Coffee Shop: Off Topic in the Writing Room

[John_Gaffield]

Let's see,

Free Time: either writing or checking out various boards. My use of the Playstation 3 has declined greatly since I have been writing quite a bit more recently.

My age: 47 (and I still like video games!)

John Gaffield

Slow Down (free)

The Ghost of Birch River Cabin (free)

Heir to Winston Manor  

The Wahl House Curse  

[shadowcat80]

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John_Gaffield wrote:

Let's see,

Free Time: either writing or checking out various boards. My use of the Playstation 3 has declined greatly since I have been writing quite a bit more recently.

My age: 47 (and I still like video games!)

John Gaffield

Slow Down (free)

The Ghost of Birch River Cabin (free)

Heir to Winston Manor  

The Wahl House Curse  

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Hey John what's the genre of books? The titles sound interesting.

[John_Gaffield]

Stephanie, my novels are ghost stories or haunted houes novels (fiction-horror). Slow Down does not involve a house (or cabin), the others do. I have had an interest in ghosts for many years and I started writing the stories about six years ago. I actually started writing because I was disappointed with the Disney movie The Haunted Mansion. After thinking about what I felt went wrong with it, I started thinking about what potentially could work in a haunted house story. From this, I developed the story for The Heir to Winston Manor. It is about a creepy abandoned old manor. The Wahl House Curse was next. This was a little darker and involves an old house with a almost forgotten past. I wrote Slow Down because I have two young children and I do not like people speeding in neighborhoods.

Let me know if you have additional questions. Thank you!

John

[shadowcat80]

That was very informative thank you John.  I write mostly poetry but I was writing a story called The Raven Files for awhile but I just don't have the desire to continue the story anymore. 

[Darkkin]

The antics of pets can be vastly amusing at times and occasionally unbelievable.  In the continuing saga of Rue verses the yoga ball, such is the case.  This evening while playing with the cat, Rue charged face first into the yoga ball.  Needlessly say, I don't know who jumped higher upon impact, Rue, Smudgie, the yoga ball, or me, but I would have to say the yoga ball, which is now more of a tattered pancake than an actual ball...

[TylerAE]

So do you like to type everything you write, or literally write it on paper and then convert it to the computer? 

[shadowcat80]

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TylerAE wrote:

So do you like to type everything you write, or literally write it on paper and then convert it to the computer? 

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I type everything.

[Brandi_R]

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Darkkin wrote:

The antics of pets can be vastly amusing at times and occasionally unbelievable.  In the continuing saga of Rue verses the yoga ball, such is the case.  This evening while playing with the cat, Rue charged face first into the yoga ball.  Needlessly say, I don't know who jumped higher upon impact, Rue, Smudgie, the yoga ball, or me, but I would have to say the yoga ball, which is now more of a tattered pancake than an actual ball...

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Oh my, what a sight that must have been!

[BizGirl_Writes2]

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TylerAE wrote:

So what do you all do in your free time?

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Before free time (like a day off or a break from school) actually comes, I like to make a list of all the things I haven't done because I've been so busy with work and school -- usually chores and yardwork .  Then, when that magical free time finally comes, I find myself sitting in my LaZboy watching HGTV and getting nothing on my list accomplished!  I rationalize that I'm hard at work recharging my batteries. 

[Darkkin]

Strawberry popsicle...Nothing witty, wise, bleak or otherwise.  Just a strawberry popsicle.

(This has been a Darkkin Dork Moment...Thank you for your attention....(Oh, shiny object...).)

[Darkkin]

DWD...Dense with detail...

[Darkkin]

'I forged it, link by link and yard by yard, all captive bound and double iron...'  Jacob Marley once said unto Scrooge, and so have I done with my bits and pieces tossed up on these boards.  From a Rambling Angel to a Nonentity to a Path, seldom trod, to a Conundrum and everything in between.  I have been saving these to a single file and the word count is rather startling.  More than 5,000 words and 30 pages of scribbling...Will it ever be of any use?  Who knows?

[Kat-NE]

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Darkkin wrote:

'I forged it, link by link and yard by yard, all captive bound and double iron...'  Jacob Marley once said unto Scrooge, and so have I done with my bits and pieces tossed up on these boards.  From a Rambling Angel to a Nonentity to a Path, seldom trod, to a Conundrum and everything in between.  I have been saving these to a single file and the word count is rather startling.  More than 5,000 words and 30 pages of scribbling...Will it ever be of any use?  Who knows?

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Just compile all your Ramblings (your word, not mine) into a book.  You could even put the word "ramblings" in the title.  Have a shiny object on the cover .  Knowing your audience is important, after all.

[Kat-NE]

So, has anyone read The Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin?  I'm going to watch the series on HBO, but I usually like to read the books movies are based on.  Also, I here that the series is unfinished and that they are very long.  Is it worth the effort?  Should I just stick with the tv series?  Thoughts, anyone?

[TiggerBear]

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Kat-NE wrote:

So, has anyone read The Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin?  I'm going to watch the series on HBO, but I usually like to read the books movies are based on.  Also, I here that the series is unfinished and that they are very long.  Is it worth the effort?  Should I just stick with the tv series?  Thoughts, anyone?

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Hmm good not great, but good.Yes it worth the effort.

Not really all that long for fantasy books, pretty normal thickness. I'd say watch the first show, if you loved it, go read the first book.

[shadowcat80]

I answered the free time question before but, that was when I really didn't have much to use.  As I answered before part of what I do with my part time is writing and reading, but now that I got a lot of time on my hands, what I'm going to do is watch criminal minds from the beginning I have the first three seasons on dvd.  I also going to read a lot more then I have lately.  I would like to get through the Gallagher Girls series, which I'm on book 3 now, or at least when I start reading it again, there's currently 4 books, though according to the author Ally Carter she's planning to release a fifth one in 2012.  I also would like to finish the Tomb Raider series I've been reading which I have one book to go on that series.  It seems like I'm going to be even more busy with free time on my hands, then when I'm a schoolgirl going to college LOL.

[Kat-NE]

I'm graduating!!!

Honestly, this time I mean it.  I have to do my internship first, but then I'm out of there!

Also, I'm going to intern at the University Press!  Finally, things are coming together.

[shadowcat80]

Awesome Kat, congratulations for all your hard work and effort has paid off.  Good luck with your internship.

[tiffany57]

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TylerAE wrote:

So do you like to type everything you write, or literally write it on paper and then convert it to the computer? 

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I type everything unless I do not have a computer avalible then I just write it down on my hand, back of a paper, type it up on my phont or ipod and save it. (=

[tiffany57]

Sadly, my great-great grandmother passed away over the weekend.  She was 98, a few weeks away from her 99th birthday.  I can't believe it.