03-18-2003, 11:26 AM | #181 |
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I take it they are the heroines, if you don't mind my asking?
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03-18-2003, 12:52 PM | #182 |
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I too like writing fantasy at the moment I'm writing a novel about Gandalf's return to middle earth I'm planning to send it to this site's fan fiction page.
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03-18-2003, 11:20 PM | #183 |
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i've done some fantsy stuff. most of it i've chucked after a few miserable pages though. currently i'm working on a story that sounds pretty much like every other fantsy i've read (besides Tolkien) but i like it. i've also done some historical fiction about the american civil war and stuff. and i'm really into writing poetry!
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03-19-2003, 01:04 AM | #184 |
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Most of my stuff involves parallel worlds, and the characters stumbling from one in to the other. After the great tradition set in motion by Carroll, MacDonald, Baum, and Lewis (chronilogically in that order ), I suppose, but the worlds are my own.
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03-19-2003, 01:28 AM | #185 |
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Ok, lemme pose a question to the good people o' the 'Moot: Do any of you belong to/attend any writer's groups?
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03-19-2003, 02:48 AM | #186 |
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no. This semester I'm taking a creative writing class, but when that ends next month, I'll be homeless.
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03-19-2003, 11:48 AM | #187 |
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I've joined a church writer's group with monthly meetings on the third Tuesday. In last night's meeting, a new person came, who reads fantasy! Woohoo!
I plan on taking at least one creative writing class, maybe more, but unfortunately I can't do that in my current school system , so I'll have to wait until I'm out of school. EDIT: wrote at least one a creative writing class. See title for more info.
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03-19-2003, 02:38 PM | #188 |
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I haven't taken part into any groups until now, but I want to find out more about a creative writing group that begins next month in my college. Let's just hope it's affordable!
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03-19-2003, 03:01 PM | #189 |
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Ha. Mine's free.
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03-19-2003, 08:09 PM | #190 |
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I tend to think of all the characters in my books as just characters, rather than heroes or heroines. But I guess Syrayal and Ebrella could be called heroines, yes . They are main characters, anyway, and are involved in one of the missions.
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03-19-2003, 08:10 PM | #191 |
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i'd like to join a group but there aren't many "creative writing" type people 'round here.
(i can't STAND it when people come up to me and say,"what are you reading<or writing>?" and when they look at the cover and see a fantasy kind of painting or read a bit of my fantasy story say "oh. that's not my kind of book and walk away looking at me like i have lobsters coming out of my ears. i get that ALL the time!) |
03-19-2003, 08:19 PM | #192 |
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Jeepers! How sad; they ought to encourage you and suggest improvement if they see improvement as needed, but it's ridiculous to just stamp on someone else's inspiration. Luckily, even when I was writing at a very early age and had almost nothing in my books but fighting, people still encouraged me . Do you have any encouragement then, besides Entmoot?
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03-19-2003, 08:25 PM | #193 |
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Yeah, by Heroines I meant Protaganists, like the central Characters.
I know the feeling. People sometimes act like fantasy is stupid. Fortunately, I don't encounter that much. My mom, although she dislikes fantasy, is supportive of my writing, and the people at my writer's group have expressed interest in reading what I'll bring.
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03-19-2003, 08:27 PM | #194 |
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Is everyone reading each other's writing in that group, then?
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03-19-2003, 08:33 PM | #195 |
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At our last meeting, we all brought something of ours, and had it read by another member of the group, while the rest jotted down thoughts, and then critiqued (The leader of the group . But I didn't get much critiquing. I think I intimidated them a bit by bringing my poem that had been published.
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03-19-2003, 08:37 PM | #196 |
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That's too bad. Part 1 of my book is being critiqued by a screenplay writer, and my Dad also might help in that. He's a good writer himself, though he doesn't do much fiction. So again, I'm lucky.
Does anyone think we should start posting our own fantasy books/stories on this thread, or do you think we should ask one of the admins for a new forum? I'm just wondering because there are a lot of writers at Entmoot, or people that are trying to write. It'd be fun to be able to share those stories, but I'm afraid they'd swamp the Fantasy/Sci-Fi forum. |
03-19-2003, 08:42 PM | #197 |
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I don't really know, that might be a bad idea with stuff you intend to publish, due to copyright problems.
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03-19-2003, 09:07 PM | #198 |
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People would have to make that decision for themselves. I have no plans of posting The Uirlon Cord on such a forum, but I'd be fine with posting my short stories.
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03-19-2003, 09:09 PM | #199 |
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It would certainly be fun.
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03-19-2003, 09:47 PM | #200 |
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Hey, if they've got one for Harry Potter *cough*, why not for new fantasy stories?
Think you we should PM them or wot?
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