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[Plaid Adder]

Anybody else doing genre fiction?

http://www.plaidder.com/wof/

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[Richardo]

1. Your subject line cracked me up, PA

I'm a neophyte writer who is gathering ideas but has not woven them into anything coherent.

[fudge stripe cookays]

2. Cool! Yup, sort of chick lit here.

But I was too busy trying to save the world for awhile.

I'm hoping I can get back into it during the winter with all these cozy weekends inside staring me in the face.

I've got about 12 chapters so far.
FSC

[lapislzi]

3. My first novel was fantasy

My friend and I took turns writing an entire series when we were teenagers. I still have my 2 installments. I pick it up from time to time (for a laugh) to see whether there's anything to salvage.

It wasn't bad for a 16-yr-old novelist. Wouldn't mind getting back to it. My friend stayed with it...now SHE'S the genre fiction writer you want to meet.

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. Yeah...sad huh?

The rest of us had lives and stuff in the meantime. I wish I'd stuck with my many efforts from junior and high school and college.

I met a junior high friend recently, and she said she was disappointed she'd never seen my name on any bestseller lists yet. I was always scribbling away on "the Great American Novel" when I should have been taking notes in physicla scince, in English, in math, you name it!

I felt about 3 inches tall. All that potential, and I still have yet to do anything with it!

FSC

[lapislzi]

8. Hey, it's never too late to get busy

I can give you some warm-up exercises if you need them. PM me. Also, good jump-start books are Bird by Bird, Writing Down the Bones, The Artist's Way.

(I also give writing classes. One of the hats I wear).

I am pleased that I can look people in the eye and say "I'm a writer. I make my living with my pen."

Good luck, FSC; let me know if I can help.

[Killarney]

5. Yep. Horror writer here.

Boo. :)

[wryter2000]

6. Romance

And I just finished a fantasy. Or the first draft of it.

[politicat]

7. SF and F.

Some of each. Social Science Fiction and Fantasy-lite.

Those are the fun breaks from the more lit'rary stuff and the non-fic that pays the freakin' bills.

I'm trying to get down the complete history of my fantasy world before the end of November so I can edit the 3rd novel in the series (and make sure there are no internal inconsistencies in the world) in December so that I can start the two non-fic projects in January and be shipping the fiction out the door.

January will suck. Writing "Dangerous Curves: Navigating Life Transitions" (or whatever the publisher decides to call the bloody thing when we're done...) is not nearly as fun as writing about a world where spies for the Ruling family just might end up coming back and pruning the same ruling family's more unruly branches.

Pcat

[Chovexani]

9. Fantasy writer here.

Lately I've been doing dark fantasy. Lots of fun.

[Technowitch]

10. Howdy Plaid Adder! Epic fantasy here, working on a manuscript now.

Great to see ya here, too. Love your political stuff.

-Technowitch

[Zorra]

11. Do you actually have to be writing to be considered "doing", or can

it also entail thinking about writing but never getting around to it?

(Yeah, I know, rule #1: You must write.)

Now that I have failed to save the US from a fascist takeover maybe I will get back to the partial novels that I trashed, or maybe start something new.

But yes I try to write genre fiction.

[BikeWriter]

12. I'm working on three books...

I'm working on three books. An erotic western with 41,000 words, an erotic biker/MC with 119,000 words, and an erotic Sci-fi and Fantasy with 64,000 words. This damned election has dampened my muse...

[kcr]

13. SFF

Mostly SF

[InvisibleTouch]

14. I've written sci-fi for years....

Most of it fanfic, however. But a few months ago, I came across a box of my old high school writings - hundreds and hundreds of pages of the most godawful space opera you've never seen (never, because I'd sooner jump into a vat of boiling oil, than show this stuff to anyone!). And yet, I have the sense that some of it could be dusted off and turned into a readable adventure. I still love some of the characters, and they've been bugging me again of late. I feel totally unprepared to write an original (i.e. non-fanfic) novel at this point. But I wonder. Might be worth pursuing....