Authors in our midst!

[Blue Tiger]

Ok, I don't know how many times I've heard this now... There appears to be a large amount of people here who are writing books! I have to say, I'm interested in what people here are writing, so, If you are writing a book or have already done one, please post here and tell me, lol!

[Pandora]

oh, I know you don't want to hear about me again. I'll give you the name since I don't think I have before.

Adzandra will of the destine.

[Tempest]

Well, I'm currently writing a book (or at least trying to)... a biography about my little half-dragon alter-ego I played in an old ad&d games that lasted several years (the longest quest I ever played).

Basically, the story starts with a 16 years old (8 years old mental age equivalent) half-dragon who suffer from memory loss, was able to survive in a world of sword & sorcery plagued with calamities that reduced the dominant races there to a fraction of their former glory.

I'm trying to write hundred of years of history but so far the result is a bit fragmented.

[dragonfly]

I'm writing one on the greek myth of persephone and demeter, except with the twist that persephone actually planned the escape with hades because demeter was going to marry her off to another god for more power. haven't gotten all the details in my head yet, but the prologue is completely written.

[wut2say]

wow you guys make me jealous. i can only successfully write fiction, scifi and fantasy, though i adore them to no end, are completely lost with me.

I'm trying to write (well mostly done, just majorly historically inaccurate at the moment) a historical fiction about a brother and sister who lived in belgium and the beginning of wwi and the younger sister watched their father get shot by a german and killed.
it goes on having the brother try and take care of his sister and get them to England, where he thinks that they'll be safe and that his sister, who is phycologically scarred to the point where she is still five years old mentally thinking that her father is on a trip and will come home any day, will slowly start to get better.

there's more, but that's where the historical inaccuracies start to appear.

as i said, you all make me jealous.

[Silentiea]

I've only ever written... snippets.

I think it's just the way my head works. I've got a couple of things that resemble short stories along with a few poems that are half-decent, but every time I try to work on this big story that's been in my head for years, what comes out is atrocious and I scrap it.

[Falconer]

Finished one book (Dragonslayers), working on another, Stars of Legend, about a girl who is transported to Avalon, where King Arthur went after his disappearance from this world.

[Dragon444]

I'm currently writing a biography of my Keegan character Cala Rive.
If you want more info, go to my forum and look it up, I don't really have the time to post it, sorry.
A two-hundred year long story is rough going...

[Pandora]

wow, when we all get published we could start some kind of writers sociaty.

[wut2say]

I would be the one who never shows up to the meetings....


then i would appear like three months later and be like, yeah guys, so like, i'm publishing another book. see ya later.

i could make it a tradition, and we could have pie or something on the days i appear. ALright, i'm done.

[Pandora]

ooow what kind of pie???

[Falconer]

Whatever it is, there'll be 3.14 of them.

[Silentiea]

Not exactly. Slightly more than that. And they'll probably be mango.

I'd be the one who always told everyone else how great their work was and then threw mine out the window in shame before it was my turn to read...

[vampirehunter42]

Well no books. All I can count to my writing are gaming modules and detailed background to some characters.

[Blue Tiger]

Wow, I am amazed, I knew there was a few of us, but not this many! Im going to have to put some money aside to buy all your books!
@Pandora: Sound interesting, pm me more detail!
@Tempest: Seems to be a good story line, I would like to know more!
@dragonfly: I find greek mythology fascinating!
@wut2say: Sound like a really good edge of your seat book, one of those upsetting war books...
@Silentiea: I only have written a few snippets too, just incomplete story.
@Falconer: Where can a buy your book??! And Ive been meaning to get a book on King Arthur legends, its really interesting.
@Dragon444: Ill have to have a look at that...
@vampirehunter42: Gaming modules?


All ive written to date has been a few quick stories, most for english lessons. But, I recently wrote a 13 page story about a minotaur character (remember him?, lol), I thought it was quite good, and I am in no way finished, but the problem is, I have the whole story in my head but not enough time to write it...

[vampirehunter42]

A Role Play adventure, but you write it out well enough so others might be able to use it. (so far I have only written a couple for myself)

Here is an example of what I am talking about, I will be getting in the mail in a week or so.

http://paizo.com/pathfinder/adventurePa ... 48btpy84bd

[Falconer]

@Blue Tiger: When I said I finished it... I didn't mean its published, Just that I printed it out and its now sitting in a binder in my desk.

For King Arthur legends, don't read any contemporary garbage, the good stuff is all the older works. Skip reading Le Morte D' Artur, or however its spelled, that one's entirely useless. Also skip any legends about the knights of the Round Table.

I'd recommend the Illustrated Classic's King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

[Silentiea]

Does The Once and Future King count as contemporary?

[dragonfly]

For King Arthur legends, don't read any contemporary garbage, the good stuff is all the older works. Skip reading Le Morte D' Artur, or however its spelled, that one's entirely useless. Also skip any legends about the knights of the Round Table.

I would have to disagree on 2 points. One, some really interesting contemporary takes on Arthur is "Sword of the Rightful King" by Jane Yolen I think, and the series by Gerald Morris starting with "A Squire's Tale". And the legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight rocks!

[Silentiea]

The other knights of the round had some pretty good times on their own, too. Just because they're Arthurian legends doesn't mean they all have to be about Arthur.

[Falconer]

The poitn being that the round table knights did next to nothing to contribute to the tale of King Arthur. Yes, they had great adventures, my favorite being the tale of Sir Percival, but they weren't core. And the contemporary stuff leaves out all the subtleties.

[Blue Tiger]

Yes, Im more interested about the stories of Arthurs life himself. About his father,Uther Pendragon, and some old legend that 2 golden dragons appeared in the sky at his birth to herald the birth of a chieftain, of something similar... But yes, legends about the sword and the lady in the lake etc...

[vampirehunter42]

I do agree that a lot of the modern stuff has soiled the "original" legends. But we also must face a lot of Arthurian legend is a mishmash of tells from other sources. But the stories do have a number of dragons in them, like the White and Red dragons from Merlin’s youth.

[Falconer]

True. I found that tale of Merlin particularly interesting.

[Pandora]

hee hee, well tiger if you swear on your life you won't steal my work I'll send you over a chapter or two. Everyone else will have to wait till it's published.