From: A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org   
      
    wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 12:46:00 PM UTC+1, A. Tina Hall wrote:   
   >> Nicky   wrote:   
      
   >>> So I wanted to ask what are people working on and where are they?   
   >>> Published? Self published? Seeking representation or just writing   
   >>> for pleasure?   
      
   >> Still aiming to write what I want to read because no one else does,   
   >> but lately just re-reading and polishing the Magic Earth series (it's   
   >> finished, 6 books of on average 130k words, plus 1.5 books or so   
   >> past the end even - I started that to get it out of my head, and just   
   >> keep going when I get there after rereading and polishing), and the   
   >> Seasons&Elements trilogy (which is stuck in the third book at 38k   
   >> words - 1st and 2nd book have around 200k words, maybe I should write   
   >> a post about that asking for suggestions).   
   >>   
   > I think is probably more words than I've written in my entire life!   
      
   Heh.   
      
   I remember people here telling me to write a million words and then   
   wonder about writing better. Well, I still don't know how to write   
   better, and I knew it wouldn't improve that way from the start. Not   
   everyone works the same way, but of course someone new is told everyone   
   knows better than they could possibly know themselves. Sigh.   
      
   But the thing is, world-spanning looong stories over multiple books is   
   one of the parameters of what I want to read. So naturally there have to   
   be many words to fill the bricks. :)   
      
   >> I've got 22 starts of other stories (plus the initial vampire   
   >> story), ranging from 294 words to 30638 words, that all lost steam.   
      
   [...]   
      
   >> I've had the idea to re-read one of the stories (most likely S&E or   
   >> ME) brewing in my head for a bit now, it's been a few months since   
   >> last rereading the ME. Reviving one of the starts would be nice, but   
   >> I don't really know how, and how to get past the bits in those that   
   >> are affected by the ME intruding.   
   >>   
   > I don't know but if you are writing for yourself then surely you   
   > write whichever gives you most pleasure/is the most insistent in your   
   > imagination.   
      
   I'd like more stories though.   
      
   I thought maybe reading the starts would hook me onto one. So I've read   
   what I got of the vampire story, minus the 2nd viewpoint that I don't   
   think feels fitting (mind, it's not the kind of vampire you get anywhere   
   else, and certainly no romance schmaltz), but that story feels kinda   
   kinky.   
      
   Now reading the Space thing, which was meant to be my answer to Star   
   Trek. While watching Voyager or the new old Enterprise series, I kept   
   thinking about giving stupid characters doing stupid things a fitting   
   reaction, not making it look as if their doing is ok or right. Maybe   
   that'd even be publishable, it starts out with what other people call   
   plenty potential for 'conflict' (I hate conflict, but I have something   
   in the background of the setting that could make this work). Hmmm...   
      
      
      
   Could you do something about your quotes being messed up, and not   
   snipping anything, not even sigs?   
      
   --   
   "Boy, you should learn not to believe everything some nasty Shan   
   tells you. We aren't known to be all that honest."   
                                          -- Thalos, Magic Earth VI   
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