SWM Workshop 'Spring 2011' is ON!

I would try to find more "your" Faora, even when it makes little sense in the short term of releasing a new story, within the contest, it could make sense if you plan on extending the story/plotline afterwards.

It's probably not needed to portray her as a manhating lesbian(but instead give her the cruelty and unscrupulousness of a superbeeing whom thinks she can act this way because of her powers)

The true question in terms of building up a foundation for the character is more why she has come to earth, if Krypton still would exist, she could like prepare some sort of contact, between her race and the humans.
Superman and Supergirl want to prevent that, because they think earthlings should decide themselves if they want "contact". All 3 characters could know a lot more about Krypton and alien civiliziations than they are willing to tell to the earthlings, you could give hints by having them say at one point something like, "you are not ready for that" or "you must find out for yourself".

Faeora sets a trap for superman(daunts him to fly into a black hole), supergirl is left on her own. Battle between our favourite comic book character and her foes can start, with the outcome deciding the future of Earth..

Ok more than 2 cents to throw into, I'm aware of that. I'm not that familiar with General Zod or the superman comics in general, to comment on this or make any kind of suggestion. But supergirl on her own against several bad superbeeings is a mouth-watering scenerio for sure.

As always the prospect of a new story by you makes me instantly excited, and productive- sometimes I truly wonder how you manage to have this affect on me?!

Greetings

somat

Hi! I wanted to participate. I just submitted a story "Clipping bushes". Can it be in?
It is actually written especially for the NEW BEGINNINGS and I forgot to write it there at the top. If you accept it could you pls write it there?

I may possibly have a rendered Supergirl comic book to offer up.

Something I have commissioned.

This also is a test to see if I can reply.

Well, I managed to get to a pathetic 1000 words.

Now I remember why I don't write more

Oh, I'm not done yet. Writing is just really hard.

Count me in for this one. 500 words so far toward a goal of 2500. It's meant to be chapter one of the Cher Noble story. I went and studied up about word count to see what constitutes a short story, novellete, novella and novel. Ubergirl stuff has me motivated.

I wrote a song that's an ode to super breath last week called "I'll Blow You Away". The track is nearly done; then Natasha will add her vocals. Songs and scripts are my normal thing so prose is a bit of a challenge.

Novel over 40,000 words, typically 80-100,000 words
Novella 17,500 to 40,000 words
Novelette 7,500 to 17,500 words
Short story under 7,500 words

Sci Fi counts from another site:

---> hard sf = 90k to 110k
---> space opera = 90k to 120k
---> epic/high/traditional/historical fantasy = 90k to 120k
---> contemporary fantasy = 90k to 100k
---> romantic SF = 85k to 100k
---> urban fantasy = 90k to 100k
---> new weird = 85k to 110k
---> slipstream = 80k to 100k
---> comic fantasy = 80k to 100k
---> everything else = 90k to 100k

Oof, made it past the 5000 words mark. What I hope will be a major action scene is next. Still not sure how much further I have to go.

Okay, 7000 words on my new story, but work is kicking my ass so hard right now I can't even think.

I have a backup story that needs an ending, which might be the way to go.

Maybe this weekend...

Ugh, I'm still at my 1000. Work has been terrible, I just had my wisdom teeth out, going to try to grind some out tonight

Novel over 40,000 words, typically 80-100,000 words
Novella 17,500 to 40,000 words
Novelette 7,500 to 17,500 words
Short story under 7,500 words

Wow! I think The Supergirl of Smallville is well over 50K now and will most likely end up at 80-100K.
I never thought I would have any involvement in writing a novel.

Maybe tomorrow I will start on my story if I can decide which one to write!

4000 but it's going nowhere..

Okay, just re-submitted an entry for the workshop. It's not the story I intended to do, which is still in progress, but the next week is going to be taken up with travelling and funeral stuff so I probably won't be able to finish that.

My submission is a superheroine origin story, which could be the first chapter of an ongoing saga.

lfan wrote: I got it, G7, and will post it with the others on June 1st.....that cool? Thanks for the submisssion....

ElF

Cool as a cucumber! Thanks for everything, LF.

Arrrrgh deadline! Will probably submit around 3000, I hope. Almost done, with a lot of room for growth in later installments. Unfortunately, that requires me writing later installments.

Submitting now at 3500ish. I can't wait to read the others!

goobers wrote: Arrrrgh deadline! Will probably submit around 3000, I hope. Almost done, with a lot of room for growth in later installments. Unfortunately, that requires me writing later installments.

I feel your pain, buddy. One of these days I'll set out to write a single part story and I'll actually do it. Later that day I expect to see Satan ice skating his way to work.

Anyway, submitting mine now. Final word count - about 12500. Over twice as long as anything else I've submitted. And that's just the setup chapter...

What the heck have I gotten myself into!

Okay, I've submitted it. Let me know if it hasn't come through.

lfan wrote: Thanks for the submissions so far. Just a reminder thatbtoday is the deadline (midnight). However, there is a decent chance I will be traveling Wednesday, meaning the stories might not be posted till Thursday at the latest

Start writing fast, people...

I'm nearly done... hopefully will submit by midnight, but I'm 99% of the way there. Just have a final plot element to sort out to deal with Ursa's final reckoning. Well, not exactly that Ursa, but close enough.

Shadar



Elf

I've just submitted my entry. I've managed to cram in pretty much everything I wanted, but I've sacrificed editing a bit to do so. I think it reads Ok though. About 23,000 words in mine.

I'm looking forward to reading all the entries when they appear.