I wouldn't be thinking I was going to die.
I'd be too busy thinking "Why didn't I bring another pair of boxers with me?" for a minute and a half.
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| Author: | tgarsenault [ Fri Dec 04, 2009 10:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
After so many starts and restarts, surgeries and recovery times that allowed my butt to be firmly seated to a chair, I have completed the first draft of my second novel, "Bleeding the Vein". Let the editing begin! |
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| Author: | ttzuma [ Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
YEAH!!!!! |
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| Author: | ttzuma [ Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
Hey Tim, come on over to the Cellar here in Horrorworld and take a look at the First Dates threads (see linc below for a shortcut). A small bunch of us newbie writers in Horrorworld wrote some flash fiction and want everybody in the world to read it. It was not a contest, just a chance for amateurs to give writing a go. Come on over and let us all know what a horror author thinks! viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7363 Thanks Tim Ttzuma |
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| Author: | tgarsenault [ Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
Cool! I'll check it out... |
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| Author: | ttzuma [ Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
That'd be nice Tim. There's nothing lilke a good word from a published aurhor to make some newbie's feel good. It's not a contest, and there is no need to dissect any of the stories, just a positive word would be great, and it would also get your name out there to more of us. Tt |
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| Author: | tgarsenault [ Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
Hey Tony. Did you write Holes? I really dug pushing the girl in....did not expect it at all. Cool concept! |
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| Author: | ttzuma [ Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
I'll p.m. you on the author's identity. I can tell you that the author does thank you for those kind words. Just a little background on that piece: Steve Vernon did actually write a novella called Leftovers. It had nothing to do with holes or the rapture, but instead was a horror story about a former priest who liked to kill people in retribution for the bad things those people did. This priest worked in a soup kitchen and used leftovers to make soup. It's a really good horror story about involving a ghost and someone's asshole. Like most of Steve's stories you have to read it to believe it. Anyway's, from what I understand from the author of Holes, Holes was simply a tip of the hat to Steve. The author was expirimenting a bit with Steve's style of mixing folksy humor with a bit of the bizarre. The author loved Steve's title, Leftovers, and the possiblities of what it could imply. The author was simply having a little fun with an idea he had about holes, and using Steve's title and name as a way of paying his respects to a great author. This is me talking now....in my opinion, Steve Vernon is one of the most talented horror writers out there today. He has written one of the best stories I've ever read called Trolling Lures (in the novel Hard Roads), as well as a great book called Gypsy Blood about a fortune reader that features a vampire. He's written many books, novella's, and a shitload to short stories over the years, none of which is anything less than entertaining. Steve is also a great reviewer, and I strive in vein it seems to write reviews as good as he did. But more importantly, he is not only a great writer, he's a smart man and a true gentleman. He is someone that you would be proud to call your friend. I respect Steve greatly. Steve for some reason has not hit it big in the mass market yet, but there's hope. He and another unsung author named Tim Curran have a new anthology coming out with Brian Keene, and I think Tim Lebbon, called "Four Road Out". It's a weird western that I think is gonna finally get Steve's and Tim's name out to the masses. Wow, a longer answer than a yes or no huh! Like I said, I'll p.m. you the author's name. I will not divulge it until I am forced to. And man, thanks again for coming over to comment. It does mean alot to us that a published author would take the time to even read the stories, never mind comment on them. Tt |
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| Author: | tgarsenault [ Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
My pleasure. I truly enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing! |
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| Author: | ttzuma [ Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
How's the editing coming T.G.? I'm getting quite a bit excited over this new one from you! A question, who's the publisher on this one? Have you picked one yet? Tt |
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| Author: | tgarsenault [ Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
Hey Tony! About half-way through the first edit. No publisher yet. I think I am going to try and get an agent for this one, which may prove harder than actually getting a publisher:-) We'll see how it goes. Hoping to knock out the first edit, let it breathe for a week or two then attack it hard and hopefully have it good enough to present to an agent. Have a third novel hashed out and can't wait to get started on it, so hopefully this will keep me motivated to getting Bleeding the Vein out there. Thanks for the interest! Hopefully the novel has a near future:-) Tim |
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| Author: | ttzuma [ Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
Are you finished yet? It's getting exciting out here in horrorland waiting for this to come out! How's the noggin? Tt |
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| Author: | tgarsenault [ Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
Hey Tony.... Noggin's just fine. Waiting for permission to start running again....hopefully next month. Thanks for asking. Still wrestling with the rewrite....one of a few I am sure. My cousin's an English teacher and excellent editor...she gets it next to make it bleed profusely:-) It's a long and lonely process. Hope all is well with you! Tim |
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| Author: | ttzuma [ Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
Good to hear that you're head is in the right place, and your story is in the right hands. Good luck with the doctor, lets hope its a big YES to running again. I'm fine, thank you for asking. I do have a few medical problems that I am having addressed soon, one involves an operation, but its not too serious. The others are just a result of the aches and pains of aging and I'm not sure if much can be done about those. I'm not a big medicine kind of guy, unless I have to be of course, so I am a bit leery about what can be done. But anything I may have pales in comparison to what you've gone through. Well good luck with the edit's and rewrites, we're all waiting for the time you let us know its done, submitted, and flying off the presses! Take care, and be careful while running, wouldn't want you to step into a hole now would we..... Tt |
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| Author: | tgarsenault [ Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
Thanks, Tony. Hope your issues are taken care of and everything comes out as good as they can. I'm getting the itch to go skydiving again....anxious to ask my neurologist about that:-) Cheers, Tim |
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| Author: | ttzuma [ Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
I survived with a small complication. Good thing I'm married, since she's a born again Christian she can't leave me, and who else would have me in this condition? Come to think of it, I might not have been such a prize before the complication. Oh well, what are ya gonna do? What's new with you? Is the editing over? Have you got an agent? Have you fallen out of any planes lately? The head still working? Tt |
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| Author: | tgarsenault [ Sat May 01, 2010 6:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
Hey Tony! Glad to here all is well for you:-) What can I say? I think I was born to be a recluse. Recently passed a rewrite hurdle (of more to come, I'm sure) but I should be finished with the first rewrite tomorrow. Still not ready for an agent, but the base coat to my novel is a little more defined. Made the very difficult and person decision to quit skydiving due to the uncertainty with my brain issues. Trying to sell my gear now. Time to get a boat. |
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| Author: | Craig Cook [ Sat May 01, 2010 11:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
Man, I'd love to go skydiving some day. |
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| Author: | tgarsenault [ Sun May 02, 2010 7:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
Hi Craig! Man, if you ever get the chance, you won't regret it! There is nothing else like it and the feeling of freedom is incredible. There is no way to describe it to anyone and something you just have to try. I have around 149 jumps (should be many, many more, but my medical issues posed some problems). The highest I've jumped is from 18K feet in California...a minute and a half of freefall! Pretty amazing. Cheers, Tim |
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| Author: | ttzuma [ Mon May 03, 2010 8:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
A minute and a half? Thats too long a time to think you're about to die. Tt |
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| Author: | Craig Cook [ Tue May 04, 2010 10:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
I wouldn't be thinking I was going to die. I'd be too busy thinking "Why didn't I bring another pair of boxers with me?" for a minute and a half.
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| Author: | tgarsenault [ Sat May 08, 2010 11:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Bleeding the Vein -- Draft complete! |
Funny! Actually, the only concern I had was the airliners sharing the same space:-) First rewrite of "Bleeding the Vein" is now complete and off to a couple first readers to make it bleed with some red ink. That should give me some great feedback to accomplish the second rewrite. Recently found out that I will be medically retired from the Air Force and losing half my paycheck starting in September, so a major concern of mine right now is...you guessed it...finding a job. Haven't done that in a while:-) Most of my writing in my near future will be the many rewrites of my resume! My third novel is germinating....about an old iconic theater (built in 1908, I believe) in Maine that was torn down with apparently, not a care to anyone except construction developers. The same theater where I saw the original Superman. I've been researching its history and writing down a few plot ideas. Right now I am considering trying to write it as a Young Adult novel. Tim |
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