The Gun Counter

So I was reading a story on WeTheArmed.com by Harm called The Dark Gods Return: The Cthulhu Mythos.

So I figured I'd try my hand at something similar yet... not.

So here we have a Moose style story about some cultists who open a portal to another dimension and get more than they bargained for.

Lord of the Shadows Chapter 1

This will probably end up as 2-3 chapters.

I'm a big fan of Lovecraft, you'd better do a good job with his mythos OK ?

I don't want some lame imitation, like Stevie Ray Vaughn's hatchet job of Hendrix's Voodoo Chile

I'm away to read it now....

1) I'm a very fast reader

2) That had absolutely nothing to do with Lovecraft or Cthulhu whatsoever

3) It was well written, clever and extremely funny. I did actually laugh out loud a couple of times

4) If there is any justice in the world you should be offered a book deal

Thanks Mr. Highspeed. It was fun. Sometimes when I'm writing something long I need a break, and it has to be totally different.

Part Deux of the demon summoning comedy is up.

It's got ninja!

Part Deux

Have you contacted a publisher and shown him your work (I hope so)?

I also understand why you haven't since when you change something from a labor of love into a job, much of the inspiration is lost as well as the creativity. The trick is to keep both alive while discussing deadlines and making money at it.

PLEASE, do NOT get discouraged, as you have a ready-made audience here to bounce ideas off and people willing to proof-read and edit your material to help make it better and hit home (or even Home RUNS!).

If you WANT to do this, and we can encourage you even through your doubts, don't be afraid to ask us to read and pick things apart. If it's good critiquing, and constructive criticism, it's not going to hurt you - and if it does, perhaps you didn't get your point of that scenario across. It does NOT mean the rest is crap, or even close to it. The criticisms are ONLY of those things mentioned, and NOT your work as a whole.

And even if they did criticize your work as a whole, you can still find useful information in there to help you reach larger audiences. You can still find useful information among a bunch of noise, but you have to take the time to review and detach yourself while reviewing it so you don't take their spewing crap personally. You can still find a few gems among a bunch of crap, but you have to look for them and you might be surprised at what good stuff you find (but you'll have to wade through a whole lotta' crap until you might find the great diamond amongst all the shiite).

I think I can speak for a BUNCH of us when I say that WE want YOU to succeed in your writing and creativity. PLEASE, DON'T STOP!!!

One of these days it'd be nice to see in the front pages of a best-seller that members of TheGunCounter were helpful in keeping your writing spirits alive and helped you become the great writer you are!! That would be AWESOME!!!

Wow 308Mike I'm touched, really I am. I... don't really know what to say in response to all that.

There are plenty of times when I read your guys comments and say, "Really? Are you really liking what I'm creating? Maybe they're just being nice."

This weekend I'm going to LTUE at BYU. Most of my time there will be spent in classes, lectures and the like, but I hope to network with other authors, and there is some time set aside to meet with publishers.

Two weeks ago I submitted a short story, "Hank Iowa: Interstellar Public Relations" to the online magazine "Raygun Revival." I know it's a small step into publishing but it is still a step.

I'm having Magic Ink, and Alone: King of One both proofread by a published author. This reminds me I need to get back to work on Ink, but I needed a break for a bit.

Creative people like myself tend to ride an emotional roller coaster. When we're up the words flow from our fingers like water from a fire-hose. But when we're low it dribbles out like a leaky faucet.

Anyway thanks for the support. If it weren't for you guys encouraging me to continue writing my Monster Hunter fan fiction I wouldn't be where I am today. Seriously. I am so serious about it that if I ever get a dead tree book published I'm putting in the dedication a bit about theguncounter.com and wethearmed.com.

Anyway enough of my rambling I need to finish packing.

moose42 wrote:
There are plenty of times when I read your guys comments and say, "Really? Are you really liking what I'm creating? Maybe they're just being nice."

I'm bloody useless at being nice if I didn't like what you wrote I wouldn't comment at all....

I know how to be "nice" and sometimes -- in social situations that I can't extract myself from I choose to be "nice".

In a situation of critiquing someone's art (when they ask for an honest critique). I give them what I have. Your work is rough edged -- as first drafts usually are -- but you have a gift for making the story flow and developing characters that are interesting and complex as well as filled with humanity.

This is NOT a common thing. You also react well to constructive criticism. Something many artists do not. This will help you immeasurably.

Are you Heinlein, are you Asimov??? No, but that may only mean you are better and not dead.

And now we continue the misadventures of the little band of mediocre villains.

Part Three

We learn why one shouldn't mess with Fred's Grandma.