Some background information now to save clogging it all up later. The first link you see is, as it suggests, my pride and joy. This was supposed to be a piece of English coursework before the course was changed, but nevertheless I am DAMN PROUD of it. I'm not going to say anything about it here, I'll just let you read it for yourself... all I will say is that the original instructions for the piece was to write a story where the reader is left guessing as to the actual point of it. Not sure whether I achieved that, in all honesty, I think the teacher just liked it. *got an A, beams with pride* Anyway... read it!
It is followed by a slightly linked story, which SHOULD be in the fanfic section, as it is, technically, a fic. Well, actually, it's a phanphic, but nobody's checking. It's... an alternative ending that sounded really good in my brain and got completely out of control as I wrote it. I thought I'd never finish the frelling thing, to be honest. A good week's work!
The next, "Thunder", I wrote in a thunderstorm, the first in my area of 1998, to be precise, and I was staring out of the window watching it til about 3 am, which is when I wrote this... or it wrote itself, whatever. Enjoy!
After writing "Thunder", I thought it would be fun to write another one based on a natural phenomenon, so I did "Total Eclipse". It's not as good, but it goes with the other one, so here it is.
Then came "Sunrise, Sunset", which is a very much shorter affair that came to me in the middle of the night. This one's either depressing or uplifting, depending on how you read it.
"Snow" is one I started on the train to Derby. No idea why, it just spoke to me. I now have a mini-series of these things, which I am going to call "Today's Forcast..." Hopefully there may be more in the near future.
I know, they're all depressing. It wasn't intentional.
My first unfinished novel came to me in a dream.... and it was called "The Thorn Bird" (and strangely enough I'd never heard of the film of a similar name...) This was going to be so good when I thought it up... but this is far as I got before I realised it was turning into another version of "Edward Scissorhands" so I quit while I was ahead. Still, all failures start out as something good...
My newest unfinished novel also came in a dream, which this time I wrote down. The dream never finished and it annoyed me so much I decided to finish it myself. But it was so confusing that it's taking me ages, and yes, I am still writing this. I've just got a severe case of writers block at the moment. (Any POTO overtones are coincidental, I have no control over my subconscious)
Feel free (feel VERY free) to e-mail me feedback on Erik-a@torturedgenius.com. I thrive on feedback to this stuff. I find it helps me make it better.
My pride and joy :)
Self-writing story... odd :)
"Thunder" - first in the 'Today's Forcast' series
"Total Eclipse" - the second one
"Sunrise, Sunset" - a very short one (and nothing to do with the song in "Fiddler on the Roof", either...)
"Snow" - the latest one
Unfinished novel number one!
Unfinished novel number two... but slightly better.
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