(Sorry to steal your spot, Kylan...I'm excited about this user group!)
Everyone, say hello! For the most part, we probably all know each other. But do you know everyone's novel? I don't!
So lets have this be an introduction to what we're all working on. I'll fill mine out later:
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Current Word Count:
How long have you worked on your novel?:
Description:
What is one thing you like most about this piece?:
Introduce yourself!
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*bounces* Ooh yay! We has teh usergroup!
Title: Currently? Whisky on a Sunday.
Description: The story of a guy named Eric MacAllister and his battles with alcoholism. All the fun stuff that happens to him, y'know.
What is one thing you like about this story? Umm... just one thing? xD I'm kind of in love with everything. Except one of my characters, because his speech is a pain in the arse to write and I just got done writing a long scene where it's just him and Eric and urgh. I made Eric kick his behind so that he would talk normally and I could write normally. [/ramble]
And this has made me realise that I really need to work on a working description, so that when I tell people it sounds more exciting. =/
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WOOHOO! Yippee!
Title:The Human Side of Things
Word Count: Not sure since I haven't typed most of it.
How long have you been working on it: Two weeks
Description: Told through journal entries and flashbacks, Ciara goes through her first year of college living in the residence, wanting to start a new life, but there is a niggling problem that resurfaces. One that she just wants to forget.
What is one thing you like about this story?: It's my first attempt at journal style, and it's very interesting to look at a character's daily life in that way, instead of writing about fifteen-twenty days over a period of several months. -
Geez, Suzanne, way to steal a guy's glory.
I forgive you. But don't let it happen again.
Anyway, yes. I'm Kylan and I will be your mod. There are a few things I'd like to add to this thread though, so follow my lead.
Title: Honor
Current Word Count: ~ 72,000 words
How long have you worked on your novel?: Six months
Description: A disillusioned Chinese-American gang member discovers a terrorist plot to release a biotoxin into the stratosphere of modern life. And his gang is uniquly involved in the whole mess, dragging him down with them. Classic adventure/thriller/shoot-'em-up.
What is one thing you like most about this piece?: I love how my characters have kind of risen from the coffin of the cliche and the banal. This time around, the people in Honor seem so much more real than anything I've ever written before. It has been incredibly fun to pen this baby.
Welcome, Bienvenue, Wilkomen (spell check me?) to all.
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Aewesome!
Title: StoweAway
Current Word Count: 7,638
How long have you worked on your novel? About a month
Description: StoweAway is about a girl named Aly Stowe (hence StoweAway) and her city is attacked by Lord Isaac's soldiers. Her uncle Steven is taken captive and Aly is left with Zek, her snow leopard, and Auntie Clair, who is pregnant. They travel to London, and Auntie Clair dies in childbirth. Aly and Zek are homeless, and they stowaway on a pirate ship.
What is one thing you like most about this piece: Probably the way that I am writing it. I'm following a plan - write one day, edit the next. This way, my story is getting done much faster, and not so full of grammar mistakes!
Hey everyone! I'm glad that I'm in this!
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*skips up and down* whee! usergroup!
Aloha everyone!
Title: Erm, I usually refer to it as "that blasted novel that I can never seem to finish" [properly capitalized, of course] But I suppose it can have a working title of... [s]Traveler's Return?[/s] Horrid, for the moment, but I guess it does need a name at some point.
Current Word Count: 25,000 but only about 15000 of those words will be salvageable by the time I'm through with it, haha
How long have you worked on your novel?: [one year of formulating ideas] + [one year of random scenes] + [one year of somewhat-directed plotting and writing] + [brief spurts of inspiration] = an embarrassingly long time XD
Description: Connie has arrived in the city, after securing a job at the city's official hotel, during a large, sketchy election for the city's next mayor. While there, she becomes involved with the mayor's son and has to consider what is right and wrong not only at face value, but also in context of underlying history (yeah, you can probably tell that the plot is not the strongest aspect of this story).
What is one thing you like most about this piece?: I really like describing the setting. And I think I've done a fairly good job of it. Especially my opening scene, where the whole place is introduced, and there are people walking around to set the tone of the novel. Yeah, I'm basically in love with that scene ^_^
EDIT: it's currently been renamed to Patorfield Peonies, which is still horrid, but at least not so generic. -
Novels! YAY.
Which one? I am in the mist of so many.
Title: Guttersnipe
Current Word Count: 13945, but that is not counting all the shorts and such.
How long have you worked on your novel? The characters and something of a plot have been in my head for two years. My first free-write was summer '05.
Description: Regan, a woman with amnesia, deals with life, love, and the pursuit of not dying a horrible death. Actually, no. It's totally so much more than that. It is an Alternate History in where a woman with amnesia is caught up in revolution and government doings.
What is one thing you like most about this piece? Erm, Regan. No seriously, she makes me laugh and tends to help me steer clear of any craptastic-ness in my writing. Oh, and then there is Henry. He shouldn't be in charge of a revolution. Really. And, Archie is so sweet and dear. -
I don't know where this group was when I started my little DoaV progress journal, but I'm glad it's here now! ^_^
Title: Diary of a Villain
Current Word Count: 1123. Just restarted it from scracth. XD
How long have you worked on your novel?: Started Jan 10, 2008
Description: Daughter of a bandit and a witch, Yazra wasn't exactly raised to be a upstanding citizen. When her soul arrives at the Judgement Station, Judge Esten is ready to sentence her to the punishment the rules dictate are necessary for all her corruptness. However, the head administration isn't so eager to send this girl to hell--knowing that one of their oh so valued 'honored' souls will be going with her. Esten must call a trial to fully judge Yazra's life--and she's better do it fast, because it seems that the flow of souls in the seven hundredth universe has been severed, and there is nothing more dangerous to the balance than too many souls that won't pass on. Sadly, the task isn't so simple. Between a vengeful spirit determined Yazra belongs in hell, and a overzealous case worker who who thinks she's just 'the coolest', Esten must uncover Yazra's true nature and decide wether Yazra's sins are so grave they deserve execution--or wether she is a hero in a villain's clothing.
What is one thing you like most about this piece?: I like that my MC isn't one of the the 'good guys', and that I'm somehow managing to balance humor with the dark theme of villainy. ^_^ Oh, and it's insanely fun!
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You know I love you Kylan!
I'm going to fill out for the one I am actually working on right now. Death Machine is still a big deal, but it is in waiting for now. Will be edited soon.
Title: The Party Killers
Current Word Count: 5,299
How long have you worked on your novel? I've been working on it since the beginning of February, but I started writing the actual novel just this week. (It was originally a short story, which you can read here)
Description: During the 1920s in probably England, Kel and Agatha make money through seducing and murdering rich men. Agatha does the seducing, Kel does the killing. Agatha is a cold hearted person who couldn't love anything but money, and Kel grew up on a farm and, poor him, is deeply in love with Agatha. Humor, and tragedy, ensues.
What is one thing you like most about this piece? I love my characters. They're playful, and the novel is more of a joke to write than anything. Compared to Death Machine, I can actually have fun. The deaths are taken seriously, but at the same time, everything is a joke. I think the most fun is that my characters are so odd. I also like that I'm trying to write in a different style with this, which I'm not even sure the reader will enjoy, but I do, haha. -
I'm changing my novel because this one is stuck on a broken laptop and I won't e working on it for a while. So, forget AGB, and make way for...
Title: The Gate of Glendon (yeah, I know, but it's not that bad, is it?)
Current Word Count: 1,381, but I'm just about to write more in it.
How long have you worked on your novel?: Let's see... early Mrach, cant remember the exact date
Description: This is a Fantasy about two seperate wrolds connected by a gate. However, the Gate stays closed, because the Salianne's get weaker while the Nydian's get stronger when the gte is open. So when a Nydian wizard opens the gte, the people prepare awar. But one girl doesn't want to sit at home and wait. She want's to do something, so what happens when she crosses enemy lines to close the gate? Ad what will happen to her when the gate does close?
What is one thing you like most about this piece?: Well, I've never tried teen fantasy before, and it's nothing like anything I've ever written, even the little fantasy I have attempted. Plus I love my characters (well, some of them) -
Gah, I have so many stories with so little time.
I'll choose...
Title: Finding Atlantis
Current Word Count: ~ 25,500
How long have you worked on your novel?: Five months? I haven't worked on it in months, unfortunately.
Description: The Wonderful Century has come to an end as the most beautiful kingdom of Tyroan is ruled by a Seer, a rare possessor of the Ancient Magic of the Lost City. There is only one way to put a stop to this king's plans to take complete control of the Ancient Magic: The Lost City must save them. It is up to eighteen-year-old Princess Diana to escape her father's clutches and find the Lost City. Traveling with a stubborn knight who was of noble blood, a pregnant friend who is to give birth in short time, the princess of Tyroan, and an unhelpful older sister who was taken her title as Princess away, Diana must find help...but little does she know there is more that awaits her.
What is one thing you like most about this piece?: It's a fantasy, and I have always wanted to write one (seeing as I love to read them). Every fantasy I've tried has failed, but this, after much editing and finishing (of course), will become a winner in my book (no pun intended).
I never wrote a summary of it.
But it was kind of fun.
Welcome, Bienvenue, Wilkomen (spell check me?) to all.
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Current Word Count: ~50,000
How long have you worked on your novel?: Four months. Yay unfinished NaNos.
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Title: Land of Sky, Land of Rain
Current Word Count: Hm... I have about 57,000 words typed, and about 21,000 still handwritten, so... probably about 78,000 words, more or less.
How long have you worked on your novel?: I started in April or May of 2006... can't quite remember... it was at the end of spring break, though. The very rough rough draft was completed, all except for the epilouge, on October 8, 2007, and now I'm plunging full force into editing. Oh so much editing.
Description: The first book in the planned Zerithia Trilogy, LoSLoR is... er... difficult to explain. *facepalm* That's probably a bad sign. I'll give it a stab, though. Okay...
Emma Bering, a middle school student struggling with the betrayal of a close friend, wakes up to find reality slowly falling apart around her. Things keep happening that don't make sense, like glitches in reality, until her world vanishes completely, leaving her in some strange, other world, a world entangled in a centuries-long war. When the town she's in is attacked by "the enemy," Emma wants to help-- but her attempt to make things better leads to more trouble. The world can't be summed up in black and white: the people Emma thought of as the "good guys" may be even more barbaric and cruel than they accuse their enemies of being, and Emma, quite accidentally, unearths of a conspiracy tracing back to the dawn of the war, a conspiracy that is causing the belligerents to go unwittingly to their own destruction. Somewhere in the midst of this conspiracy lie the darkest secrets of the human nations, the hope of an attempt at peace, and the truth of Emma's own origin and purpose.
So, er, yeah, a fantasy, but I hope it's even a somewhat original one. *fails at life*
What is one thing you like most about this piece?: Well... to tell you the truth, right now I really don't like this piece. I'm suffering from an unfortunate lapse in confidence right now. I'm such a fickle creator. XD When I do like LoSLoR, it's usually because of the characters. They may not be the best, most original, most real characters around (in fact, let's face it: they aren't -_-), but I still love them. I have an unfortunate tendency to play favorites, though, I give Sae and Attaraya a rather undeserved amount of focus. *fails at life again* -
Hiya! Nice to see a good group going about!
Title: Undecided, one of: Wayward Always, Always Wayward or Vagabond.
Current Word Count: 12,000
How long have you worked on your novel?: About a month and a half
Description: An exile finds himself lost, when he wakes up 1000 years into the future. The world has been overthrown and he doesn't know what to do.
What is one thing you like most about this piece?: The symbolism. If you are lost, you will always be found. -
Title: Child of Ashes: Outcast
Current Word Count: 6,380 according to the word count in my Word on my laptop, but the one on my Mac would probably say different. Oh, and that's also just what I have typed up.
Edit: Make that 7,149. I just finished typing up what I hadn't and then I totaled it.
How long have you worked on your novel?: Since...around January 3rd, I guess, though I started outlining/got the idea for it a bit sooner than that. I think I had an exam the next day and the idea hit me while I was trying to go to sleep.
Description: Cesarina Vardin was banished ten years ago for something she didn't do. One day, she hears a knock on her door and finds an opportunity to be set free.
What is one thing you like most about this piece?: I think what I like is the fact that I'm surprising myself with the tiny sci-fi elements I've managed to include in it.
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