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Teskas
Apr 23, 2008 7:49:07 GMT -5
Post by Jeff Gerke on Apr 23, 2008 7:49:07 GMT -5
Any vagueness in history--even biblical history--is a wonderful playground for the speculative author.
I've seen so many Christian stories (published and not-so-published) about a super-advanced antedeluvian society that it's almost become overdone. It just shows how much fun speculative novelists can have when the Bible leaves room for it.
Jeff
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Teskas
May 6, 2008 16:42:37 GMT -5
Post by Teskas on May 6, 2008 16:42:37 GMT -5
Diary of a pre-published CSF writer.
Dear Diary,
Now that the back yard is organized for a new lawn (less of the fertilizer next time, okay?) I'm back from the insanity of tax returns and the trip to Florida. Caught up with the laundry and ironing. And all the stuff at the church.
I've been catching up with my threads. There are people who have been around for weeks. Must start reading posts more carefully. There's this 15 year old who sounds like he could be another polymath genius. Plays an instrument, writes prose AND poetry. There's somebody else who just happens to be the finalist in a super duper writing contest. Then there's this scientist who writes fiction. In other words, he actually knows what he's writing about. Unlike yours truly who wings authenticity with a Wikipedia article. Add them to the illustrious company already assembled: world-makers, word-smiths, dream-spinners, published already.
Aaargh! The Anomaly is populated with Giants and I'm an ant.
I console myself with the happy thought that around here, no one steps on ants.
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Teskas
May 7, 2008 8:17:02 GMT -5
Post by torainfor on May 7, 2008 8:17:02 GMT -5
I love Wikipedia. It's my favorite.
One ant to another
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Teskas
May 7, 2008 21:29:06 GMT -5
Post by myrthman on May 7, 2008 21:29:06 GMT -5
Whenever I read or hear of the Israelite spies' bad report (that they were but grasshoppers in the eyes of the Canaanites), I always think, "What a great disguise! Infiltration and subjection ought to be easy for them!"
And ants are even smaller...
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Teskas
May 8, 2008 7:30:13 GMT -5
Post by Jeff Gerke on May 8, 2008 7:30:13 GMT -5
Plus now the military is using robot bugs--and actual bugs fitted out with cameras and remote control--for recon purposes.
So maybe you're a spy?
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Teskas
May 8, 2008 19:12:03 GMT -5
Post by Teskas on May 8, 2008 19:12:03 GMT -5
Spy? As Miss Piggy would say, Moi? Speaking of ants.... What got me into sci-fi was a terrible B-movie called "Attack of the Killer Ants" (or something). A B&W made in the 1950s. It was about an invasion of Earth by ants on nuclear steroids. Atom bomb test goes wrong--you know the plot. The giant ants built subterranean hideouts which were remarkably like an ant farm I had at the time. Anyway, I spent half the movie peeping from under my seat until the Army turned up with flame-throwers and Sherman tanks and defeated the ants. Years later I discovered one of the soldiers with a speaking part ("There are giant ants in the cave. Run for your lives." Aaaaaah. Splat.) was none other than Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in Star Trek. So it just shows.... With the right story, ants can grow up to be giants.
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Teskas
May 8, 2008 21:20:57 GMT -5
Post by Jeff Gerke on May 8, 2008 21:20:57 GMT -5
[groan]
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Teskas
May 9, 2008 10:47:41 GMT -5
Post by Teskas on May 9, 2008 10:47:41 GMT -5
;D
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Teskas
May 12, 2008 10:50:07 GMT -5
Post by Christian Soldier on May 12, 2008 10:50:07 GMT -5
I'll leave the radioactivity and massive growth spurts to the professionals...
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Teskas
May 17, 2008 16:23:57 GMT -5
Post by Teskas on May 17, 2008 16:23:57 GMT -5
Hey, Everybody!
There's hope out there for all of us. We're going to be published! How do I know? Well, I was in the drug store today with a friend who knows I write. She dragged me over to the paperback rack. "Look," she said. "Read this. If this writer can get published, you can get published!."
The front of the book showed a native American Indian, built like an escapee from Gold's Gym, with a spear in one hand and the wind in his hair. The blurb on the back read something like this...
"Chief Bright Arrow had fallen in love with the golden haired angel who moved on the ice like she was dancing. Oh, no! he thought. The rain has come, and the ice will not support her weight. Crack. The terrible event which he thought would happen happened.
"He rushed to her and pulled her unconscious body from the water. Her eyes fluttered open...."
I'm sorry, folks, but I can't go on. It gets a whole lot worse. She loves his large muscles (sic) and his passionate kissing (sic). All though the winter their love...etc, etc.
What really got me was knowing what it took for that writer to get published. The skill it took even to write pap. But at any rate, the sight of it was enormously cheering, and I thought I'd pass the experience along to you.
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Teskas
Jun 3, 2008 15:20:21 GMT -5
Post by mission316 on Jun 3, 2008 15:20:21 GMT -5
Testing a/c mission316
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Teskas
Jun 3, 2008 16:36:45 GMT -5
Post by Divides the Waters on Jun 3, 2008 16:36:45 GMT -5
Mission 316, why aren't you at your post?
Well met, fellow traveler.
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Therin
Junior Member
Forward the frontier.
Posts: 99
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Teskas
Jun 10, 2008 12:04:25 GMT -5
Post by Therin on Jun 10, 2008 12:04:25 GMT -5
Hail and welcome, Mission316. I assume a Carmen song has something to do with your name?
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Teskas
Jun 11, 2008 9:11:43 GMT -5
Post by Christian Soldier on Jun 11, 2008 9:11:43 GMT -5
Welcome, Hail, And Well met, Mission316. Welcome to our little spot off the map. May your adventures here be grand!
As for the subject at hand, sometimes it makes me sick some of the things that will get published and what won't, but at the same time, I know how much work it takes to write a novel, even if I've never done it. I know that every novel deserves some attention. Some of it also is that if the author can get a fan base, he'll/she'll get published just off of that alone. Besides, just because I don't like it doesn't mean that someone else won't think it a masterpiece... I've discovered that the hard way, which is why I don't talk about authors I don't like anymore....
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Teskas
Jun 11, 2008 9:20:37 GMT -5
Post by rwley on Jun 11, 2008 9:20:37 GMT -5
. . . and you don't talk about them any less, either! Okay, that was bad, I know. And yes, it is hard to write a novel that's worth reading and even harder to get it published and harder than that to get people to know that you wrote it and it's been published. This, I know first hand. But, God is in control. Teskas, if He wants you published, it WILL happen. Maybe not on the timetable you think it should, but it will happen. This, too, I know first hand. God is good. He's always on time. Not my time, but on time. Keep writing, keep praying and keep submitting. Just think of the contacts you're making through this site alone. And you're building that fan base that CS talks about. Hey, I'll buy it when it comes out. Robi
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