Samy :]

I belive that if I were to read a short story such as that, I'd be in for one hell of a ride!!!

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suzakugaiden

Still working on Conifer~~~

Samy :]

more people???

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cbrmale

I wrote a crime novel with a romantic sub-plot set in Russia. Nothing like making things difficult for myself, transporting my Western journalist to Moscow and having him fall for a Russian girl and helping her find the men who are trying to kill her. I loved the characters, so I wrote a follow-up piece, focussed on the twosome and her friend, mostly set in Siberia. A blacker piece, it is about justice and revenge.

I am planning something different at the moment, an erotic piece based in Paris of the early 1920's. A mixture of things, a writer comes across a wordly artists model who shows him a different sign of life. And then he rescues a young Roma (gypsy) girl and falls for her. Romantic in parts, tragic in other parts, playing with history as well.

dwellerofthedeep

Your stuff sounds pretty interesting cbrmale. Personally I'm a bit of a romantic so the novel I'm editing right now is a sci-fi, norse mythology, love story. Currently I'm trying to find a good next story and setting to turn into a novel, the main ideas I've been kicking around are pretty science fiction-y with religious overtones or themes (Christian for me as it's what I know best).

1. Far future type setting or more probably an alternate reality in which humanity lives primarily on a massive starship captained by Christian God and his children (The greek pantheon used for inspiration) and powered by a miniature star. A lot of stuff about greek and angelic mythos in this one. Focus on an engineer in the bowels of the ship which is equivalent to the greek underworld.


2. A setting in which the old adversary of humanity got fired and replaced by a younger, more ambitious and goal oriented demon. The new devil messes the world up pretty significantly so fey creatures start to reapear while developments are pushed back. Meanwhile a fey lord, fond of crossbreeding with mortals gets stabbed in the back by his rivals and his mostly human sons are left to fend for themselves in <Cheese Mode> a world gone mad. </Cheese Mode>

Sorry if this was a long and over-detailed post.

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SteMcGrath

I'm writing a fiction biography. It's based on three months of my life where I feel decisions I made, probably weren't the best. So alot of it will be true, and also fiction. It's a bit like Dicken' David Copperfield in that respect. I have to be careful that it doesn't turn into the fantasies of a 21 year old, but at the same time, to express life at this age. I think being influenced by good writers is fantastic. You can't replicate their distinct style, but you will develop your own after time; just be patient!

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Quidam

I'm writing a contemporary fantasy (I think). Or trying to, anyway. I'm still in the process of planning it all out, but I have most of the character profiles written. The story's your basic one about a girl in her mid-twenties who has to fight back evil. There's three races in the world--two have "powers" (one evil and one good race), and us normal mortals--but all of them look human. Something happened and the evil race is rising up to power to kill everyone else, so the good people have to form their own "army" and beat them back. All without (most of) the mortals knowing, of course.

...Without the history, it looks like run-of-the-mill crap. I swear it'll be better than it sounds.

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DavidGil

I'm writing a fantasy one currently, medieval type. (Yes, I'm sticking with it and have done for several weeks which I'm proud of! ) I also have a crime one on hold which is in my signature. There's a second one on hold also which is basically a fantasy one but set in an american civil war type era.

I guess my favorite has to be fantasy though, as I'm familiar with those stories and medieval times by reading those books.

I need to start writing something though to enter my first competition.

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sdavis2k

I find some of the best authors seem to combine all their influences into a unique story of their own. I mentioned him earlier in another post but E E Knight's Vampire Earth series is really good to me and its a mix of sci-fi, fantasy, and post apocalyptic. E E Knight even says its a mix of the stories and movies he grew up with. Oddly enough while it's called Vampire Earth, which is what attracted my attention to begin with the creatures are not truly vampires but aliens that feed off human aura. So take your Tolkien, Rowling, Lovecraft, Jordan, Leonard, and whomever else you like and meld it all together to create something uniquely your own.

Oh and for what I am writing I am putting the finishing touches on a first draft of just a general romantic comedy piece I started after finding where I had written a brief outline and character descriptions when I was in high school.

Leyline

A post-Singularity anthropological folk tale.

A coming of age story set after most of human civilization has been destroyed by an electromagnetc insect plague that propagates along radio frequencies.

A techno-thriller concerning a fairly devious young lady forced to rely on her brilliant but insane ex boyfriend when her drug dealing husband is killed in a DEA raid and the unbalanced cop who led it comes after her in a very personal way.

A pseudo mystery set in a Balkanized America connected by implanted computers, super-expert systems called 'familiars' and intrigue between competing city states. When the beings who visited Earth centuries ago and called themselves 'Tricksters' return, all hell breaks loose.

A neo-gothic about the ghost of a young girl kept alive by a small towns denial of her death and the fertility rituals of summer time parties.

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Those are the pieces far enough along that I'm sure of finishing them. I have about 10 more in rough first draft form, and probably 15-20 in expanded idea/notes form.

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