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Author Craft / Re: Author In Progress
« on: February 11, 2008, 04:36:14 AM »
I guess this is as good a place as any to introduce myself.
I am more or less an aspiring author, like alot of people here I suppose. I've been writing(and, I'll admit it, roleplaying) for at least four years, but I've never really finished anything yet. I mostly didn't have the self discipline or patience to sit down and finish a book, but that started to change when I began (tenative title, at best) The Red Death, of which, portions of it are hosted up at deviantart.com, as well as other writing communities I frequent, in hopes of garnering some constructive critism and interest (which has so far worked out quite well.) Oh, and I'm also a Software Engineer major (weird, I know. Has absolutely nothing to do with writing.) at Auburn University.
Anyway, I wrote like 50+ pages (by Open Office's count anyway), and turned around and threw most of it all out and started over, because I realized I was never going to get anywhere if I simply wrote without doing some amount of planning out the storyline ahead. I went back and added a whole lot more imagery, detail, and general improvements to my original script, and find myself still in the process of doing so. If you're interested in reading it, the rewrite can be found here. (And those of you who are online roleplayers should visit to join in the fun =D)
I can't say I'm a long time fan of Jim, like some, because it was only last semester that I stumbled across Proven Guilty. (Which I only bought because I had just finished Darkfall by Dean Koontz, and I didn't want to read the Clive Custler or Stephen King books I yoinked from my mum.) I think it took me maybe a week, or two, to read through all of Jim's books, save White Night because the only Booksamillion in Auburn didn't have a copy at the moment, and I promptly went back and reread most of them. I think I read White Night twice in a row, in the span of like three days.
Though I do have something in common with everyone here: I'm eagerly awaiting Small Favor. I'm looking forward to at least two read throughs. Maybe more.
I am more or less an aspiring author, like alot of people here I suppose. I've been writing(and, I'll admit it, roleplaying) for at least four years, but I've never really finished anything yet. I mostly didn't have the self discipline or patience to sit down and finish a book, but that started to change when I began (tenative title, at best) The Red Death, of which, portions of it are hosted up at deviantart.com, as well as other writing communities I frequent, in hopes of garnering some constructive critism and interest (which has so far worked out quite well.) Oh, and I'm also a Software Engineer major (weird, I know. Has absolutely nothing to do with writing.) at Auburn University.
Anyway, I wrote like 50+ pages (by Open Office's count anyway), and turned around and threw most of it all out and started over, because I realized I was never going to get anywhere if I simply wrote without doing some amount of planning out the storyline ahead. I went back and added a whole lot more imagery, detail, and general improvements to my original script, and find myself still in the process of doing so. If you're interested in reading it, the rewrite can be found here. (And those of you who are online roleplayers should visit to join in the fun =D)
I can't say I'm a long time fan of Jim, like some, because it was only last semester that I stumbled across Proven Guilty. (Which I only bought because I had just finished Darkfall by Dean Koontz, and I didn't want to read the Clive Custler or Stephen King books I yoinked from my mum.) I think it took me maybe a week, or two, to read through all of Jim's books, save White Night because the only Booksamillion in Auburn didn't have a copy at the moment, and I promptly went back and reread most of them. I think I read White Night twice in a row, in the span of like three days.
Though I do have something in common with everyone here: I'm eagerly awaiting Small Favor. I'm looking forward to at least two read throughs. Maybe more.