Hi Amanda, Tell me about it. I was pretty upset when I tried to copy them to my PC, and found out that the floppies had gone bad. Which the 3.5 floppies were definitely known to do. That was before cd rom burners etc existed and was really the only way to back up stuff. I'm glad there are better ways like thumb drives etc now days.
In any case I'm pretty sure I could do a better job on either novel now days. They were written when I was in high school, and I didn't necessarily do a professional job on them. Vortex, especially, wasn't something I'd publish simply because it was, well, a bit warped. What I mean by that is at the time I wrote Vortex I was really having some personal issues in my life. I was angry, upset, and that really came through in that book. It was extremely violent, graphic fight/kill scenes, and there was quite a lot of cussing and swaring I wouldn't necessarily add to the book were I to write it today. Plus sense the time space continuum does get restored at the end of the book I decided to kill whoever whenever which meant some of the fights were pretty gory, and certain characters I didn't like such as Quark from DS9 got killed off in some pretty horrable ways. Lol! Basically, the way I view those books now as practice novels. Something to sharpen my writing skills, something that helped me cope with the situations of the time, and kept me entertained. I don't feel too bad about losing them now, because I know that most writers, professional writers, rarely sell their first book or two, and even if the first book does get published it usually undergoes quite a lot of editing. I look at authors like Patricia Briggs. Now days she is a famous sf/fantasy author, but I've read her first two published works and while they weren't terrible they weren't great either. Her later books like the Mercy Thompson series was great. She's got other books that are pretty good, but some of her early books just lack the style and excitement her later books have. We could say the same for an author like Steven King. Certainly he is a great author, but some of his early books like Carey and Christine weren't that great. At least I didn't like them as well as later novels such as Needful Things, It, The Dark Half, and so on. Steven King is an author I think who has improved with time, and his early works are just his first attempts at breaking into the world of writing. In short, I don't worry about it, because I'm pretty sure they would have to have a good rewrite to be published. Besides that, I've thought about writing different stuff, my own stuff, and perhaps I could electronicly publish something of my own rather than basing it on an existing storyline like Star Trek which would have to be published as fan fic. Cheers! On 7/9/11, Amanda Burt <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that's a shame you don't have your novels. They could be really > interesting grins. I didn't used to be a star treck fan but someone > introduced me to it and it's not too bad. > > Amanda --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
