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So I’m sure you’re all wondering just what word N-laigh is from. Sitting on tenterhooks, right? Well, lets all give a hand to Miss Sarah because she guessed right with Enlighten! Yay!
With my fantasy WIP, I like to take a little more logical route for explaining things so in my world the stars are the gods. They are the ones that bestow the gifts onto the people in power who then filter those gifts moderately into the population. Why stars? Because you can actually see them. You look up, there they are. If you see a shooting star, that’s one star going to talk to another. A falling star, well, that star’s been really bad.
As I come here to fulfill my first meme of this blog, I come to read my comments and see that I’ve been tagged for another meme. Praying that they’re one and the same and I can kill two pterodactyls with one javelin, I click the link. Dammit. Different meme. That’s another one for the weekend. Granted I was supposed to do this one this past weekend but I completely forgot to check my blog feed for it. Dur. So to thwart the internet zombies, here it is–
The Book Meme-y Thing, which has been bestowed upon me by none other than The Bookshelf Muse, home of wonderful writing advice.
The Rules
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people and post a comment to your tagger once you’ve posted your 3 sentences.
I figured this would be a neat little way not only to introduce you to exactly what my fantasy (you know, the more I delve into the genre, the further from knowing just what kind of fantasy Diamond Crier actually is) is about but perhaps spark your own creative juices as well.
What I’ve done is I’ve taken a standard English word, could be anything. For example lets use “precious.” So I’ve taken the word “precious” and I want to include it in my novel but I want to make it more “fantasy.” Well, instead of making up completely different words that people would have no idea what the associations are, you create a new word out of the old one that, well, can be unrecognizable and people probably won’t know what you’re talking about when you use it. Eh, pratfalls. Minor things.
Remember how I said I was approached by an agent at the reading I did in San Francisco a couple posts back? Well, I finally got around to sending the woman an email at the beginning of the week (only took me a freakin’ month, oye), just to touch base and let her know what was going on. I informed her that I was nowhere near ready for an agent since my WIPs are in the first draft stage but that I’d be happy to send them to her once they’re ready. Also, after studying the site I realized that I’d be better suited to another agent within that agency (there are only 3 of them) since she works closely with fantasy. But, the agent said they’ll figure it out when the time comes.
And she said that less than a day after I sent the email. Talk about a fast turn around! I was so worried that she wouldn’t remember me but thankfully she did! I told her I’d send her emails every once in a while to let her know about my progress and all of that and she said that was fine. Yay! It’s always nice to know that I have agent interest in my work off of nothing more than a boob story. Hopefully I can live up to her expectations!
No, not another blog chain post. The post title is just relevant. I’ve officially released the site that’s hosting my online serial, Dawn, which can be found by going here–http://dawncreation.wordpress.com.
If you’re still unfamiliar with what a web serial actually is and haven’t visited any of the excellent stories listed on the Serial page in the sidebar, then I think you’re missing out. A web serial is usually an ongoing novel posted on the internet, usually on a blog, for people to read for free. It’s providing your written work to the public directly without any agents or publishers, printers or any middlemen really. They’re more closely centered in niche markets and they’re still relatively small in numbers compared to something like a web comic but with all of the media products surrounding downloadable books and such, it really isn’t much of a surprise that novels are going by the way of blogs. Think of it more in terms of traditional serials found in newspapers and magazines when they were still interested in the literary. Same concept except applied to the internet.
