Hello all. I've been doing some research for a couple of novels and have spent so much time lately following links to this site that I thought I'd maybe skip the middle... er... bot... and join.
About me. I'm old. I've been writing off and on since the seventies. First with a Bic Clic and a binder, then with an old flea market Remington Quiet Riter portable manual typewriter, and later with an electric. portable.
I broke into the computer age late, when one of my manuscripts got a bite. they didn't want that one, but my bio had caught somebody's eye and he liked my "style".
I bought a really to life actual brand new in the box Amstrad. With Locascript. Oddly enough, that one got published. Way back in June of '90. Still waiting on sales numbers. The company was bought out by another publisher, who was bought out by another, who was bought out by another. I'm not holding my breath. On the other hand, near as I can tell, nobody's done anything with the property for long enough that the rights have reverted back to me.
The whole dead tree publishing nightmare soured me on the craft insofar as writing for profit was concerned, and I didn't write a word for nearly six years. but I just couldn't stop the stories from coming out. I wrote for myself, I wrote for my kids, I wrote for my friends. Thousands of pages. Thousands upon thousands!:tongue
Then, one day, when I was minding my own business and trying to figure out how to choreograph a battle between Sir Lancelot and a vampire, one of the kids let me in on this whole Kindle business. A way to publish without publishers? Where do I sign up?
So here I am. The stories are in there, and I think that there are folks out in the world who'd enjoy them. Now all I have to do is figure out how to convert forty years and change of experience into this newfangled formatting.
It appears that while I was otherwise engaged, English grammar, and particularly fiction writing conventions have undergone some fundamental changes. Em dashes? En dashes? And what's that non-Oxford comma nonsense all about anyway? Don't even get me started on single spaced period breaks!
I hope to learn here. I hope to lend my particular set of life experience to those who might need tips on things I'm familiar with based on my history of making bad choices. They say, after all, that an adventure is a thing that you'd never have embarked upon if you'd a functioning brain, but somehow, in spite of yourself, survived to talk about. I've got a number of those tales.
Current projects. I've got a dieselpunk novel well into the third act that just needs tying off. That story about Lancelot and the vampire? Yeah, one vampire battle (the one thing that every beta reader agreed it needed) to finish and it's done. And my magnum opus; an epic fantasy universe that stretches across twelve stories and counting. Several million words, twenty-five years of adventure and romance, fighting, fencing, great evil, great heroes, and even some kissing.
Looking forward to sharing and contributing. Meanwhile, I've got a couple of characters stuck on the wrong side of a ruined bridge way up high in a mountain pass who need attention.
If you've managed to read this far, thank you.
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About me. I'm old. I've been writing off and on since the seventies. First with a Bic Clic and a binder, then with an old flea market Remington Quiet Riter portable manual typewriter, and later with an electric. portable.
I broke into the computer age late, when one of my manuscripts got a bite. they didn't want that one, but my bio had caught somebody's eye and he liked my "style".
I bought a really to life actual brand new in the box Amstrad. With Locascript. Oddly enough, that one got published. Way back in June of '90. Still waiting on sales numbers. The company was bought out by another publisher, who was bought out by another, who was bought out by another. I'm not holding my breath. On the other hand, near as I can tell, nobody's done anything with the property for long enough that the rights have reverted back to me.
The whole dead tree publishing nightmare soured me on the craft insofar as writing for profit was concerned, and I didn't write a word for nearly six years. but I just couldn't stop the stories from coming out. I wrote for myself, I wrote for my kids, I wrote for my friends. Thousands of pages. Thousands upon thousands!:tongue
Then, one day, when I was minding my own business and trying to figure out how to choreograph a battle between Sir Lancelot and a vampire, one of the kids let me in on this whole Kindle business. A way to publish without publishers? Where do I sign up?
So here I am. The stories are in there, and I think that there are folks out in the world who'd enjoy them. Now all I have to do is figure out how to convert forty years and change of experience into this newfangled formatting.
It appears that while I was otherwise engaged, English grammar, and particularly fiction writing conventions have undergone some fundamental changes. Em dashes? En dashes? And what's that non-Oxford comma nonsense all about anyway? Don't even get me started on single spaced period breaks!
I hope to learn here. I hope to lend my particular set of life experience to those who might need tips on things I'm familiar with based on my history of making bad choices. They say, after all, that an adventure is a thing that you'd never have embarked upon if you'd a functioning brain, but somehow, in spite of yourself, survived to talk about. I've got a number of those tales.
Current projects. I've got a dieselpunk novel well into the third act that just needs tying off. That story about Lancelot and the vampire? Yeah, one vampire battle (the one thing that every beta reader agreed it needed) to finish and it's done. And my magnum opus; an epic fantasy universe that stretches across twelve stories and counting. Several million words, twenty-five years of adventure and romance, fighting, fencing, great evil, great heroes, and even some kissing.
Looking forward to sharing and contributing. Meanwhile, I've got a couple of characters stuck on the wrong side of a ruined bridge way up high in a mountain pass who need attention.
If you've managed to read this far, thank you.
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