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Post by IceJedi5 on Jul 31, 2007 1:32:47 GMT -5
night homes
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Post by Sonny on Jul 31, 2007 1:37:40 GMT -5
someone said to me to get some heroine Excuse me? Are you talking about buying heroines? You can't just buy women, you fucking filth. Well, it was probably just a typo...still! The women...How much for the women? |
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Post by Angel on Jul 31, 2007 1:38:37 GMT -5
10 colombian kittens. Upfront, no vaccines, and they have to have been treated for ticks and fleas.
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Post by IceJedi5 on Jul 31, 2007 1:38:59 GMT -5
you're in rehab.
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Post by Angel on Jul 31, 2007 1:48:12 GMT -5
I think I was wrong about that...
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Post by asshole doctor™ on Jul 31, 2007 1:50:52 GMT -5
counting 4323
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Post by IceJedi5 on Jul 31, 2007 1:51:26 GMT -5
one moar
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Post by Sonny on Jul 31, 2007 1:55:20 GMT -5
AND THIS BIRD YOU CANNOT CHANGE!
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Post by IceJedi5 on Jul 31, 2007 1:56:49 GMT -5
Hehehehehehehehehe
Okey dokey mister.
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Post by gregory on Jul 31, 2007 2:01:17 GMT -5
Huh...are there any authors you can definitely see influencing your work? This is a dangerous question, you realize. That's increasingly hard to pin down, as Matt (my co-author) and I have been writing together since we were 14. It doesn't help that we're a bit playful with our writing styles. One book is about a tyrannical wizard-king who is trying to bring about a golden age in spite of his failing health and sanity. The other is a coming of age story that turns certain aspects of the Hero's Journey and traditional fantasy on their heads - such as the hero crossing the threshold from the magical world into the mundane world, instead of the other way around, or the hero beginning with kewl magick powers and gradually losing them as he confronts mortality and adulthood. Matt and I have different influences. Terry Pratchett is there, but we don't write comic fantasy. Tolkien is there, but every fantasy writer says that. David Eddings, Terry Brooks, and Robert Jordan are there, but there are things they do that we would never want to inflict on a reader. George R. R. Martin is one of our new favorites, but we're not really writing that kind of series. I've enjoyed the Harry Potter series, but I have no interest in writing fantasy in a modern setting. In truth, whatever I am reading has some pull over my writing, but it's about mood, not content. When I was reading The Shining, for example, there were a couple scenes I wrote that were more horror than fantasy. Some of what we do is react against devices that we feel are overused by individual authors or by the genre as a whole - prophecies, exposition vending machines (Gandalf, I'm looking at you), over-describing people and places (Jordanizing, as we call it), etc... And I'll stop there. I am ferociously passionate about my writing, but I've learned not to expect other people to be. |
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Post by Angel on Jul 31, 2007 2:04:34 GMT -5
Hey, at least you're trying to get your stuff published. I'm completely content with writing it, then giving it to friends and family to read.  |
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Post by IceJedi5 on Jul 31, 2007 2:05:16 GMT -5
I wish I could write stories....
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Post by gregory on Jul 31, 2007 2:09:40 GMT -5
Hey, at least you're trying to get your stuff published. I'm completely content with writing it, then giving it to friends and family to read. That's fun, too. Publishing is a completely different game from writing. I feel like I know the rules, now, but I don't feel like I completely *understand* them. It's like you can read the Kama Sutra for years and still be a virgin who can't even talk to (wo)men. I guess that makes getting published something like the plot of American Pie... ...or something... |
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Post by Sonny on Jul 31, 2007 2:11:21 GMT -5
I wrote a fanfic once it was about me going into Hogwarts with a duffle bag full of submachine guns...and well...you get the picture.
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Post by IceJedi5 on Jul 31, 2007 2:11:38 GMT -5
I read a story about some guy who copied a chapter out of Pride and Prejudice and slightly changed it. He sent it to some publishers and only one editor noticed it was plagiarized, the rest rejected the story.
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