sorceress') is in progress.

Some of the story is up at http://ss.keverynn.net but note that not all of it is there.

Angels of the Night
This project is much less developed than the previous one. I haven't been working on it for as long. It's presently undergoing some reworking in the earlier chapters.

Over a thousand years ago, Ardren, the mainland of the world of Melphor, was wracked by a centuries long bloody war referred to in the Histories as the Wars of the Roses, an endless struggle to rid the world of the forces of darkness. For countless centuries, the two countries fought before the country inhabited by the forces of the light called upon its neighbor countries and formed the Soulforge Alliance. Together, they beat back the darkness and reclaimed their lands. The land of the dark things became a forbidden place to go as the evils would corrupt your soul, and all who went there did so upon pain of death.

The year is now 1172, 1177 years after the creation of the Soulforge Alliance. Rumors of creatures long thought destroyed over a thousand years ago are being whispered about in the Alliance, creatures that once served the Dark One, creatures that, if they really did still exist, threatened the stability of the Alliance with their very existence.

The Knights of the Rose, the protectors of the Alliance and the world of Melphor, swore to exterminate them at the end of the war and, if the rumors were true, would rid the world of the evil once again and preserve the peace.

This project is located at http://aotn.keverynn.net

Miscellaneous
http://fiction.keverynn.net/
I keep all of my other original works here.
Poetry - some of this stuff is really old, dating back to junior high
Children of the Tiger - I'd call this a short story, but I'm not really sure how to describe it. Fantasy genre.
Stars of Destiny - This is an attempt to convert a fanfic into an original story. It's kind of corny, but it was fun. It's not really a serious project, just something I did to see if I could
Dragon's Flight - I'm in the process of converting this one over to the world of Keverynn. Eventually, it will be called 'On Dragon's Wings' to avoid any Pern imagery. It's pretty terrible plot wise right now.
Chaos Cycle - this was my NaNoWriMo project a couple years ago. I didn't get very far, but it's completely plotted out and just needs a small bit of tweaking in the fine points and needs to be written out completely. Otherwise I'm happy with this one.
Short Stories - 'Crazy' is one that I'm really proud of, but the other two... 'Torene's Story' will also soon be converted over to the world of Keverynn and is actually pretty important to the 'Sword and Sorcery' story line. Not directly, but it's still fairly important.

Also, feel free to poke around my domain at http://keverynn.net for my other, less original writing projects if that's where your tastes are.

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DF TV Series / Re: POLL: End Game Opinion of the Series
« on: April 01, 2008, 07:59:06 PM »
I quite enjoyed the series. I generally enjoy things that Robert Hewitt Wolfe has worked on. I do one day plan on reading the books and buying the DVDs, but where I live this isn't an easy thing to do. It was hard enough to find episode downloads of the show. Those have earned themselves a permanent place on my hard drive until I have the DVDs.
I admit, I'm having a really hard time getting myself to watch the last episode. It's showing on TV tomorrow night on Space and I'm just dreading it. I know it'll be good, but I can't bear to watch the end knowing that it's the end.

*sad*

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