Paranormal Creatures discussion

This is a topic for authors to post their own paranormal characters in and for readers to discuss these characters with the people who created them.
I will start with one of my own characters.
Joshua the angel of death
He is the destroyer of life and has been unrestrained for over a thousand years. It is his choice who lives and who dies and when people he knows die or are killed, he refuses to reap their souls, giving them another chance at life.
He used to be human but when he murdered Azrael, the current angel of death, he was punished by being forced to take his place as the reaper of souls.
For the rest of his time as angel of death he would take out his anger at being placed in this position on all of the other angels

Hi S.K.N-
I love how non-threatening your MG's name is considering his occupation. Normally I can't stand characterization by name, but you make it work here.

Thanks Amanda :) His name is pretty much the only thing left of his humanity. He was completely the opposite as a human, fitting his name, but when he became the angel of death he lost all of his good traits and became pretty much a monster. It is left as the only reminder that he ever was human or even had any feelings

OMG shay he sounds AWESOME!!!!!

Thank you :) I very much enjoyed writing about him. He seemed to be the favorite of all of the characters in the book so I usually use him when people ask about my book characters

What is the book called??

Shay Is that in your book?

Yes it is. It is called The Rift. I added it to the bookshelf and if you want to read it I have it at 99 cents on amazon kindle. I also have it listed for a giveaway right now but the giveaway is US only because amazon is so picky with where it ships and it won't let me ship anywhere other than the US :( otherwise I would have made it every country

Okay I'll defiantly check it out :)

I can post a link if you need it. There are like 10 books right now called The Rift. They all stole my name ;) lol

Aha yeah that would be great thank you. If I do read it I will write a review for you :)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Rift-Vessel...
and that would be awesome :) I've only gotten a few reviews so far

I'm half way through a book just now and have a review to write for another book and soooooooo many other books I want to read. So it might be a while but I will defiantly get round to it :)

Same here. My list just keeps growing

Same!!!
I'm also thinking of doing some writing, if you have any advice it would be much appreciated! :D

Anything you want to ask, I will answer as best I can. My best advice would be to write what you want and not change it because its what you think other people want to read

Okay so when you write a book where do you start??

I start with an outline. Not like one for school, but more like a skeleton. I write it like a script. I write only basic actions and conversations. This gives me the story and a base to create the book around.I usually always have a prelude that may be explained later in the book. It is something to grab attention and bring up interest. When I finish it I go back in and add maybe a chapter here or there as well as ideas for descriptions. WHen I believe its ready, I make the second draft by filling it in with descriptions, feelings, narrations, etc. Then you edit and keep going until its polished and ready

I will read it soon, and I just started writing a book myself. Everyone is writing a book :D

Its the readers who end up writing. I don't think I know of any author who hasn't read every book they can get their hands on. I am working on my third book now, the second one comes out soon. I think its always a good thing to write. :)

Where do you get you inspirations from???
I think it would be interesting to do an interview with you on Y.A readers everywhere* that would be awesome :)

I'd like to write a book too, someday... Been thinking over the story for almost seven years now, and all I have managed to put in words is two pages. :P
Hoping to take a little inspiration from all of you... :-)

S.K.N. wrote: "I start with an outline. Not like one for school, but more like a skeleton. I write it like a script. I write only basic actions and conversations. This gives me the story and a base to create the ..."

Wow Shay, that's really great advice for us rookie writers! Thanks!!!

Jess: I get my inspiration from music or things people say, other books I have read, characters I think of. Usually my books and short stories start with one character and I branch off of them to create the story line. I would love to do that. We could start a folder to interview the authors that are on there.
Tanmay: It's always the first book that gives the most trouble. After your write one and realize you can do it; the rest come a lot easier.

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S.K.N. wrote: "I start with an outline. Not like one for school, but more like a skeleton. I write it like a script. I write only basic actions and conversations. This gives me the story and a base to create the ..."

I try to do this as well, but I find that my characters seem to have other ideas. I found the basic outline for my last book and was quite shocked at the difference between the original concept and the finished thing. A friend of mine gets a piece of white wallpaper and draws a flow chart of all the significant things that have to happen for his book to work then just sticks it up near his computer, I might try that.

I agree that it changes quite a bit from the original concept to the final product. It all depends on the author really what works for them

I recently just took part in two Character Interviews. Instead of me being interviewed by characters of my book were. I got to ask the questions and answer them so basically the interviewer goes over the questions and then featured them on their page. It's a great way for people to get to know the characters and it enhances character development a bit I think because for me it added and gave them more flare and a backstory. I'll post the links to them later if anyone is interested.

Yeah, that sounds cool. Post the links

Interview with Mr. Roland Helmsfeld
http://www.michelleabbott.com/mr_rola...

Interview With Javier ''Bones'' Jones
http://tistarayofficial.weebly.com/7/...

(hopefull not to self serving)
I have a novel coming out, and one of the 'protagonists' is a Demon - named Ivan. He has been fun to write becuause he is not 'human' at all. his values, his behavior everything is 'off' and while not fully evil, he is fully annoying to the young college girl is is stuck possessing.
I have enjoyed the contrast between the human and the demon, the male and female, and the chaos both bring. their being stuck together, only makes it worse...

That's actually really intriguing that you have a male demon inhabiting a female human. Most everything I've read or seen has them matched male-male and female-female.
That must bring up a lot of conflicts.
Does it make it harder for him to control her since she is a girl?

I'm thinking of Barker's Everville and the traumas inflicted on Raul while he was trapped inside Tess... permanent mental scarring from that one...

I will have to check that out. It seems out of the norm and a little strange but in a good way

So far their biggest fights have been about who 'they' are going to date, the demon found an older college girl, but the freshmen he inhabited wouldn't get with the program.... (Her quote to him “You have to stop watching all that porn and think its research” He only gets control for so long each day, and she can take it back. Of course his girlfriend living with the two of them doesn’t make that fight any less twisted. They spend lot of time and energy on this battle. The other big argument is underwear, the demon has his 'style' she has hers....
and the Demon hates high heel (wearing them) and bras (which he says are like those clam shell packages on scisors – unneeded) ...

Lol. It sounds like it makes it a lot more interesting.
It almost reminds me of a movie from the 90's where a high school football player switched bodies with a rich, Yale-type high school girl. (think freaky Friday) I can't think of the name off the top of my head.
With my own demonic characters the human part is pretty much gone. The demon takes their form, their life, their mind, etc. Even when the demon dies; the human dies with them. If the demon were to come back somehow; they would inhabit the same body. I guess I give them a lot more control.

My demons (some of them at least) enjoy not killing, but breaking the humans they interact with. to me at least, its far more scary the damage they cause, and leaving someone broken to clean up the mess as opposed to letting the just die. in this story, the Demon is trapped, he can't get out of the girl, and she is a lot more willful then he is used to - its was a blast to write, an hopefully in November it will be up and read for readers to enjoy!

That will be very interesting to read. Because my book focuses more on the angels I didn't really do much with demons even though I find them fascinating. The angels though were not like everyone's little idea of cherubs or moody, overprotective teenagers (even though I write YA)
They were often times incredibly corrupted and a lot of times cruel.

ROFL - I have angels in my work as well, well only 2 times, and in both cases they dropped in to solve some beyond screwed up 'thing' then left before the person they helped realized who they were or what they had done.(and they are never called Andels, but someone that tells you the answer the disappears an instant later, not a lot of options for them) thats how I see them working, they will help when the absolutly must, but mostly let us (Humans) figure it out ourselves

The only angels I have interacting with humans are guardians but they even stay away. In my book there is a forced communication through a very twisted set of circumstances. They believe in hierarchy and think themselves to be at the top of the food chain with demons and humans at about the same level below them. They only talk to them when they need something, usually for an evil purpose. They are almost as bad as demons themselves.