Any Writers Here?

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[quote]Nards wrote:
And please correct me if I’m wrong, but if it has to do with vampires then it’s definitely been done.

I mean even if it’s a story about a vamire that becomes a cop to fight vampires on the side of the law, then it’ll just be Lethal Weapon with vampires. If it’s set in the 28th Century on a spaceship then it’s Aliens VS Vampires.

Though I should mention that “nothing is original” is not trying to sound cynical. It’s OK and most writers (as well as audiences that try to act jaded) understand this and just try to tell a good story.[/quote]

I always think of it as trying to find a new way to tell the same story.

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I used to write assorted content for some gaming websites, and at one point was definitely considering journalism as a potential career. Then I let talk of how ‘old’(as in, tenured staff not retiring old) it was though and how rough it can be to get a solid start scare me off.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Nards wrote:
And please correct me if I’m wrong, but if it has to do with vampires then it’s definitely been done.

I mean even if it’s a story about a vamire that becomes a cop to fight vampires on the side of the law, then it’ll just be Lethal Weapon with vampires. If it’s set in the 28th Century on a spaceship then it’s Aliens VS Vampires.

Though I should mention that “nothing is original” is not trying to sound cynical. It’s OK and most writers (as well as audiences that try to act jaded) understand this anis d just try to tell a good story.[/quote]

No, no. RV’s novel is completely original. He finds his way across the abyss of time to reach his true love Lizzy Bathory by hypnotizing himself. Nothing whatsoever to do with the Chris Reeve movie Somewhere In Time:

RV’s effort improves on the original by adding vampires into an already winning formula. Not just ordinary ones, either; these can travel through time.

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Is this true Rogue Vampire?

If so that’s OK, as I’ve seen many gothic books on the shelves…most are aimed at the young adult market.
I guess the main thing I want to say is go ahead and do it but be aware that it’s not likely to be totally original but that’s fine.

Like Charlie Horse said, just rty to tell the story in a new way (if possible) and make sure it’s entertaining.

Like my favorite sci-fi author, Robert A. Heinein said, if you’re not entertaining people they likely won’t buy your books and then you’re just making paper dirty on one side.

Pffft, as though I know what I’m talking about. The last thing I wrote was this word right…here.

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[quote]Nards wrote:
I mean even if it’s a story about a vamire that becomes a cop to fight vampires on the side of the law, then it’ll just be Lethal Weapon with vampires.[/quote]

Seriously…this is what you think of when you think of a vampire fighting vampires on the side of the law? Ever heard of a little known day walker named Blade? Duh!

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<— wrote one novel about angels (not gay wing crap, but what the pagans used to mistake for their gods) and one Southern Gothic novel.

Otherwise, it is just short stories.

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[quote]Nards wrote:

I mean in the way that Avatar is like Dances with Wolves mixed with Pocahontas.

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You forgot “Dragonriders of Pern” (book) by Anne McCaffrey and of course “Return of the Jedi”.

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and Smurfs!

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[quote]Nards wrote:

Like my favorite sci-fi author, Robert A. Heinein said, if you’re not entertaining people they likely won’t buy your books and then you’re just making paper dirty on one side.
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Frank Herbert just fidgeted in his grave. =/

Shame on you!

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Why? Did Herbert say that?

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[quote]Nards wrote:
Why? Did Herbert say that?[/quote]

No, he’s just upset that he’s not your favourite!

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I had a great Idea about a small suburban family whose house was built on the site of an old battery hen farm.

The restless souls of dead chickens would torment them and cause disturbances around their house.

They eventually have to get a midget pyschic woman call Vangina in to help cleanse the house of the vengeful chook spirits after their daughter goes missing and they suspect “fowl play”.

I was thinking of calling it “Poultrygeist”

It does remind me of something I may have seen though…can’t quite put my finger on it.

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[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
I had a great Idea about a small suburban family whose house was built on the site of an old battery hen farm.

The restless souls of dead chickens would torment them and cause disturbances around their house.

They eventually have to get a midget pyschic woman in to help cleanse the house of the vengeful chook spirits after their daughter goes missing and they suspect “fowl play”.

I was thinking of calling it “Poultrygeist”

It does remind me of something I may have seen though…can’t quite put my finger on it.[/quote]

Awesome idea! You could even put in, like, a scary rubber chicken scene where the children’s favourite rubber chicken sits in a chair in the corner but then moves to the bed by itself!

And you can have great big chicken legs crash through the kid’s window at some point!

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[quote]Brother Chris wrote:

[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:

[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
I can tell we have a few natural writers here on T-Nation just by reading their posts - FightingIrish, DBCooper and Bodyguard come to mind, among others - but I wanted to see how many other recreational or professional writers we’ve got.

Any genre, any medium, published or not…who here writes on a regular basis?[/quote]

Yea, I am a journalist and I work in newspapers. I’m a columnist and a reporter, so I cover pretty much all the bases, and I write freelance shit about (surprise surprise) boxing when I get the time as well.

As most reporters have done, I’ve got some type of novel in the works that I’ve been sitting on for a decade but it’s not all that important to me… my column is pretty much the most important thing I do, and I excel in writing smaller pieces like that (although I’m quite good at writing longer articles as well if I do say so myself.)

The prospects of a novel, of course, just seems daunting, between the length and the weight of it all. And so it sits.

If you’re looking to get into the field or whatever and you’ve got questions, I can do what I can to help you out from my own experiences.[/quote]

Well you got some options, take a 50k novel (in a month):

2500 words/day for 5 days/week
2000 words/day for 6 days/week
1666 words/day for 7 days/week
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I think discipline is the way to go. Whether or not you liked Robert Parker… he was certainly prolific. His wife has been quoted as saying without fail he wrote five pages a day, every day.

Though about getting into the field, clearly in the last 20 years its changed drastically. As much as I love a paper copy digital media are undoubtedly going to end the existence of paper copies. The ease with which copies of books, magazines or whatever can be both written, published, purchased or stolen for ereaders is paradigm changing. Big players like Border’s going out of business with Barnes and Noble not doing particularly well are just the beginning I think.

The only real negative I have with ebooks is that they have greatly increased the amount of things that are total shit that are out there, that would have never seen the light of day prior to them.

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[quote]Stern wrote:

[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
I had a great Idea about a small suburban family whose house was built on the site of an old battery hen farm.

The restless souls of dead chickens would torment them and cause disturbances around their house.

They eventually have to get a midget pyschic woman in to help cleanse the house of the vengeful chook spirits after their daughter goes missing and they suspect “fowl play”.

I was thinking of calling it “Poultrygeist”

It does remind me of something I may have seen though…can’t quite put my finger on it.[/quote]

Awesome idea! You could even put in, like, a scary rubber chicken scene where the children’s favourite rubber chicken sits in a chair in the corner but then moves to the bed by itself!

And you can have great big chicken legs crash through the kid’s window at some point!

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Yeah…good stuff there stern.

I was thinking the midget gets them to use rope and some frozen chickens with numbers written on them to get the daughter back.

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[quote]Nards wrote:
And please correct me if I’m wrong, but if it has to do with vampires then it’s definitely been done.

I mean even if it’s a story about a vamire that becomes a cop to fight vampires on the side of the law, then it’ll just be Lethal Weapon with vampires. If it’s set in the 28th Century on a spaceship then it’s Aliens VS Vampires.

Though I should mention that “nothing is original” is not trying to sound cynical. It’s OK and most writers (as well as audiences that try to act jaded) understand this and just try to tell a good story.[/quote]
While nothing is original is definitely true…or at least not much is original anyway…you are beyond correct with vampires. The genre is broken down to incredibly specific subgenres even. Rogue whatever you do with your vampire book, please please keep it out of the paranormal romance subgroup.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Nards wrote:
And please correct me if I’m wrong, but if it has to do with vampires then it’s definitely been done.

I mean even if it’s a story about a vamire that becomes a cop to fight vampires on the side of the law, then it’ll just be Lethal Weapon with vampires. If it’s set in the 28th Century on a spaceship then it’s Aliens VS Vampires.

Though I should mention that “nothing is original” is not trying to sound cynical. It’s OK and most writers (as well as audiences that try to act jaded) understand this anis d just try to tell a good story.[/quote]

No, no. RV’s novel is completely original. He finds his way across the abyss of time to reach his true love Lizzy Bathory by hypnotizing himself. Nothing whatsoever to do with the Chris Reeve movie Somewhere In Time:

RV’s effort improves on the original by adding vampires into an already winning formula. Not just ordinary ones, either; these can travel through time.

[/quote]

the only similiarities between that and my book is time travel, thats it. there are no vampires in the book.

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[quote]groo wrote:

[quote]Nards wrote:
And please correct me if I’m wrong, but if it has to do with vampires then it’s definitely been done.

I mean even if it’s a story about a vamire that becomes a cop to fight vampires on the side of the law, then it’ll just be Lethal Weapon with vampires. If it’s set in the 28th Century on a spaceship then it’s Aliens VS Vampires.

Though I should mention that “nothing is original” is not trying to sound cynical. It’s OK and most writers (as well as audiences that try to act jaded) understand this and just try to tell a good story.[/quote]
While nothing is original is definitely true…or at least not much is original anyway…you are beyond correct with vampires. The genre is broken down to incredibly specific subgenres even. Rogue whatever you do with your vampire book, please please keep it out of the paranormal romance subgroup.[/quote]

wow. Im completely dumbfounded. where on earth did you get, that im writing about vampires? The book has nothing to do with vampires. stop going by what you hear a few morons say.

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Hey whoa! I said I was assuming it was about vampires, and you weren’t around to confirm that or not.

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[quote]roguevampire wrote:

[quote]groo wrote:

[quote]Nards wrote:
And please correct me if I’m wrong, but if it has to do with vampires then it’s definitely been done.

I mean even if it’s a story about a vamire that becomes a cop to fight vampires on the side of the law, then it’ll just be Lethal Weapon with vampires. If it’s set in the 28th Century on a spaceship then it’s Aliens VS Vampires.

Though I should mention that “nothing is original” is not trying to sound cynical. It’s OK and most writers (as well as audiences that try to act jaded) understand this and just try to tell a good story.[/quote]
While nothing is original is definitely true…or at least not much is original anyway…you are beyond correct with vampires. The genre is broken down to incredibly specific subgenres even. Rogue whatever you do with your vampire book, please please keep it out of the paranormal romance subgroup.[/quote]

wow. Im completely dumbfounded. where on earth did you get, that im writing about vampires? The book has nothing to do with vampires. stop going by what you hear a few morons say. [/quote]

Where is the book? I was looking on Amazon but can’t seem to find it. What’s it called again?

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[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:

[quote]Stern wrote:

[quote]Cheeky_Kea wrote:
I had a great Idea about a small suburban family whose house was built on the site of an old battery hen farm.

The restless souls of dead chickens would torment them and cause disturbances around their house.

They eventually have to get a midget pyschic woman in to help cleanse the house of the vengeful chook spirits after their daughter goes missing and they suspect “fowl play”.

I was thinking of calling it “Poultrygeist”

It does remind me of something I may have seen though…can’t quite put my finger on it.[/quote]

Awesome idea! You could even put in, like, a scary rubber chicken scene where the children’s favourite rubber chicken sits in a chair in the corner but then moves to the bed by itself!

And you can have great big chicken legs crash through the kid’s window at some point!

[/quote]

Yeah…good stuff there stern.

I was thinking the midget gets them to use rope and some frozen chickens with numbers written on them to get the daughter back.
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Oooooh liking that. The numbers is an awesome touch. You should set the scene softly in the beginning. Like stacking baking pans and basters in the kitchen while the Mom freaks out!

Man you should totally roll with this! =D