So at the tail end of 2014 I became a lifetime member of the HP Lovecraft Historical Society and so to celebrate I decided that I wanted to write something particularly Lovecraftian.
I've got a friend lives in a nice house on a lake and the setting whilst beautiful has the kind of isolated remoteness found in Lovecraft's work and it just lent itself perfectly to this kind of tale, so it's set there. He's probably going to be pissed about that.
Here's a link if you care:
The Music On The Lake
Showing posts with label Writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Writing. Show all posts
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Writing
In case anyone thinks that I've been quite on the writing front during the interim of blessed silence on this blog here's a link to another blog I've been keeping a few jottings stored on (largely scratching the surface of what I have actually written).
Am currently working on a novel entitled Puritan (haven't abandoned the Mana story, it still gets the odd rattle too).
LINK>>My First Chapters, a collection of bits and pieces.
Am currently working on a novel entitled Puritan (haven't abandoned the Mana story, it still gets the odd rattle too).
LINK>>My First Chapters, a collection of bits and pieces.
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Word.
I forgot to update on the short story competition (I may have forgotten to even have mentioned that I was leading one).
Was interviewed for the News Letter back in March regarding a UK wide short story competition being run by the National Literacy Trust in cooperation with Johnson Press. I had one entry (Echoes of the Golden Spike) sitting in first place at that time and another (Flickering Neon Signs) sitting in seventh.
Well after several months of waiting because they kept deferring the closing date of the competition (it really was getting to be a joke, it was supposed to have closed at the end of March) I finally clocked in at 2nd for Echoes and 10th for Signs.
So, I won an unbranded pen set... something of an anti-climax really. I wasn't expecting Mont Blanc but even Bic would have been nice.
I sound ungrateful, but I'm not really. Echoes is going to be published in a compendium (even though I personally thought that Signs was a better story) that is due for publication in the next couple of weeks, so I can boast about being a published author now (if I want to look like a pillock).
For those of you who have not had the opportunity to read my fine and sparkly works I'll give a quick synopsis...
-Echoes of the Golden Spike is a brief story about the experiences of an Irish immigrant living in Fall City, Nebraska, who leaves his family to help build the First Transcontinental Railway across the US.
-Flickering Neon Signs is a story about a woman who has packed up her kids in the middle of the night and fled her abusive husband, it is a story about the emotions she feels as she tries to decide what to do.
Not really a lot else happening in my world at the moment apart from the usual silly Saturday nights of consumption.
(This has been a very quick entry as I am waiting for a game to load... I really should grow up)
Was interviewed for the News Letter back in March regarding a UK wide short story competition being run by the National Literacy Trust in cooperation with Johnson Press. I had one entry (Echoes of the Golden Spike) sitting in first place at that time and another (Flickering Neon Signs) sitting in seventh.
Well after several months of waiting because they kept deferring the closing date of the competition (it really was getting to be a joke, it was supposed to have closed at the end of March) I finally clocked in at 2nd for Echoes and 10th for Signs.
So, I won an unbranded pen set... something of an anti-climax really. I wasn't expecting Mont Blanc but even Bic would have been nice.
I sound ungrateful, but I'm not really. Echoes is going to be published in a compendium (even though I personally thought that Signs was a better story) that is due for publication in the next couple of weeks, so I can boast about being a published author now (if I want to look like a pillock).
For those of you who have not had the opportunity to read my fine and sparkly works I'll give a quick synopsis...
-Echoes of the Golden Spike is a brief story about the experiences of an Irish immigrant living in Fall City, Nebraska, who leaves his family to help build the First Transcontinental Railway across the US.
-Flickering Neon Signs is a story about a woman who has packed up her kids in the middle of the night and fled her abusive husband, it is a story about the emotions she feels as she tries to decide what to do.
Not really a lot else happening in my world at the moment apart from the usual silly Saturday nights of consumption.
(This has been a very quick entry as I am waiting for a game to load... I really should grow up)
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Sporadic updates... check
Well, it seems that I'm about as useful as ever when it comes to keeping this thing up to date (not that anyone really cares anyway).
So the main reason that I am updating is to express my own personal satisfaction for having outdone what I have always considered to be my best story-
http://thebridgeburnerstories.blogspot.com/search/label/S%202.4%20Through%20the%20Looking%20Glass
At least from a personal perspective I have always considered it to be my best work, even when accounting for all the non TBB stories. The new story isn't yet finished, it being part of the After The Legacy series (or the TBB Novel for short), but two days ago I decided that I was leaving the main antagonist to appear far too late (which made the earlier chapters look like filler) so I have written an entirely new opening for section 1.2. This new opening is my source of pride for several reasons, the characters, the struggle in the face of inevitability, the last taste of humanity, plus it's about Mashed who to this point was never properly developed as a character. I might post it up at some point, and will at least certainly be sending it to Aven in order to get his opinion, if I'm writing about TBB I can't think of anyone whom I would rather reading it.
So, any other news in the world of your humble narrator? Not really, have been to the States again, and am still of the opinion that if the right opportunity opened up I would be away like a flash.
The only other thing is that I found out today that I young lady who used to work for me, and whom I will admit to having had a crush on, went to the US and got married in Vegas last week (yeah, the married in Vegas thing certainly sounds tacky but the wedding pics looked very tasteful). I've found myself bothered quite a deal since discovering this, not about the wedding you understand (that's in the past), but the fact that this girl younger than I, whom I once was attracted to, is now married. I can't help but feel that I've once again let life pass me by, again I'm not talking about the girl here, I feel that I've drifted a lot between the relatively easy options and have never really done anything to define myself, to have given my existence meaning. I don't know, perhaps I'm rambling and just feeling melancholy because another girl has been taken off the market, but at present it feels that I just lack accomplishment.
So the main reason that I am updating is to express my own personal satisfaction for having outdone what I have always considered to be my best story-
http://thebridgeburnerstories.blogspot.com/search/label/S%202.4%20Through%20the%20Looking%20Glass
At least from a personal perspective I have always considered it to be my best work, even when accounting for all the non TBB stories. The new story isn't yet finished, it being part of the After The Legacy series (or the TBB Novel for short), but two days ago I decided that I was leaving the main antagonist to appear far too late (which made the earlier chapters look like filler) so I have written an entirely new opening for section 1.2. This new opening is my source of pride for several reasons, the characters, the struggle in the face of inevitability, the last taste of humanity, plus it's about Mashed who to this point was never properly developed as a character. I might post it up at some point, and will at least certainly be sending it to Aven in order to get his opinion, if I'm writing about TBB I can't think of anyone whom I would rather reading it.
So, any other news in the world of your humble narrator? Not really, have been to the States again, and am still of the opinion that if the right opportunity opened up I would be away like a flash.
The only other thing is that I found out today that I young lady who used to work for me, and whom I will admit to having had a crush on, went to the US and got married in Vegas last week (yeah, the married in Vegas thing certainly sounds tacky but the wedding pics looked very tasteful). I've found myself bothered quite a deal since discovering this, not about the wedding you understand (that's in the past), but the fact that this girl younger than I, whom I once was attracted to, is now married. I can't help but feel that I've once again let life pass me by, again I'm not talking about the girl here, I feel that I've drifted a lot between the relatively easy options and have never really done anything to define myself, to have given my existence meaning. I don't know, perhaps I'm rambling and just feeling melancholy because another girl has been taken off the market, but at present it feels that I just lack accomplishment.
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
So, what's new?
Got moved into my new house at last on 21st December, haven't thrown the housewarming yet so don't worry if you think that you missed the invite (I'm talking to my fan-base of 1 here). Things are looking good in the world of Vastian.
Doing a bit of buying and selling on the sly to keep myself in a bit of extra cash (no, nothing illegal or even remotely interesting, just mostly internet stuff) and still working away at the book.
Ok, the book thing is technically a lie. Whilst still occasionally trying to push the story forward I've realized that with 3 of 7 big chapters completed the characters are still far too two dimensional. Upon discovery that this was my main problem I did the thing that I would have done instead of what anyone sensible would have tried (ie, insert a few tidbits of backstory), I started writing about characters whom I do have an established backstory for. Long story short, I now have two new TBB stories completed in the space of a month. I've decided that rather than flog a dead donkey and continue with The Planetside Legacy (I've just been out of that world for too long to pick up where I left off) I've started with a Prologue that picks up with the planned ending for Series 7 part 4 and then jumps forward to nearly 3 years after the Legacy. Click the link below for the storyline of the Legacy:
The Planetside Legacy: Complete Storyline
The basic opening premise is that with the defeat of the Ancients on Earth and Caer'Durath by the combined factions of man the Terran Republic collapsed under the weight of the New Order struggling to assert itself. Earth and a large chunk of the galactic west is controlled by the United Terran Commonwealth formed by the VS and the Alliance; The Orion Tract is still held by the TR fleet; the Frontier is under the control of the Colonial Marshal Service; and the Corporate District is now totally independent since they no longer have to fear the TR fleet, among the ruling corporations are several remnants of the New Conglomerate. There are several other factions of note, including a hard-line VS separatist group who believe that the Regent and the Triumvirate have sold out by forming the UTC with the less technologically orientated factions. This group still maintains an ideology of the Vanu Sovereignty regardless of the fact that the Vanu almost succeeded in their attempt to exterminate mankind (see- Series 7: The Coming of the Ancients).
The beauty about this storyline is that since it is set after the Legacy I can get through without directly referencing any copyrighted material other than my own (see, writing about what I know). Plus with established characters with their own individual personalities and plenty of unused backstory I already have enough to push on (though I should point out that I have in no way abandoned my other novel, this story is just working for me at the moment).
Nothing else really new at the moment, come on BT with fitting my phone line.
Doing a bit of buying and selling on the sly to keep myself in a bit of extra cash (no, nothing illegal or even remotely interesting, just mostly internet stuff) and still working away at the book.
Ok, the book thing is technically a lie. Whilst still occasionally trying to push the story forward I've realized that with 3 of 7 big chapters completed the characters are still far too two dimensional. Upon discovery that this was my main problem I did the thing that I would have done instead of what anyone sensible would have tried (ie, insert a few tidbits of backstory), I started writing about characters whom I do have an established backstory for. Long story short, I now have two new TBB stories completed in the space of a month. I've decided that rather than flog a dead donkey and continue with The Planetside Legacy (I've just been out of that world for too long to pick up where I left off) I've started with a Prologue that picks up with the planned ending for Series 7 part 4 and then jumps forward to nearly 3 years after the Legacy. Click the link below for the storyline of the Legacy:
The Planetside Legacy: Complete Storyline
The basic opening premise is that with the defeat of the Ancients on Earth and Caer'Durath by the combined factions of man the Terran Republic collapsed under the weight of the New Order struggling to assert itself. Earth and a large chunk of the galactic west is controlled by the United Terran Commonwealth formed by the VS and the Alliance; The Orion Tract is still held by the TR fleet; the Frontier is under the control of the Colonial Marshal Service; and the Corporate District is now totally independent since they no longer have to fear the TR fleet, among the ruling corporations are several remnants of the New Conglomerate. There are several other factions of note, including a hard-line VS separatist group who believe that the Regent and the Triumvirate have sold out by forming the UTC with the less technologically orientated factions. This group still maintains an ideology of the Vanu Sovereignty regardless of the fact that the Vanu almost succeeded in their attempt to exterminate mankind (see- Series 7: The Coming of the Ancients).
The beauty about this storyline is that since it is set after the Legacy I can get through without directly referencing any copyrighted material other than my own (see, writing about what I know). Plus with established characters with their own individual personalities and plenty of unused backstory I already have enough to push on (though I should point out that I have in no way abandoned my other novel, this story is just working for me at the moment).
Nothing else really new at the moment, come on BT with fitting my phone line.
Thursday, 13 December 2007
Novel
'Mana: The Shadows of Destiny' is progressing quite well but through outside influences (such as trying to actually get my house in Dungannon ready to live in by Christmas) it hasn't really grown much in the past month.
In that time I have found myself thinking a lot about my paranormal mystery novel set in the Victorian era, I say 'paranormal' but the general idea was of an adventure with seemingly metaphysical factors in which investigator Jonathon Mainwaring would uncover the actual truth. The idea is to make Jonathon Mainwaring a modern day Allan Quatermain, or more appropriately to make Jonathon Mainwaring an Allan Quatermain for this century, and I am of course referring to the original novels like 'King Solomons Mines' and not the graphic novel or the atrocious film derived from it. Jonathon Mainwaring is at heart an adventurer finding the ordinary in the extraordinary situations that he finds himself in.
Anyone who knows me well enough will know that I generally jump from story to story and back again, so I should point out now that I have not actually left Mana in any way, I just haven't had the time to write. Period. I've just been having ideas for the other story and have noted them duly.
In that time I have found myself thinking a lot about my paranormal mystery novel set in the Victorian era, I say 'paranormal' but the general idea was of an adventure with seemingly metaphysical factors in which investigator Jonathon Mainwaring would uncover the actual truth. The idea is to make Jonathon Mainwaring a modern day Allan Quatermain, or more appropriately to make Jonathon Mainwaring an Allan Quatermain for this century, and I am of course referring to the original novels like 'King Solomons Mines' and not the graphic novel or the atrocious film derived from it. Jonathon Mainwaring is at heart an adventurer finding the ordinary in the extraordinary situations that he finds himself in.
Anyone who knows me well enough will know that I generally jump from story to story and back again, so I should point out now that I have not actually left Mana in any way, I just haven't had the time to write. Period. I've just been having ideas for the other story and have noted them duly.
Thursday, 20 September 2007
The Mother of all Updates (at the moment)
Haven't updated for a while, and since I am currently drunk I can think of no better time (though some may question my reasoning, but since this is my blog you can all go perform oral sex on a diseased warthog [if you disagree that is, if you agree then may the deity of your choice rain milk, honey and whatever rainbows and happiness of your choosing upon your household]).
So, what's new..? Not a hell of a lot really. Dublin Horse Show was as usual a blast, and I have once again drank at least my body weight in Jack Daniels whiskey (I swear that they should be sending me a medal or something by now). There have been a few ups (those responsible you know who you are, and I thank you), there have been a few downs (those responsible you also know who you are, and I may be a nice person but I am also very vindictive), and there have been those few occasions where not a lot has really been worth recording here but is worthy of mention because I am trying to fill space.
Have now not looked at a short story effort in almost a year and the novel is finally getting to the main plot (God you would not believe how much lead time you have to give a story just so you can say 'And now this happens...'), and again I am questioning my ability to write beyond sci-fi or the *cough* numerous love stories that I have (I haven't typed them up Aven because I still want to maintain some kind of credibility).
Other than that, new house in Dungannon is proceeding slowly if expensively, and the closer I get to moving back home the more I find myself wondering if the best thing in the world for me would be to buy a one way ticket to Dubrovnik and start working my way east.
Apart from all else mentioned I am still drinking my brains out and acting like some hyperactive teenager instead of the adult I am. (Plus I have the suspicion that this evening I may have inadvertently cost my father a lot of money... whoops).
So, what's new..? Not a hell of a lot really. Dublin Horse Show was as usual a blast, and I have once again drank at least my body weight in Jack Daniels whiskey (I swear that they should be sending me a medal or something by now). There have been a few ups (those responsible you know who you are, and I thank you), there have been a few downs (those responsible you also know who you are, and I may be a nice person but I am also very vindictive), and there have been those few occasions where not a lot has really been worth recording here but is worthy of mention because I am trying to fill space.
Have now not looked at a short story effort in almost a year and the novel is finally getting to the main plot (God you would not believe how much lead time you have to give a story just so you can say 'And now this happens...'), and again I am questioning my ability to write beyond sci-fi or the *cough* numerous love stories that I have (I haven't typed them up Aven because I still want to maintain some kind of credibility).
Other than that, new house in Dungannon is proceeding slowly if expensively, and the closer I get to moving back home the more I find myself wondering if the best thing in the world for me would be to buy a one way ticket to Dubrovnik and start working my way east.
Apart from all else mentioned I am still drinking my brains out and acting like some hyperactive teenager instead of the adult I am. (Plus I have the suspicion that this evening I may have inadvertently cost my father a lot of money... whoops).
Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Novel Update 2
The plot main plot outline and most of the sub-stories have been finished, plus I've already completed the ending. I had hoped to make a trilogy and I think that I've got enough potential storyline left over to do just that, so I present 'The Broken History' trilogy:
-Mana: The Shadows of Destiny
-Mana: Shattered in Time
-Mana: Fate Rising
-Mana: The Shadows of Destiny
-Mana: Shattered in Time
-Mana: Fate Rising
Sunday, 29 July 2007
Novel Update
Keeping in line with the new storyline for 'Mana: The Rising' I have changed the novel title to something a little more appropriate to the story, it's now 'Mana: The Shadows of Destiny' (somewhat cliched I know, but I'll probably whittle it down to something that's less of a mouthful nearer the time of seeking publication). The revised version has a pretty high body count already and the main adventure really hasn't even begun yet, but I'm aiming for 'bleak' so its all good.
As a small aside I have written a short children's adventure based on a historical event from the same world. This is a surprisingly good creative tool for building legends that may or may not get referenced in the main story but certainly help to add more depth to the world.
As a small aside I have written a short children's adventure based on a historical event from the same world. This is a surprisingly good creative tool for building legends that may or may not get referenced in the main story but certainly help to add more depth to the world.
Sunday, 24 June 2007
About the author...
So I have spent the last few days more or less writing, some of you (my sister for example) will be like 'Oh God what a waste' but I really enjoyed it, I used to get a real kick out of blowing entire days just sitting in Ground* writing the TBB stories and occasionally working on my own novel. Then those new red-coated traffic wardens came in and I couldn't just abandon my car for eight hours anymore, bastards.
Anyway I've managed to fix a few of the problems that I had encountered with one of my works and have jumped at it again with renewed enthusiasm. Anyway on the way home I started thinking about what I would have as my description on the back page of the novel and after sifting out that which I really thought most important I came up with this-
About the author…
Kyle Spence was born in Dungannon, Northern Ireland in December 1981 (December 8th if you want to send him a card) and freely admits to having no life.
He lives in Portstewart with Amy (his pet scorpion) and spends far too much time in coffee shops. His favourite film is Transformers: The Movie (1986) because Orson Welles has some truly awesome dialogue.
His writing career really took off when he started writing short stories for the online gaming community ‘The Bridge Burners’ and the reception to these stories gave him the impetus to actually try to finish one of the many novels he had started.
Mana: The Rising is his first book and he hopes that you enjoy it, or at least paid for it before leaving the store.
To contact Kyle email:
Kylespence.online@googlemail.com
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*Ground is responsible for putting up with me for every single Bridge Burners story and when I finally get published they will be receiving due recognition for their support over the years.
Anyway I've managed to fix a few of the problems that I had encountered with one of my works and have jumped at it again with renewed enthusiasm. Anyway on the way home I started thinking about what I would have as my description on the back page of the novel and after sifting out that which I really thought most important I came up with this-
About the author…
Kyle Spence was born in Dungannon, Northern Ireland in December 1981 (December 8th if you want to send him a card) and freely admits to having no life.
He lives in Portstewart with Amy (his pet scorpion) and spends far too much time in coffee shops. His favourite film is Transformers: The Movie (1986) because Orson Welles has some truly awesome dialogue.
His writing career really took off when he started writing short stories for the online gaming community ‘The Bridge Burners’ and the reception to these stories gave him the impetus to actually try to finish one of the many novels he had started.
Mana: The Rising is his first book and he hopes that you enjoy it, or at least paid for it before leaving the store.
To contact Kyle email:
Kylespence.online@googlemail.com
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*Ground is responsible for putting up with me for every single Bridge Burners story and when I finally get published they will be receiving due recognition for their support over the years.
Wednesday, 21 March 2007
The Planetside Legacy, complete storyline
Since I doubt that the complete collection will ever come into existence I present to you the plot notes I had drafted for TBB: The Planetside Legacy:
I've deleted the content of this post in Aven's interest (there's always the chance that I'll get it finished). If anyone is interested in looking up the Legacy I've created a separate page, just look for 'The Planetside Legacy' in my Links section.
I've deleted the content of this post in Aven's interest (there's always the chance that I'll get it finished). If anyone is interested in looking up the Legacy I've created a separate page, just look for 'The Planetside Legacy' in my Links section.
Sunday, 18 March 2007
Writing
I've been trying to create a novel for quite some time now, since I was 14 in fact. Had some ups (Phoenix I enjoyed writing and actually still have hope for), had some downs (what was I ever thinking with an FF8 fan fiction novel...) and plenty of practice in between (thanks to The Bridge Burners). Who knows, some day there might even be a book in Waterstones with my name on it (so long as it isn't 'Kyle Spence: The Story of a Rapist Gone Wrong' I'll take it as a positive).
Anyway for as much as for myself to keep track of how far I've come I've decided to list the leads from my various attempts so that if nothing else I can reuse the names:
-Thomas Kylemore (first novel attempt, can't remember it's name. Was sci-fi)
-Alexander Cherovoski (2097 AGP. Another sci-fi, but not spacey)
-Arridynn of Draconis (Don't ask)
-Vastian Steele (The Thunder Force. *sigh* Sci-fi, set pre TF4 to pre TF5, involved a time travel element to make TF5 make sense [TF5's story changed the-craft-from-TF4's name to being the supposed name of the alien race that built it{human built in TF4}, made the human pilots alien, then set it only a couple of hundred years in the future but claimed it was still after TF4 which itself was set far in the future in the predominantly human Galactic Federation. Out of my undying love for TF4 I tried to bring sense to the story, some of it was actually quite good and I stole a lot of my ideas for future stories, including the 'Vastian' name])
-Vastian Gainsborough (Nomad Soul [original]. This incarnation of Nomad Soul involved the Illuminati, UN Space Corps, the destruction of the Earth, retribution, and an inevitable time travel event)
-Clement Phoenix (Phoenix, a story about life, love, death and beyond. With guns. On one hand I could probably make this into a great story [or attempt at a story] about self enlightenment, but on the other hand I really liked the trilogy build-up to Hell actually having to save Heaven).
-Balder Draupnir (Mana: The Rising. A potential trilogy that stole the mana stones idea from The Secret of Mana then added a religious apocalypse overtone)
-Staceh et all TBB (The Planetside Legacy short stories [reached series 3 of a planned 7]. You might have read them [or the recently revised editions] but you probably haven't)
-Constantine Vastianus Gainsborough (Nomad Soul, revised. I couldn't even begin to describe how detailed a setting I created for the new version of this story, but rest assured that when I'm writing fake peace treaties, non aggression pacts and deciding on currency exchange rates it's a fairly big effort)
-Alexius (Big Winged Freaks [substitute name for a more artsy name pending]. 3 Angels stuck on Earth because they hadn't sided with Heaven but weren't condemned to Hell)
-Balder d'Xion von Daryhiem (Mana: The Rising, revised. Tried rewriting this because I fancied the idea of reusing my fantasy world, started to make Balder evil, don't really like it)
-Matthew Maine (Script I'm still writing)
-Ulysses Odysseus (was drunk and watching Ulysses 31, thought that I could make a decent sci-fi out of it. Hell George Lucas somehow got away with it (by stealing the expanded universe created by all the fan fiction authors) for Star Wars, I can't imagine a blind, fingerless chimpanzee doing much worse)
-Lucifer Pendragon aka Satan aka evil incarnate (The Devil Made Me Do It. Lucifer has lived quite happily on Earth for a long time, he neither wants nor needs the aggravation of tending to human souls. So when someone starts messing with the Dark Lord's chi he decides to get Biblical on their ass, but first a quick game of air hockey)
-Thomas Kylemore (a revised version of my very first story, still working on it occasionally but am having difficulty deciding on a proper reason [excuse] for the events taking place)
-James Denton (Wingman. A RomCom about the guy who always seems to take the bullet for his horny friend. Doesn't involve sci-fi or Top Gun in any way)
-Jason Kelly (Shop!. A story based on my experiences growing up in an environment where it's generally accepted that only one person isn't odd, and it isn't me)
I also wrote a short story called 'Almost the Perfect Love Story' about two people who are perfect for each other but tragically they never meet, can't remember the names of either the two leads though. Might rewrite it at some point though, some of it was quite enjoyable.
I have the nagging suspicion that I'm leaving at least one lead out, so if I remember who it is I'll post up in the comments with a brief biopsis and where they fit into the timeline of my failing writing career.
Anyway for as much as for myself to keep track of how far I've come I've decided to list the leads from my various attempts so that if nothing else I can reuse the names:
-Thomas Kylemore (first novel attempt, can't remember it's name. Was sci-fi)
-Alexander Cherovoski (2097 AGP. Another sci-fi, but not spacey)
-Arridynn of Draconis (Don't ask)
-Vastian Steele (The Thunder Force. *sigh* Sci-fi, set pre TF4 to pre TF5, involved a time travel element to make TF5 make sense [TF5's story changed the-craft-from-TF4's name to being the supposed name of the alien race that built it{human built in TF4}, made the human pilots alien, then set it only a couple of hundred years in the future but claimed it was still after TF4 which itself was set far in the future in the predominantly human Galactic Federation. Out of my undying love for TF4 I tried to bring sense to the story, some of it was actually quite good and I stole a lot of my ideas for future stories, including the 'Vastian' name])
-Vastian Gainsborough (Nomad Soul [original]. This incarnation of Nomad Soul involved the Illuminati, UN Space Corps, the destruction of the Earth, retribution, and an inevitable time travel event)
-Clement Phoenix (Phoenix, a story about life, love, death and beyond. With guns. On one hand I could probably make this into a great story [or attempt at a story] about self enlightenment, but on the other hand I really liked the trilogy build-up to Hell actually having to save Heaven).
-Balder Draupnir (Mana: The Rising. A potential trilogy that stole the mana stones idea from The Secret of Mana then added a religious apocalypse overtone)
-Staceh et all TBB (The Planetside Legacy short stories [reached series 3 of a planned 7]. You might have read them [or the recently revised editions] but you probably haven't)
-Constantine Vastianus Gainsborough (Nomad Soul, revised. I couldn't even begin to describe how detailed a setting I created for the new version of this story, but rest assured that when I'm writing fake peace treaties, non aggression pacts and deciding on currency exchange rates it's a fairly big effort)
-Alexius (Big Winged Freaks [substitute name for a more artsy name pending]. 3 Angels stuck on Earth because they hadn't sided with Heaven but weren't condemned to Hell)
-Balder d'Xion von Daryhiem (Mana: The Rising, revised. Tried rewriting this because I fancied the idea of reusing my fantasy world, started to make Balder evil, don't really like it)
-Matthew Maine (Script I'm still writing)
-Ulysses Odysseus (was drunk and watching Ulysses 31, thought that I could make a decent sci-fi out of it. Hell George Lucas somehow got away with it (by stealing the expanded universe created by all the fan fiction authors) for Star Wars, I can't imagine a blind, fingerless chimpanzee doing much worse)
-Lucifer Pendragon aka Satan aka evil incarnate (The Devil Made Me Do It. Lucifer has lived quite happily on Earth for a long time, he neither wants nor needs the aggravation of tending to human souls. So when someone starts messing with the Dark Lord's chi he decides to get Biblical on their ass, but first a quick game of air hockey)
-Thomas Kylemore (a revised version of my very first story, still working on it occasionally but am having difficulty deciding on a proper reason [excuse] for the events taking place)
-James Denton (Wingman. A RomCom about the guy who always seems to take the bullet for his horny friend. Doesn't involve sci-fi or Top Gun in any way)
-Jason Kelly (Shop!. A story based on my experiences growing up in an environment where it's generally accepted that only one person isn't odd, and it isn't me)
I also wrote a short story called 'Almost the Perfect Love Story' about two people who are perfect for each other but tragically they never meet, can't remember the names of either the two leads though. Might rewrite it at some point though, some of it was quite enjoyable.
I have the nagging suspicion that I'm leaving at least one lead out, so if I remember who it is I'll post up in the comments with a brief biopsis and where they fit into the timeline of my failing writing career.
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