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LadyG[AOS][TFF] I See You Posts: 5,127 Join Date: Jul '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 11/16/06 6:07am
	In Reply To #46 Ok, well if the publishers won't publish you at first (and be prepared to be refused even if the book is REALLY good, because many publishers are chickens and won't dare to bet on a new name)you can always find a print-on-demand service to print your book. Then you send copies of your book to the major magasines and boookstores and try to get publicity for your second book. -----signature----- ----------- PlanetBlackAndWhite
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Bartimaeusserpantofs Board Guest Posts: 103 Join Date: Nov '06	RE: Books you've been reading lately 11/16/06 12:41pm
	Now that is a good idea. I knew that i'd get turned down the first time anyway. I told my mom, "Ill bet you all my savings that the first dudes we send it to will reject it.", but she didn't want me to bet my savings, so we made it a safe ten dollars.
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LadyG[AOS][TFF] I See You Posts: 5,127 Join Date: Jul '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 11/16/06 4:23pm
	In Reply To #48 That's how most authors get them selves published, even Stephen King had to resort to publishing short stories in magazines before he could get a publisher to accept his writing. -----signature----- ----------- PlanetBlackAndWhite
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Bartimaeusserpantofs Board Guest Posts: 103 Join Date: Nov '06	RE: Books you've been reading lately 11/17/06 12:49pm
	That explains why it took Rowling so long. Perhaps i should take your advice. I think i'm going to go by a pen name. "Thomas Wolffe" [added Nov 17 2006 12:51PM] Please suggest some if you have an idea, for i haven't thought of many myself. Just don't make them rude, obsurd, profane, or "harmful", as the school counselor puts it. [added Nov 18 2006 3:20PM] LadyG, i read somewhere on the forums that you were in Sweden. Cool. I haven't the slightest idea what it's like, living in America and all. Do they speak english over there? Ill bet it gets pretty cold there, too.
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LadyG[AOS][TFF] I See You Posts: 5,127 Join Date: Jul '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 11/20/06 4:45am
	In Reply To #50 English is one of the things you have to take classes in, so every kid over the age of 10 should be able to speak and write basic english. When you have finished school you should be able to communicate in english in both written and spoken english. They teach brittish english in school but the influence from games and movies tend to make the kids speak broken american english with swedish accent. We have approximately the same weather and temperatures as Montana. Alaska for example is way colder than Sweden, I assure you. -----signature----- ----------- PlanetBlackAndWhite
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Bartimaeusserpantofs Board Guest Posts: 103 Join Date: Nov '06	RE: Books you've been reading lately 11/20/06 6:14am
	Wow. Thanks for the update. I've never really known what sweden was like. Mostly because i study the classic countries like Germany, Britain, France, Western Russia, and all the other ones like that. When i go to Europe, ill be sure to drop by sweden. Perhaps we will say hi to each other on the streets, and we won't know who the hell we were talking to. lol. That would be kinda ironic.
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LadyG[AOS][TFF] I See You Posts: 5,127 Join Date: Jul '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 11/21/06 6:25am
	In Reply To #52 You'd like the old viking sagas I think (as a writer anyway), raiding northern england, drinking christmas (though it wasn't called cristmas at that time) and all that Tolkien based a lot of Lord of the ring on our folklore, which is ironic since he wrote the epic to be a kind of prehistoric lore for England... -----signature----- ----------- PlanetBlackAndWhite
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Bartimaeusserpantofs Board Guest Posts: 103 Join Date: Nov '06	RE: Books you've been reading lately 11/21/06 12:17pm
	I know ALL about the Vikings. One thing you have to be to be a writer is a history buff. Man, im doing a prologue in anceint Rome. I had to check out an eyewhitness book on Rome from my school library. Beleive when i say that writing a novel isn't just writing and typing. [added Nov 21 2006 12:20PM] Hey look, im a prophet. cool! I predict that in 2012 a giant astroid will strike the Earth! Wow, i never knew Tolkien based his crap on England. There's like no similarity between middle earth and england, other than they speak the same language. [added Nov 21 2006 12:45PM] One last thing. Do you see any similarities between Golem(Smeagal) and the modern english folk? I didn't see any either. In fact, compare any of the LotR characters to the modern english man. Still any similarities? I found some, but the differences far out-weighed them. I mean, you don't see any wide-eyed grey freaks running around the streets of england saying "My Prescious...". If that were so, i'd never go to england for fear of being raped over a gold ring... If i had one that is. One more thing, i can do a perfect impression of Golem. Im serious! I scared a bunch of children on Haloween. When they were walking by i started mumbling "I love the Prescious SO muchhh... GIVE IT TO ME!!!" [added Nov 21 2006 5:15PM] In Reply To #23 Board Guest 2584956 posted: why do people read its a waste of time when you could be sitting on your computer teaching your black and white 2 creature to be a blood thirsty killer? Because, reading is good for not only your brain(which in your case is the size of a pea), but also for your heart and soul. Reading can and has inspired many. Without books, the world would be in an endless Anarchy.
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LadyG[AOS][TFF] I See You Posts: 5,127 Join Date: Jul '01	RE: Books you've been reading lately 12/1/06 3:38am
	In Reply To #54 Bartimaeus serpant of silver posted: One last thing. Do you see any similarities between Golem(Smeagal) and the modern english folk? I didn't see any either. In fact, compare any of the LotR characters to the modern english man. Still any similarities? I found some, but the differences far out-weighed them. I mean, you don't see any wide-eyed grey freaks running around the streets of england saying "My Prescious...". If that were so, i'd never go to england for fear of being raped over a gold ring... If i had one that is. One more thing, i can do a perfect impression of Golem. Im serious! I scared a bunch of children on Haloween. When they were walking by i started mumbling "I love the Prescious SO muchhh... GIVE IT TO ME!!!" Of course you won't see many similarities, silly. First of all, all the mythological creatures like Golems, Balrogs, Orcs and Goblins, vanished by the end of the Third Age due to the destruction of the one ring. Those who weren't destroyed - like Gandalf - left by ship from the Gray Haven. Gandalf even explains why as they leave, buy only in the books. The movies leave a very shortened and poor explanation. Secondly, Middle-earth is an historical term. It is a literal translation of the Middle English term middel-erde, which developed from Old English middangeard; the term refers to the real world, the habitable lands of men. Tolkien said that his Middle-earth is our Earth, but in a fictional period in the past; estimating the end of the Third Age to about 6,000 years before his own time (Letters preserved by his son Christopher verifies this). He also described the region in which the Hobbits lived as "the North-West of the Old World, east of the Sea", a clear reference to England and the north-western region of Europe (the Old World). Tolkien said that he thought the time between the end of the Third Age and the 20th century was about 6000 years, and that in 1958 it should have been around the end of the Fifth Age if the Fourth and Fifth Ages were about the same length as the Second and Third Ages. He said, however, in a letter written in 1958 that he believed the Ages had quickened and that it was about the end of the Sixth Age/beginning of the Seventh. -----signature----- ----------- PlanetBlackAndWhite
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Bartimaeuss Serpant of silver plumes Posts: 717 Join Date: Nov '06	RE: Books you've been reading lately 12/1/06 12:43pm
	Ok. But now, off the subject of tolkien, and on with me. I recently finished my prologue which turned out to be excellent. Halfway through chapter one, and still going strong. Sometimes i have so many exciting ideas that i can't even sleep! -----signature----- _____ Here i lie in Prague... ...waiting for Him to accept me into his vast kingdom for eternity...
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