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I've since finalized my second book, and right now I'm working on my third. This doesn't leave as much time for forum browsing and video games as I would've liked, but it is rewarding.
At any rate, for my own records, and for anyone who's interested, I'm keeping an online journal about my progress on my latest novel. I update it every day, and I think some writers out there might be interested in observing the day-by-day process of novel writing. If you're one of them, I maintain the journal here:
http://www.thetruancy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=39&p=347#p347
No, you don't have to sign up.
That is where I post most all of my writings, including many letters to the local newspaper and other projects I am engaged in.
The group is "Request to Join" to view the material within, just send me a short note saying where you heard about it and I will let you in pretty quick.
And please, comment, critique, give your first impressions, etc. (Unless that destroys the aim of this thread, in which case, don't.)
Have a wonderful day!
Wannabe writer (war, action, fantasy, history, power struggle), video gamer (strategy, simulation, action), former Soldier.
http://www.youtube.com/user/skyanimal
It's an "everything" blag, but I avoid vapid vanity posts out of consideration for people who read it.
(And I use blag instead of blog because it sounds sillier)
My blog, mainly poetry/freewrites. I'm always looking for feedback and other people with interesting blogs, so feel free to comment so I know you came by. Actually, feel more than free. Feel compelled.
I shall die at the top."
-Jonathan Swift
http://gooseyourself.blogspot.com/
I've read and enjoyed a lot of the stuff here on the PA forums and have to admit that JH is one of my favourite writers. Here's a link to some of my stuff. Most of it is fairly light on for talent but I'm writing as much as I can as often as I can.
These short stories count as 'practice' that might be heaped upon my larger, more substantial works.
I also have a blog over at blogspot known as websinthe.
Or my blog at: websinthe.
I use it as an all-access everywhere repository for my ongoing works. Makes my life easier because I always forget my flashdrive on my desk, and I like writing at weird spots. Any critiques are much appreciated, though I cannot vouch for the quality. I'm getting there, I think. I hope, as I've pretty much convinced myself its what I want to do with myself. Maybe I should reconsider.
I'd also like to take this moment to express my absolute amazement at this little corner of the PA community. I can't say I've read a lot of stuff here, because I simply haven't due to reading difficulty at the moment. From what I have read, though, and the people involved, words cannot express how I feel. It is a good thing.
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http://itsabrandnewpage.blogspot.com
Obviously crits and opinions are highly welcomed.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16613_7-college-scholarships-that-require-absolutely-no-talent.html
Those are articles I wrote for Cracked.com, check them out and laugh!
p.s.
Cracked is great for new writers who do good list based comedy. They pay fairly decent.
Also, tell me what you think? you guys liking the humor?
Validate me. Please?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/TY5DML75RJ18
Validated.
I always assumed Cracked had it's own team of professional list makers. Huh, submissions... wacky.
I've been trolling these boards for a while and am only now taking the plunge and becoming an active poster so to start I'm going to shamelessly link to my FictionPress site
Link.
I've got one 'epic' fantasy story I've been working on for a while, one Sci-Fi that I've completed, and I have a lot of other random ideas that I'm going to toss up there. If that's your bag, head on over, and cheers.
genius!
http://journalpoem.blogspot.com/
The goal is to write a poem every day about or related to something that happens to me.
It is an exercise in quantity over quality, with no revisions allowed after the initial day a piece was written. I don't expect them all to be great, but I think a few gems might eventually fall out of it.
Alright, so you jump to the forums on Cracked.com and go to general discussion and stickied at the top will be a thread called "I want you to make comedy for cracked". Go in there, read what it says. It's fairly simple to become a writer for cracked. It's insanely hard to get them to accept a pitch. You gotta be real good at the list based comedy. That's all they want. They have columnists to do everything else. But good luck, and add Untrustable as a friend when you get signed up.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/TY5DML75RJ18
Like independent art?
Enjoy watching an amateur attempt to write (which can be more or less like watching your dog hump something completely random)?
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...ok, I got a bit carried away there, but I think you might like it.
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A free PDF version is available for download as well.
Not fully ready to plug it just yet as it's not yet available for purchase or preorder, but my book on the works of Alfred Hitchcock is due out in April. My co-author and I were pleased to see the cover released earlier this week:
We picked the cover image (as well as all the interior images). We're very happy with what they did with it. The design looks good.
It will be available with all major online retailers and at your local bookstore.
Website/blog I've been working on.
(Hit Hitchcock in my sig and it'll take you right to the Amazon page, or visit ayearofhitchcock.com for more info.)
Congratulations! That's great news!
An excerpt from my blog:
This upcoming weekend, at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, the creative team will be launching the premiere issue of Vehicle. It is a magazine dealing with narratives, whatever form they may take. Short stories, sequential art, narrative illustrations, serialized novels and more.
This issue contains three pieces of my material: two short comics and a short story.
Vehicle is the catalyst that sets forward in motion the desire of creators to tell stories that, until now, were difficult, if not impossible, to get out to the world at large. It's an exciting throwback to the pulp fiction of the 40's and 50's, taking the concept and retooling it with a modern twist. The magazine, currently a 36 page publication, will be followed by new issues every three months and will expand to greater page count as the team matures and grows in the industry. It's something we're very excited to share with the world. I truly hope you become part of it.
Click the cover image below to our facebook fanpage.
Vehicle website coming soon.
The first page from our story:
Dive! Dive! DIE! is the story of a German sub commander and his crew as they attempt to escape a fallen Reich with an evil SS officer, occult artifacts, and a mysterious prisoner as cargo. As you might imagine from the title, things do not end well.
Attack of the Monstrology available for purchase here: http://bit.ly/qw2gT
Page samples here: http://is.gd/xKxw
http://airships.paulgazis.com/
Enjoy! And be sure to check the mouseovers...
It's a great site, they're nice guys, I've posted a bunch of stuff on their forums before that got upped to the site proper (which do not appear under my list, annoyingly <_< ) and the owner of the site just asked me recently if I wanted to be a contributor. No money in it or anything, natch, but I'm still quite pleased about that.
Read my book. (It has a robot in it.)
Well this ^^^^ would seem to be a match made in heaven.
Read my book. (It has a robot in it.)
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0906/19/red5sept.htm
http://www.vehicle-magazine.com/
My SF/Fantasy Novel.
I'd invite discussion, but after my post went poof, I'm not sure how to do that within the rules.
It's a serial novel I've been bouncing around in my head for years. I've finally set myself a schedule and I've kept up the updates for almost a month now. So I'm confident I can keep this going until the end.
It's a tale of a vampire(and general bad-thing)-hunting family in Chicago. It focuses largely on the youngest of three siblings, who has been left out of the family business. I thought it would be interesting to take some elements of Jewish mythology, since it's rarely used in vampire stories.
It's pretty much first-draft material. Edited, but certainly in need of some work. There is a simple forum on there if you'd like to leave constructive criticism. I'll accept praise, too, but I'm not sure its there yet.
http://hillbillybrainvomit.wordpress.com/
I'm not even sure what this site is or will be yet. For now I'm just posting short conversations I found funny or interesting. Would love to have someone tell me what they think of the writing, even if they think it's just garbage. Escpecially if they think that actually.
UPDATE: While I couldn't convince my friend, the other author on the site to join in, I've decided to do an ongoing story with 2 characters based off of the two men in the banner of the site. The idea was that my friend would write one and I the other, and every often the characters stories would connect in small ways letting the reader know their world was the same. I'll be writing both parts for now, but check out the first post of Professional Pretenders (working title) which is up now.