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Post by ericolsson on Jan 22, 2010 19:59:09 GMT -5
Hi everyone. I'm also a new member here. I've been writing for the past few years so I have nothing published.
I would like to write short stories and novels but my love is in the screenplays. I'm currently writing a supernatural suspense script and have a few other ideas lined up.
I find a lot of reasons not to write (like xbox and surfing the internet - both of which I tell my wife is for research), but I'm hoping that being a member here will kick me into gear and write more! But now I seen I have to enter a lot of posts to get points and access more pages here so... another reason... research, really!
Nice to meet everyone.
Eric
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Post by awgifford on Jan 24, 2010 21:18:24 GMT -5
Welcome, John! Good to have you here.
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Post by peggychristie on Jan 25, 2010 9:20:36 GMT -5
Fresh fish...fresh fish...fresh fish...
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Post by MontiLee on Jan 25, 2010 13:15:08 GMT -5
Welcome John and Eric.
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Post by jgifford on Jan 31, 2010 14:15:07 GMT -5
Hey all....I'm Jennifer Gifford...current sitting Treasurer, assistant editor and wife of AW.
I've been writing since I was about six, and still have some of those stories carefully written on my scented lisa frank neon pink lined paper. (Yeah I was a nerd back then too). I like all types of fiction and read extensively because it keeps the voices in my head at bay...most of the time.
Favorite authors would mean I have to pick a favorite genre, and I love all genres I think equally. However, I love Koontz, Strieber, Evanovic, Gabaldon, Paretsky, Hamilton, Butcher, Peter David, Bernard Cornwall, Clive Cussler, E.E Cummings, Lawrnence Ferlinghetti, Eavan Boland, Jim Carroll, and ANgelou to name a few of the complete collections I have. I love books in all their forms, from tape to Cd, to the every increasingly popular ereaders...just think, eventually the whole world will be lost in story..like a group psychosis...lol
I love to cook, crochet, write, read, love all good scary movies, Hitchcock, and passionately watch the History channel and Food network (which I think I should be able to sue for making me hungry everytime I watch a show, which made me fat)...
I've been published about a dozen times in the last three years, and I've been a member of GLAHW since its conception, and I was with the old crew a few years prior to that.
My goals for this year are to publish some of my poems, build a website, and finish my novel (one of them anyway)...
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Post by Stout Roost on Feb 22, 2010 14:40:11 GMT -5
Hi everybody (in my best Dr. Nick impression)! My name is Gerald Rice. Montilee can vouch for me, I'm a human being. I write horror. I have been a fan of horror forever. My mother took me to see totally inappropriate movies as a child. I remember going directly from my kindergarten class to a theater to see Creepshow. When I first started writing about 10 years or so, I was really bad. I had no clue how to do much of anything, including how to be original. But in 2009 I actually plotted (another of my pitfalls) and completed an entire novel. I've had varying success with short stories and if you google me you'll see some of my stuff (no, I'm not a middle-aged white man who defrauded a pension board in Kansas). I've been in Alien Skin, Micro Horror, the Michigan FIA and I had my first big sale with a short in the Harvest Hill anthology last year. I've got a story due out this year as well as my novel "The Ghost Toucher" being published by Severed Press. You can get more info on my website: www.feelmyghost.webs.com.
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Post by MontiLee on Feb 22, 2010 15:12:12 GMT -5
My name is Gerald Rice. Montilee can vouch for me Oh no you don't. You're not dragging me down into your den of fraud, Mister!
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Post by Stout Roost on Feb 22, 2010 15:53:42 GMT -5
My name is Gerald Rice. Montilee can vouch for me Oh no you don't. You're not dragging me down into your den of fraud, Mister! Well IF I've stolen his identity I'm sure I've taken proper precaution. He'll never be found.
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Post by micah on Feb 22, 2010 17:37:51 GMT -5
Hi Doctor Ni...I mean, Mr. Rice!
Hmmm...having ML vouch for you...
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Anyway, don't worry about the Google thing. I share top hit rights with a computer programmer/journalist and someone high up in the Catholic Church who publishes frequently.
Not that I am jealous of them or anything.
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Randy Steven Kraft
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Post by sjp on Mar 2, 2010 18:50:07 GMT -5
Ok, since I didn't do this before, now seems like the time to do it... Seth Paul, been writing forever, though I didn't really know it until decided that was pretty much what I wanted to do with the rest of my life in high school (actually, I'd love to do a LOT of things, but this seems to be the one that requires the least amount of capital start-up). I love practically every genre, though my focus seems to be mostly fantasy, science-fiction, and broad comedy. As for finished, I have a stageplay (which is terrible), two screenplays (a comedy and horror), a novella (horror), and a...ergh...fan fiction novel posted up online (I hate using the term fan fiction, because I used practically all original characters, didn't include myself in it, and it has nothing to do with Harry Potter, Pokemon, or Star Trek... ). As for unfinished, I have a science fiction novel that I've worked on since middle school and haven't finished (like Duke Nukem Forever, I just keep adding to it and not getting anywhere), a fantasy story I'm thinking of dividing into two separate books, a comic book series (the writing is fine, it's the drawing I can't do), and numerous assorted things I can't think of at the moment. As for published? None, at the moment, but that doesn't stop me from trying. But, one of my hobbies IS paying off, in both writing AND acting...I've written several MST3K-like commentaries I offer for sale on the Rifftrax website (founded by former MST3K members, actually), a few of which have earned me a couple of bucks in royalties. But when "a couple of bucks" is my success story, I still have a ways to go. Hobbies include video work (editing and recording), acting, karate, and lots of other sundry activities.
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Post by Robert C. Eccles on Apr 13, 2010 9:45:14 GMT -5
My name is Robert C. Eccles, and I've been a fan of horror and sci-fi for a long time. I've been writing short horror and sci-fi stories for a couple of years now, and have been fortunate enough to have some of those stories published.
My short story "Class Reunion" came in second in the short horror story category in the 2009 Preditors and Editors Poll.
You can find my 100-word stories in the July, 2009, April 2010 and July 2010 issues of Necrotic Tissue Magazine. I've also had stories appear in the "Toe Tags" horror anthology (2nd place anthology in the 2009 Preditors and Editors Poll), available at Amazon.com, and the "Horror Through The Ages" (actually a poem in this one) and "Diamonds in the Rough" anthologies from Lame Goat Press, which I believe are also available at Amazon.com. I'm working with about a dozen other writers on a collaborative zombie novel from Pill Hill Press.
Online, a whole bunch of my stories can be found at Flashes in the Dark (http://flashesinthedark.com), where I'm also a submissions editor, and at Micro Horror (http://www.microhorror.com).
I'm a full member of The Fictioneers (http://web.mac.com/shadaa1/Fictioneers/Welcome.html).
One of these days I'd like to join the Horror Writers Association.
My day job is as a radio news reporter/anchor.
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Post by MontiLee on Apr 13, 2010 13:06:32 GMT -5
Hey Robert,
I'm also in NT#10 and I read Express Checkout Lane. Good stuff. Welcome aboard.
The radio - I knew the name was familiar...
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Post by micah on Apr 14, 2010 3:33:05 GMT -5
Welcome Robert!
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Post by peggychristie on Apr 14, 2010 7:05:01 GMT -5
Hello, Robert. Welcome aboard!
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Post by peggychristie on Apr 14, 2010 7:08:15 GMT -5
I just checked out your profile and see you follow the e-newsletter of Howe Military School. Did you go there?? My brother was a student there for 8th-10th grades (back in the early 80s).
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