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New Fan F(r)iction blog entry on Giant Bomb!
Just a quick update – I have put up a new blog entry in my Fan F(r)iction series over on the Giant Bomb forums about writing, Black Library, and my soon-to-be-published story.
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic/31/fan-friction-volume-3-rejected-and-also-not/542967/#1
Enjoy, and as always feedback is welcomed.
Tim
Coming Up Next
I keep meaning to actually use this blog as a blog, but I’m forever getting sidetracked.
Anyway, as I stated in the intro of Honour Paid, my two submissions to the Black Library last year got rejected, which was a major bummer. It’s a funny feeling, as I honestly thought (and still think) that both Honour Paid and the other story were worth publishing, even if that makes me sound as though I’m rolling around in a big, steaming pile of hubris.
Astute readers of the last sentence may have noticed that I cunningly referred to the other, non-Honour Paid story as the “other story.” The reason there is simple: unlike Honour Paid, which is veritably steeped in existing 40K lore, the other story was about a faction and setting that was more…unique. I quickly realised that I could, with a bit of effort, adapt this story into something else. It may not resemble the original piece much in the end, but I like the idea of using it for something else, as it’s an idea I worked on for years, and is near and dear to my heart…
Speaking of Honour Paid, it’s been doing the circuit on the various forums I visit – specifically the Black Library Bolthole and the Bolter and Chainsword, where it has gone over really well (always nice to get that ego rub). I have had a couple of requests to post up my synopsis and summary from my submission, which I will probably do in the next couple of days, time permitting. I’ll be curious to see the reaction, as it was my first attempt writing both.
Finally, the next chapter of Heresy Ad Infinitum is coming along slowly – unlike the others, I hadn’t typed up my original, hand-scrawled writing for this part, so it isn’t a matter of a quick edit and post away. I also have another short story set within the 40K universe I have been working on which is quite…experimental. I should hopefully be done with that in the next couple of weeks.
Besides that, it’s work on my fantasy novel, wish I could get enough coherent ideas together to work on my spy novel, and continue plugging away at my various BL submissions for the May window this year.
Back to photoshopping these wedding invitations!
- Tim
Character Profile: The ‘Genethief’ Hoight Perron – Corpse Taker and Warlord of the Red Corsairs
(A little piece of insight into how I prepare for writing a new story, this is a character profile for the antagonist that appeared in one of my story submissions to the Black Library. I will often write these to help me flesh out a character’s personality in my mind. They aren’t designed to be particularly eloquent, but rather simply to help me picture their traits in my mind and ensure I stay true to who they are.)
Character Profile: The ‘Genethief’ Hoight Perron – Corpse Taker and Warlord of the Red Corsairs
The Red Corsairs Warlord now known as the ‘Genethief’, was formerly Hoight Perron, Corpse Taker (Apothecary) and Arch-Centurion of the Astral Claws. Perron was an accomplished and experienced Apothecary when the Badab Conflict broke out, renowned as an extremely steady and level-headed warrior who spent little time on the battlefield, instead tending predominantly to the Chapter’s neophytes and those brothers who required extensive augmetic surgery to survive.
At the outbreak of the war, all battle-brothers were needed upon the frontlines, and Perron – already old by the standards of most Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes – donned his armour once more. He initially found himself operating with small Astral Claws commands, linking up with the forces of their allies (the Lamenters and Mantis Warriors Chapters, and later the Executioners) to act as a liaison and help to smooth relations between the disparate warriors. Read the rest of this entry
New Blog at Giant Bomb!
Hi all,
I’ve started a new blog over at Giant Bomb entitled ‘Fan F(r)iction’, which is about my growing descent into madness and/or professional writing and a part of the Blog Initiative.
Feel free to duck by and have a read, I would definitely appreciate comments and feedback (as I do with all my writing, fictional or otherwise).
Contact me here, in the thread at Giant Bomb, via Twitter (@TSPSweeney), or any other method you can think of, I really don’t mind.
Cheers,
Tim
