Noticed a lot of replies to the “Greatest Novelist” thread created by Flanker110 and I was just wondering if any of u have any dreams of becoming an author one day??? Should we be looking out for novels with ur names on them??? 🙂
I have had two small pieces published but both while at school, the firts entitled “Life behind the curtain” was a short piece on my short experience growing up behind the Iron Curtain and my families journey here.
The second entitled “Eternal Dreams” was a short poem about mankinds hopes of peace and how it never materialises. Both were done at the age of bout 14-15.
For the future I had hoped of writing a war novel set 10 years from now where China dominated the Pacific both economically and militarily and the US was dealing with a collapsing economy and internal conflict being fought by Islamic extremists and a large anarchist force equipped covertly by North Korea and corrupt Russian parties.
The idea was to see how South Korea and Taiwan would be able to deal with Chinese aggression without US support. However college has gotten in the same somewhat and the idea is delayed – but not abandoned.
Does anyone have any tips for this novel, does it sound good or does it stink??? Could it happen??? 🙂
By: alex - 31st May 2003 at 15:21
Freddie,
Read that one I think, its the one where the lady with the missing finger pours the robbers a cup of tea in a small cottage isn’t it?
One of the robbers asks “How did u lose the finger?”
The lady replies “You did it!” before hacking them to pieces right, ohhh s*** just ruined the story 😉 , sorry.
I wrote an unpublished horror while at college about a group of British college students who go on vacation to the states. While there they hear stories about people hiking across a fictional woodland called “Shadows Point” in Jersey and never being seen again. Just for a laugh the decide to investigate. When they arrive they decide to split up into two groups of three and have a little “fun”. Only on the second day, after the main characters experience a night of spin tingling screams, they find the mutilated corpses of their friends hanging from trees along with the rotting remains of at least a dozen other bodies, cause when they entered “Shadows Point” what they didn’t know was they had woken the darkness that dwells there WWWAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Scared me ****less writing it :p .
By: Freddie - 29th May 2003 at 18:35
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The only thing I ever wrote that got published was a short story which landed in a school yearbook.
It was a story about 2 grave robbers robbing graves at night. They could not get the ring off this one woman they dug up. So they cut her finger off. They then get lost in the woods on their way back. They find a shack with an old lady living there and she is kind enough to let them take shelter for the night. While having supper, one of them notices the lady is missing a finger…
Its too long to narrate but it was the best lil horror story an 11 yr old could ever dream up. I’d give steven king at age 11 a run for his money.
I got briefly interested in writing short stories but gave up for a lack of ideas at the tender age of 13. I fare better at sketching & drawing and would love to illustrate for any book authors.
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th May 2003 at 23:27
Roger,
Thanks for that. it’s just the germ of an idea at the moment, not sure how many pages and photographs the book would have, but you’ve given me a bit of an insight there. I’ll drop you a pm in a couple of days (when I’m a bit more awake!) if that’s okay?
Cheers,
Steve
By: EHVB - 26th May 2003 at 23:05
Steve,
We thought that a book on the Constellation would be popular, as the Aviod(r)ome was bringing one of those to Holland. My co writer, the publisher and myself took each risk of 33%. As there are so many colourphoto’s in the book, this was three times as expensive as an all B&W book. It turned out that we had to sell 1500 books to break even, all others are 100% profit. We sold those 1500 in less than a year, and we atre now thinking of a new version which will be updated with the Dutch Connie story. If you have an idea, I can bring you in contact with my publisher and I’ll guess he can give you details on price per copy or so. Depend on how big it is. My book is 150 pages, 200+ photo’s in B&W and colour, and a glossy cover. Let me know if you want more, but maybe it is better if you contact me by private message then. BW Roger
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th May 2003 at 22:52
Roger,
Hw did you go about getting it published? I’ve been thinking of writing a book for a while (reckon you could probably guess the subject aircraft type!), but just not sure how to go about it.
Regards,
Steve
By: EHVB - 26th May 2003 at 19:05
Although it was “non fiction” , I wrote, together with another enthousiast, a 150 page (including 200 photo’s) book on the Lockheed Constellation. Sold that much already that we have passed the break even point. BW Roger
By: Comet - 26th May 2003 at 09:51
I used to have poems published in my local paper under a made up name which looked Icelandic. I’m also working on a ghost story about the state of the UK at the moment. The idea is that a gang of ghosts go after criminals and hack them to bits and do other interesting things that should be done to criminals
By: ink - 20th May 2003 at 01:31
Anything can happen Alex – you just have to make it sound beleivable.
I too sometimes dream of writing a novel (or a collection of short stories) – although I’m probably looking to write something less about politics and international relations than about characters and morality and such like.
Good luck with your writing.
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