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Author Craft / Re: New Fully Realized Character?
« on: March 12, 2013, 04:23:03 PM »
The character or characters really I am working on will be Urban Fantasy based.   Most of them will be out of the norm not following the trends as of late as mentioned above.  For example one of them is a human demon prison who deals with a few side issues due to that.  The setting I am keeping with familiar places Ive been like NYC, Chicago, and Upstate NY.   I just wish I would stop second guessing myself.. Im to old to be doing that.

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Author Craft / New Fully Realized Character?
« on: March 11, 2013, 07:42:31 PM »
Ive noted as of late... save for VERY few authors... that Characters are just rehashed versions of something else.  It seems like no character is truly new?  I hope that doesnt sound harsh.. but I also think that many of the stories are the same.  For some reason  all the back stories.. story ideas... all of it just seems to be the same to me. 

Is it just me?  Am I alone?  Its making me afraid to write about some of my characters and stories. 

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Site Suggestions & Support / Re: My Old ID tagnizkur
« on: March 08, 2013, 07:50:51 PM »
I am in and thank you.  I hope you all are super nice and ever so kind to Priscellie... She is my new hero!

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Author Craft / Re: Yay! I got my first rejection letter.
« on: August 19, 2008, 06:51:02 PM »
Quote from: meg_evonne on August 18, 2008, 11:34:12 PM
caution :-)  On a website I found out that one agent was looking for a large historic novel.  As a whim, I sent it off with my three sci fi queries I was sending to agents.  I got bounced back quickly on the sci fi.  The rejection on the monster historic novel took forever!  I sweated it daily ,as the work is a huge chaotic mess that is so far from sending out.  The longer it got, the shorter I chewed my nails.

Thankfully a great deal later, I got the rejection letter I expected all along.  It was lovely and they told me that they had decided to go with a published author wanting to break into a new field.  The sweat and worry wasn't worth it.  Plus I felt that I was misrepresenting myself and my work to the agent.  I vowed to never, ever send a query on a whim for something that I'd be embarrased to send in if requested..

So send in, but beware they might actually want to SEE it!  It would be horrid to get a request and then look unprofessional by explaining it wasn't ready.  :-) 

Truthfully, i wouldn't even know were to begin.  The publishers I have worked with are small time magazines and friends of friends... 

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Author Craft / Re: Yay! I got my first rejection letter.
« on: August 18, 2008, 05:25:48 PM »
Makes me want to start sending out so I can get rejected at to... 

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Author Craft / Re: One Word Story Game
« on: April 09, 2008, 02:06:32 PM »
Vindication awoke hungover, disgruntled and proceeded to emasculate another abbreviated news clip.  Exasperated with tiresome drivel constantly quoting Garfield he searched in vain for immaculate reporting.  Valiantly ignoring vivacious vixens with the biggest, loudest dance-routines, he decided not to apply logic, rather to invoke vainglorious abortions of dogmatic speeches that did exterminate any chance and distinguished Camembert from those devious dairy turncoats.  What the hell!  Flinging a piece of Havarti and starting a stirring of goulash

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Calendar Event Discussion / Re: Signing: Chicago, IL, on April 8th
« on: April 08, 2008, 10:03:51 PM »
Quote from: Priscellie on March 12, 2008, 02:48:16 PM
CHICAGO, IL
Tuesday, April  8, 7:30 PM  CST
BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC #020
1500 16th St, Ste D
Oak Brook, IL  60523

Well Mr Butcher, I fear I shall miss this after all.  I have my sons baseball game, which i am going to now, and then I am off to his swim lessons.  :( 

Jim, perhaps if you ever come through Chicago again, you can stop by my place of employment. 

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Author Craft / Re: One Word Story Game
« on: March 30, 2008, 12:04:09 AM »
Vindication awoke hungover, disgruntled and proceeded to emasculate another abbreviated news clip.  Exasperated with tiresome drivel constantly quoting Garfield he searched in vain for immaculate reporting.  Valiantly ignoring vivacious vixens with the biggest, loudest dance-routines, he decided not to apply logic, rather to invoke vainglorious abortions of dogmatic speeches that did exterminate

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Calendar Event Discussion / Re: Signing: Chicago, IL, on April 8th
« on: March 27, 2008, 05:20:17 PM »
Quote from: Semper Fidelacchius on March 23, 2008, 09:23:02 AM
Hmm....gotta get there somehow. Only a couple hours drive. convincing the wifey it's worth it is another story.

Tell her this...


"Hon, right after we can go downtown, I hear there is great shopping near the water tower!"

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Author Craft / Re: One Word Story Game
« on: March 27, 2008, 02:21:00 PM »
Vindication awoke hungover, disgruntled and proceeded to emasculate another abbreviated news clip.  Exasperated with tiresome drivel constantly quoting Garfield he searched in vain for immaculate reporting.  Valiantly ignoring vivacious vixens with the biggest, loudest dance-routines, he decided not to apply logic, rather to invoke vainglorious abortions of dogmatic

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Author Craft / Re: One Word Story Game
« on: March 27, 2008, 11:43:26 AM »
Vindication awoke hungover, disgruntled and proceeded to emasculate another abbreviated news clip.  Exasperated with tiresome drivel constantly quoting Garfield he searched in vain for immaculate reporting.  Valiantly ignoring vivacious vixens with the biggest, loudest dance-routines, he decided not to apply logic, rather to invoke vainglorious aboritions

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Author Craft / Re: One Word Story Game
« on: March 26, 2008, 06:00:43 PM »
Vindication awoke hungover, disgruntled and proceeded to emasculate another abbreviated news clip.  Exasperated with tiresome drivel constantly quoting Garfield he searched in vain for immaculate reporting.  Valiantly ignoring vivacious vixens with the biggest, loudest dance-routines, he decided not to apply logic, rather

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Author Craft / Re: One Word Story Game
« on: March 25, 2008, 07:59:49 PM »
Vindication awoke hungover, disgruntled and proceeded to emasculate another abbreviated news clip.  Exasperated with tiresome drivel constantly quoting Garfield he searched in vain for immaculate reporting.  Valiantly ignoring vivacious

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Author Craft / Re: One Word Story Game
« on: March 25, 2008, 06:05:36 PM »
Vindication awoke hungover, disgruntled and proceeded to emasculate another abbreviated news clip.  Exasperated with tiresome drivel constantly quoting Garfield he searched in vain for immaculate reporting.  Valiantly

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Author Craft / Re: One Word Story Game
« on: March 21, 2008, 11:48:58 AM »
Vindication awoke hungover, disgruntled and proceeded to emasculate another abbreviated newsclip.  Exasperated with tiresome drivel constantly

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