Chapter Three of Spindrift is now available on my Deviant Art page. http://alveric2.deviantart.com/art/S...AAlveric2&qo=0
I'm releasing it a little at a time to get some feedback. If you read it, let me know what you think.
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Chapter Three of Spindrift is now available on my Deviant Art page. http://alveric2.deviantart.com/art/S...AAlveric2&qo=0
I'm releasing it a little at a time to get some feedback. If you read it, let me know what you think.
I have not been able to write for a couple weeks. I don't consider it writer's block, this is related directly to mental things I deal with daily. But.
When you meet a guy, and decide to date, and without reading anything of yours, he does something exactly as you wrote in a romantic scene, it's totally points in his favor. Oh yes. :)
An innate sense for what you really like? Gotta be a plus. :)
I'm so excited! The final cover for The Fairytail Saga has been revealed! Coming out October 31st WOO HOO![ATTACH]15065
MermaidWhisperer- I'm not sure if you've seen this, but the latest installment in the Paranormal Activity film franchise (I won't watch it, the Howard the Duck demon in the first one sort of made me laugh my butt off) is being called The Marked Ones. It's the subtitle, but they're going to use it primarily in marketing, apparently.
http://horrorhomework.com/blog/2013/...e-marked-ones/
Which could be really good for you... when people eventually start searching on it, your book could come up. You could get new readers you might not have reached. Woohoo! Kind of lucky for you. :)
Lol I have noticed that! Don't know if it works in my advantage though-I don't know if those people are 'my' people but will be interesting to find out!
Heads Or Tails goes live in 2 days. Cannot WAIT!
Spindrift Chapter four http://alveric2.deviantart.com/art/S...Four-404697219
and chapter five http://alveric2.deviantart.com/art/S...Five-411749475
are now available for readers to sample. Please let me know what you think.
My first fanfic was for an anime called Mermaid Melody (which was actually the show that got me into anime in the first place). I'm working on a NaNoWriMo novel right now, about a boy who finds out he's a merman and a half-mer girl who lives in a family of hunters.
same here! it was mermaid melody that got me to watch anime and to look for it insted of what ever is on TV. god that was an awesome animeQuote:
Originally Posted by sashiyoop
I'm filming a short film this summer with a circus mermaid getting free. I am not wonderful at script writing and am looking for someone who is interested on helping! If you've ever been interested in screenwriting on me!
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Ahem. Pm me I mean.
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^That sounds like a great idea. If I might make a suggestion, due to having seen a friend of mine having screenplays stolen right out from under his nose when he trusted a 'friend' with it, I'd suggest you keep it close to you if you can. Read some free online info about writing a screen play, write it in story form first, etc. There are so many free resources online for people learning to write.
I have a general question for you all. I was just curious, because my current writing is in first person present, and I'm thinking of changing it to another point of view. What POV do you all prefer? Do you prefer one over the other? Do you feel it depends on the story being told?
The writing is coming along here and there. I'm struggling more than I'd like, and I know some of it's just because I can't do the kind of solid writing hours I'd like to. Making time for what I can, and hoping to make more soon. It's important enough, of course, but I also have a lot of priorities of equal or even higher importance.
Luckily, one doesn't have to be good at something they love to pursue it as a part of one's life. :)
So I wrote a mer-themed book for NaNoWriMo and really like it (unedited and piece-y though it is, still). But... I'm trying to figure out how I want to proceed to edit it or if I want to edit it...
I'm writing a novel and short stories involving my own species of merfolk based on a dream and worked on. I'm pretty proud on my merfolk :)
NaNo has been a great launching point for many stories! Every first draft has to go through so much editing, anyway. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Amphitrite
Stories based on dreams can be pretty cool. My mer are my own species, too. Different in many ways than most. I love writing fantasy for that reason... we can do so much outside of what's been done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vixy
I've just released my fourth novel and once again-it's mermaid! It's called Urchin and this time, I've written a 'creation' story set in the eleventh century about the 'first' mermaid :)
I admire all of you so much! Writing interests me so much, on the same level as drawing but everytime I begin a story, I don't
Know where to go from there. And I always never work on it again. And I usually start telling the story through 3rd person and it always wraps around into the 1st person? Most people who read what I write can't tell when I start using "I" instead of "he" or the character's name but It really bugs me.
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I envy those who can draw! I've always wanted to illustrate my work, or make a graphic novel of it.
Have you thought of that? Take your story words into the realm you're comfortable with. You could create a mer comic, or collaborate with an author.
I have though of making a comic but I always run into a problem: it doesn't seem realistic enough to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by SurlySeaNymph
So I scrap it in the end :( or I loose the motivation to do it. I have so many ideas for a mermaid comic, but I'm having trouble organizing them and finding a plot. (I usually have l the backstory but I always miss a problem or journey or something for the characters to actually do or fight against. So I've created this world with no reason antagonist or protagonist to duke it out within it. )And even though I try to create villains, I make them very very complicated until I've added so much that I can't write them as a villain anymore D:
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What are some of the most common mermaid tropes? I'd say that unless a writer can do the common ideas better than they've already been done, they should be avoided. Unelss it's an exercise, but if you want to get anywhere as a writer, do the same old ideas keep selling after a while?
Some common mermaid themes I see around are:
Human discovers she's really a mermaid and must deal with the consequences.
Mermaid discovers she is really an important one/and or must save her kingdom.
Mermaid is matched to marry and wants a human instead.
Mer falls in love with a human and must choose between the mer world and theirs.
Which am I missing here?
And of course there are basics to the myths, which I don't think anyone need avoid if it's part of the story. Like vampires, weres, and other supernaturals, there are things that make a fantasy creature what it is. Mermaid myths are often associated with the full moon, tides, and being predatory, and I use those, but hopefully not in a way that's been done already.
Handy article.
Word Count for Novels and Children’s Books: The Definitive Post from Writer's Digest
ive been writing stories ever since i could write:). would it be okay
to put a few paragraphs up here at a time?
A short poem I wrote today.
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I'm slowly starting to dip my fins back into the creative-writing water again. I used to do it all the time, but... things happened. It's been almost two years since I sat down and even tried to write anything, so it's a little daunting at times!
Since joining Mernetwork, though, I've found myself basically barraged with inspiration. Designing my mersona, developing her in my head... It's made me want to write!
So I've been writing short little blurbs in a notepad app on my iPod simply called Gills. I have no idea what it's about, exactly, just that it sort of starts out with the main character-- who is basically me (because I am not good at designing characters XD That and seeing as it's intended to flesh out my mersona and my connection to her in the first place, well...)-- who suddenly sprouts a set of gills on her neck, has no idea why, and is kind of caught between constantly freaking out over it and trying to pretend it doesn't exist and hide the problem from people, even as it gets worse; later on she starts to grow scales and basically starts turning into a full-fledged mermaid and chaos ensues. It's kind of intended as more of a comedy, because I really hate taking myself too seriously, but... I don't really know yet. XD
Aside from that, I don't really have anything figured out for it yet; I don't know who the supporting characters are going to be, or what the world these characters live in is like. Are mermaids commonplace, or are they secret? Are there other mythical creatures in this world, and are they commonplace or secret too? I haven't even figured out yet what the explaination is for Main Character/Me to be turning into a mermaid in the first place! Aaauuuggghhh.
Anyway while I was at work tonight it was fairly slow, so in my downtime I grabbed a sheet of paper and started doodling some concept sketches of the main character and such, get a feel for her facial expressions and the like. These are what I have so far:
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I'm still sort of tinkering with each of the several blurbs I've got written down so far, but here's the first one I'm fairly confident in, as sort of a sample:
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Okay, so it should have maybe occurred to me to... I don't know, be a little more concerned, or something, when it didn't go away after the first day. I mean, sure, blowing it off for a day, two days tops... Anyone could do that in my position, right?
In retrospect, letting the problem go for a week straight without saying anything to anybody about it... Yeah. Yeah, okay, that probably didn't help.
But you know, I'm the nervous sort. Even worse, I'm nervous and stubborn on top of it. So when I see a problem, I have my little freak out, and then start coming up with every possible excuse in the book to justify why it's there, why it can't possibly be that serious, why everything will get better if I just let the thing run its course... I'm very good at ignoring things for as long as possible and waiting for them to go away. That's kind of my deal.
The thing is, though, it's kind of hard to ignore the gills sprouting out of your neck when you're a twenty-something-year-old who isn't supposed to have the damn things.
Yeah, my name is Tieri Avalon, and I have a major problem.
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If anybody has suggestions for things they think could work in the story, like reasons why she might be turning into a mermaid in the first place, it'd be super appreciated! :D I'm basically working on a complete blank slate here, as this is so vastly different from the worldbuilding I'd spent most of my teenage/young-adult life developing that I really don't know where to start!
I like it. :) And I envy your drawing ability. I would love to be able to illustrate my stories, well enough for a graphic novel would be great.
As for me, right now I'm in a conundrum. Looking at submission guidelines for a few publishers, I see my word count is simply not what most want.
I'm way beyond short story, but not to novel. Most seem to want at least 80k words. I'm at about 50k.
But I want to submit my work as it finally is, at 101 pages, to publishers.
So I have to make a decision. Keep the length and story as it is, which is a length that works for the story and makes me feel like this part is complete. Or add 30k words, which would be like adding another half. It would drastically change things. I don't think it works for me.
I don't want to self-publish. Perhaps I need to keep looking for publishers with novella submissions accepted.
OK, I'm freaking out. I just finished posting a short book (very short) to wattpad. This is the first time I'm opening up and letting people read something I wrote and it's a little scary. It's not a mer book, but if this one goes well, the next one will be. Anyone have any ways to help nerves?
Hello everyone! I am a little late coming to this thread, but I dabble in writing from time to time. I have a novel in mind I'd like to write one day, but something always seems to come up and usually it is writers block :headesk:. Maybe one day I will get my thoughts out there and kick myself into joining NANOWRIMO or something :P.
Ooh yes i have the beginning of a mermaid book written :)
Hi guys and girls! I'm Emm, and S.K. Munt encouraged me to check the Mer Network out. I'm so excited to be here and chat with all of you. I wrote a mermaid series, (Merminia and Keeping Merminia) and I love to interact with other fans of all things Mer, especially those who write it! I look forward to getting to know you all, so don't be a stranger.
After my publisher did a flit to South Africa with all the company's money, my two mermaid stories sadly went out of print. However...
I have now self published them so they're back on Amazon - for an extra cheap price! PLUS there is now a THIRD mermaid story, completing the set.
Why not check them out?
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...SH20_OU02_.jpghttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...SH20_OU02_.jpghttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...SH20_OU02_.jpg
I really love your covers! Just beautiful.
SeaMage108, I'm sort of with you on this. I assume they have human intellect, but also the survival instincts of a fish. So I don't necessarily view them as human either. In my books, they have human thought processes and feelings, but they're instantly defensive and their senses are more heightened to their environment.
Attachment 21942 So I've teamed up with two other amazing mermaid authors, who write in different genres. We're doing a freebie this Thursday and Friday, and I'd be so honored if some of you who enjoy writing Mer stuff would download a Kindle copy and let me know your thoughts on the story. I could really use the feedback.
Aww, thanks! I did them myself :)Quote:
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Your link was there but now it's disappeared! I want to check out your stories!Quote:
Originally Posted by Emm Cole
You can find them both here or more on Goodreads. But don't download them yet if you want to read them. They'll both be free on Thursday!http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...ix=mermi%2Caps Are you on Goodreads? I just added your book. I'll have to read it when my pile of books gets a little thinner. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaidwriter
Thought I would just let everyone know - the first in my series of mermaid tales is now FREE on Amazon for the next five days! Grab it now before this deal swims away!
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I'm on Goodreads! Welcome all requests, just tell me you're from here. Me: Olivia Buch
I got your book Mermaidwriter! :) And a lot of other free mer-books. I have my book I'm writing on goodreads if anyone wants to add it. ;)
I've missed out on all the deals! I'll check the thread more often, I'd have liked to take advantage of those.
I've just finished the rewrites and rewrites of the novella I've been working on for over a year. Thanks to the initial help of Coral Sybil, from whom I learned so much when it came to an earlier draft. I changed a few things, too. Having done research on copyright, I had to change one song that was used in the tale, and changed the title.
So now I have an 85 page story with Book Two already creating itself in my head, and I'm in the process of, "Is it good enough to try to publish, self or otherwise?" I will try to get published, and use any rejection letters as an exercise in learning how to improve.
Oh- question for those of you who've published, self or otherwise: do you use a pen name? If so, how did you choose it, and why do you use it?