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Post subject:  Posted: January 1st, 2006, 12:26 am |
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Location: I fly back and forth between Grobania and Middle-earth
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Well, I have written that isn't fantasy. Tis about actors and fangirls. HEHEHEHE! If I ever get published, it shall be one giant circular joke. HEhehe! I think It's clever.
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Post subject: Posted: January 7th, 2006, 8:38 pm |
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Name of Book: The Hour of Twilight
Genre: Hmm..Something of a fanstasy.
When Started: I could say roughly half a year ago, but I've been rather stuck lately.
Rating(G, PG, etc.): Welll. It has a bit of fighting in it, although nothing gory.
Summary: In a land being overrun by poverty, sickness, war, and traitors within, the lives of four young people will be changed forever. To save their country, they will fight ceaseless battles for victory. Each has a different life they know nothing of, a new secret about themself they will uncover at every turn. They must work together to cure their world. There's only one problem: they haven't met.
Actually, I'm incredibly stuck. I can't get anywhere with it. Any suggestions on motivation?
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Post subject: Posted: January 8th, 2006, 7:04 pm |
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Maybe don't write it all chronologically. So if you are stuck for what happens next, write about what happens later. That way, you know what you are aiming for.
Make a list of all the information that has to come to light in the next 'bit'. Then you can start planning how that information is uncovered.
Try and come up with subplots that sort of give you a little tension and get you over "the next bit". (I have one where my main character is worried by a letter from her brother)
I can't think of much more... not without knowing how much you've written and so on. I hope it helps!
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Post subject: Posted: January 9th, 2006, 11:10 pm |
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It does! Many thanks, Herenya. ^_^
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Post subject: Re: The Writers Group Posted: January 12th, 2006, 7:43 pm |
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Joined: 04 November 2005
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Location: In a pudle on Naboo with dragon kind and ents and Jedi and wolves living in the Last Homely House!
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Amoniel wrote: this is where authors/writers can get together, share their work and ask for help!! but first to get to know you a bit more, please fill out the form below:
Name of Book:
Genre:
When Started:
Rating(G, PG, etc.):
Summary:
That's a good idea. But I would be carefull on what all you put out. I have been told by an author I know that stuff posted on sights like this can be stolen and lots of tims you can not prove it is your work.. and even if you can allot of times it involves lawsutes and that stuff.
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Post subject: Posted: January 13th, 2006, 12:36 am |
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I don't like the sound of that.  I hope that's not a problem for anyone here. That would be horrible for someone to steal someone else's ideas! _________________ The smile that lit her fair face greeted this mortal man. The divinity she once grasped soon left to take his hand.
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Post subject: Posted: January 13th, 2006, 2:34 am |
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Joined: 05 June 2005
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I'm writing a screenplay. I like it because detail will be visual and the actors will add their flair. The characters and a deep storyline are the most important to me. My story changes everytime my life does. I can only hope that you see my story one day...If I get anywhere farther than my laptop I will be sure to let you guys know.
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Post subject: Re: The Writers Group Posted: January 13th, 2006, 7:39 pm |
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Yes, Belowen, I'd love to hear about it if/when you manage to get your screenplay off your laptop!  What sort of genre are you writing?
Enyalië, I'm glad that helps!
Jax Nova wrote: That's a good idea. But I would be carefull on what all you put out. I have been told by an author I know that stuff posted on sights like this can be stolen and lots of tims you can not prove it is your work.. and even if you can allot of times it involves lawsutes and that stuff.
I'm happy to post stuff I have written because I know it's still in the drafting stage, and I'm only posting a small part of the whole - and I know that feedback can be good. It's a risk you have to take, I know, but I think the risk is small.
I think A-U is fairly safe for that sort of stuff. I can't be positive, of course. Just while we are touching on that, if you think someone is stealing your stuff, please let the mods know. _________________ <center>i love
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Post subject: Posted: January 19th, 2006, 8:34 pm |
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Joined: 03 June 2005
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Location: Davenport, Iowa
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I'm putting Autumnd Dancer away for a bit. I'm totally stuck, and sometimes, if I'm stuck, I start sometihng new and that gets me in shape for picking up what I left behind.
Name of Book: Wintersong
Genre: Fantasy, and some romance
When Started: About a week ago
Rating(G, PG, etc.): PG...I think. It depends on where the story runs to.
Summary: Winter Sapphire, the young princess of Lamereay, dosen't want the life she knows. Having lived her life with a number of sad occasions, Winter just wants to marry Natayen, a young knight she has known since childhood. However, her father and stepmother both disappear, and in order for the king's plans for his daughter to take effect, Natayen is sent with 4 others to make a peace with a colony of dragons in the mountains, While he is away, the king introduces Winter to another man. At first, Winter despises hime. But then her feelings for him grow. And then, a betrayal that threatens Lamereay, the kingdom, and Winter's own life...
Classic story, with a bunch of twists.
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Oh, and I forgot to mention, I would really really like to get this published someday, after I finish it. _________________ <center>
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Post subject: Re: The Writers Group Posted: January 19th, 2006, 9:05 pm |
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Telturwen Tarien wrote: I don't like the sound of that. I hope that's not a problem for anyone here. That would be horrible for someone to steal someone else's ideas! Yes that's true... and however I agree with the lower post that sometimes the fead back is worth the risk, and this I think is a fairly safe place it is always a posibility that I think should be kept in mind. Herenya wrote: Yes, Belowen, I'd love to hear about it if/when you manage to get your screenplay off your laptop! What sort of genre are you writing? Enyalië, I'm glad that helps! Jax Nova wrote: That's a good idea. But I would be carefull on what all you put out. I have been told by an author I know that stuff posted on sights like this can be stolen and lots of tims you can not prove it is your work.. and even if you can allot of times it involves lawsutes and that stuff. I'm happy to post stuff I have written because I know it's still in the drafting stage, and I'm only posting a small part of the whole - and I know that feedback can be good. It's a risk you have to take, I know, but I think the risk is small. I think A-U is fairly safe for that sort of stuff. I can't be positive, of course. Just while we are touching on that, if you think someone is stealing your stuff, please let the mods know. Yes, I do agree. But in some cases if your work is exeptionaly good and omone steals it, writes a book with it, and gets published... then you have lost the opertunity (due to the complicated copywrite laws) to write your book. You would have to change SO much.
However, if you are not intending to get it published then it would be nor problem I don't think.
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Post subject: Posted: January 19th, 2006, 9:31 pm |
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Location: Davenport, Iowa
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There is a way to keep work, even on the interent, copyrighted, and keep from being stolen.
Tips on Keeping Your Writing From Getting Stolen:
-Copyright all work. Due to copyright laws established at the Berne Convention, anything is copyrighted, and you only have to pay to make it elegible for lawsuits. If you make it, it is opyrighted to you.
Example:
Your Story-cpyright Your Name 2006.
-Make sure the years are up-to-date. The years do not mark how long the copyright lasts, but years (or dates) when the work was changed. For example, I created my website The Light of the Evenstar. As I've edited it in 2006, I would change my copyright from this:
Quote: Content copyright Megan Schmidt 2005 To this: Quote: Content copyright Megan Schmidt 2005-2006
That points out that the work was created in 2005, and was edited in 2006.
-Copyrights don't expire until fifty years afte the author's death, and even then, someone else that you've asked to can then have it in their possesion for copyright. Meaning, legally, no one should be able to take your work until the coyright expires.
-Only post stories in bits. If you post the whole thing, then anyone can take your work, post it somewhere, and have it as theirs, word-for-word for yours. Try to make sense of it, by taking our little sentences here and there.
-If you find someone is taking your work, do the following:
--Contact their host
--Send the person a cease & desist notice
--Find people who can vouch for you if you have to take it further
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Post subject: Posted: January 20th, 2006, 12:40 am |
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That would be horrible :gasp: I hope no one at AU would do that...o.0
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Post subject: Posted: January 20th, 2006, 2:32 pm |
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Thanks Ellethwen
for that informatio! I hope no one has to use it however. But still it is something all should now.
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Post subject: Posted: January 20th, 2006, 6:56 pm |
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Name of Book:The White Arrow Mercenaries- Weaving Treason
Genre: Fantasy Sequel
When Started: Last Autumn as an RP, that I have taken claim as a book
Rating: PG to PG-13 possibly
Summary: Lancora, a unicorn and centaur halfbreed, waits in a tavern for any travellers that should like to be part of her mercenary group. Requiem, a mythical creature of rarity called a Craigon, lands nearby and comes to the tavern. Tharn, a young warrior, happens upon this place as well. They band together that eve, and set out in the morning. Not for mercenary business as planned, but for a much more dangerous task. To reclaim the White City(it has an ancient name, but for now it is cliche ridden) from the lord of darkness, Nightshade, an apposing Craigon. They journey through troubles and desperate situations, meeting newcomers and places. (this story has many slight connections with Middle-Earth history)
You can read a part of the original roleplay at- http://www.xanga.com/AlbescentOdyssey
Please visit it and give me feedback!
Name of the Book: The White Arrow Mercenaries- The Reclaiming and the Voyage of the Phantasma
Genre: Fantasy Sequel
When Started: Beginning stages..
Rating: PG to PG-13
Summary: The WMA journey on from the Elves kingdom and finally come to the White City. Allegra comes across the Phantasma, which Requiem returns on to the first stages of war. -Plot not completed-
Name of Book: The White Arrow Mercenaries- Ripple on a Lake
Genre: Fantasy Sequel
When Started: Beginning stages...
Rating: PG-13
Summary: When the White City is reclaimed and the victorious celebrate, Requiem takes up the throne as Queen and welcomes all creatures into the City. Work begins on renewing it, when a secret vault is mysteriously opened behind the Bronze Doors into the Caves. A portal between lands is opened and many foreign creatures, though alike almost to exact, come as a challenge to take the City a prize and to gain access to the Sea. Requiem reluctantly accepts. Lancora and Tharn become and item, and even Allegra finds some chemistry with a seductive vixen fox from the opposing side. Who will win?
(This one is possibly the end of the sequels as of now, but who knows what might spark from there. ^^ )
Name of Book: Catching Death
Genre: Science Fiction
When Started: Beginning stages...
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Camille Lanhardt is a new graduate from Julliard Music Institute of New York. She immediately moves over to Europe to begin her career in orchestral conducting. But on her search for an Orchestra, Camille finds love with a Scottish man. She stays there and their relationship blossoms, and she finds her place with a philharmonic. Camille doesn't think her life could get much better, but then she's invited to meet with a producer of a new film to discuss the possiblities of a score. What could be better! Within a few days, Camille boards the plane to the US, leaving her fiance behind. During the flight, however, something goes terribly wrong and the flight is tossed into a time-space portal in an unusual weather occurance. She finds herself half dead-half alive, in the waiting place before heaven. But when her fiance finds the crashed plane and her suitcase nearby his home, he finds a last note she wrote as they passed into the continuem. And he begins a desperate search for her, as Camille has her own problems in this strange land.
I write alot of fanfictions, but these are the main stories I'm currently working on! ^^ Please look at the link to my story and feedback is much appreciated!!!
-'Bax
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Post subject: Re: The Writers Group Posted: January 23rd, 2006, 6:06 am |
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Thanks for that copyright stuff, Ellethwen! I didn't know all of that... hm... *thinks*
Jax Nova wrote: Yes, I do agree. But in some cases if your work is exeptionaly good and omone steals it, writes a book with it, and gets published... then you have lost the opertunity (due to the complicated copywrite laws) to write your book. You would have to change SO much.
I don't know if my work is exceptionally good or not - it's hard to determine when you are so wrapped up in it... I've been thinking about the whole copyright thing seriously lately - I have around about 11,000 words of my story currently posted on my website. (I got sick of emailing it to people who wanted to read it...) It sounds kind of scary when I put it like that...
I guess all I can say is that it's only the beginning of my story, and I keep dafts, both hard back (handwritten and typed) and on file. I don't know... _________________ <center>i love
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Post subject: Posted: January 23rd, 2006, 2:30 pm |
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Well, that's certainly a good idea to keep backups. I know what you mean though... it's hard to judge your own work. I really have no idea whether my stuff would sell or not... But I guess if you never try you never know.
Well, I wish you all the best.
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