Greetings! I was recently told about InkShares by an Indie author so I thought I would explore it. I am working on a series called Upon Stilted Cities (samples on my page) as well as several shorter novels. Currently, I only have one piece of fiction published in a literary magazine that is due out end of this month. The short-story is science fiction and is called ’On Arrival". I also write horror, occasionally fantasy and poetry. 

I am an anthropologist by education and training and I love exploring questions about the nature of humanity and different ways of knowing. Nice to meet you all! 

Hello to all!

I just joined InkShares and am very interested to see how it works.

I’ve done a lot of technical writing but this is my first attempt at fiction. Any comments on the work in progress would be greatly appreciated!

My novel, RESET, is a hard science fiction story set in multiple time periods ranging from the late 1980’s to c.a. 2050. I’ve put a number of draft chapters out on the story page.

Looking forward to learning from you! Thanks for the warm welcome.

Regards,

John Price

Hello!  I found Inkshares through an online review of A God in the Shed while searching for new author resources online.  What an amazing idea!  My only writing so far has been academic, but like art and photography, I enjoy writing fiction whenever I can find time.  

Hi all I’m Daniel and I’m new on inkshares. I’ve been writing  for a little bit but I still class myself as a newbie, I heard about the site from a friend on twitter and I thought I’d give it a shot. I currently have two chapters up for my book the beginning and I’m currently writing my third, I also have chapter four done and waiting to go up.

My most recent WIP Upon Stilted Cities was inspired by a dream all the way back in 2011, which I wrote down. In it, a man was standing overlooking a Giant walking city as it migrated through a desert landscape. 

At the time though, I was a graduate student and only had a few moments here or there to write anything down. Then a few years ago I started thinking about that dream and started writing stuff down. The next thing I knew I had a rough draft of the first 3 books and nearly 900 pages of text. Some of those were very rough at first but now they are much cleaner. 

The series will now have 6 novels. I self-published the first book Mimi of the Nowhere back in May and it’s getting a great response so far.  Upon Stilted Cities the second book just got a new cover and you find samples of it on my page. 

Just keep writing and write that thing which really is a splinter in your mind and will not let you rest until you get some words on the page. That’s when you know there is something to your story. 

My first book I was inspired because I was in a bad place personally, so I signed up for my first NaNoWriMo event and finished it. Now, 6 years later, here I am. My most recent one, the world that my first novel was set in I realized could write a really nice romantic story as a kind of "off shoot" of my main fantasy work.