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Skybird · 10-17-07, 04:59 PM

Hehe, 15 years ago I "published" an extensive ST novel in the european fandom, for the 25 years anniversary of ST, title translated into "Bloodshadow", it was a Romulan-based masterpiece of 600 pages, timeframe set between ST-V and ST-VI.

. It was no commecial enterprise, and copies were sold for the price of the copying alone, not more. On festivals, I was told, it popped up time and again for a couple of years, and found some hundred (hopefully happy) "customers".

Well, what you write when you are in your early twenties :p

At school I wrote a 200 pages novel for the movie Blade Runner - well, what a surprise! My first novel had 50 pages, and was a script of star Wars, typed while I still was visiting fourth class, I think, elementary school. during late school I wrote a 200 pages non-fictinal book about some social, political, environmental and cultural things. I received some special appreciation from teachers for it, and it was used for one semestre in a project class.

All this was fun at the time when I did it, but I would not take it serious, and do not hand it around anylonger, of course. there were many other short stories, and a colelction of poems and Haikus. Beside a small collection of poems, the only thing I am really proud of, and which really was coming from my heart, is a brief - well, in german we call it "Novelle", that is something like a brief, short novel, entitled "Picnic in Avalone". It was about a young women after WWI, leaving London and finding some rest after marriage troubles, in a Godforsaken place where the borders between reality and fantasy transcended and her finding a new solution to her life when spending one afternoon on a mysterious surreal island where he experiences some events offside the usual flow of time. It is also a hommage to Ray Bradbury, to several of his stories I make some clear references.

Hundreds of pages written - only to finally end with these 90 pages of Avalaone!!

I once started to write a sequel to it, well, kind of, but that was years later and I foudn that I had become rusty, and it did not went in the most elegant way. Three drafts existed, entitled "Return to Gramarye", but I finally gave it up. My imagination is unfortunatly lightyears ahead of my abilities as an author.

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,670 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Hehe, 15 years ago I "published" an extensive ST novel in the european fandom, for the 25 years anniversary of ST, title translated into "Bloodshadow", it was a Romulan-based masterpiece of 600 pages, timeframe set between ST-V and ST-VI. . It was no commecial enterprise, and copies were sold for the price of the copying alone, not more. On festivals, I was told, it popped up time and again for a couple of years, and found some hundred (hopefully happy) "customers". Well, what you write when you are in your early twenties :p At school I wrote a 200 pages novel for the movie Blade Runner - well, what a surprise! My first novel had 50 pages, and was a script of star Wars, typed while I still was visiting fourth class, I think, elementary school. during late school I wrote a 200 pages non-fictinal book about some social, political, environmental and cultural things. I received some special appreciation from teachers for it, and it was used for one semestre in a project class. All this was fun at the time when I did it, but I would not take it serious, and do not hand it around anylonger, of course. there were many other short stories, and a colelction of poems and Haikus. Beside a small collection of poems, the only thing I am really proud of, and which really was coming from my heart, is a brief - well, in german we call it "Novelle", that is something like a brief, short novel, entitled "Picnic in Avalone". It was about a young women after WWI, leaving London and finding some rest after marriage troubles, in a Godforsaken place where the borders between reality and fantasy transcended and her finding a new solution to her life when spending one afternoon on a mysterious surreal island where he experiences some events offside the usual flow of time. It is also a hommage to Ray Bradbury, to several of his stories I make some clear references. Hundreds of pages written - only to finally end with these 90 pages of Avalaone!! I once started to write a sequel to it, well, kind of, but that was years later and I foudn that I had become rusty, and it did not went in the most elegant way. Three drafts existed, entitled "Return to Gramarye", but I finally gave it up. My imagination is unfortunatly lightyears ahead of my abilities as an author. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.