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Post by Austine on Apr 12, 2011 15:24:44 GMT -5
1 3/4 chapters to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (according to my outline)
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Post by marsbareater12 on Apr 12, 2011 17:11:42 GMT -5
Yay! -highfives- Getting there, Austine!
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Post by Louisa on Apr 12, 2011 20:53:55 GMT -5
Yes! GO! I WANT TO READ THE END OF CHOSEN!!!
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Post by Austine on Apr 12, 2011 21:33:26 GMT -5
*highfives* haha yup hmm... maybe I should finish it and send it to you sentence by sentence, LouLou (but that would be cruel and unusual punishment and I wouldn't do that... or would I? hehehe)
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Post by Louisa on Apr 12, 2011 22:15:37 GMT -5
Yes it would be, and I wouldn't put it past you...But you're not going to be that mean to me, are you? Or I'll send the doggies over there to kiss you to slobbery grossness and you can't hear (they like licking the whole face, and feet, and arms, and legs, and pretty much everywhere they can lick, since they don't respect personal privace, especially Winky)
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Post by Austine on Apr 13, 2011 16:07:27 GMT -5
Sounds like my dogs (who are much bigger with bigger tongues so bring it on!). And don't worry. I sent you the next chapter (because for some reason, I wrote a bullet on my outline for my epilogue and really it should have been its own chapter so I finished it. Still have the epilogue to write but I WILL finish that tonight--despite having to spend time at the barn doing work when I could be writing). Grr.... Well, must get the barn work done quick so I can finish Chosen
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Post by Louisa on Apr 13, 2011 19:24:01 GMT -5
CHOSEN IS FINISHED! WILL READ SOON!!!!
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Post by Austine on Apr 13, 2011 20:31:31 GMT -5
(thanks for updating for me, considering it's my novel. lol )
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Post by marsbareater12 on Apr 13, 2011 20:36:28 GMT -5
xD
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Post by Louisa on Apr 13, 2011 20:52:19 GMT -5
What? I wanted to say it!
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Post by Austine on Apr 13, 2011 21:23:55 GMT -5
Silly LouLou, Trick's are for kids!
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Post by Louisa on Apr 13, 2011 21:47:16 GMT -5
What?
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Post by Austine on Apr 14, 2011 15:33:03 GMT -5
Tricks cereal commercial... never mind
(I was going to say "Silly Louisa" but added the rest of the saying from the commercial on...)
EDIT:
Just a quick update. Chosen's done, and after researching it for several hours today, I've decided to NOT write the sequel until it's exactly how I want it and I think there's a chance of getting an agent to accept it. It would be a waste of my time otherwise if I wasn't able to sell it at all and spent all that time on a sequel.
While I wait for reader reviews of Chosen, I'm going to work on Alpha, an urban fantasy (working title only at the moment). It's going to take A LOT of work to get it to the writing stage so that's what I'll be working on for the next few months, along with editing Chosen in the summer.
(Sorry, Lou, no sequel for a while)
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Post by Louisa on Apr 14, 2011 19:07:50 GMT -5
Awww!
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Post by Austine on Apr 14, 2011 22:04:20 GMT -5
Alright, so I'm working on my old urban fantasy novel (working title Alpha) right now and since I'm completely reworking the plot and such, and I was having trouble with the middle, I did what I do anytime I get into that kind of situation: personal character bios! Only one done so far but I wanted to post it here. So this is my FMC:
Makayla “Mac” - werewolf
Ok, why are you bothering me with asking who I am? If you’re anyone important, you already know. If not, just leave me alone. I have vamps to stake and witches to fry.
You’re still there? Guess you’re not planning on leaving anytime soon, are you? Fine, I’ll answer your questions. Just don’t complain if you don’t like what I have to say.
Alright, I’m seventeen—no, I’m not lying this time. I’ve been built up, beaten down, and spit back out again by the same group of people since I was ten. In the name of justice, they said. What a load of * that is. Our version of justice is hunting the bad guys and making sure they don’t live to tell the tale. You’d think at my age I’d be in school, studying my ass off to get into a decent college. Well, you thought wrong. School is for loser humans who have nothing better to do with their time. Yeah, that’s right.
Stupid humans.
You think I’m young? I’ve been a killing machine since before puberty and I’m damn good at it. Age is just a number. It’s skills that matter on the streets. You don’t just go rushing into the middle of a vamp coven pretending to be some big badass know-it-all. It takes time and I’ve put my hours in.
Despite what you might think, my parents were pretty cool with the whole decision to leave home. Dad’s been negotiating between the two rival witch families across the Atlantic for almost four years, being the peacekeeper that he is. Mom works down in the labs below SFDA after an early retirement. Twenty years in the field and bagged more crooks than my entire training class combined. I’m going to be better than her someday. I had broken her record for underage missions already.
How could you possibly want to know more? I have a life, you know.
Fine. Here they are. I like chocolate, though I’m a sucker for a decent sized bag of gummy bears. I hate sports—they’re overrated. I’d rather be left alone by nosy humans like you—get the hint? Can’t stand vampires, filthy bloodsuckers. Witches aren’t much better, always chanting something or another in a language that no one’s spoken in centuries. Rare steaks are my only gateway to cloud nine, and more times than not I’m out with the guys, roaming the streets and scaring little kids.
Lost a brother in the war over in Europe. He took a silver bullet to the heart when he was twenty two in an assassination attempt on his commander. Still have his dog tags around my neck. I haven’t seen my parents in over two years, except a fleeting visit on Christmas. Home is with the local pack, and I’m the only girl. Some might call it luck. I call it my personal hell.
So there, that’s my life. Smooth skinned and smokin’—according to the aforementioned males—during the day, all fur and fangs under the moon.
Hope you’re satisfied ‘cause I’m done talking.
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Post by marsbareater12 on Apr 14, 2011 22:07:11 GMT -5
Love it! I so want to read this when it's done, Austine!
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Post by Louisa on Apr 14, 2011 22:30:09 GMT -5
Sounds great! Must send me some soon! And then hope that you get an agent, and that Chosen gets a 3 book deal of publishing, like JT Ellison! Yep, then we'd all be happy!!!!!
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Post by Austine on Apr 15, 2011 14:54:29 GMT -5
Well this one will be in the pre-writing/outlining/worldbuilding phase for a while (possibly a couple months depending on school). (And that would be great, Lou, if it happened ) What I really need to do it just talk about my UF. I have some ideas and a few characters, but they were never really developed. Oh, and do you think it's a problem that Mac has the same name AND nickname as another FMC in a series (Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning). I mean, my Mac is a werewolf and the one in the series isn't exactly human, but it has to deal with faeries. I've just gotten the comment already about the similarity.
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Post by Louisa on Apr 15, 2011 21:09:52 GMT -5
See, what did I say, everyone would be happy And I might kinda be thinking of changing the name. Kinda. Maybe.
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Post by Austine on Apr 15, 2011 22:54:17 GMT -5
That's what I was afraid of. I mean, the books wouldn't be related at all except for that, and the name fits the character. But I don't want to be associated with the Fever Series or be told "oh, you copied her" because although I've read all the books, I wasn't even thinking of them when I thought of the name. It was one of those gut instinct "that's the name" type deals. *bites nails in nervousness*
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