Firebird's Hopefully Published Book

[Firebird 40]

Yep. Its true. Those of you who I may have told, you already know, but for those of you who don't  know, this book is about an average  Simtropolian who gets tied up in a galactic dispute. I'm not going to tell you what yet.

I decided to make this thread to get in put and suggestions as I write this book. It doesn't even have a title yet, and is only half planned! lol I've written the prologue for you guys and gals to read and such to kind of get the feeling of it. I'll post updates every few weeks. I might get this book published when its finished. As soon as i can figure out how. :/

Remember: everything and anything you say or do in this thread may end up in my book. I'm not kidding folks!

Tyler sat outside gazing up at the many, many stars above him. It was extremely cold, but for some reason, he couldn’t draw himself inside this evening. It was as if the stars were calling to him. He picked up his mug of hot chocolate beside him and began to take a sip.

He spit it out all over the ground. Yuck! It was cold! Ok, now it was time to go inside. He got up, made sure to step over his sister’s huge yellow dump truck, slid aside the glass door, and stepped once again into the warm brightly lit living room.

 “Mom, my hot chocolates cold!” I said setting down my mug on the TV table and taking off my jacket.

“That’s what our microwaves for” she answered scrubbing a particularly stubborn spot on a large ceramic plate.

“Mom, I want it hot, not boiling!” I said with a slight laugh.

“Oh, is THAT so? There is a power button on it you know!” she answered placing the now rinsed place in the dishwasher, and turning it on “well, I’m just about to go to bed. It’s been a long day; you should get some rest too.”

“Yeah, I know. But, don’t you already know a 15 yr olds bedtime isn’t even anywhere near midnight!” I said.

Mother just rolled her eyes and proceeded to her bedroom, “Just don’t waste any hot chocolate.”

“I wont, I’ll just drink all of it!”

“Oh, haha” she replied.

Tyler poured the cold hot chocolate out, rinsed the cup, and went to the stove to pour some more. He took a sip, then walked to his bedroom to check on Simtropolis.

It had been a whole two hours since he had last checked on ST, and a lot could happen in that time. For all he knew, he could have received a PM from SkiGeek about a chatop position.

He double clicked on the firefox logo, and typed in Simtropolis.com so fast his hands were a blur. He was extremely good at typing in Simtropolis.com. He quickly logged in, and looked at his PM box.

Nope. No PM from SkiGeek there. 

 

Then he noticed this thread in the recent reply box. It was entitled Let Us Stand Together by Simfan34.

He clicked on it.

 

 

 

Aww dang!! Stupid JRun errors!

 

He waited a minute.

 

Then he clicked refresh.

 

The page loaded and he began reading.

 

Then he started laughing. It had lot of good points. Tyler hoped that it would do what Simfan34 would hope it to do. Hate, loathing, selfishness are extremely tiny and insignificant compared to what there is in the rest of the universe to explore and learn.

 

He was tired. He walked over to his bed, and stretched out over it. He was asleep within 2 minutes. His hot chocolate barely touched.

 

 

A sharp sleek starship pulled out of high velocity hyperspace just before entering the Earth solar system. It passed Pluto, Uranus, and Neptune. Cloaked, and passed the asteroid belt, Mars, and the moon.

Finally at a stationary orbit, the what ever it was at the navigation console called to the captain.

“We have arrived”

The what looked like half dinosaur half bird stood up and walked to the front of the large circular room, and stared at the large picture of Earth on the view screen.

“Perfect. Now find the human by the name of Will Wright. I need to speak to him”.

 

 

The race was Greevil. quote>

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[Mikeaut1 261]

Haha, this sounds really interesting so far! Good luck with this! It's really funny!

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

lol, what?? im confused lol, but its interesting and funny !!

[octaves 4]

Wow!  That's awesome!  It's very interesting and descriptive.  Keep writing! 

[IDS2 3,346]

Wow, great so far! Remember to include the part about the swans taking over ST. j/k. You're pretty good at writing! Keep it up!

[MrCinatit 30]

Congratulations, firebird - even attempting to get a book completed is a mighty feat, let alone try to get it published.

Oh, and beware of the evil broccoli. (see you work THAT in!)

[Meg 368]

  I wonder what I'm going to do next? 

[jacqulina 162]

sounds interesting my friend good luck with your book

[hym 358]

Finally! After all these months of trying to get my intergalactic buddies to drop by, they finally show up. Something must have been wrong with their hyperspace drive that it took them this long to get out here.

[topcliff 1]

Wow, this is well . . . AWESOME! I written some poems and short stories that have gotten published, but this looks awesome! Also, I must say, Tyler sounds like me: sarcastic. Looking forward to reading the rest of this! Oh well, time to go make CJers feel good about their work . . . TopCliff

Oh, and thanks to MrCinitat's evil brocolli, my evil ferret is tame and well, in a coma now. Stupid Vitamin overdose! Once more, L8RRR!!!

[IDS2 3,346]

Evil broccoli, hijacking swans, intergalactic meetings, and don't forget the cows with guns. Seriously, this is getting weirdder by the minute!

[Voar Tok 4]

/me has died laughing!

I can foresee this being an instant classic.

[Godzillaman 21]

i wanna see this get published it looks good...hopefully

[topcliff 1]

Originally posted by: Voar Tok

I can foresee this being an instant classic.quote>

 

I totally agree, except for my leech farm which is now attacking my overweight cat. (no, seriously: my 44-pound cat is being attacked by my leeches.) Any way, if you need some crazy, zany material, just PM me or airmail a tattoed poodle to me with the message tattoed on him. I hereby end this post, a virtual waste of digital space, by the power I stole from the Queen. TopCliff

[Rymac91 15]

just a question....but how does one get a book published?

[Duke87 1,070]

Somehow I foresee you having a hard time getting this published...  still, have fun writing it.

[Micah 16]

Originally posted by: Duke87 Somehow I foresee you having a hard time getting this published... quote>

 

Well, it will be cool to see Simtropolis in books, magazines, and even dictionaries.

Very funny story, fb!

Btw, I'm curious, how do you get a book published? I'm writing a story myself.

[topcliff 1]

Originally posted by: Rymac91 just a question....but how does one get a book published?quote>

 

I believe one finishes said book, then mails said book to said PUBLISHING FIRM, said PUBLISHING FIRM then begins negotiations with said writer, and then said PUBLISHING FIRM publishes said book and pays said writer part of said money made from said book. At least, that's what said first-person who's eccentrically wierd then says said words in said post, said TopCliff

[Zelgadis 638]

I'm sure it will be a best seller!

Be sure to include the evil Mac genius.

ISF

[Sim1013 1]

LOL! I like it! You've started off well and I'm interested to see how this turns out!

Try visiting lulu.com. It's a great site. If you submit your book you can pay to have them send you an actual copy in whatever format you'd like. You can even design your own cover! They also have options to publish books there!

Here's a link to it: www.lulu.com

[Eastwinn 6]

A book about ST? A good way to get us another 25,000 members ... =] 

So how is this book going? Been working hard on it?

Wouldn't it be slighlty ironic if Tyler read a post that said "I never want to see my words in a book"? Just a thought.

[onlyplace4 603]

makes a mental note to say and do nothing

[Firebird 40]

Well, heres another snippet of part of the first chapter. Enjoy people!

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Chapter One

Will Wright was sitting in his office reading his interesting fan mail. This crazy person by the name of BulletMagnet was asking what his favorite food was. Mjig_dudy was asking if they had completed the flying animal part of spore, and SkiGeek was asking how the democratic algorithms of the same game were calculated.

            Not, these were all very interesting questions, but, he was hungry, and his rear end hurt from sitting in his hard office chair for so long. He hated his hard office chair. The first thing he would do if he became president of EA was order all these disastrous contraptions recycled, and new, softer ones be put in its place.

            He stood up and checked his crystal pentagon clock sitting atop his redwood finish desk. Yep, it was ten ‘till one. No wonder he was hungry, he was late! He began his fast stride that he had become famous for, and started out of his small office, his feet barely leaving a noise in the highly polished marble floor. Then, not leaving a noise at all, for, his atoms had been moved someplace else.

            A sleek starship orbited Earth above the northern continent, not visible by a man-made telescope, or anything for that matter. And Will Wright was inside it, locked in a small room, and the only exit, a barely noticeable outline of a door in one of the four walls. Will Wright started pacing back and fourth inside it. Oh boy how he wished he had that had office chair now.

            It seemed like hours, but, in fact, it was only about 10 minutes. He heard a few clicks, then a squeak, and then the outline of the door started swinging outward, and what immerged from it was an oddly familiar creature. A greevil.   The creature looked at Will for a second, blinked, and began talking.

“Don’t be afraid, we’re not going to hurt you. We need you to do something for us.” He said, fidgeting with his three fingered hands.

Wright just raised his eyebrows, trying to figure out how in the world he could understand what the alien said.

“We have become aware of this err…game you have created. Spore. It bares a remarkable resemblance to the galaxy that we live in how. Why? We have no idea, but, we need you to modify the game to help us” he said, beginning to sound desperate.

Will stood there, trying to look expressionless. If these people were so powerful, why didn’t they just abduct the game with their abduction ray…or something and modify it that way.

“The modifications we need you to make to the game involve it staying on Earth. We need you to rig it, so that it sends updates of the progress and such of the people, playing it to this ship” the Greevil looked at Will, as if trying to use mind-control on him or something.

“Why?” Will said staring back at the Greevil with the same intensity “I could loose my job, my reputation, and, my life”

 

"The galaxy depends on it"

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Letters to the editor

Mikeaut1: Thanks, I think I’ll need all the luck I can get! And I can for see it getting even more interesting, as I’ve finished my 5 page plan for the story, and know how its gonna end.

 

BlondeTwiggy: Confusing? Huh? Uh oh, its not supposed to be confusing!?! What about the prologue makes you think it’s confusing?

 

Brad-MacD: Thanks! I had problems in my earlier writing carrier with not being descriptive enough.. So I decided to try and improve that aspect of my books. I hope it’s not too descriptive.

 

IDS2: Thanks! I fully intend to keep writing!

Swans taking over ST!?! Huh? When was this!?!

 

MrCinatit: Tell me about it! (Or not) I have about 15 or so unfinished stories sitting around in my school locker and in my room. All victims of “inspirationloss-itis”.

Evil broccoli? Hmmmm

And, btw, what do you think of lulu.com? I need an opinion.

 

SkiGeek: Hehe, you never know...

 

Jacqulina: Thanks!

 

Hym: Yeah! And the fact that they ran into an interstellar black whole on there way here. Those things wreak havoc on subspace.

 

 

topcliff: Haha thanks! And, I’m glad you’re looking forward to reading more of this! I plan on posting a lot more! And, I’ll be sure to PM you in I need some more zany material.

 

Voar Tok: LOL! Not again!!?!

Instant classic, eh? Cool.

 

Godzillaman: Thanks buddy! So do i.

 

Rymac91: It takes a lot of hard work, a good editor (in this case my English teacher, and my parents) and a whole lot of luck.

 

Duke87: Oh I will!

 

Micah: Thanks! I’m looking into lulu.com. Seems like an interesting site, but, most of the review I get for it are almost exactly the same, so, I’m skeptical. Might try the company Mr.C got his book published with.

 

Zelgadis: Oh, I’ve got big plans for the evil mac genius. Hehehe

 

Sim1013: I’ll check it out! Thanks.

 

 

Eastwinn: Yep, been working pretty hard on the overall plan. The problem is, I keep getting these strange burst of inspiration, and keep wanting to re-write it.

Hmmm, might let info about this book slip-up in an MSN chat with him later..

 

onlyplace4: Ohh, I see.

[sEAhAwk fAn121 0]

Firebird!! thats awsome!!! i love it it sounds sooo good! ya know KLMs livery is really nice i think KLM is the best airline in the world *wink* *wink*

[Voar Tok 4]

Well, now we know why Spore has been delayed till 2008.

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

haha!! Everything confuses me. blondes are easily confused... what an interesting story!! Aliens are always fun..

[frogface 352]

Sounds interesting, you should add in some car chases next and exploding turnips.

[Amerikaner 42]

wow this is pretty cool, it will be interesting to see a book at the bookstore, about sim city and simtropolis, i think it would be a first, cant wait!!

[Firebird 40]

Well, believe it or not, this whole page only ads up to one tiny update lol. Paper just doesn't hold as much as it used to.   (and yes, that is my handwriting)

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Chapter One CONT

Will Wright almost burst out laughing. That had to be the cheesiest quote he had ever heard. Almost straight out of a book or movie…or something…. He tried painfully hard to remain expressionless.

“Why, may I ask, does the galaxy depend on it?” he asked.

The greevil thought for a moment. He didn’t think it was smart to apprise a species as mentally limited as the humans of a problem on such a galactic scale. Yet, if he didn’t tell the human, he might not cooperate, and that could cause big problems.

How the heck humans could understand what they call “programming languages” he would never know.

He couldn’t make the decision alone, he concluded. He needed to speak to his superiors.

“I can not tell you ask of yet. I will return in I believe…..30 of your minutes.”

‘Grrreeeaaattteee’ will thought. More waiting. He didn’t like these greevils much.

“Umm, if you’d like, we can arrange to have food brought from your homeworld…” said the greevil heading toward the door.

“Pizza” Will said.

“The greevil frowned. He had no idea what that was, but, he would get it somehow. Something told him that he needed to make a good impression on this human.

“I’ll see what I can do” he sad walking through the now open door. The door swooshed closed behind him.

Will sat down in the hard chair. His stomach growled

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Letters to the editor

sEAhAwk fAn121: Ahhh, i see. *wink*

Voar Tok: Exactly! Just don't go spreading it around...might cause some trouble...

BlondeTwiggy: Really?!

And, i'm glad you think its interesting.  Aliens have been really over done, and its hard to think of new ideas for them in stories.

frogface: Car chases.....exploding turnips...hmm.... *wink*

Amerikaner: Yeah, it is a first, and i hope it stays that way. Theres still the possibility someone will see this thread and try to write a bogus book about kind of the same thing, and publish it before mine to make it look like a copy. Thats one reason why i haven't mentioned the new title, or posted the computer scanned plans for the book. Also, i'm not posting the whole book here, just bits and pieces.

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

lol, nice handwriting

I hope the pizza has black olives on it...