If VesperDrow doesn't mind, can I fly the ship? I was thinking about a weekly topic or something like that. 

go for it. My writing is died down a bit until I get used to this new shift im working. 

Awesome man.

FAZED WRITERS GROUP TOPIC 1: Summertime

and...GO. Poems, narratives, short stories, etc. Should you write a novel...uh....you might want to just link that from off site. 

Summertime, eh? That's a bright and cheery theme.

...Heh heh. 

I'd like to take part in this, but I am by no means a writer. I haven't written a single thing (except a few song lyrics) since high school.

Should you write a novel...uh....you might want to just link that from off site.

I wrote a short story, about 1000 words, so it's much too long to post in the forum. What site can I use to post this kind of stuff from? 

Good question. I've got plenty of space on my web hosting (and text files don't eat up a ton of space). How about I write up a script so you guys can upload your stuff and link them? 

Summertime, when the living's easy.

Sorry, I had to. 

I seem to always generate ideas, I just can't seem to sit and type.

I have the opposite problem. I've got the ability (at least, I *think* I do), but lack the inspiration to create anything worthwhile.

Something like the photo project thread, where there's a specific theme/directive for everybody to write on, I might enjoy quite a bit. 

so nothing new i suppose?

keep this thread alive dammit!!! 

I started writing something over the summer that I was going to make into a short story/eventually maybe a novel. School started back and I don't have the time.

Romanticide: Chapter One

She awoke to find the spot next to her cold and vacant. The indentation in the sheets still remains a perfect mold of his shape. The sight of this causes her heart to race. A panic attack quicky envelopes her as she is stricken with anxiety.

Thoughts begin to fill her mind. A million screaming voices streak across her synapses.

 

she must be fat. 

VesperDrow said:

so nothing new i suppose?

keep this thread alive dammit!!!

I'M DOIN' IT I'M DOIN' IT, CALM DOWN WILL YA?
She's no model. It's a DSRV.

er.....

yea. I'm working on it. 

Meeting with a literary agent tomorrow... my stomach hurts. 

getting published? 

A pitch meeting. I pitched a drama pilot this summer and a number of people suggested I try it as a novel... so I'm meeting with this woman to find out of they're interested in representing me, and if so, how to convert the treatment into a book proposal... 

awesome! good luck! 

If they offer to represent you with you having actually written the thing, please post their name and number. TIA 

If they offer to represent you with you having actually written the thing, please post their name and number. TIA

I'm assuming you meant that if they offer to represent me without having actually written the thing?

I don't know, we'll see... my feeling is that they'll help me develop the proposal (which normally includes a few chapters). If they think it's solid, why wouldn't they represent me? 

ahhhh. sorry typowned.

Are you previously published? From what I've researched, an agent is reluctant to pitch you to publishers unless you have something finished. They all want to see that you have the ability to finish something and finish it well.

"They" say the same thing about writing conventions. The agents don't usually like to hear pitches for work that hasn't been generated yet. Which, happens to be my problem. All ideas, no pages. 

I have a TV agent, had a pilot in development at NBC... not the same thing, but some (with the emphasis on "some") success.... so maybe that will count for something. But it's a whole new arena, so, it may not. 

I'm interested to hear how it goes. Good luck! 

thx. i'll give an update tomorrow. 

Okay are people still interested in this? Someone mentioned they'd participate but they'd be writing long submissions and wanted a place to put them, so I offered up a solution by way of a simple upload dealy and I'm just wondering who all would want to make the Fazed Writer's group a regular thing. 

yesish 

thx. i'll give an update tomorrow.

the agent liked my treatment...brought in another agent, who also liked the treatment.

despite all that... their feeling was that while some publishers might take a chance and give an advance based on a thorough outline/proposal including 3 or 4 chapters, it's very very rare for first time authors... so they're eager to help out when I have something to show them... not much of an update really. 

Well, it puts the work on the table for you. If you type it, they will come. yukyuk. On the lighter side, you don't have to mass mail cold solicitations when you finish it. 

heres a poem:

Every Sunday,
I can feel a subtle press on my chest,
I feel the yearning,
Striving,
An overture of the week to come.

I light the fuse,
And wait,
Pace myself,
Then light the sky.

Build up thoughts,
Have visions,
Stock them inside the body,
Leave no room for innards,
Lift up my shirt,
See my lungs bulge against my skin.

I let out a breath of the most potent truth,
and you inhale,
We go mad, we love,
We create, we live,
And we strive again. 

So I just read a rather smashing article on the use of split infinitives. 

and your not going to link it? or explain it? 

Oh sorry, I thought I linked that post.

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutgrammar/splitinfinitives?view=uk 

It's not by far, but it's the best way of explaining I've seen so far. 

Is it ethically wrong to write a short story about a well know fazed virgin and post it on fazed? 

DO IT FAGGOT

I mean. Is she still a virgin

I mean no. yes.

God damn conflicting ethics. 

He, and he does not post on fazed anymore 

Ryno? 

Yeah... I dreamed up his deflowering 

Was..that supposed to be your story? 

Fine forget it... It's just a plotline I worked out while taking a shit this morning. 

Post it! 

Let me write it first 

I recently been expired to start writing again.

my style still sucks, but I can work past that once I get the actual story down. 

You recently expired? 

I recently been expiredinspired to start writing again.

wow this is going to be hell editing... 

VesperDrow said:

well in the case of no prologues, how would I start the book?

A good, simple prologue style I have seen around, is to keep it short - but foreshadow some key element of the book that will come later. Don't give too much away, give just enough to get the reader's interest and tear into chapter one.

Another form would be to tell of a main character or some previous event that will not have relevance until later. 

Something I'm working on.
Prolly a fifty pages in, and I wrote myself into a corner about a year and a half ago; someday, I'll have to re-write and finish it... 

well I wrote 12 pages so far. I've still got another 40 or 50 to get to a decent halfway point. 

can anyone help fix this paragraph?

Let’s Mosey. Those were the last orders that Gerald Findley, the Gaffer to his friends though don’t ask him why, would hear in his lifetime. Unaware to him or anyone else in the group, one of the creatures, an Unman, as they were called by the Brotherhood, was stalking them. It watched them closely through a crack in the overhead vent. It’s left eye hung useless in its socket but its right eye could read much. The crimson orb, engulfed in flames, sat in its right eye socket. Through the orb it was given life. Through the orb it was given a chance to kill.

 

Let's Mosey Those were the last orders that Gerald Findley-the Gaffer to his friends though don’t ask him why-would hear in his lifetime. Unaware to him or anyone else in the group, one of the creatures, an Unman, as they were called by the Brotherhood, was stalking them. It watched them closely through a crack in the overhead vent. Its left eye hung useless in its socket but its right eye could read much. The crimson orb, engulfed in flames, sat in its right eye socket. Through the orb it was given life. Through the orb it was given a chance to kill.

Comments soon. 

revise the newly revised edition instead:

[quote]Let's Mosey. Those were the last orders that Gerald Findley-the Gaffer to his friends though don’t ask him why-would hear in his lifetime. Unaware to him or anyone else in the group, one of the creatures, an Unman, was stalking them. It watched them closely through a crack in the overhead vent. Its left eye hung useless in its socket but its right eye could read much. The crimson orb, engulfed in flames, sat in its right eye socket. Through the orb it was given life. Through the orb it was given a chance to kill.[/quote]

Took out the thing about the brotherhood because I didn't really need to foreshadow it at the moment. And it added too much to the sentence. 

damn, flail.

Let's Mosey. Those were the last orders that Gerald Findley-the Gaffer to his friends though don’t ask him why-would hear in his lifetime. Unaware to him or anyone else in the group, one of the creatures, an Unman, was stalking them. It watched them closely through a crack in the overhead vent. Its left eye hung useless in its socket but its right eye could read much. The crimson orb, engulfed in flames, sat in its right eye socket. Through the orb it was given life. Through the orb it was given a chance to kill.