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Author Craft / Looking for Critique Exchange
« on: April 04, 2010, 10:01:40 PM »
All right, I'm in a pretty strange position here. I've written three books. I dumped one for the foreseeable future and am heavily editing the second one, because I think I can bring this thing to publication. But it's going to take a serious lot of work.

At the same time, I'm writing one other book, a fantasy novel about a witch hunter, a dominatrix, conspiracies and the end of the world. I have one almost on its way to writeable, a cyberpunk novel about a not-Brazil where an Angel Investigations style team finds themselves up against a corporation who wants to control the city. This isn't counting ... well, several other ideas. Like the cold war of bugs, a vague idea about graverobbers and a manipulative sorceress, and, the newest idea, dark urban fantasy set in Berlin in 1871.

If the ideas sound good, write your own! :D

I'm looking for someone in the same position - someone who spent the effort to write two or three books, and might be on their way to publication. I'm looking for someone who's aware that it's a long damn process, and it might not even get anywhere for all the work you put into it.

Sorry if I sound picky as hell, but it isn't a search for a beta reader, it's a search for a little more. It's worth a shot. I'm looking for someone reliable who writes completely demented, and dark, books. Reply to the thread, check out my livejournal, or something. Any takers?

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Hey, I was there, and it was epically fun. Jim's the first professional fantasy/scifi writer I've ever met. I got a handshake from him, because being tired like that my memory works strongest with tactile sensations and a hug would be bizarre. I don't think he expected that! :)

Though I'm not completely sure, I think he said the title of Book 12 is "Changes."

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Author Craft / Re: Cure for Writer's Block: Character casting
« on: August 01, 2008, 04:17:56 AM »
This is part of why I grabbed a City of Villains subscription. Because of the character creator I could finally see the faces of my people in detail. :)

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DF Comic Books / Re: Style of Comics You Read
« on: May 11, 2008, 04:36:55 AM »
I read pretty much anything.

Like the Archie Sonic comic a long time ago. The Director's Cut of Endgame, for me, is the Sonic story.

Anyway, very more recently, I devoured the Sandman a half a year ago. It's surrealism with a soul, satisfying to read after so many anime where the headtrips make no sense at all, and it makes me crazy impatient to try my own hand at a story like its primary arc. I'm two volumes into the Simone run on Birds of Prey, in which Lady Shiva is love, and on the final volume of Miyazaki's Nausicaa manga.

Action comic don't do it for me at all, and neither do the silly chuckle-a-day comics. I need a lot of words, even in the light reads, like Birds of Prey. My signature is from one of my favorite webcomics. ;)

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Note; this does not work for authors who can't draft and revise and have to get it right first time.  There are several successful ones in the field.

Anyone you can mention? :) I'm a bit this way, as rereading is never my thing, and I'm curious.

And in reply to the thread: those are really interesting observations! Like Neurovore said, it's probably partly because of the get-things-moving-now voice of the DFs. But it's still intriguing, as a person whose descriptions are the key problem. :)

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Author Craft / Re: Demon Name reference guide
« on: April 25, 2008, 04:23:31 AM »
I don't see sources on that page! ;)

How about some actual grimoires like http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/ksol.htm#contents or the material on www.sacred-texts.org? The Internet is for the occult...

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Ravirn and Cerice in the Webmage urban-fantasy-esque books are hackers that look like elves.

Eddi in War for the Oaks is a rock singer.

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Author Craft / Re: What do you wish would be done MORE in urban fantasy?
« on: December 08, 2007, 03:37:38 AM »
I agree about the multiculturalism. I've heard that Lavie Tidhar does a lot of this, bringing in Hebrew mythology. I've had Snake Agent (the Liz Williams book) suggested to me before, and I plan to getting around it. American Gods had some occasional variety in it, too.

More... types of urban fantasy would be nice, too. There's a lot of detectives, and the Magic Council, which pops up everywhere, even in the Potters, is really starting to irritate me. How about something different, like an undersea investigator or an Indiana Jones archeologist? Strain the genre.

I have a Sidhe spy book brewing, though I don't know enough of the mythology to be able to write it yet. To my amusement, Simon Green got to the spies first, with The Man With the Golden Torc.

Oh, and technomancy. Hell yes. Magitech! Like WebMage, or the Mage the Ascension RPG. With some geeks in a world like that, some video game references could pop up.

Other countries, other cities... I love threads like this. :D

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Author Craft / Re: Dresden vs everyone in the Genre
« on: October 11, 2007, 09:24:39 PM »
Try the Angel TV series.

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the TV show, the comic, and a few potential projects on the horizon. Coooooool! 

Potential projects, hmmmm.

I'm joining the crowd with that I lurve the wig. :)

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Author Craft / Re: Who's going to participate in NANO this year?
« on: October 05, 2007, 03:47:19 AM »
My plan is a spy thriller with a renegade Macross Plus-esque AI, master races, guns which create diseases and a hero who I should probably make a little less similar to Shadow from American Gods.

Oh yeah, I feel excited. First I have to finish the novel I'm working on this month...

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Author Craft / Re: Critique Circle Online Workshop
« on: October 05, 2007, 03:45:05 AM »
Scene and summary, yeah, some things work better when they're not said at length. There are a lot of beginners who don't describe enough, though. It's one of my weaknesses. :P

I read tons of other how-to's; most were absolutely worthless.

Monica Wood's description is actually as good as Amazon says? I'll have to get it from the interlibrary loan.

Don't forget Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight Swain. Old but good. :)

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Author Craft / Re: Critique Circle Online Workshop
« on: October 01, 2007, 03:51:34 AM »
Critique Circle is pretty nice. I haven't posted too many stories as yet, because I'm working on novels and can't post all of my chapters yet.

I find it freaking difficult to find entertaining stories on there, though. I'm just picky, I think. If I could, and if I had more bloody availability, I would probably give them more critiques. I glance in every once in a while. :)

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Author Craft / Re: Who's going to participate in NANO this year?
« on: September 27, 2007, 06:38:17 AM »
Ow, Bgarver. :/

Weather is just weird for me, I suppose, like most Minnesotans. Before I started up on college, summers gave me ideas and winters had me write them. I think the crazy varied weather keeps me lively. :)

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Author Craft / Re: Who's going to participate in NANO this year?
« on: September 26, 2007, 03:17:14 AM »
"Showing yourself that you can write a novel" was, I think, the original goal of Nano. I want to prove that I can finish more than a few projects. ;)

What's so depressing about November? For me, a Minnesotan, winter work wonders for writing things.

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