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Post by nicholai441 on Jan 21, 2007 2:05:52 GMT -5
first off, thank you for answering my questions. it was really informative. now for the questions.. first, as i stated in another thread.. On myspace.com i made two groups deticated to you and your work (one is of you in general, and the other is a BrokenSky one) is it alright that i did that? i have also been um summarizing your blogs on the group so that everyone in it could be informed (if they haven't seen your blog) is that alright? then the pictures on the groups, may i continue to keep them on? if "no" for any of these question, then i will quicky change them for you.. i hope you say it's alright about any of these. the fan group of you, has quite a bit of members i am happy to say. if any of my questions and/or statements(i hope that's the right word) are not insulting or offencive.. if so i am really really sorry. um, a new group of questions. after i read (from your blog -i believe-) that there would be an Alaizabel Cray movie, i was really excited about it. I even told most if not all my friends about it (giving the book great reveiws). the question: Um.. how is that going? I found that the shadowhearts 2 OST fit well when i read the book, although that may have just been how i read it. Pardon me if the question was answered. um.. next.. i hope i get this to sound right.. Um.. were there any projects that you did not finish due to unseen reason(s)? did you have great expectations for any of them? Pardon for this question if it is offencive in anyway that i did not for see: How long and how many projects did you work on before finally getting published? here's a question of any future projects. i have noticed that there is a lack of glasses wearing heroes, and/or any with the name of Nicholai , so i was wondering if there would be any chance of one or the other, or atleast a side character named Nicholai? i also noticed that most of the characters named Nicholai(sometimes not spelt the same) are either evil side characters that get killed off (IE one of the James Bond movies and ShadowHearts 2), or just an alround villian (IE Left Behind). they've also so all been or nearly been Russian (I'm, not Russian). oh, one more question.. How are some ways you think up ideas for stories? Mostly the fantasy ones. okay, that's about it for this post.. thank you for your time.
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Post by bluephoenix on Jan 21, 2007 20:02:32 GMT -5
Why did you pick Haku for your avatar?
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Post by nicholai441 on Jan 22, 2007 2:06:33 GMT -5
what do you prefer writting? short stories, novels, book series, etc. which do you find easier to write?
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Post by riven on Jan 22, 2007 22:15:41 GMT -5
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
(just realized the horrible puns. Gaargh.)
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Post by Chris Wooding on Jan 23, 2007 16:57:58 GMT -5
You're an inquisitive bunch!
Madrid's great. I was really sick of London. Spain is much more fun! Can't see myself going back for a long while.
Sorry, for now Stitch-face's origins must remain a mystery, mainly cos I may want to use him again one day ;D
I'd imagine it's red, given that he tends to spill a lot of liquid of that colour...
I can reach up to 33,000 Evilhertz with a tailwind.
Mumm-Ra. Or Rotface. Or Keith.
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Post by Chris Wooding on Jan 23, 2007 17:25:07 GMT -5
Sure, of course it's alright. Thanks for spreading the word! Can you post up the linx, and link this forum from yours? Maybe we can get some cross-pollination going... I answered this in the Alaizabel movie thread. Oh yeah. For every story oor project I finish, there's one that I abandon. But usually the good ideas get recycled. F'rinstance, there was a whole BOOK about the Cradlejack in Alaizabel: he was the villain of a modern-day horror novel I wrote when I was 17 or 18. The book never made it, but the Cradlejack got through in the end. And there are plenty of others, even nowadays, that I start and then chuck in the bin because they don't work as well as I thought. I started writing novels when I was 16. I can remember two-and-a-half that I wrote on an electric typewriter (including the Cradlejack one) before the third one got picked up by an agent. That was when I was just about to turn 19, then Scholastic signed me up just after I turned 19, umm... *thinks* around 2-3 years and three-and-a-half books, then. But it usually takes about 18 months from acceptance to publication, so I was probably 20 or 21 when CRASHING was actually pubbed. Can't remember. My brain has shrivelled through lack of Marmite in this country... I actually was going to have a glasses-wearing character in MALICE, but I changed my mind. Glasses are a pain in the neck if you want to have an active character. I don't know how Harry Potter does it, but if you're leaping around / falling over / fighting giant snakes then your glasses will fall off and you'll be blind for the rest of the book. Mildly annoying. And Nicholai is just an evil-sounding name It's just like how they always cast an English guy if they want a cultured-yet-ruthless villain. Life is cruel Everyone asks that, but nobody knows. Especially not authors. Cos he looks like a Da'al Jakai in that picture I don't like to write short stories much. I guess I prefer book series as I'd always rather do something long and involved than short and contained. I had loadsa fun with BSky and TBP because of all the character interaction and such. But it's much more of a psychological thing to do a series... you know you're dedicating yourself to something for years, and you really don't want to be in a situation where you're grinding out book five and hating it... Well if he was chucking wood at all he's probably wearing some kind of massively amped power armour, so I guess a couple tons?
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Post by nicholai441 on Jan 23, 2007 18:14:25 GMT -5
for the longest time, i make notes and scetches for my story so that i don't forget or change an important thing in the story.. i've gone through many half used tablets. why did i say all that? it relates to my question. do you do anything like that? if so what way do you go by? (i can't seem to use the bubble idea) then now that i think of it.. if you note all your stories detail, how long does it take for you? also how many notes do you make? also what do you write when noting a cahracter?
hm.. i should have waited for you to answer the first few.. so i guess if the first is no, then you can for get the rest.
when did you finally decide to become a writter?
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Post by moonlighthuntres48 on Jan 23, 2007 19:02:03 GMT -5
Hi, please answer this question, Chris or someone, are you planning on writing a sequl to The Hunting of Alaizabel Cray, please say yes! the movie will be nice but i really really want there to be a second book! it was a sucsess wasn't it so please write a second one!!!! please answer soon, i'll be counting the minutes, i'll have a seasure if you don't answer!!!!! PLEASE
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Post by moonlighthuntres48 on Jan 23, 2007 19:04:57 GMT -5
sorry never mined about my question, i didn't check the other ones!
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Post by moonlighthuntres48 on Jan 23, 2007 19:05:54 GMT -5
sorry never mined about my question, i didn't check the other ones!
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Post by knauer on Jan 23, 2007 21:03:51 GMT -5
Could you drop a hint what Malice is going to be about, like the plot or characters? If not oh well. ALso why did you choose spain if you didn't know spainish?
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Post by riven on Jan 24, 2007 11:20:27 GMT -5
Well, I'm sure people speak English there too...it is part of the European Union. And Spanish isn't too hard. Like 'los tomates' or EL POLLO DIABLO.
Tasty.
Rotface! I'd name mine Robbie...or maybe Tim.
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Post by Chris Wooding on Jan 24, 2007 12:29:04 GMT -5
For each book I generally have a whole folder full of notes in no particular order written in shorthand that only I can read. Stream-of-consciousness babble, really, but it means I get everything down. Then I sift through to find the information I want. No idea how I manage to make sense of it without an index or something, but for some reason once written down it stays in my head. I barely needed to refer to my notes for the whole TBP, I just remembered it all. And once the book is done it all dumps out of my head and I forget everything. Whoever wrote that Wiki on Broken Sky knows more about BSky than I do at this stage I always wanted to be a writer ever since I can remember. By the time I left Uni I was making enough to live on, so I started doing it full-time and never looked back. Sorry... it's a secret! Except to say that it was inspired by something really frankly creepy that happened to me in real life. But to say more would be giving it away... Loooong story (but it boils down to: I was bored of England, and I knew a few people in Madrid). I did know a little Spanish. But I wanted to learn properly, and it's a million times easier learning it if you live in the country. . . . um. . . no, generally they don't
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Post by Maliris on Jan 24, 2007 13:58:26 GMT -5
Wow, that´s interesting! I never get very far with writing anything down. I should do that, though. Just to sort things out. But I suck at writing thus I keep it savely tugged away inside of my skull. [And the bad thing about writing it down is that my writing is easy to read. Means, anyone could read it.]
And, to prevent this post from getting too pointless, do you listen to music while writing or does it distract you?
And now I must run. For French homework is waiting.
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Post by Tama on Jan 24, 2007 15:06:12 GMT -5
Ah, French homework. ;D
Can I join in, or is Chris gone?
If he isn't...
If there was a BSky anime released, would there be some kind of interview with you on the DVD releases?
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