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06-12-2006, 06:57 AM
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#126
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Behind you ... (well, if your back's to London)
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Sure - there's an email address in my profile. 'Twould be much appreciated!
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06-12-2006, 07:00 AM
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#127
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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You got it!
~Sending it now....
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06-12-2006, 09:57 AM
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#128
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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Hope you got it okay, Wise Child. I'd love to know what you think of it..
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06-12-2006, 08:56 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,249
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I was watching Drawn Together (a cartoon reality show) and I was thinking it would be fun and funny to do a goth Real World. XD
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06-13-2006, 04:05 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Behind you ... (well, if your back's to London)
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Wow, spooky. I got it and I love it! You seem to have a genuine way with comedy. It's got that Monty Python thing going on - utterly silly in places, while still managing to be very witty.
I'm not at all surprised that the festival wants it. I'd love to see it performed. 
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The meek shall inherit the earth. Just as soon as the rest of us have finished with it.
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick ~ Toni Morrison
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06-14-2006, 06:25 AM
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#131
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: the barren wilderness of northern england
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a short story and i'm trying to get back into a trilogy i was writing. i was writing the first and second book simultaneously and managed to get writer's block onb oth of them. skill or what?
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06-14-2006, 06:28 AM
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#132
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Los Angeles
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Re: who's writing what at the moment?
Great thread, here - some really good (and disturbing!) ideas. I just wanted to say to Spooky Purple and Winged Dreams, since I'm immersed in publishing now (my first novel coming out in September, the second next year, if I can ever FINISH it!) - that vampire stories are their own whole genre these days and there are a lot of publishers who are actively looking for paranormal romance, so don't give up on your vampire stories just because they've been done. It's THE trend.
(Btw, Spooky Purple - I was a teacher, too, until I broke through into screenwriting, and I know what you mean - it was just impossible for me to write and teach. Sounds like you're doing exactly the right thing.)
Good luck with the scripts, Spooky P. and Dark Adventurer! You all are so prolific it's unnerving. I better go get some work done. Really stormy day, so that will help.
Alex
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06-14-2006, 06:48 AM
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#133
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Sanctropolis, Bitchland USA
Posts: 2,459
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So this is the first time I've stumbled in here... thought I should give it a look before it's gone right?
One short story (horror) and one trilogy (fantasy fiction)....
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06-14-2006, 10:18 AM
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#134
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Where anarchy reigns
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I'm writing a somewhat Tekken-fanstory at the moment, a tragedy that has a very little to do with the game itself. It's the first part of the whole series that I call "Path of Endurance". It will have three or four parts; I write the first one, the second one is a movie that I already made with my friends, and the third one will be a comic book. The fourth part is still heavily under construction...
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06-14-2006, 03:33 PM
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#135
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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Thank you, Wise Child - I'm glad it got there okay! Glad you liked it - it's always nice to get feedback! Especially such nice feedback too! I'll let you know how it goes...
And hi there AlexSokoloff! Thanks for the support. Good to know you're there. Who'd have thought - another scriptwriting ex-teacher! How was the storm? Did you manage to get much done? Do tell about the novel (what you're allowed to tell, that it!  )!
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06-14-2006, 03:54 PM
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#136
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 20
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Hey . I do writing. I'm a newbie, if you don't recognize me. I just joined today. talk 2 me and i'll share my writing talents.
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Originally Posted by spookypurple
I've been visiting a 'writer's' site over here and getting a bit frustrated with it. Seems everyone is more concerned with what they did at the weekend and what was on telly and whether a particular poster wears particular clothing... In short, nothing to do with writing!
I want to talk to someone who actually does some writing out there! I want to talk characterisation! Dialogue! Plotting! Editing! Formatting!
Please, please, talk to me!
What are you writing at the moment? What do you plan to do with it? Are you finding it easy? Difficult? Any tips?
I'm working on a play at the moment and finding it difficult to discipline myself to get anything done - it's starting to take shape, but I'm being a bit of a butterfly with it.
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06-15-2006, 03:42 PM
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#137
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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Head-spinny moment! Apparently the youth 'street theatre' piece is being workshopped tomorrow (news to me!). This is ahead of the actual performance in a week's time. Also got asked tonight (at a stage fighting workshop - ace!) to take part in a rehearsed reading of someone's new play, which is going to be only 5 days before the play we're putting on at the Guilfest. In amongst all this is a couple of production meetings for this film project I've written. Thankfully the play I'm helping on with draping the set isn't until the end of next month... Oish!
Anyone know a good genetic scientist? I could do with a few clones a la "Multiplicity"! Or if anyone has any tips on staying sane during a short concentrated burst of extreeeeeme multi-tasking? This is worse than when I was teaching!
It's like buses...
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06-15-2006, 04:03 PM
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#138
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Los Angeles
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Back atcha, Spooky Purple!
Apparently the youth 'street theatre' piece is being workshopped tomorrow (news to me!).
That's fantastic, Spooky Purple! Please update.
Yeah, it was a little weird for me to read your posts - teaching, theater, screenwriting, even "youth street theater" - we're living parallel lives! But I'm wildly jealous that you're even South of London, my favorite city. Maybe one day I'll get there for good... sigh...
The brief dope on the novel - I've worked in Hollywood for years, made a fine living, one movie made so far, but the system is HELL on original writers (and women, too.). A few years ago I got so revolted by The Process (which means corporate executives who know nothing about story telling writers what to do) that I started getting back the rights to my scripts. I took one, a supernatural thriller based on a real haunting I experienced in high school, and wrote it as a novel. It sold pretty much immediately - I got a two-book deal with St. Martin's Press and the first, THE HARROWING, is out Sept. 1st of this year. The second is also a supernatural thriller, which will be out next year. You can read all about it here: http://alexandrasokoloff.com/ - with visuals and everything.
Bottom line is - believe in what you're doing and if it's not happening in one medium, try another. You've just got to be true to your story and keep at it.
Alex
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06-15-2006, 04:41 PM
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#139
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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Aw, thanks! I'm still working on getting published. At the moment, just getting paid would be nice enough! Anyway, I'm at www.theresapoole.com - but it needs some serious updating to include the recent mad flurry of activity! 
And yes, I will let you know how it goes off tomorrow (and the actual performance(s)!).
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06-15-2006, 07:54 PM
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#140
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 37
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I have a super secret project Im working on at the moment, its an illustrated online episodic story called Wormwood.
In a nutshell, and without spoiling anything, it revolves around a young man who walks on the darker side of life (suprise?). He is slowly coming to grips with his deteriorating psyche, as fantasy begins to intertwine with reality. However he fails to realize that he is tearing back the curtain on otherworldy events.
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06-15-2006, 08:14 PM
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#141
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 37
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I may need to change the name Wormwood to avoid confusion with Poppy Z's book of the same name.
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06-16-2006, 08:41 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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You don't listen to The Residents by any chance, do you???
Ooh - have you ever read "The Demolished Man" by Alfred Bester?
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06-16-2006, 11:19 AM
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#143
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 37
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I haven't gotten around to reading "The Demolished Man" yet, I heard it was a mix of SciFi and Cyberpunk though. Ill have to check out The Residents, what kind of music do they play?
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06-16-2006, 01:18 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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er, ooh, that's a tough one, actually. They're kind of experimental, kind of avant-garde...
This site has a lot of their music on: http://music.allofmp3.com/mp3/The_Re...mcatalog.shtml
And this is the site: http://www.residents.com/
They had an album called Wormwood. Your saying the name just reminded me of it.
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06-24-2006, 03:08 AM
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#145
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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I am now officially under orders to get my new play finished!
The group that I act with had a read-through of the latest 1 act play and are now keep to get onto the full-length one. I have till September...
Anyone else got some deadlines coming up? Let's all get together to electronically hold each other's hands and drink coffee/herb tea into the wee small hours.
Though that may make typing a bit awakward hee hee!
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06-25-2006, 09:29 AM
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#146
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
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Congrats, spooky! Should I wish you to break a leg?
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06-25-2006, 09:59 AM
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#147
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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Aww, thanks sweetie. <3
Limb breakage is fine...
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06-26-2006, 03:01 PM
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#148
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Writing some short stories at the same time. The one I'm more focused on right now is called the "Flesh Sculptor" (I hope no one has used that title already).
It has to be graphic; that's the thing that hasn't let me finish yet: I want it to be repulsive, to contain the deepest desires and nightmares of the human psyche merged into what this guy calls "art"
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People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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06-29-2006, 09:13 PM
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#149
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 11
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First gothic publication
Iworte a gothic-erotic story titled THE TARGET and just had it published on the TIT-ELATION web site. The story is about a vampire searching for the perfect man, you know what I mean. It conatins levels of a bittersweet romance, the hunt for fresh blood, and the conquering of the vampires target (thus the title ).
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07-25-2006, 11:10 PM
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#150
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
Posts: 2,535
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I have a poetry book already written, and I am working another one. All I do is write. Poetry mainly. But I have 4 novels I am working on bit by bit. Writing is great. I love to do it.
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