Scarlett_156's profile

The last thing I had published was a poem called “She Leaves” in the magazine “Every Day Poets” (everydaypoets.com)
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Right now I’m workin on a novel. I don’t have a name for the novel. I have written about 70,000 words into this story, I think it’s almost written out, maybe another 10,000 words or so to go. I like to review stuff so don’t hesitate to ask if you have something you would like for me to review for you.
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24 June 2009—I made a twitter account: http://twitter.com/Scarlett156

A lot of my tweets will likely be related to writing, but I’m also gonna use it to keep people updated on the band.
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3 July 2009: “I don’t have a name for the novel.”—Shhhee… yeah, right. Actually …

The last thing I had published was a poem called “She Leaves” in the magazine “Every Day Poets” (everydaypoets.com)
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Right now I’m workin on a novel. I don’t have a name for the novel. I have written about 70,000 words into this story, I think it’s almost written out, maybe another 10,000 words or so to go. I like to review stuff so don’t hesitate to ask if you have something you would like for me to review for you.
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24 June 2009—I made a twitter account: http://twitter.com/Scarlett156

A lot of my tweets will likely be related to writing, but I’m also gonna use it to keep people updated on the band.
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3 July 2009: “I don’t have a name for the novel.”--Shhhee… yeah, right. Actually I DO. I just don’t like it. I am not good at naming things--or rather, I dislike naming things so much that I avoid it at all costs, and therefore don’t know if I’m any good at it or not. Since this story is about 24 hours away from being written out--not FINISHED--but written out from beginning to end (after which rewriting starts, of course), however, I will put its name here: I gave it the working title of “Gone To The Gig”, which yes, does suck. I can’t think of anything better, though. I actually started this novel for that “NaNoWriMo” thing in November of 2006. You’re supposed to do like 50,000 words, all written in the month of November, right? I got about 20,000 words into this story and realized I kinda liked it and didn’t want to just rush through it when it deserved to be treated better—especially after I realized that this NaNoWriMo thing offers nothing in the way of a prize for the feat of scribbling out a story of 50,000 words in a month.
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So I just put the story aside and worked on other stuff, and I figured I would just go back and deal with it when I felt like it.
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Now it’s a hair away from being finished. I’ve got like 76,000 or so words. I don’t post finished stuff that I intend to submit for publication on websites like Urbis—er, don’t worry, you’ll get to trash something else that I’ve written at some point here on this fine site, just not “Gone To The Gig” (damn… I’ve GOT to think of a better name for this b1tch… maybe I should have a contest or something…)
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So if you want to know the “genre” (now THERE’S a word I heartily despise!) of this story, I guess I would say that it’s a “supernaturally-themed action and adventure fantasy with a few sci-fi elements”...? The central character is one that I’ve written MANY stories about over the last 12-13 years or so, a female sorcerer who manages to survive the blighting of the earth by nanoviruses that destroy food crops and turn earth into siliconized dust, as well as the decimation of earth’s human and animal populations by the ensuing famine, several diseases spinning out of control, and finally natural disaster (a meteor near-miss). In the process of all this, this female sorcerer has LOTS of adventures, wheeeee!! :D
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(Don’t look around for these stories anywhere, btw—they are not published or posted. I had part of one of em in my blog on this one social site, but that site deleted my account. Heh… people hate me because I’m an a$$hole…)
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Anyway, most of these stories are set in the post-apocalyptic future of the above scenario, but some of them are in the protagonist’s past, BEFORE she started battling extra-dimensional blood-sucking fiends and horrifying mutants. The protagonist sort of changes from being a lazy, irrresponsible musician who sells pot to pay her bills, into a high-talking, magic-sword-weilding heroine, but there wasn’t any kind of story that explained what happened to Nemali Villareal (that’s her name, the main character, and she calls herself “Magician Zero”—and she’s a writer, too, by the way, lol!) to make her change so much and want to start destroying ghouls, vampires, chthonian hydras, and other monster-ish unwelcome denizens of her continuum.
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So when I was considering what to write about for the NaNoWriMo competition, that was what struck me, and ended up sticking because I was already writing something else about that same bunch of characters—if I wrote this “ground zero of the Magician Zero story” tale out, it would be a kind of reference for whatever other stories I wrote after that, and plus I could go back and fix things that were wrong with the ones that were already written out.
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Ya, I’m nothin if not extremely prolific. Since 1997, when I started thinking about writing this bunch of stories down, I’ve started six stories and finished one of those six; each of the partial stories is about 80,000 words long, and the finished one is like 60,000 words (I edited a lot out). They’re so long because I explain a lot of stuff when I’m writing the story out, and then edit that explanatory stuff out--like the histories of side-characters and so on--once I’m done. I also started and finished a novel- (some would say “epic”)-length story about this character, and that’s sitting at about 250,000 words--again, I’ll likely edit almost half of that out before it’s done.
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None of this is submitted for publication because the whole saga from beginning to end isn’t set in my mind. One thing that was needed, was--again--a “ground zero” story that gave some sort of reason for this character to survive disaster and hardship and become a heroic type figure in the screwed-up post-apocalyptic world. Now I have that.
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Frankly I highly doubt that I will make any sort of attempt to get any of the above published for some time to come, for various reasons. Yeah, I suppose I should probably hurry a bit, seeing that I already have one foot in the grave, but on the other hand people in my family, especially on Mom’s side, typically have abnormally long life spans. ;)