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At 7/21/07 04:59 PM, gunground wrote:

At 7/20/07 09:10 PM, Rubbershoes wrote: Great. As for the fantasy story, I am writing a fantasy/sci-fi novel (though its more on the sci-fi-ish side) would an excerpt from that do, or would you rather have a full-blown fantasy story?

actually a short summary about what its about will do. Go ahead, im not picky :)

Great. My joint-novel Zero is about a person fresh out of college. The main character, Xeral who suffers from amnesia, is questioning his life. He and his roommate Reneld are jobless and every aspcet of their life is pure, unadulterated, boredom. While on a walk to meet Reneld downtown, Xeral is confronted by a strange man who claims to have known him before he lost his memory, and that he is not Human, but a race of shape-shifters known as Zero. The man continues on to state that his home planet is in the middle of a civil war, and he believes that Xeral shold be the one to lead the Zero. Skeptical at first, Xeral eventually agrees to travel with this man to reclaim his planet, (though at first Xeral's only reason for tagging along was to escape his boring life) and takes part in a war to take the throne.

AHHHHH no apostrophes!!!

If an excerpt from my book was to be turned into flash this would be the scene. (keep in mind this is not the exact storyline the flash would follow, and that a bit or so would have to come before it so that this scene made sense. Keep in mind that this is a fantasy/sci-fi.) One of the main characters names is Xilhouette (yes, the x in his name is important, duh.) who was manufactured by a research team on expedition to an new planet; a mistake occurred durring the creation process, and resulted in his chemical structure being mainly composed of Uranium, this often gets him in problems like so:

Sleep... I want to sleep. Control yourself Xilhouette, seal your wounds. Sleep... I want to sleep. If you let yourself sleep Xilhouette you may never get up again, get up and heal your wounds. But I want to sleep. Xilhouette, your life is pouring out your side, get up. Sleep.
Xilhouette sprang up instantly and inspected himself. There was a large hole in his side and a clear sparkling liquid was oozing out. "Perfect, there goes 20 years of my life..." He mumbled after he had patched up the hole. He studied his surroundings, to his right lay a pod and part of the bridge; the ship had been torn into shreds. It was obvious he was alone as there was no one else nearby, he would need to join up with the rest of the crew members as soon as possible. Xilhouette rose to his feet and nearly fell down still being dizzy from the loss of body fluids. Slowly he began to walk forward with difficulty, he then changed his human-like feet wider and flatter so as to gain him more stability and some speed. He then realized where he was, "Dagen. Why out of all the planets did we have to land on Dagen?" Xilhouette mumbled. The Dagens were naturally not friendly beings and thrived on conflict. They were not intelligent and it could be said that the Dagens were the 2nd dumbest creatures in the universe, beaten in stupidity only by sheep. Their incredible strength combined with their low intelligence created what normal society calls "chaos". Xilhouette's pace quickened, he needed to find the others before he got into trouble. Though Zero were strong creatures, one could not fend off many Dagens. Xilhouette pulled himself out of the crater his pod had created. How similar to Xeral's crash on Earth Plane-2! Xilhouette was thankful that he didn't have amnesia on Dagen! Now out of the crater, Xilhouette observed his surroundings once more, about 3 miles off to his right was a smoking pile of wreckage. "There's the others." he said to himself; smiling. He began to move towards the other crash site as fast as he could, but repeatedly stumbled over the various rocks and foliage, as his shoes were damaged and the sole was halfway off. He was faced with a dilemma; he had to evade the Dagens as he was currently weak, but could not move rapidly with his damaged shoes. If he removed his shoes then his feet would begin to radiate and they would begin destroying everything in their proximity; there was no telling when he would be able to contain this radiation again. Then he spotted several Dagens in the distance coming to inspect the wreckage. "Oh, no, not good." Xilhouette mumbled to himself once more. He thought about the situation and came to a conclusion. Xilhouette threw of his shoes and leaped forward, running toward the nearest Dagen. The Dagen, caught by surprise had no time to react as Xil landed a swift kick to his face. Xilhouette felt his foot sink into the Dagens skin an inch as his radiation took effect. The Dagen fell to the ground as Xil made his escape; sprinting as fast as he could towards where the others would be. The other Dagens, now aware, began to pursue Xilhouette as their newfound prey. They were gaining speed and soon were moving faster than Xilhouette; who looked back upon his pursuers and saw that they would soon overtake him. This isn't working, he thought, I'll have to use State. Xilhouette altered his course and headed to a large field of boulders in the distance. This is going to be close. Xilhouette thought. Xilhouette ran straight into the nearest boulder and mutated its form to gas. Xilhouette ran through the cloud of rock and changed it back into solid as soon as he had run through it. The band of Dagens, trying to follow his path ran straight into the boulder and fell to the ground. Xilhouette slid to a stop to look back at the Dagens and nearly fell over. Well that worked out nicely. Xilhouette thought to himself as he looked upon the unconscious beasts. Xilhouette turned away to finish his journey but stopped suddenly when he heard a rustling on the ground behind him. Why must they be so hard to kill? Xilhouette thought when he whirled around and saw a single Dagen rise up from the ground. Without even thinking Xilhouette made a compact U-turn and began to sprint once more. The Dagen limped once and stumbled like a drunkard; he then took off after Xilhouette. The Zero attempted to run through a boulder once more to throw him off, but the Dagen had learned from past concussions and, using the wings that were so common among Dagens, flew over it. Xilhouette then realized he could win; all he had to do was run in a straight line, running into the most boulders as possible directly toward the ship. He would be working less than the Dagen and moving more rapidly. Xilhouette sprinted as fast as his legs would allow him to go. Faster! Faster! This isn't how I want to die, Xilhouette thought. Xilhouette saw the ship in the distance; appearing to bounce up and down rhythmically as he took his large strides. This is it, I made it! Xilhouette thought. Then abruptly, Xilhouette was falling; spinning in midair, he had caught his foot on a root that had stuck out of the ground. He heard a yell that seemed so far away, possibly Xeral and the crew. Xilhouette began to pass out due to fear, but managed to stay awake.
The last thing he saw was the Dagen fast upon him.
The world darkened and spun as Xilhouette blacked out.

Great. As for the fantasy story, I am writing a fantasy/sci-fi novel (though its more on the sci-fi-ish side) would an excerpt from that do, or would you rather have a full-blown fantasy story?

I'm in... as long as no one is irked by me posting ideas that all have to do with my unfinished novel: Zero Rising

Ya I'm applying too.

I've been Writing for 3 years
Too many short stories too count
Writing a currently novel (Sci-Fi about a guy who discovers he's not human.)

I don't know if entries are closed, because I just read the first page and skipped here...
Anyways, if entries are open:

Years Writing: somewhere between 2-3
Flash Stories Written: 0 (because idk flash; I have ideas though.)
Real life stories written: 3 (Probably would be more, but I'm writing a novel.)
Name: Jordan Richardson

I can also be found on livejournal: Rubbershoes951

No, I mean a Literature Portal.

Rubbershoes here, long time user, first time poster. I don't know if someone has already made this suggestion, but a Literature section would be great to have.