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 I'm a new writer of science fiction and adventure tales. I also make occasional forays into fantasy and realistic fiction. I love post-apocalyptic settings, utopias and dystopias, coming-of-age stories, and stories about underdogs struggling against the machine. 
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Well, this post is long overdue, but better late than nevah! Back in March, I attended a three day workshop in Madison, WI (“The Fire in Fiction”) with superagent Donald Maass and bestselling author Nalo Hopkinson. I first heard Mr. Maass speak at the Surrey Writers Convention in 2007. It was an hour-long workshop [...] I started spelling the title of my WIP as Sweetheartcatalyst, all one word. It looks better to me that way. I dunno, maybe I’ll change it later. Maybe not. So my official word count is now a little over 16K. Yay! It helped that I was able to copy and paste a few scenes [...] And the “bad guy”, Sergio. Doesn’t look so bad, does he? Trust me, he is what is commonly referred to as a “monster”. I did this drawing too hastily and it didn’t come out all that great, the proportions are “off”, but I just wanted to put something up. I like having a representation [...] The “good guys” of Sweetheartcatalyst: Voula and Kelly/Darnell. (He goes by two different names in the story, it’s complicated.) I like how Voula came out; her look is pretty much based on the lovely Melina Kanakaredes, except shorter hair and I tried to make her look older & tougher. As for Kelly/Darnell, he’s based [...] So in the past week or so, I’ve managed to freak myself the *hell* out, twice, with my own writing, specifically with some situations I’ve chosen to put in my current WIP. First of all, I had a scene where my main character and an important secondary character have to visit a mother and [...] So it was back in August that I decided I needed to start over on SHC. But almost immediately, there were a bunch of interruptions, in the form of short stories, novellas, and giant home improvement projects, so for all intents and purposes, SHC was on the back burner. Now I’ve switched to the [...] I did another characterization list (..compile an alphabetical list of quirks, traits and/or other aspects of personality (positive or negative) that best describe your character. Try to avoid words that are synonyms of each other. For the tough letters (X and Z) you can use words that contain the letters versus starting with them.) [...] |
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