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Wow...this is shaping up to be a good story. Tell me more.  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Potter Spoilage!!!
« on: Jul 19, 2005, 02:50:52 PM »
Ron and Harry. Nothing gest the geeks going more then a bitch in glasses getting it on with a stacked red head.  

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Yeah, Rama's back.  And he's still mispelling every fucking thing, so it might actually be him.
Hey I was spell checking everyhing, but it's just too much effort to be wasting on you people.

So just deel......I mean deal.  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / I CAN'T STAND THE HEAT!
« on: Jul 19, 2005, 02:46:24 PM »
Sleep underground. That's what I do.

Seriously, if you house has a basement, move into it. It's a constant tempature underground. If you are still hot a single fan should do the trick.  

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Why is he wearing racket ball glasses?  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / ROD TV Review....
« on: Jul 18, 2005, 03:31:29 PM »
I still can't believe the Toxic Avenger got his own cartoon.

Of course so did Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Potter Spoilage!!!
« on: Jul 18, 2005, 01:11:11 PM »
I doubt she is the richest woman in Britian. For every famous Millionare you know by name, there are 5 that you don't know that have 5 times as much money.

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Emily is just going to come storming in and throw all your shit all over the yard. I keep telling her that me and Tropical Depression Jessica are just friends, but I don't think she buys it.  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / ROD TV Review....
« on: Jul 16, 2005, 10:30:29 PM »
Double post  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / ROD TV Review....
« on: Jul 16, 2005, 10:29:52 PM »
Yeah, you tell those sweds!  

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Somehow I don't think Faye is capable of comprehending an abusive environment.
She posts here.  

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And they hate Goofy too.  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Guys, be very jealous
« on: Jul 16, 2005, 10:22:44 PM »
You see parnets...this is what happens when you don't buy that pony for your children.  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Something I wrote...
« on: Jul 15, 2005, 11:48:02 PM »
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Also, has anyone actually bothered to publish any of this stuff they have written? I hear all you guys talking about writing books but have you bothered to put them on paper? It's harder to be a popular author than you think. I've considered writing sci-fi, then I realized no one would read my shit so I shrugged it off.
As of yet I havn't had anything published, but I hope to fix that soon.

The main thing standing in the way is that most companies won't even look at your work without an agent, and as of right now I am agent less. Course I only have the first draft one book done. I  kinda want and agent that is close by, and that's not easiest thing. It's one advantage someone living in major city would have over someone that live in a more rural area like I do.

And you don't really need a good book to get published. You need a good pitch. Publishers won't read an entire book if you send it to them, so you can't even waste your time on that. I am choosing to write the whole book up front and then do the pitch from there. It takes the  preasure off, so that if you are lucky enough to get something bought it's ready to go and you don't have somebody saying "Look I gave you an adance based on your pitch, now where is my book?" If they like the pitch and they want to use it, I can send out the entire book like the next day. I Just think it'd be easier that way.

I checked out a book from my local library that is just basicly a big list of publishers, but I found the stressing out over that was killing my creativity and decided to put it off till after I was finished with the book. I also plan to try to get a short story published in a magazine using the some of the same characters that are in my book. This is useful in a couple of ways. 1. The fact that I have been published in some manner will make it easier for someone to take a chance on the book. 2. It gets these characters into the public eye and paves the way for future installments. and 3. It's generally easier to published in a Mag then it is to get a book out there cause it's less investment on the pritners part. Course I'm having to write my short story by hand cause I'm not suppose to type for hours on end due to my arm, so it's taking a little longer to write then I'd like.

Then there is always the publish it yourself route, but that takes a pretty good chunk of money and I only plan to use that as a last resort.

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GOOD!

Yes! Glorious suffering!  

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also found out that one of the two most slashed guys gets a girlfriend, which is causing fangirls to throw fits because somehow the alleged romance between Remus and Sirius is cannon even though the author says otherwise. I've seen fangirls say they'll never read HP again if one of those two has a hetero romance.

I remember a time when fangirls use to want the ficitional characters to become real and marry them, not each other. Sigh....I guess 1997 was just a simpler time.  

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Man, I had forget all about Holy Hero till now. I think I was content NOT remembering him.  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Something I wrote...
« on: Jul 15, 2005, 08:39:55 AM »
Serials as in a a series of short stories that end up making one large story or as in many long stories that have a contionus common focus?

Cause when I think of serials the thing that pops into my head is those old movie serials. You know; " Will Batman survie? Will the boy wonder ever get to wear pants? Be sure to see Chapter 9 of Batman at this theater next week."

But books like the Harry Potter books could also be serials.

The book I just finished is actually number 1 of 20. (that is if I get the first one published.) each one is a self contained story, but there are hints and clues throughout that lead to a much larger arc that spans the entire 20 books. There are als Trilogy story arcs too, where the books are grouped into three....which I know won't work out with 20, but at least the first 9 are grouped as such.

The main reason I wanted my book to fall within a certain number of pages is because of the readership I hope to attract. (Which is mainly men, between the ages of 15-30) The common man usually doesn't want to read a 700 page monster book, at least not at first. Just asked around and see how many people you know that have actaully read War and Peace or North and South. Not many. I could smash the first three together and make one huge book, but I think that would hurt sales. The 130-200 page mark is a good mark for the type of story I am writing/wrote as it's not something that you'd have to spend a lot of time on. 2-3 days at most. I know I can finish a book that size in a single sitting. And I just want to capture that guy that's at an airport and he needs something to read on the plane, or that college kid that has to sit through another long lecture in trig class and they need something to pass the time.

     Also another reason is that I hope, and this is a best case, that one day these will get optioned as movies and scripts on average are around 120 pages. Now when a book becomes a script it's stream lined and a lot of "dropped"  So keeping the books to an average lenghth insures that is long enough to make a good movie, but not so long that half of it ends up on the editing room floor.

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Something I wrote...
« on: Jul 14, 2005, 10:50:54 PM »
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Rama, it also depends on what size paper it's printed on and what size font is used. A paperback will have more pages than a larger hardcover.
Sometimes it works out that way, but paperbacks usually use a smaller text to match the smaller size, which sometimes makes them shorter.

I know my hardcover copy of Casino Royale is 187 pages, where as the my paperback copy is 144. Making the paper back shorter by almost 40 pages.

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Something I wrote...
« on: Jul 14, 2005, 09:11:27 PM »
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Maximum suckage! Ah well, I'll see what I can do.
Yeah it did. But it doesn't give you any illusions that you have wrote more then you actually have. Like I said, no wrong way. But if you do write with the breaks in it just divide the number of pages you have by two to get the actual number of "print" pages.

Oh and your margins are proably too large as well if you are using the standard Microsoft Word or Word Perfect. I forget what they should be set out off the top of my head, but that'll also cut down on your over all page count. It's important to know if you want to make a work fit in certain number of pages then it's helpful to keep this stuff in mind. Like I wanted my book to be around 130-200 pages long. With all that set up correctly the first draft ended up being 127 pages. A little shorter then I wanted, but it just a first draft.

Always read your own work too, that's very important. And I've found that actually printing it off and reading it that way is better then reading it on the computer screen. I can spot things that I would just looking at the screen. So I double space the whole thing, and then print if off. I three hole punch it and  then get a red pen and sit down and read it. I make the changes I want, then use the marked up copy as working copy for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th....or whatever draft I'm on. Now this works for me, that doesn't mean it'll work for you. The best thing you can do it try a lot of different ways and see what works.

I got tons of other tips....but I don't want to fill up this whole thread with it.  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Something I wrote...
« on: Jul 13, 2005, 10:34:09 PM »
Well I was told there was no wrong way to write, but I do know this is how it's set up in novels. If you got this published they'd either ask you to use that format or have someone change it over. It's just easier to learn to write that way. It really sucks when you put a line between everything and then have to take them out. I lost ten whole pages that way.  

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Well if Bernie is going, then we should just start sending around the hat for bail money now.  

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Hmmmmmmmm


YOINK!

Look for the the best selling novel by Rama, The Erogenous curse. LOL  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / ROD TV Review....
« on: Jul 13, 2005, 02:37:04 PM »
Along with your ABBA records.


Poor Fernado.  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Something I wrote...
« on: Jul 13, 2005, 09:55:47 AM »
If you want to write it like a Short Story or a novel your breaks should look like this:

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     “Yeah, but I was hoping to at least put it off till morning. First thing now when I go inside The House tonight, Zhanna’s going to be right on my tail begging me to tell her the story, and I won’t get any sleep till I’ve told her at least ten times. I hate that little mutt.”
     “Could be worse.” Emma said.
      I gave her a sidelong glance curiously. “How so?”
     “You could’ve been eaten by Al.”
     “Good point.” Emma does have her moments of intelligence, as few as they are.
Welcome to my home. I’m Hailey, one of the Cats of Park Place, and this is just one of my stories.

Breaks usually come after a change of scenary contained within a chapter or a story without any other types of breaks. Like this:

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     Enersto wiped the blood from his eyes and tried to clear his vision. He was meet by a scene of grim horror, and he soon regretted his actions. He tried to justify it in his mind, but no matter how logical it seemed the sick feeling still rose up from the pit of his stomach and caught in his throat so hard that he felt like it was going to choke the life from his body. He wanted to shut his eyes, pretend he hadn't seen it, but it was impossiable. Like any image of true horror his eyes where transfixed and unable to look away.

     It had been several hours since he had finally been able to pulls himself away from the horror he had witnessed...

And so on and so forth. If you are still in the same location and no length of time has passed you use "Tab" to denote breaks.

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And I wasn't banned either. I choose to leave, just like I choose to come back.
Yeah, nice going with that.
Your mother never breast fed you, did she?

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / In less than an hour...
« on: Jul 13, 2005, 09:41:37 AM »
Pretty much.

I didn't think I'd like Femmi-Starbuck either, but it really does work.


Oh ok I got another...the Viper Mark 7s are ugly. But they have been using mostly the Mark 2s in the latter half of the season so I can't complain about that anymore.  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / ok, i've done it!
« on: Jul 12, 2005, 02:33:19 PM »
Uh.....No. That would be a short read.  

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I heard Carrot Top was preforming this year. They are very honored to have him as he is actually half Jack Ass.  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Art school rejects anime
« on: Jul 12, 2005, 12:19:36 PM »
Nothing like forcing creativity into a set of guidelines and rules.

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