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Roll Call!

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Category: GENERAL DISCUSSION
Forum Name: Creative Writing Corner
Forum Description: Discuss NYC Midnight Creative Writing Competitions or Creative Writing in general.
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Topic: Roll Call!
Posted By: SavageG
Subject: Roll Call!
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2006 at 6:09am
Just thought I'd start a thread where people to come introduce themselves.
 
Hello there. Name's Garrett. Pleased as hell to meet you.
 
Usually fancy myself a screenwriter, but I have the workings of a novel brewing and I figure this contest might be a good way to shock my synapses into thinking in fiction writing terms.
 
If this fails there's always adrenachrome. Whatever's right.


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Not all who wander are lost, not all who wonder without wisdom.



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Posted By: Chris Messineo
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2006 at 1:13pm
Hi, my name is Chris and I am a NYC Midnight Addict.

Even though I don't think I will be entering this contest, I still plan on haunting these forums like I always do. I look forward to reading the short stories.

Chris


Posted By: crlncxn
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2006 at 11:12pm
Hello,
I'm Caroline from the UK and I WILL be entering the competition - just love writing, no matter what, although my heart's desire is to have one of my screenplays come to life in a film...
Best of luck everybody. It'll be fun!
Caroline


Posted By: sweetcheeks
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2006 at 3:48am
Hay,
              Names Bub. Im from detroit. I like to pretend Im a writer. Never written anything besides short stories. Never had anything published. Excited about doing this contest. Im a horrible speller. Whose everyone's favorite authors.  Mine happen to be; Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Palahnuik, Sherman Alexie, Hurbert Selby, Christopher Moore, Max Brooks, Richard Matheson... many more.


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Posted By: dave33079
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2006 at 8:39am
Super Dave here, I am working on a novel and thought I would take a break to make some money. Authors- Jack London, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, JRR Tolkein, JK Rowling, and Chuck Palahniuk. There are many more, but those sit on the top.


Posted By: SavageG
Date Posted: 20 Dec 2006 at 6:54am
Authors- Hunter Thompson, Douglas Adams, Glen Cook, Woody Allen, Bruce "Don't Call me Ash" Campbell (yes, really)

Oh, and I can't forget the Alpha, the Omega of humor writing... Mark Twain.


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Not all who wander are lost, not all who wonder without wisdom.


Posted By: johnnyd
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2006 at 3:50am
John. Writer in NJ. Done the screenplay competition here, written two feature-length screenplays - one good one that's far too expensive to shop as a spec and one steaming turd that I'm gonna take a stab at rewriting later this year.

Authors: Michael Chabon, GK Chesterton, Stephen King, Kinky Friedman, Poe, Kazuo Ishiguro when he steers clear of sci-fi, plus a couple dozen others I'm forgetting right now.


Posted By: durden7
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2006 at 5:31am
Hello gang,
 
I'm David, and I took part in the short screenplay competition last summer. I used to write short stories, then I drifted to screenplays. I also write comic strips for fun.
 
One of the above posters mentioned Vonnegut, Matheson, and Palhaniuk as favorite authors. Good call on all fronts. You may want to check out Will Christopher Baer as well as Max Barry, I found them through the Palhaniuk website.
 
I am a huge fan of the Short Stories of Raymond Carver. His work is really inspiring.
 
Does anyone else read Howard (Conan and Solomon Kane) or Steven Niles?
Niles has a beat up private detective that hunts monsters. I would never have thought a work could be so entertaining.
 


Posted By: johnnyd
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2006 at 2:48pm
Originally posted by johnnyd johnnyd wrote:

Authors: Michael Chabon, GK Chesterton, Stephen King, Kinky Friedman, Poe, Kazuo Ishiguro when he steers clear of sci-fi, plus a couple dozen others I'm forgetting right now.
 
Can't believe I left off Neil Gaiman. I should be shot for that.


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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." — George Bernard Shaw


Posted By: durden7
Date Posted: 27 Dec 2006 at 10:55am
I can't say I've read any Gaiman. I hear it's good stuff though.


Posted By: johnnyd
Date Posted: 27 Dec 2006 at 2:20pm

If you dig modern fantasy, start with Gaiman's American Gods and Neverwhere. They don't get much better than that.



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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." — George Bernard Shaw


Posted By: durden7
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2006 at 6:19am

Okay. I will give them a whirl. Smile



Posted By: thirdman27
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2007 at 7:15pm
Andre Dubus is one of the most amazing short story writers. I'm always re-reading his work. also, Rod Serling, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury.


Posted By: richke
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2007 at 4:31am
Hello my name is Rich and this is my 2nd NYC competition.  I enetered the last screenwriter comp and really enjoyed it.  So far i enjoyed that more...but we will se how things turn out...good luck to everyone.

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Heat #18 - The Darkness Within   
http://www.richardthomaskeel.com/media/18_TheDarknessWithin.pdf


Posted By: greginthenorth
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2007 at 5:30am
hello all
Im Greg
Ive done 3 NYC film competions
( the last was left in the cold - Mock/leftovers)
but i thought id try my hand in the short story competition
Good luck and fun to all


Posted By: CarolynA
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2007 at 11:53am
Hey -
Carolyn in NC. Decided to do more short story comps this year and NYC Midnight was the first one I heard about. Thought it'd be interesting.

Never have done any screenwriting, but two of my short stories were adapted by others and made into short (very short, 7-9 minutes!) films.


Posted By: BrooklynGal
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2007 at 6:39am


This is my first writing comp w/ NYC Midnight.  I was involved in one of the film comp's during the Fall. 

Do our stories get posted somewhere on the website or do we post them???


Thanks all!!!


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Posted By: durden7
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2007 at 6:45am
You can post your short story in the Sub forum above. There are already a handful there.
 
You will need to post it on a website somewhere and link it to a post. If you need a storage spot, try orbitfiles.com. It's free.
 
 



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