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JimCKerr wrote in message <80fgpq$cp1$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk>...
>Hellooo Vorsuc.
>No the books not out till next year, but I am that a specially signed
Vorsuc
>edition would be available.

Whaooo! I'm looking forward to it. Don't forget to give us a nudge when its
out.

>What sort of stuff do you write?

What ever I feel. Articles about things I feel strongly about, disjointed
stories about alternate events that have happened to me or my friends. My
main drive at the moment is to try and get the fantasy story I write bits of
into a long flowing story. Its working quiet well, and the thing is, I've
been planning it and there's some good character development, in fact...
looking at it I've got so much with the characters, that my original "main
plot" has now been abandoned, so instead of the story about some big war...
it's now about the characters and how they react to their new situations...
it's more a moral tale, looking at the slayers and veering away from the
vampires, and the killing of vampires.

>I am about a third of a way through a novel
>now, hard work but I did write a good story about a vampire the other day.
I
>know what you mean about first drafts, I often leave a draft for six months
>or so. Sometimes when you go back to them you think 'hey this is a great
>idea' and sometimes you think 'what the hell was I on'.
>

I know... I thought it was really great... I go back and read it and I'm
like "ack, it's too short, too bitty, etc."
But I suppose it's good that I feel the first drafts are in such a poor
state as I can now go and make them better, as opposed to either not knowing
what needs to be done, or even worse, not realising they need work.


>The worst thing is I always write first drafts in first person perspective
>and then have to re-write narrator or third person because I always think
my
>first person is a bit contrived.
>

cool... I did a little work in first person.... my story was originally
planned to be entirely in first person. With it split into sectiosn for each
character... thus as you saw the events from another angle, you got a
greater understanding of each characters reasoning, etc.  i abonded this as
it was a bit to arty and up its own pretentious ass.... heheh. But it was
nice to experiment with a different writting style.

>Apart from the fiction my non fiction is usually funny, violent and quite
>explicit, which most people don't expect when they see me:)
>

Hahaha. Sounds like my kind of stories. Except for the explicit thang... I
just have a problem reading or writting anything in great detail...

>The worst thing I think about writing is getting published, it's such a
>lottery. You have so many publishers that won't touch you without an agent,
>or if you have never been in print before, then you get those who publish
>three or four titles a year and their lists are full for the next twenty
>years.

*Nods* I'm also an am-dram performer in my spare time. So I'm used to the
whole "won't touch you without an agent" nonsense. Ya know the whole equity
card thang... you can't get one without contract work, and the contractors
won't touch you if you don't have a card.....  madness.


>I feel really crap when I look at AVC and Alt horror werewolves, I mean I
>love the V's and the WW's, folklore, books, films even the Real Lifers, but
>I always come away thinking I wanna be one.
>

Erm... This is totally off topic here, but it's not like the NG is gonna
miss the bandwidth...

As far as the vampires are concerned. if you *want* to be one, I can't see
any reason why you can't say you are not. Maybe *your* definition of a
"vampire" is someone who hangs around on ACV and gets on with the crowd that
hangs out there. In which case you are entirely justified in calling
yourself a "vampire" and being most of the people there have ludicrous
definitions of "vampires" then they can't question or attack your beliefs.
So in that case *removes "have my children" sticker and replaces it with an
official ACV "bite me" sticker(tm)*

>P.S. can you move the 'I wanna have Vorsuc's children sticker' but people
>keep staring :)


You get men staring at you and it's a *problem*  ? .... shesh, women , I'll
never understand them... first they complain they don't get looked at....
then they complain when they do....

Vorsuc