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January 2, 2012 at 7:03 am #3294
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Joshua Done

OK, so I am a writer and a nerdfighter. I highly enjoy helping people develop their writing skills. Unless I am mistaken people like us don’t yet have a place in your pants to share our work, discuss stuff, and support each other. So this can be it. Basically I am curious about other writers here and want to both experience people’s works, help people develop my skills, develop my own skills, and share my work.

To start off here is a vid introducing one of my books: Enjoy – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ5PHK_u_7c

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January 2, 2012 at 3:25 pm #3527
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Gillvinyeta

Awesome! I love the illustrations and concept art!

My story is a little weird. Here is a short overview of the thing.

The book is set in some kind of Victorian/civil war steampunk past. Ben has made some big undecided on scientific discovery and him and his wisecracking friend, Tobias, are sailing to meet the Queen of England. The boat crashes and Ben and Tobias are the only survivors. They swim to a nearby island where weird stuff starts to happen. It eventually turns out that there is a huge limestone city full of undead creepy crawlies like Giant Spiders, Zombies, Vampires and Bogeys (which are basically super polite endermen).

I have a longer version of this, but I am a little paranoid about someone snatching my idea. ;) lol
I have not started writing yet and am still in the planning stages.

January 2, 2012 at 5:49 pm #3821
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Gino Brancazio

YES! Nerdfighter writers I have been looking for you!

I wonder if you’ll help me with a YouTube-Writing game project I’ve started. The whole concept is explained in the following video but I’ll summarise it for you too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCLBQolRusI

The aim of the project is to take a story and give the viewers the chance to decide the outcome of the story each week. After every video you have the opportunity to write the next two minutes of the story as you think it should play out. Record yourself (or someone else) telling that story to the camera and post it as a video response. Each week three video responses will be shortlisted and voted on by the viewers. The winning video will be the next chapter of the story and the process repeats each week.

If people want to write the next chapter but aren’t comfortable recording it I’ll happily read it to camera for them (or I’m hoping that if this project takes off then other nerdfighters will volunteer to be “readers”)

I’m really interested in your input so please tell me what you think. I’m hoping that it’ll give Nerdfighters and Writers a chance to practice and develop their writing skills and share them with the YouTube community.

Many thanks and DFTBA.

Gino.

January 2, 2012 at 6:33 pm #4063
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Lucy Lane

I write, but I’m a bit too insecure to show my work. I have one novel that needs a fair amount of editing, and one that is in progress. I procrastinate by writing, when I should be editing. I also procrastinate a lot.

January 2, 2012 at 6:51 pm #4183
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Gino Brancazio

I’m sure the NF community has many editors on hand, perhaps you should start a thread or a group for aspiring writers who need help with Editing? @joshdone correct me if I’m wrong but this shouldn’t interfere with this thread because this is one is help for Writers whereas Lucy could start one about help with editing?

January 2, 2012 at 6:56 pm #4246
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Ria

My sister (the nerdfighter who introduced me to the wonderful world of nerdfighteria) wrote a book, and its now available exclusively on AMAZON! Yes, it does come paperback! It’s a good-sized book, ~500 pages. It also is available for the evil Kindle, for those who don’t like the smell and feel of books.

It’s titled ‘Watching Over Me’ by KT Koulos. Would LOVE if nerdfighters could spread it around nerdfighteria for her! Thanks

January 2, 2012 at 7:03 pm #4302
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Joshua Done

@Gino Brancazio we could start a group in combination with the thread? With such a quick response something tells me we might need both. In fact, I’ll go do that and bring a link back.

@Lucy Lane I do that a lot, it gets in the way of finishing projects which is one of the hardest and most important parts. Let me know how I can help.

@Gillvinyeta It sounds like you have a fun concept. It will be a bit hard to help if you don’t want to discuss it with us but I understand entirely. Personally I love steampunk. Even though I write science fiction I have a fully functional origin for a steampunk planet within my universe :-P

@Gino Brancazio (Again) I will go check that out in a few minutes.

January 2, 2012 at 7:04 pm #4311
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Joshua Done

@Ria How about some description? Tell us about the book and yourself.

January 2, 2012 at 7:11 pm #4383
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Joshua Done

Here is the group, as promised. http://yourpants.org/groups/nerdfighter-writers/

January 2, 2012 at 7:22 pm #4469
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Gino Brancazio

Well done @joshdone, do you want that group to be exclusively for writers or for help with editing as well? (just clarifying for myself!)

@gillvinyeta I love the sound of that idea! maybe my YouTube channel might end up going down the Steam Punk route? who knows!

@rawritsria Evil Kindle? it’s just like John says, he doesn’t care *how* people are reading, just that they’re reading and sharing the fun. (I think, I may have remembered that wrong) :)

DFTBA

January 2, 2012 at 7:29 pm #4533
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Joshua Done

@Gino Brancazio I figure it can be for both. If it gets too big and there are too many mixed messages we can split a nerdfighting editors page off, but at the moment that doesn’t seem necessary.

@Gino Brancazio @Gillvinyeta It will if you submit the first episode and win!

@Gino Brancazio Just watched the vid and love the idea, I may participate.

January 2, 2012 at 7:43 pm #4662
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Gino Brancazio

@johndone good thinking, one group for now and see how it goes.

and @Gillvinyeta Thank you, I hope to see a video from you both! :D

January 2, 2012 at 11:39 pm #6596
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Wessel

Hey guys,
I am writing for about two years now but over the years before that I’ve had many attempts for books and stuff.

I have done Nanowrimo (and won) for the first time this year and I will do it next year too.
I also write Dutch short stories for another writer (a pro) and he helps me to improve which is very helpfull.His name is Edward van de Vendel.

January 2, 2012 at 11:47 pm #6631
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Brianna Southworth

well, i am a writer, and i would love to post my ideas here, and get some much needed editing…. do you need a video? because my webcam sucks, i could pull something up if i had to, but other then that. i would love to share here.

January 2, 2012 at 11:55 pm #6673
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Wessel

@Brianna Southworth you can just make a topic where you ask for editing and critique

January 3, 2012 at 12:01 am #6712
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Brianna Southworth

okay thanks!

January 3, 2012 at 12:42 am #6978
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Joshua Done

@Wessel Have you ever considered translating? I would love to get my novels into Dutch.

@Brianna Southworth Video is great but we are all wordsmiths (or Nerfwriters) here so either works.

January 4, 2012 at 5:28 am #13186
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SarahAlyse

I kind of love the word “nerfwriters.”

I’m a former journalist trying my hand at fiction, working on a collection of short stories I plan to self-publish. I sold my first story earlier this year; if you’d like to read it, check out Fiction365.com.

January 4, 2012 at 5:43 am #13231
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Joshua Done

Where did you post it?

January 23, 2012 at 6:01 am #40410
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Zach Hickman

Hello, other Nerdfighter writers!
I am currently in the process of writing a book, which I am very excited about.
It’s actually going to be a part of a book trilogy, or at least that’s how I plan it. It will certainly go past one single book, though.
While I do not want to tell too much about it right now, due to the amount of spoilers that could be in effect, I will do a little overview of the beginning of the book.

It starts in a medieval-style civilization on the planet Gerac.
In this civilization, there are two different secretive factions at war with each other.
The United, and The Empire.
These two groups are hidden from the knowledge of most of the kingdoms on the planet, and of course from the villagers scattered around.
When, however, The Empire attacks a quaint little town, a few survivors unwittingly join The United to seek vengeance.
Through all their battles, they discover a secret about the true history of this great secret war, which will change the lives of everyone on Gerac.
This is The Legacy of The Stars.

So, I’m in the middle of writing my first draft, but once that is done, I suspect that the editing will be fast, and I can move straight to publishing. From there, we will just have to see, though I will keep you all informed on possible release dates.

January 24, 2012 at 4:06 am #41278
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Zach Hickman

Update!:
I’ve made a tumblr for my book series!
I’ll talk about updates, but up extra bonus stuff I get or do myself, and I’ll talk about my book!
It’s at thelegacyofthestars.tumblr.com
Go follow if you wish, I will post the majority of my news about my book there!

January 26, 2012 at 11:35 pm #43205
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Matthew

Yay! Nerdfighter writers! I’ve been writing a novel for a while, changed it several times in process, but right now it’s going really well, the rough draft that is. It’s a story that’s a retelling of the Ragnarok myth from Norse mythology with some added elements as well.

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