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Richard wrote: "Lauryn wrote: "I'm taking a break from editing "Into the Deep" while some friends and family beta it. I've started writing it's sequel which I've yet to title, but am thinking about calling it "Out..."I kind of like that. I'll have to play with that idea. Thank you.
Urban fantasy sounds quite a bit like the sort of stuff Dean Koontz does. Sounds interesting.
Julie wrote: "My YA heroine is homeless living on the streets of Atlanta. (Urban) She acquires an amulet that imparts supernatural abilities to the wearer. (Fantasy)
It's sort of a 'what happens when average..."
and if it happens out in the country, is it rural fantasy? i guess i associate the word "urban" to things like hip hop music and inner city. fair or unfair, that's how it's been used a lot.
It's sort of a 'what happens when average..."
and if it happens out in the country, is it rural fantasy? i guess i associate the word "urban" to things like hip hop music and inner city. fair or unfair, that's how it's been used a lot.
I wonder (and I'm not being catty or anything, just curious) if we could extend urban fantasy to say, rural - metropolitan - suburban - fantasy?I suppose the differentiation is because of fantasy set in a world of traditional Tolkien-like world of orcs and such?
Wikipedia gave a very good explanation for all genres... Tolkien, Martin, Jordan and such as High/Epic fantasy. Urban Fantasy is more when the fantastic mixes with a modern/real world. I think.Wikipedia - fiction genre in writing
Claude Dancourt
To come back to the original question :I am working on a high fantasy (in revision now), and I am struggling with a urban fantasy as wel...
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I am really excited. Just started a book project on Kickstarter. If you don't know what Kickstarter is, you need to check it out. It is a very cool way to get a project funded. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1...
I'm working on a diary type short book which will outline from start to completion what it's like to be an actor who is in line for a part that 2000 people went for; then to be told you came second; then to finally get the part and work as a co-star on an audio series with top English comedian Rik Mayall. As we are halfway through recording, I'm halfway through the book. It's quite interesting ;)
I'm currently working on the second book in The Ties That Bind Series. It's a lot different than Running From Beige, and I brought a pretty evil female villan in! I am also working on a contemporary romance. Hopping genres is much fun for me!
The second book in my Maeve and Kate Mysteries is coming out next month. Have the outline for #3 ready, and am writing a fresh cozy mystery that I started last week. A new character, new setting and I'm have a blast with it!
The third book in my children's bedtime story series--The Purrennium Trilogy, the audiobook version of the Essays for the 99%: The Collection - Class Warfare, a PC Gamer's Guide, and a foray into the dystopian future, which is actually my first adult fiction book. It is shaping up to be my first novel as well. My superb narrator team and I just wrapped (today!) the audiobook version of Ten Questions - The Insiders Guide to Saving Money on Auto Insurance.
I'm in the final throes of completing the second book in my series
.Would be great if you could add it to your wish-list or to-read.
Cheers
Now that I've gotten my first short story out there (it's on Smashwords, waiting to be converted to the major e-tailers) and have received positive results, I'm currently working on sprucing up a few of my other short stories, prepping them for distribution. I also have an 85-page "coming of age" novella for which I'm in the final editing stages. I just keep tormenting myself with the little details!--word choices, phrases, a punctuation mark here or there...alas, the frustrations of being a writer. :)
Two different vampire books. The books are not that great and i have not finished any of the chapters. I really don't know if I am going to even publish them. But I'd love too. I'm not the best of writers. The characters are not people I made up. They are more like characters other authors made up. Um, you can call them sequels of book I've read. It's more like happy ending to "books I like".I have a question I've always wanted to ask? Does any one know of any authors that publish a book using the same character and story history to right there own ending, then published the book. Is it even allowed?
A post-modern book of mixed art, poetry and fiction about cannibalistic necrophilia... it is a love story =P
I have a question I've always wanted to ask? Does any one know of any authors that publish a book using the same character and story history to right there own ending, then published the book. Is it even allowed?Allowed?
It's called an "homage" or "fan fiction" or "plagiarism" depending on who you ask.
Can you write it? Yes, definitely. Can you SELL it? Ah, there's the rub.
The best advice is to ask a professional in the area of copyright law. Read this first:
Legal issues with fan fiction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_is...
Good luck with your projects!
OMG OMG OMG! I have to tell someone! *jumps up and down excitedly*I woke up this morning and POW the whole outline for a new story (or potentially more than one) popped into my head... literally just as I opened my eyes this morning! So I wrote it all down and I am sooooo excited!
Previously my writing has been sporadic, where I'll just write a scene then leave it... as you can probably see from my writing section on my profile, but this is like a whole story all mapped out ready to go! OMG! It's never happened before and I've never been this excited about it! Woo - on a high at the moment!
*continues to bounce up and down*
Congrats!Me? I'm still stuck working on stuff for my pen name trying to get it "done" so I can get back to "real" writing.
Stupid side projects....
Lynxie wrote: "OMG OMG OMG! I have to tell someone! *jumps up and down excitedly*I woke up this morning and POW the whole outline for a new story (or potentially more than one) popped into my head... literally ..."
How fun is that! Now the fun part starts - making it real!
@ Rob - Thanks! Hope the not so fun stuff is finished and you can get back to the good stuff :)@ Christine - You're right! I just have to wrestle it out of my brain and take it hostage by stapling it to the blank page... :)
I've got one book (nonfiction history) that's in final edits and proofs for a new collection that I'm expecting this week. Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out my next project. The non-fiction book I want to write is driving me crazy because I've been spending hours upon hours each week looking for more information unsuccessfully and the other possible project I could start, I'm not sure how to frame as a story. So I'm doing a lot of wheel spinning right now.James Rada, Jr.
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I'm finishing up the next book in the Relic Hunter Series while trying to promote Elementary Magic (Book 1) and Unplanned Magic (the short-story prequel) and avoid the distractions of the Kindle Boards, other book sites and marketing sites....PLUS, I'm reading the latest in the Outcast Season series by Rachael Caine and listening to The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo on my commute to work - OH, and throw in time playing with my dog and connecting with family and friends...jeez, this is multi-tasking in the extreme!
@Leonia ~ feel your pain with the multi-tasking! Work, writing, reading, reviewing, family, pets and sewing all take up every hour in the day - I'm surprised I'm not asleep typing this. :)
I'm working on the sequel to Twin-Bred while beta readers look at my what-genre-is-it-anyway novel (working title: Reflections).
I just started a new novel - I believe it's #5 for me, although I'd have to go back through my computer to take into account various other projects I wrote but didn't decide to follow through on getting published for various reasons to get a completely accurate count (hey, I've been at this for 11 years. There's a lot of stuff floating around!). Seems I'm turning into a mystery writer, with a supernatural bend. The working title is "Move" and it's basically about a woman that gets sick and tired people getting in her way and keeping her from moving ahead in life. So she does something about it, but it goes all wrong. We'll see how it goes ...
Oooh! Karen... looking forward to the sequel :DGood luck Sherri :)
Edits, beta reads and more edits. I'm looking forward to getting back to my WIP I don't have time for until June! :)
Hi, all. As I'm waiting for the edits to my debut novel, I'm working on a suspense thriller set in the deep south. It involves black market adoption and is by far the hardest book I've written. Thanks to an outline I'm plugging away, but I'd love to have a working title. Next on the list. I'm also toying with an idea for a short story anthology I might self-publish, just to get my feet wet.
Your projects sound great, and fun on the editing. I guess I'm quirky, but sometimes I like it better than writing.
I started a new novel this week tentatively titled "Move." It's about a woman that's sick of staying in a rut while others get ahead by being unethical. So she takes the quick and easy way by making a deal with a mysterious man/being and everything goes to hell. It's a murder mystery set in the mountains of east Tennessee (where I frequently visit). Fun, fun, fun. I'm super excited about this one.
You people are massively productive! :) I'm trying to get past writing chapter 2 in my third YA book but am totally drowning in trolling forums and edumacating myself on the the full picture of self-publishing my first novel.
@Tellulah -
We have all done it. Good luck!
As for me:
I'm working on a story that's second in a cycle of mine, but is the fourth I've written. (I'm all over the timeline with this cycle. It all started with a story that takes place 200 years after the main thread, and I went back and filled things in.)
This one is going well. I started it in November for NaNoWriMo as a kick. It was a lot of fun to participate, and to my surprise I did make 50K words in a month that was badly cut up with a natural disaster, power outage and some other things.
There's a love story, but it's about a man whose first son dies suddenly, and he doesn't get the word for over a month. The loss is new to him, but others have gone through it. He goes away and spends time in a small village, incognito, as an itinerant scribe.
It's been enjoyable to write. I'll be updating my blog on the progress soon.
We have all done it. Good luck!
As for me:
I'm working on a story that's second in a cycle of mine, but is the fourth I've written. (I'm all over the timeline with this cycle. It all started with a story that takes place 200 years after the main thread, and I went back and filled things in.)
This one is going well. I started it in November for NaNoWriMo as a kick. It was a lot of fun to participate, and to my surprise I did make 50K words in a month that was badly cut up with a natural disaster, power outage and some other things.
There's a love story, but it's about a man whose first son dies suddenly, and he doesn't get the word for over a month. The loss is new to him, but others have gone through it. He goes away and spends time in a small village, incognito, as an itinerant scribe.
It's been enjoyable to write. I'll be updating my blog on the progress soon.
That sounds like a great story, Elle. I'd be interested in reading it when it's all finished. I'm currently working on editing my second book. It is about a man and a woman who meet by chance on a cliff with the intention of jumping, but the man convinces the woman to give him one night to prove to her that life is worth living. It is a really difficult project for me because it is completely different from my first novel, The Unlimited. That book was more of a sci-fi/action/mystery (was compared to Dan Brown), this one is a drama and written in the first person. While it's a challenge to flip the script and write something totally new, I'm loving every moment of it!
Still working on 'Mourningtide' but took a break to work on the cover design (I do graphic work on the side, in a small way, and my covers are my own designs). I wanted something to go along with the themes in my other covers. Spent all evening, worked very hard, spent a lot of thought - and ended up with something that looked like the disembodied head of Darth Vader with a hangover leering down from a cliff. I deleted it forthwith.
Diana wrote: "Still working on 'Mourningtide' but took a break to work on the cover design (I do graphic work on the side, in a small way, and my covers are my own designs). I wanted something to go along with ..."But what a great visual. :) Hang in there.
The best way I can answer that is hanging on to my sanity... My project has four wikis to manage details, 400 characters, six locations, and at least 22 stories, so far, all happening at the same time. Four of the story lines are Master Controls for dozens of others.Obviously, it won't/can't be released in any possible rational manner.
But I am rather it will be first of it's kind.
And, oh yeah, I'd like to have it done a) while I'm still alive, and b) while it can make a difference... maybe even by this coming November.
I'm working on a story about a boy who can see the future in people's eyes called Snapshots. Not too sure, but a friend and I discussed it and she said it sounded like YA soft sci-fi. It takes place on earth, just has some elements that are sci-fi like. Looking for beta readers to give me opinions on the story or if any part is confusing or hopefully tell me there are no plotholes if anyone is has time. (here's the blurb http://plbjourney.blogspot.com/2012/0...)
My Johnny Vu Thriller Series, Books 3 & 4. They are coming along as if they were siamesed, way too much for one volume. http://www.serracinthriller.comMy second book, now on Amazon Kindle, iBook, Nook, SonyReader and Kobo, is orphaned by my decision to keep writing instead of putting the effort into marketing. Though I have begun another website which will help the series once I begin marketing with it also.
http://www.chinaversusa.com.
I tend to be reading only what may support my fiction, and that in short takes.
I hardly come up for air. Though I saw a great baseball game my grandson pitched and bunted in the winning run on a suicide squeeze, yesterday. Life is great!
I am working on my sequel on my stories about incestuous brothers.. =PI am also in the process of editing and lengthening some of my older works. =P
I'm currently hard at work writing the first book in the Artisan Chronicles, Disinherited.Hit a couple bumps in the road the past week but I know that in the end the book will only be better for it:) Words cannot explain how excited I am about this book!
Tellulah wrote: "But what a great visual. :) Hang in there..."
I finished it. It was worth hanging in there, though I finally deleted the failed image, since it made me choke...
I finished it. It was worth hanging in there, though I finally deleted the failed image, since it made me choke...
I just saw the first iteration of my cover. Just sat and gazed dreamily at it...
I'm working on Dangerous Temptation a YA Paranormal Romance.Today I'm part of something that's going to rock the writing community and you can be too. Join us! :) http://kittyb78.wordpress.com/2012/05... #ROAKBlitz
Gerald wrote: "Right now, I'm working on two things:1. I'm putting the final polishing touches to A TIME OF RECKONING, sequel to OF GOOD AND EVIL .
2. I'm polishing the first draft of the screenplay for OF GOO..."
Gerald, have you found it difficult to convert your novel into a screenplay?
I'm currently working on the fifth manuscript in the Casey Holden mystery series. I tend to work a few books ahead, since the traditional publishing process can be a bit slow at times.
I am writing two story collections - one is about incest and one is bestiality. Then I am writing a poetry collection in tribute to semen entitled "CUM".
Am I too weird or immoral for doing this?
Catrina wrote: "I'm working on Dangerous Temptation a YA Paranormal Romance.Today I'm part of something that's going to rock the writing community and you can be too. Join us! :) http://kittyb78.wordpress.com/20..."
I followed this =P I am the bibliokleptomaniac
Current project:Short story for: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...
Honestly it's a blessing and a curse. I do a lot of good writing to support my next novel but I'm also not working for the novel much...
Current novel:Don't have website yet, but have commented on it on the HIstorical Fiction group, some under Guerillas. It's the third in a Series of books and a spy novel about the partisan group in Philippines and a spy in Japan before war. You don't hear anything about partisan groups in Ph or Pacific either, but it's titled, "The Unsurrendered, A Search for Jacob" It also contains a larger romance in it than I have ever shown before. The partisans, who called themselves, The Unsurrendered were made up of Filipinos and Americans who were aware of the cruelty of the Japanese and refused to surrender and chose to fight behind the lines. There were about 10,000. Thanks! Joyce Shaughnessy
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It's sort of a 'what happens when average Joe, living downtown, meets up with the paranormal' plot line. Does that make sense?
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